Magnus Gulbrandsen Consortium meeting, Valencia, 10-11 October 2018 OSIRIS so far Magnus Gulbrandsen Consortium meeting, Valencia, 10-11 October 2018

Our overall goal To understand how and under which condition impact takes place – in a way that generates new knowledge, contributes to excellent research and helps users and policymakers to improve their strategies and policies

Research questions How can we identify impact and the processes that lead to it? Under which conditions does research lead to economic and social effects over time? How does impact vary between research fields and societal sectors? How can we shape science policy and framework conditions so that it stimulates impact?

Main ideas Our overarching goals are to better understand the antecedents for and ways in which science makes an impact We see impact as a process rather than a specific outcome Our empirical work primarily looks at this process from the user side We study three stylised pathways: impacts in policymaking, healthcare and industry OSIRIS work critical of the mainstream way in which impact is operationalised and measured My experience so far: the field is more fragmented and less sophisticated that I thought

Status so far Nice and interesting work, scaling up from autumn 2018 Organisational-practical challenges in all partner organisations beyond our control Seven scientific articles, two special issues, 30+ presentations at conferences and workshops, 30+ presentations at courses and meetings with practitioners We are doing well in terms of deliverables – we should probably emphasise policy-oriented activities even more next year Lots of external interest in what we do and the approach that we take We should continue putting the OSIRIS mark on our work so that our unique approach is visible in as many activities as possible

Recent developments We are now defined as a “researcher project” rather than a “user- oriented” project – this is mainly formal and influences our reporting We have organised two successful younger researcher events (PhD course, EU-SPRI summer school) We have a much larger team in Oslo now and will start to have regular OSIRIS meetings (discussing literature, work in progress etc.) every second week – everyone is welcome here Blog/web pages updated with new look, blog is going fairly well and seems to be accepted as our “policy briefs”, bad routines for news items and presentations We have some ideas for 10% collaborative work for 2019 (survey and course proceeding), new suggestions are welcome

Important discussion points Strengthening and promoting the OSIRIS profile and unique approach Improving integration between partners Strengthening the user side of OSIRIS Making a clearer plan for publications and other outputs Improving routines and practical issues

Conceptual work The conceptual working paper has been scrapped in favour of 3-4 blog posts about its key ideas/topics Two conceptual academic papers are work in progress and have toured the conference circuit – they will be discussed tomorrow Workshop on survey work in Manchester early 2018 led to pilot survey to Norwegian public organisations We will need a similar workshop for the cases (for later discussion)