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Impact for beginners
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Research co-produced with research users, stakeholders and/or patient groups is more likely to have impact:
- engagement throughout the research process
- framing research ideas
- ensuring common interests addressed
- research users primed for research findings and recommendations
CHLS PGR Training
The Payback Framework
(2016/17 = £1.6 billion
£300m for impact)
(2015/16 = £2.6 billion)
- Wider benefits of research for society
- economic, social, environmental, cultural
- policy, health, well-being
‘an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia’
- (HEFCE, 2015)
‘fostering global economic performance, and specifically the economic competitiveness of the United Kingdom, increasing the effectiveness of public services and policy, and enhancing quality of life, health and creative output’ - (RCUK 2016)
- Not 'scientific' impact (papers, cites)
Why impact?
Interest in measuring research outcomes
Quality 65%, Environment 15%, Impact 20%
Ivory towers?
Austerity
Public accountability of science to society
Ex post impact statement & case studies
Ex ante impact plan for all grants
1. How to make an impact on...
References and resources
- product development
- informing policy
- health sector benefits
- health gain
- broader economic, social and cultural benefits
REF impact case study database: http://impact.ref.ac.uk/CaseStudies/
RCUK Pathways to Impact: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/impacts/
Donovan, C. (2014) 'Impact Agenda', in Holbrook, JB. (ed.) Ethics, Science, Technology and Engineering: A Global Resource, 2nd Edition. Macmillan Reference USA .
Donovan, C. , Butler, L. , Butt, A. J. , Jones, T. H. and Hanney, S. R. (2014) ‘Evaluation of the impact of National Breast Cancer Foundation-funded research’, Medical Journal of Australia, 200(4): 214-218.
Donovan, C. and Hanney, S. (2011) ‘The Payback Framework explained’, Research Evaluation, 20(3): 181-183.
- Think more creatively than dissemination at the end of a project
- Have an impact plan
- Communicate simply and without using jargon
- Co-production, co-production,
co-production...
for beginners
Any questions?
Dr Claire Donovan