1. Enhancing Research Impact

2. Enhancing Research Impact
Programme structure:
Number of courses: 4 courses
Core activities: 5 hours
Additional activities: 30 hours

3. Enhancing Research Impact
Support your staff in identifying and communicating the wider impact of their research.
Enhancing Research Impact is designed to meet the growing need for universities to place engagement and impact higher on their agendas. The programme will help academics and universities as a whole demonstrate the contribution that their high quality research makes to wider society.

4. Contributors LEAD ADVISOR: Dr. Ged Hall
Dr. Ged Hall is Innovation and Enterprise Senior Training and Development Officer at the University of Leeds. He provides training and development opportunities for researchers, at all stages of their careers, to assist them in achieving impact from their research. He also offers advice on including impact within grant applications (UK research councils and European funding).
Ged has 10 years of industrial experience in the gas and utility sectors where he worked with academic researchers to solve technological problems facing businesses in these areas. He is a graduate of the University of Leeds with a BSc in Chemistry (1990) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry (1995). He was also Director of the LearnHigher CETL, Deputy Director of the WriteNow CETL and Head of Career Development at Liverpool Hope University.
In 2008, he published, with Dr. Jo Longman, The Postgraduate's Companion. He was also shortlisted for the 2008 Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers with colleagues from other Midlands universities.

5. Professor Sir Robert Lechler Professor Sir John Tooke
Contributors
Professor Sir Robert Lechler
Professor Sir Robert Lechler is President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Vice-Principal (Health) at King's Col lege London and Executive Director of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. Sir Robert's clinical and research career have focused on the pursuit of clinical transplantation tolerance. In 2012, he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for Services to Academic Medicine.
Professor Sir John Tooke
Professor Sir John Tooke was President of the Academy of Medical Sciences from He formerly held the positions of Vice-Provost (Health), Head of the School of Life and Medical Sciences, and Head of the Medical School at UCL. He is a past Chair of both the Medical Schools Council and the UK Healthcare Education Advisory Committee (UKHEAC). Sir John's clinical and research interests focus on diabetes and its vascular complications. In 2007, he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for Services to Medicine.

6. Development group members
Contributors
Development group members
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Charles Darwin University, Australia
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
SOAS, University of London, UK
University of Greenwich, UK
University of Malaya, Malaysia
University of New England, Australia
University of Western Sydney, Australia
National University of Ireland, Galway
Queen’s University Belfast
Sheffield Hallam University

7. Course Structure

8. Syllabus Impact – ‘change, benefit, effect’ Core: 40 minutes
Additional: 5 hours
Syllabus:
What do we mean by research impact?
Different types of impact
Devising your personal strategy
The research impact process
Core: 1 hours, 40 minutes
Make it count: planning impact from the outset
Funding for impact
Impact delivery: maintaining momentum
Evidencing impact: capturing change
Key skills for research impact
Core: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Identifying the impact potential of research
Project management
Relationship management
Communicating and disseminating
Evaluating and sustaining impact
Communicating your research
Core: 1 hour
Additional: 15 hours
Impact stories
Building a portfolio – impact strategies
Planning impact for the future  

9. Overview ABOUT THIS COURSE: COURSE FEATURES: COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
An online programme to support and train staff in understanding and communicating clearly – the wider impact of their research
COURSE FEATURES:
Case studies and practical scenarios
Interactive activities
Comic strips
A personal portfolio
Poll features
Video interviews with researchers in a range of disciplines and at different career stages
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
Early-career researchers
Mid-career researchers
Academics with the need to demonstrate the impact of their research

10. Overview

11. At A Glance

12. Overview ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME:
Enhancing Research Impact will support staff in demonstrating the wider impact of their research, and meet the growing need for universities to place public engagement higher on their agendas.
The courses are designed to help universities identify and demonstrate the contribution their high-quality research has made to the economic, social, cultural and environmental benefit of society.
Academics who complete this programme will have substantial material to contribute either to a critical impact case study or other ways of demonstrating research impact in the 2020 and 2026 Research Excellence Frameworks (REF).

13. Key Decision Makers Pro-Rector/Pro Vice Chancellor Research
Director/Head Research
Chair of the University Research Committee
Dean of Research for the University
Director/Head Research Services
Director/Head Research Administration
Director/Head of the Graduate School
Director/Head of Postgraduate Studies/ Doctoral Programme
Director/Head Researcher Development/Support

14. Testimonials
“There are few researchers who do not wish to see their research result in societal benefit. The importance of the knowledge economy and judicious use of constrained public finances has inevitably lead to a greater focus on research impact. The recently completed REF has focused attention on this agenda as never before and impact is likely to be an increasing feature of future research assessment exercises. Enhancing Research Impact is therefore not only timely but of crucial importance if the full benefits of research are to be realised.”
— Professor Sir John Tooke, Vice Provost (Health), Head of the School of Life and Medical Sciences and Head of the Medical School, University College London

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