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Research, Impact and the UK Parliament
UK Parliament Education and Engagement Service are facilitating a number of ‘Research, Impact and the UK parliament’ events Wednesday 18th April 2018, 13:30 – 17:00, University of Stirling Tuesday 22nd May 2018, 13:30 – 17:00, Birmingham City University Friday 15th June 2018, 10:00 – 13:30, 3M Buckley Innovation Centre, Huddersfield How can your research […]
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Impact evidence
Impact evidence Wednesday 14th March 2018, 14:00 – 16:00 It is increasingly important that the UK HEI-based research community is able to demonstrate the non-academic impact of its research. This session will help researchers to identify the types of impact evidence they might need to collect and to develop appropriate plans for evidence […]
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Bid Writing 4: Impact Planning
Bid Writing 4: Impact Planning Tuesday 20th February 2018, 15:00 – 16:30 The ‘impact’ agenda plays an increasingly important role in the allocation of resources for research in the UK. This session will explore the definition of impact and how researchers will need to address impact in research proposals. Please visit My View to book […]
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UK Parliament launches a new web hub for academic researchers
‘Research impact at the UK Parliament’ provides comprehensive information for researchers and universities on how they can engage with Parliament. The new web hub answers three key questions: What is Parliament interested in? How does Parliament use research? Why engage with Parliament? The pages feature: A variety of case studies in which researchers from […]
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Research Leader’s Impact Toolkit
The Leadership Foundation have produced a useful impact toolkit to assist higher education institutions, research leaders and individual researchers develop an embedded approach to research impact. The tools are useful for anyone considering research impact either for their own research or when helping others to plan impact into their projects. To access the tool you […]
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Communicating your research – a toolkit
The Health Foundation’s new communications toolkit for research helps researchers to increase the influence and impact of their findings in health and health care. It includes guidance, templates, support materials and links to help develop a communication strategy, package findings for different audiences and engage stakeholders to extend influence and widen impact. Access the toolkit here: http://www.health.org.uk/collection/communications-health-research-toolkit
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Research Impact – Sharing Ideas Event
Impact plays an increasingly important role, not just in the REF but also as being a fundamental part of research design. This workshop explores some of the ongoing examples of research impact being developed at Edge Hill. Researchers from across the University will present their work and discuss how impact has arisen from a variety […]
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Barriers to engaging with Parliament for academics
The UK Parliament is committed to working with as diverse a range of people as possible. They have been working for a few years to inform and engage academic researchers in the work of Parliament through training and other activities. They have just launched an online survey about the barriers to engaging with Parliament for […]
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Getting published: Only one step in disseminating your findings – Journal of Child Health Care – Bernie Carter, 2017
Professor Bernie Carter from the Faculty of Health and Social Care has written a piece for the Journal of Child Health Care highlighting methodologies for disseminating academic research messages beyond the academic community. The approaches described in the article are applicable to most research areas and provide a useful reference when thinking about wider engagement. […]
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Visit from The Conversation
Edge Hill has been a member of the online publication The Conversation for the last year. It provides an outlet for researchers at universities to write short pieces on topical issues. These articles are typically around 800 words and could be comment, analysis or explanatory pieces. Articles in The Conversation are aimed at the general […]
