Connecting Research

Impact PortfoliosThe full picture of our shared impacts

upon research capacity, new knowledge, and societymeasured within the context of our discipline

Impact Portfolios

•All research activity has an impact portfolio

•Every portfolio tells a story

•Every story is part numbers and part narrative

•The hard part is capture and reporting

Impact Portfolios

•A CV should reflect all contributions

•Once captured they should be reusable in any impact reports

•A surprising amount of what we need is already captured, but not connectable

Impact Portfolios

•Researcher portfolios roll-up into ...

•Institution portfolios roll-up into ...

•Funder portfolios roll-up into ...

•Regional, National, Theme, etc.

•Think russian doll

CASRAI focus

•Agreement among key stakeholders on the content of Impact Portfolios

•Agreement among key stakeholders on the format of Impact Reports

•“Record once, reuse anywhere”

Call to actionFunders, Institutions, Networks, Centres, and

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CASRAI Status

•4 standards committees and associated review circles (person, activity, impact, classification)

•key national and provincial funders

•growing list of institution-based members

•growing international interest

Impact Disconnect

•multiple stakeholders but each an island

•impact is not linear

•inputs locked in disconnected silos

•impact evidence lost through non-capture

•no easy way to connect the dots

Impact Reconnect

•All stakeholders in feasible agreement

•Shared attribution rather than exclusive

•A dictionary defining inputs & impacts

•A way to connect inputs to impacts

•A way to connect the silos on demand

CASRAI & Impact

•Multi-discipline conceptualization

•Capture once at source (indicator events)

•Roll-up when needed (impact reporting)

•Collect independently on demand

•Combine & compare on demand

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