Training slides by Professor Mark Reed from Fast Track Impact - find our more at: https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/training-courses

1. INTEGRATING IMPACT INTO YOUR PROPOSAL

2. Bid
writing tips

3. Question:
The review process
 Initial sift/outline stage in some calls
 Reviews received (with or without right of reply)
 Often including reviewers outside sub-discipline
and practitioners
 PI response
 Panel discussion
 Ranking
 Decision

4. Question:
Strategic tips
 Choose your call (check you REALLY fit the scope)
 Decide whether to lead or follow (and who to follow)
 Head-hunt WP leads with funder track record and strong
stakeholder partnerships (not just expertise/publications)
 Scope panelists, get pre-reviewers
 Build concept notes, teams and long-term partnerships in
fundable areas before calls come out
 Systematically map research in your institution in these
areas to build cross-disciplinary teams
 Map previous projects (especially from your target funder)
in the same locations/topics
 Identify stakeholders and non-academic project partners
and engage in question setting if you want to co-produce
your research

5. Who has a stake in my research?
1. Who might benefit from the
impacts in the call? Reach
out to key groups early
2. What are their interests and
needs? Co-produce
additional impact goals
3. How will you enable each
identified group to benefit
from each impact goal? Link
activities to impact goals
and beneficiaries
Bid writing tools for co-production

6. Integrating
impact
into your Case for Support

7. Read and discuss
 Quick overview
 Discuss example proposals in break-out rooms
 Key ingredients to integrate
 Different ways of integrating
So how do you do it?

8. Read and discuss
 What is the challenge
or opportunity in the
world?
 Who would benefit
beyond the academy
and what would be
the significance and
reach?
Problem
statement and/or
beneficiaries
 What is the research
challenge or
opportunity?
 What is original and
significant for
researchers in my
discipline and beyond?
Impact
goals
Research
questions
and goals
Pathways
Methods
Impacts
Research
outputs
Work plan
Goals Activities
Outputs and
impacts

9. Who has a stake in my research?
1. Individually scan/read the
two bids
2. Move to your break-out
room
3. Join the discussion when
you are ready
What do you like about how the
different bids integrate impact?
Different approaches to integration
Break
out

10. Who has a stake in my research?
Which integration approach did
you like better?
1. ESRC Centre
2. GCRF Forest Network
Vote
now
Different approaches to integration

11. Who has a stake in my research?
What good practice features did
you find in both bids?
What would you avoid or do
better?
Comment
in chat
Different approaches to integration

12.  Specificity = credibility
 Make your impacts measurable (e.g. using indicators)
 Save a page by referring to objectives section (not
repeating) and using academic beneficiaries to
summarise originality and significance
 Use tables, formatting and diagrams to highlight
impact and show links between research, pathways
and impact
 Map (and fix) links between problem statement,
impact goals, beneficiaries and activities…
Evaluating Impact
Key points

13. Read and discuss
Impact goals
Impact Map
Beneficiaries
Activities
Impact 1
Impact 2
Impact 3
Beneficiary group 1
Beneficiary group 2
Applied
research
Engagement
activity
Engagement
activity
Beneficiary group 3 ?
Engagement
activity
Impact 4
Engagement
Activity
Problem statement
Research
Research

14. Read and discuss
Impact goals Beneficiaries
Activities
Problem statement
Risks Risks
Impact Map

15.  Multi-actor advisory panels
per country/site
 International advisory
panels
 Local facilitators
 Science shops
 Citizen science
 Science cafes
 Social media strategy
 Commercialisation activities
Evaluating Impact
Impact mechanisms
 Engagement training
 Secondments/shadowing
 Boundary organisations e.g.
policy academy or hub with
activities programme
 Rapid evidence synthesis
training/writing workshops
 Knowledge exchange
seminar series with
stakeholders
 Capacity building training
swaps with stakeholders

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