The flexible, modular structure of Research Impact: Creating Meaning and Value will allow users to dip-in and dip-out independently. This structure will also allow you to easily embed content into existing activities and initiatives – demonstrably enhancing your current provision with high-quality, online support.
Modules
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Module 1: Defining research impact
- What is research impact?
- Types of Impact
- Why work towards impact?
- The Impact journey
- Where do I start?
- Impact Culture
- Impact in funding proposals
Approximate module duration: 35 minutes
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Module 2: Planning your impact
- Why should we plan for impact?
- Defining your impact goal
- Stakeholder analysis
- Developing engagement plans
- Visualising your pathway to impact
- Creating an impact plan
Approximate module duration: 30 minutes
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Module 3: Engagement and communication Strategies
- The engagement spectrum
- Stakeholder engagement
- Engagement across a research cycle
- Communication for engagement
- Choosing communication channels to support engagement
- Public engagement
- Navigating engagement channels
Approximate module duration: 35 minutes
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Module 4: Evaluating and monitoring impact
- Why evaluation matters to your project
- How to plan evaluation
- Embedding evaluation throughout the project lifecycle
- Choosing an appropriate evaluation approach
- Evaluation analysis for in-project development
- Building an evaluation plan
- Learning from success and failure: Process evaluation
Approximate module duration: 40 minutes
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Module 5: Evidencing Impact
- Evidencing impact: Introduction
- Developing a value proposition
- Choosing a methodological approach for evidencing your impact
- Using interviews to evidence impact
- Using surveys to evidence impact
- Using focus groups to evidence impact
- Creative ways to evidence impact
- Reporting on evidence
Approximate module duration: 35 minutes