Six tips for research impact
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Tips for how to frame your research to get greater engagement with potential user communities and get more notice for what you are doing
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Six tips for research impact
- 1. SIX TIPS FOR RESEARCH IMPACT BUILDING YOUR PATHWAYS TO IMPACT CATHERINE MANTHORPE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE ©2015 CATHERINE MANTHORPE
- 2. ‘Research is too important to go into a scholarly journal to die’ Eleanora Belfiore, Associate Professor of Cultural Policy, Warwick
- 4. Top tip #1: Make sure your research outputs can be discovered
- 6. Top tip #2: Think about who the audience(s) for your research is (are), how to reach it (them) and start building relationships
- 7. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE THERE? How much detail do they need? WHAT’S THEIR BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE? Do they understand the wider context of my research? Do they know what others in the field say about this topic? What do they know already? How up to date is their knowledge of this topic? Do they work in the same field as me? Are they specialists in this field? WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE FOR LISTENING/READING? How willing will the audience be to accept the ideas I present? What do they want/need to know? Do they understand the relevance/importance of this work? What will they do with the ideas/information in my writing afterwards?
- 8. Top tip # 3: Address areas of policy/social/economic/ cultural/business interest
- 9. INNOVATE UK – Technology Strategy Board : 8 Great Technologies • Big data revolution and energy efficient computing • Satellites and commercial applications of space • Robotics and autonomous systems • Life sciences, genomics and synthetic biology • Regenerative medicine • Agri Science • Advanced materials and nanotechnology • Energy and its storage AHRC • Care for the future – thinking forward through the past • Digital transformations in the Arts and Humanities • Science in Culture • Translating culture
- 10. Develop expertise in your field and be a trustworthy source of evidence Get decision makers involved in your research Join relevant committees and insert your findings into decision making
- 11. Top tip #4: Write with different voices (and where your audience is reading)
- 12. Top tip #5: This is not a linear process Do researc h Publish it Impact ?
- 13. There is no such thing as ‘I am not ready to publish my findings’. Establish hypothesis Share it Refine hypothesis Write about it Get some attention
- 14. Top tip #6: Use social media “If you want your research to be found you need to engage with social media” (Nick Scott, ODI)
- 16. How good is your impact? OUTSTANDING Very considerable Considerable Modest
- 17. You are not alone – impact ‘infrastructure’ Research Institutes and University School Research Group You e.g: • Heritage Hub • FoodNet • Patient participation groups Marketing Exec Business Developme nt Coordinator Funding ‘Research Office’ Marcomms Small grant schemes Training Events
- 18. Resources and acknowledgements Best current resource for understanding link between research and impacts are the REF2014 case studies now published on the HEFCE website: http://results.ref.ac.uk/ Thanks to: Jodi Nelson for her slide share (hyperlink on slide 15) Becker Medical Library Model for Assessment of Research Impact https://becker.wustl.edu/impact- assessment/model