Upcoming events
Impact mentoring
Are you interested in volunteering to be an impact mentor for another social scientist at Royal Holloway? Or, would you like to sign up to be a mentee to learn from a colleague and develop your skills and confidence to do impact?
Register below and we will do our best to match you with a colleague based on skills and experience.
There is no time commitment, but we recommend termly meetings to make the best of the relationship.
Register your interest hereBuilding Evidence for Impact - Pathways to Excellent REF Impact
Thursday 23 May, 10am-11:30am
This session will provide participants with examples and tips of how to generate evidence for their emerging impact case studies or more mature relationships with external partners. In particular, it will focus on:
- building evidence into your research design,
- gathering evidence through testimonials, and
- demonstrating changing behaviour (of organisations) and/ or public policy.
This can happen organically, but the quality and quantity of evidence can also be improved through targeted activities, such as offering to write reports with or for organisations that contain specific recommendations (that may be accepted) for improving practice, and remembering to cite your own underpinning research in policy reports.
Experts from different academic disciplines will discuss their own experiences of previous REF entries and impactful research projects. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with them and one another to develop ideas about how to build in evidence-gathering to their own emerging or more mature case studies.
Register hereAn introduction to Research Impact
Wednesday 3 July, 9.30am-12pm
This interactive workshop explores the fundamentals of research impact. Whether impact is a completely new concept to you, you need a refresher, or you want to reset your “impact mindset”, this session aims to equip you with a set of guiding principles and tools to enable you to make a difference with your research, beyond academic borders
Session objectives
Following the session, you will:
- Know what research impact is and isn’t
- Have explored categories and examples of research impact
- Understand why research impact is important
- Know how to plan for impact (Logic Model/Theory of Change)
- Know how to build an impact network
- Know where to go for further support for research impact at Royal Holloway
Past events
- Evidencing Impact, with Fast Track Impact
- Writing for non-academic audiences
- Impact Development, with Insights for Impact
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