This presentation deals with impact research in social sciences. It explains the nuances of effective planning and dissemination of your research

2. Objective
• To enable the participants to understand the benchmarks of
impactful research in social sciences
• To explain the nuances of impactful planning and impactful
dissemination of your research

3. Facilitating Impactful Research
What is Impactful Research?
Identifying Impactful Research Areas
Theory of change & Critical thinking framework
Inter-disciplinary approaches
Types of Impact
Dissemination Plan
Assessment criteria for Impact Research

4. How to Identifying Impactful areas
Systematic Reviews, Metaanalytic Reviews, Scooping Reviews, Replication to
a different demography, Adaption to new contexts
Source:https://canadiem.org/a-review-of-systematic-reviews/

5. Prisma Approach for Impact research

6. To promote change
• Theory of change-Write one sentence each.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0139-z/figures/1

7. Interdisciplinary approaches
Find strategic parternships
team up to compensate for each other's blind spots
Combination of designs
Impactful problems can't be solved within a single discipline
Important research questions does not fit in to one discreet pocket
Do not restrict research questions to one discipline? Formulate your Question
funding agencies look for interdisciplinary approaches
Source: https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2015/04/interdisciplinary-research

8. Types of Impact
Institutional or National level, Pedagogical- Improvement of Teaching
practices, Economical- Cost cutting Technologies, Attitudinal- behavioural,
cognitive, and learning outcomes, Social outreach

9. Recap of Steps
• Carrying out rigorous academic reviews
• Choosing under researched
• interdisciplinary theoretical approaches
• interdisciplinary methodological approaches
• Evidence based practices

10. Dissemination plan by TESOL
• What situation, issue, or concerns in your context warrant inquiry?
• Research Questions: What questions are you asking and
investigating?
• Connection to the Field: What debates, experiences, concepts,
readings, etc., influenced or motivated this inquiry? How are these
questions informed by the TESOL Research Agenda?
• Research Design/Description of the Study: include the
conceptual/theoretical framework, method, data collection, and
analysis procedures.

11. Dissemination plan by TESOL-2
• Statement of Significance: How does this project contribute to the larger
knowledge base? How will it influence your practice/scholarship? How
does it benefit learners and other key stakeholders?
• Consent: What kinds of consent (e.g., verbal, written) will you require?
How will you obtain consent from participants?
• Statement of Ethics: How you will account for the ethical demands that
may arise during the inquiry process, including issues of consent,
confidentiality, privacy, and reciprocity for participants (i.e., what’s in it for
them)?
• Dissemination Plan: In addition to listing which professional ​face-to-face
event you plan to share your inquiry (TESOL or other) and why that
particular event, how will you disseminate your findings? What other ideas
do you have for presenting and/or sharing your research?

12. Research –Assessment Criteria
• 20 points: Strength of the research-practitioner collaboration through
design, implementation, and interpretation.
• 20 points: Feasibility of the project (in terms of scope, time, budget )
• 20 points: Relevance to themes in the TESOL Research Agenda, and
contribution to the knowledge base.
• 20 points: Quality of the writing i.e., clarity, organization, and design
(method, data, analysis)
• 10 points: Evidence of familiarity with current scholarship supporting the
inquiry
• ​5 points: Impact on applicant’s practice and/or scholarship
• 5 points: Strength of dissemination plan​

13. Check approved research projects
• https://icssr.org/research-projects Indian council of social science
research
• TESOL Grant Recipients/ Grant Winners
• TESOL Research agenda
• SERB- http://www.serb.gov.in/ApprovedProjects.php- Science and
Engineering
• https://www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/xplanpdf/researchfundingcouncilMRP.
pdf Research funding council for major and minor research projects

14. Reference
• Brough, P., & Hawkes, A. (2018). Designing impactful research.
In Advanced research methods for applied psychology (pp. 19-26).
Routledge.

15. Dr.S.Vijayakumar
Assistant Professor
Crescent Institute of Science & Technology
For workshops and Presentations on research contact:
Mobile:9940187775
E-mail-researcherstoolkit@gmail.com

16. Any questions