1. Research Impact Alexandra Byrnes, Research Publication Officer Rio
Research Impact Alexandra Byrnes, Research Publication Officer
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2. Covered in this tutorial
What is research impact?
Role of RIO and support RIO offers
ERA and HERDC

3. What is research impact?.
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4. ​Research work and training Workshop/conference organising
​Inputs
​Activities
​Outputs
​Outcomes
​Benefits
​​​​Research income
Staff
Background IP​
Infrastructure
Collections
​Research work and training
Workshop/conference organising
Facility use
Membership of learned societies and academies
Community and stakeholder engagement​
​Publications including e-publications​
Additions to national collections
New IP: patents and inventions
Policy briefings
Media​
Commercial products, licences and revenues
New companies - spinoffs, startups or joint ventures
Job creation
Implementation of programs and policy
Citations
Integration into policy​
​Economic, health, social, cultural, environmental, national security, quality of life, public policy or services
Higher quality workforce
Risk reduction in decision-making

5. WHAT DOES IMPACT ASSESSMENT MEAN FOR RESEARCHERS?
You should keep tabs on the use of your research in end user communities by;
Maintaining strong links with users of your research. Scienceweek, Science in Schools, professional associations, government, industry,…
Building end users into your research projects.
Reflecting on the effects of your research.
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6. RESEARCH AS AN OUTPUT
Output “Research is defined as the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings. This could include synthesis and analysis of previous research to the extent that it leads to new and creative outcomes.“ “comprising of creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications”
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7. HERDC (Quantity) Higher Education Research Data Collection
Research income and research publication data used to allocate research block grants to each university.
Traditional outputs - Books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers
Criteria
Was the publication peer reviewed in full? (for journal articles and conference papers)
Was it disseminated? (Eg does it have an ISBN, ISSN or DOI?)
Was the author/s affiliated to UTS for the publication?
Was it published by a commercial publisher (for books and chapters)

8. HERDC (Quantity) Cat 1 – National Competitive Grants (ARC, NHMRC, …)
Cat 2 – Other Commonwealth, State, Local Government
Cat 3 – Industry, International, Philanthropic
Cat 4 – Co-operative Research Centres

9. ERA (Quality) Excellence in Research Australia survey.
Traditional outputs
Non-traditional outputs
Visual or Design Exhibition of Creative Works
Curated or Produced Substantial Public Exhibitions or Events
Written Creative Works
Recorded or Rendered Creative Works
Architectural Creative Works
Live Performances of Creative Works
Role in Production of Creative Works

10. RIO Support for grant application and contract research
Research ethics application
IP and commercialisation
Research reporting
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11. Symplectic Manages publication data for the university
Populates public web profiles for our academics / researchers
Provides data for internal (eg promotion) and external (eg HERDC) reporting
Data collection for HERDC (and, in the future, ERA) is managed through the system
All publications must be entered into Symplectic.