Impact Academy provides training and development opportunities to improve your understanding of research impact and build your skills to maximise the societal, economic and environmental impact of your research. The programme, delivered by external experts and specialist staff from the University’s Research and Enterprise Office, covers all aspects of the research impact lifecycle and offers opportunities for academic, research and professional services staff of all levels.
24 April 2024, 1pm to 4pm
Organiser: Open Innovation Team, HM Government
Researchers often reflect that it’s difficult to explain their research to policymakers. Policymakers are busy and are rarely experts, lacking the context, deep background or technical expertise related to research. Storytelling techniques are used by journalists and policymakers themselves to help simplify complexity, grab attention, and communicate information. This training is aimed at researchers at all levels who want to influence policymakers and are keen to improve their communication skills to make their engagement as impactful as possible. The training explores storytelling techniques in general and can be applied to written work as well as interviews or public speaking.
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1 May 2024, 1pm to 2pm
Organiser: Research Impact Team
The major UK funders are committed to excellent research which impacts on our economic and social wellbeing. This interactive webinar will focus on writing about impact in funding applications, provide some practical information on how to incorporate impact within your proposal and offer examples of good practice. This session is aimed at academic and research staff at all levels.
8 May 2024, 1pm to 2pm
Organiser: Research Impact Team
Capturing and evidencing engagement and impact is important for researchers particularly in relation to impact case studies for the Research Excellence Framework (REF), but also in reporting to funding bodies and external partners. This interactive session will give an overview of how to use the Impact Module of the Research Information System (RIS) to document engagement and impact and record evidence. Some examples of the types of evidence that could be used to evidence the impact of your research will be provided along with practical tips on collecting it. This session is aimed at academic and research staff at all levels.
12 June 2024, 1pm to 2pm
Organiser: Research Impact Team
The Impact Module of the Research Information System (RIS-IM) is a secure repository for The Impact Module of the Research Information System (RIS-IM) is a secure repository for academic staff to store and track information about their engagement and knowledge exchange activities and the impact of their research outside of the academy. This in-person session will give you an overview of the new updated version of the RIS-IM and how to use it to track and document your research impact and offer you an opportunity to create and edit your own records with on-hand support from the Research Impact Team.
19 June 2024, 1pm to 4pm
Organiser: Open Innovation Team, HM Government
This online interactive workshop aims to introduce the policy process in Government and the role and use of research evidence. The masterclass is run by Government civil servants from the Open Innovation Team who will give a first-hand insight into the policy process. This session is aimed at academics, research and professional services staff at all levels and PGR students.