This webinar will interest individual researchers, research leaders, impact officers and those responsible for research and impact strategy.
- Tuesday, 23 July 2024
- 12.30 – 1.30 pm (BST)
- Live on Zoom
- Free, registration required
Creating and tracking research impact isn’t easy – there are tools and techniques that can help you with your own work. Still, the environment and available resources and support are key factors that organisations need to get in place.
Dr Sarah Morton has worked with hundreds of researchers over the last 20 years to help them understand and track impact. More recently she has been helping teams and institutions create supportive impact strategies. In this webinar, Sarah will share learning from her work.
What this webinar will cover
Sarah will highlight the resources, capabilities and skills that are needed to make an impact and to be able to understand and demonstrate the difference research or knowledge makes to people and communities.
The session will explore:
- The importance of a vision for impact – at institution, unit and project levels
- Strategies for making impact
- The support needed to make and measure impact
- Approaches to understanding and tracking impact
- Systems for working well with impact
This session will include a mix of concepts and practical approaches to get you started on your own impact tracking journey and to make the case for the resources needed to do this work well.
We’d like you to leave with ideas and inspiration for contributing to an impact-literate culture that enables everyone to showcase how they are making a difference.
This webinar will interest individual researchers, research leaders, impact officers and those responsible for research and impact strategy. Anyone interested in exploring the impact of research, knowledge to action work or public engagement is welcome.
About Matter of Focus Co-Director Dr Sarah Morton
Sarah developed a pioneering approach to understanding research impact based on contribution analysis. This has been applied in seven independent impact assessments, to help people with REF impact case studies, and is the basis for our approach and software here at Matter of Focus.
Sarah leads our support for people and institutions looking to develop a meaningful approach to understanding and tracking research impact. Find out more about our support.