The workshop focuses mainly on impact via policy and through enterprise and commercialisation, although it does cover some aspects of impact through academic and consultancy routes. 

The workshop will provide you with tools and frameworks to assist in disseminating research and making it as widely available as possible to the many audiences that will benefit. The workshop is pragmatic and hands on, taking you through a range of activities, exercises, and figures to scope the potential impact your own research. 

It will cover the following:

1. What is research impact?
2. Types of Knowledge Exchange – Understanding and insight of the many ways your research can have impact bringing to the fore options you may never have previously considered.
3. Building relationships with stakeholders that increase the impact of your research.
4. Engaging Stakeholders: Describing different methods of engaging stakeholders and their importance to your research’s impact.
5. Enterprise and Commercialisation: Translating your research to increase its impact more widely.
6. Using Research to Inform Policy.
7. Evaluating Research Impact:  Encouraging you to think about how you provide evidence of the significance and reach of your work. 

What’s included?

The workshop can be done as a stand alone programme working through at your own pace or it can be done in groups online and in-person. The value of the group sessions is the quality of the discussion and ideas generated can help colleagues galvanise their ideas much more quickly. As with most shared learning new insights emerge and are explored more rapidly.

The workshop on research impact has a workbook included with all the tools and activities included for individuals or small groups to work complete at the different stages of the research impact cycle. Indeed, the workbook tools are likely to be something individuals return repeatedly as their research impact journey progresses, especially for multiple projects or ideas.

The tools and activities have all been designed to assist academic researchers to think about impact from the start of their research, develop skills in getting stakeholders involved by understanding their perspective and finally question guides to grow impact for policy or commercialisation purposes.

The workshop creates a more entrepreneurial approach to research for academics to recognise the benefits their research and scholarship for a much wider audience. I draw on my own experience in academia and entrepreneurial settings to demonstrate real world practicalities of creating impactful research.

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