#catalystas

Catalyst – Impact Strategy

@catalystproj www.catalystproject.org.uk

About Catalyst3 year EPSRC research project 2011-14

• Citizen-led agenda

• Understanding behaviour– Why do people participate (or not) in society/civic

actions?

• Tools for change– Next generation {digital} technologies for social

change

• Reflecting on Interdisciplinarity

Impact

“the effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia”

• Digital Economy Impact Framework• Research Excellence Framework• Pathways to impact • Catalyst Impact strategy

Citizen-Led Research partnerships

co-research & co-production:mutually beneficial activities

• Research Sprints• Launch pads• Serendipity Cafes• Research Relays• Protee dialogues• Public

engagement with research

*Interfacing Research & Impact Systems Toolset

1. Map Impact Network

2. Opportunity: When might impact occur in research process?

3. Evidence collection methods

4. Create impact content for dissemination

5. Communication Channels

http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/impact/iris/

1. Catalyst Impact Network

• Local, National & International Academic networks – network bid

• Local & National Community Groups• Policy Makers – local, regional, national• Industry practitioners - local• Public engagement network – regional, national

Twitter

2. Catalyst Impact opportunity

• Serendipity cafes: sharing challenges, making connections

• Setting research agenda & question in partnership with community organisations

• Undertaking research in partnership with community organisations

• Knowledge exchange: Protee dialogues & Relay• Public Engagement with research• Interdisciplinary Academic engagement

Lessons Learned: Protee

• Project dialogues• Learn from failure

and success• Insights:

– innovation– management– interdisciplinarity

Sprints & Launch pads

Local Trade, Local WealthSuccess in Activist TweetsPatchworks

Research Sprint - #Patchworks

Research Sprint – 8 Months

Is it possible to co-design, with homeless communities, a simple and cheap health monitoring and communication tool using the methods and materials of ‘personal manufacturing’ (DIY-Bio/garage science)?

Rod Dillon Rebecca Ellis Sharon Calverley Asa CalowBiomedicine Environment Centre Signposts Madlab

Maria Angela Ferrario Will Simm Jen Southern Management Computing Sociology

Interdisciplinary community-academic partnerships

#Patchworks

Key activities: Patchworks

Mar April May June July Aug Sept Oct

How to w/shopsHow to w/shops

Decided which

prototype

Decided which

prototype

RelayRelayBuilding

prototypeBuilding

prototype

Literature reviewLiterature review

research observation and documentation of organisations & workshopsresearch observation and documentation of organisations & workshops

Wider presentation and discussion of project at conferencesWider presentation and discussion of project at conferences

User testingUser testing

Exploratory workshopsExploratory workshops

Writing academic papersWriting academic papers

PROTEEdialogue

PROTEEdialogue

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PROTEEdialogue

PROTEEdialogue

Research proposalResearch proposal

Enhancing impact: knowledge exchange & public

engagement

Public engagementKnowledge exchange

3. Catalyst Evidence Collection

Self-assessment• Case study• Surveys• Feedback forms

Proprietary tools• Pathways to Impact• Digital Economy Impact Framework• Ethnographic videography• External evaluator• Alt-metrics

4. Catalyst Content

• Impact publication• Publications & Case Studies• Workshop content• Videos & photographs• Social Media: youtube, twitter, facebook, menderley,

slideshare• Slide presentations• Open access knowledge repositories• News articles & blog posts• Games

5. Catalyst Communication Channels

• Academic Journals• Catalyst Website• Social media: youtube, twitter, facebook, slideshare,

menderley, flickr• Advisory Group• Co-Investigators via departmental meetings & seminars• Blogs (internal & external)• Conferences including annual Research Relay• Serendipity cafes

6. Impact challenges

• Tracking impact within and across projects• Demonstrating Impact: ‘must create a change’• Attribution: Interdisciplinary nature of Catalyst• Advisory Group• Impact must be underpinned by 2* research• Resourcing implications• Timing – i) impact to manifest ii) research underpinning• Storing evidence beyond life of funding period• Maintaining connections with project participants• Community acknowledgement

7. Useful impact links

• RCUK pathways to impact toolkit: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/kei/impacts/Pages/home.aspx

• LSE impact of social sciences blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/

• Resources: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/resources/

• Describe project: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/describe/

• NCCPE-JISC impact analysis: facilitation & synthesis: http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/about/impact-analysis

• ESRC: Pathways to impact toolkit: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/tools-and-resources/impact-toolkit/index.aspx

• Toolkit for the impact of digitised scholarly resources: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/

• Alt-metrics aggregator: http://impactstory.org/