IMPACT!!!

Real World Impact

An overview by the

NICER Group

Nottingham

ITAG 2015

Impact

VERB or NOUN??

What is impact?

Research with impact!!

Nottingham Trent University

• Demonstrating your scholarly impact using bibliometrics

• Demonstrating your wider research impact using alternative metrics (altmetrics)

• Managing your researcher identity .

Importance of the user voice

• One of the principles, taken from the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Pathways to Impact web resource includes:

Ensure user perspectives are strongly represented.

Longitudinal – Be patient

Impact on the Gatekeepers

• Teachers

• Head Teachers

• Families

• Care workers/Support workers

• Employers

• Commissioners!!

• Local Authority

Taking a pride

Cambridge University

The people who arrive in this city change Cambridge.

The ideas that leave this city change the world.

Research Excellence Framwork

Impact Case Studies 2014

Conveyor Belt

Beth -

Points to consider

• Ethical issues and real people’s lives

• Longitudinal impact

• The user voice is not just for Christmas!

• How impact is evaluated

• How is impact celebrated

• Honesty