About the session
This session will give you everything you need to generate real-world impacts from your research. You will learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact. The training is based on the latest research evidence and takes a unique relational approach to deliver wide-reaching and lasting impacts.
Prof Reed continues to answer all questions from participants via email after the course, guaranteeing a response to all questions within one week.
Who is it for?
- Early Career Researchers (including Postdocs)
- Mid-Career Researchers
- Managers of Researchers
- Research-related Professional Services Staff (including research support administrators, researcher developers and career development professionals).
Objectives
From this session, participants will:
- Learn about evidence-based principles for delivering research impact when you don’t have much time
- Discover easy and quick-to-use templates you can use immediately to prioritise stakeholders and publics to engage with first and create a powerful impact plan that will guarantee your research makes a difference without wasting your time
- Get a free PDF copy of Professor Mark Reed's book, The Research Impact Handbook
- Receive slides and links to free resources to help you embed impact in your research
- Be invited to an optional free follow-up programme over five weeks, so you can apply what you have learned. You can work through these steps yourself from the handbook, but by signing up to take these steps online, you get access to extra material. Each step consist of a 6 minute video with accompanying text and tasks.
Get to know your facilitator
Mark Reed, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship and Director of the Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), and a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, Birmingham City University and the University of Leeds
Professor Reed has over 200 publications that have been cited more than 20,000 times, and has won awards for the non-academic impact of his research. He is author of The Research Impact Handbook, which he has used to train over 8000 researchers from more than 200 institutions in 55 countries. He provides training and advice to Universities, research funders, NGOs and policy-makers internationally.
Find out more about his work at: www.profmarkreed.com or follow him on Twitter @profmarkreed
Session video and presentation
Download the presentation (PDF, 2.9MB)
Further resources
All NPDC21 listed resources including presentation slides and top tips are freely available. Please ensure you acknowledge the author(s) and/or source when using them.
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