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Shared by Elaine Hunter, University of the West of Scotland. A handy resources for working with academic colleagues to think through how they might evidence impacts claimed, and what impacts the evidence they have gathered substantiates.

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Searchable Annex A of Impact Types and Indicators-blank for ARMA_SIG

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Curiosity Carnival - Little Book of Evaluation

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Curiosity Carnival - Little Book of Evaluation

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I like that it has examples that work well for specific kinds of public-facing activity, with information on how to do it and how it was used in the context. This makes them more tangible, usable, practical examples

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This guide, created by the Public Engagement with Research team in Research Services, highlights a series of easy-to-use and creative methods to evaluate and gather evidence of impact from Public Engagement with Research activities, including performances, table-top exhibits, workshops and talks, using case studies from Oxford's European Researchers' Night - Curiosity Carnival.
Download the book

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Little Book of Evaluation Tools: Curiosity Carnival

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A handy, short guide to a number of different methods you can use to evaluate different engagement activities, including their pros, cons and examples of how they were each used during the Curiosity Carnival, 2017.

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At Salford we have created a 'Getting started with impact' toolkit, which explains why we are asking our research community to engage in the context of our own institution. It takes the reader step by step through the process with links to templates along the way and lots of signposting to other (external) resources.

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A mixture - no need to reinvent the wheel! However, it can be helpful to 'tailor' existing materials for your own institution.

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There is a lot of talk about 'theory of change' in relation to impact but we find that talking about theories can actually put off our academics and they need something more tangible to work with. We use logic models to try to take them through the thought process.

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I haven't used this extensively yet but it is helpful to get a sense of impact with stakeholders

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The Bartlett Manual of Impact aims to support individuals, groups and departments to develop a mindset for creating meaningful impacts.

Introduction

The Bartlett Manual of Impact provides guidance, stories and practical tips to promote effective impact practices.

At the heart of making meaningful impact lies a crucial element: relationships. Within the Manual we emphasise the importance of creating relationships, and promote learning around core principles of impact:

trust and care

power and equity

learning and reflection

We break down actionable solutions for common challenges encountered in the pursuit of impactful processes from our research, teaching and practice.

Read The Bartlett Manual of Impact

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Why read The Bartlett Manual of Impact?

Whether you are a researcher, lecturer, student, member of professional services staff or practitioner, we hope that through engaging with the Manual you:

Develop an understanding of what impacts are (and can be)

Are exposed to a set of ideas and stories that you can use to develop your own approach to impact, and overcome challenges encountered in practice

Have a starting point for discussions with your colleagues, students, or partners

Reflect on and design a structure for making meaningful impact part of your work

Get involved

The Manual is an evolving resource. We will continue to refine the Manual as we learn, and welcome further contributions to help us make the Manual even more useful. We want your contributions to the manual, so please do get in touch using the contact details here.

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The Bartlett Manual of Impact aims to support individuals, groups and departments to develop a mindset for creating meaningful impacts.

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This seems like a good resource to explain what impact is and how to do it

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Julie Bayley's book, Creating Meaningful Impact , is an enlightening romp through the excitement, the pressures, the demands of doing impact well, both in terms of institutional success and in terms of a researcher's personal and professional development. As book blurbs often suggest, the book is a rollercoaster, but one very much aimed at the fainthearted, who stand to learn a lot from Julie's immense expertise, warmth, wit and superlative use of imagery. So, if you are tickled by the idea of becoming a more mindfully impactful researcher, swipe right on 'Impact Tinder' and read this book!

-- Professor Ele Belfiore, Professor in Cultural Policy & Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity, University of Aberdeen, UK

Julie Bayley never fails to achieve impact on impact. If you are already on your journey to impact literacy this book will help you grow roots into impact healthy practices. And if you are just starting out, this book will help you sow the seeds that will grow into those roots to sustain your career of research with an impact on society. 'Creating meaningful impact' isn't just the title, it is the goal that Julie achieves in this important book.

-- Dr David Phipps, Assistant VP Research Strategy & Impact, York University, Canada, and Director of Research Impact Canada

There are many books available to advise researchers how to 'do' impact but none as accessible as this. The sheer joy and enthusiasm that Julie brings to the field shines through every word which, along with insights from other researchers and partners in the field, ensures that every reader will emerge from this book enlightened, and excited about the prospect of pursuing their own 'societal impact'.

-- Dr Gemma Derrick, Associate Professor, Research Policy & Culture, University of Bristol, UK

Absolutely brilliant. Cuts through the impact BS incisively but with wit, focusing on the (social) purpose throughout. Should be a must read for all PhD students and frankly all academics.

-- Jonathan Grant, Founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research

I adored this book and will give it to every young academic on my Christmas present list [...] As the author intended, I found my 'impact mojo' in this book.

-- Christopher Walker, Communications Strategist, Thought Leadership Columnist & Writer

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Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset

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Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset looks at impact from inside the research sector, celebrating the opportunity to make a difference whilst recognising the challenges this brings.

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This website has a lot of resources on impact and policy engagement

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Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) is a knowledge exchange and research project that explores how to support effective and sustained engagement between academics and policy professionals across the higher education sector.

CAPE is a partnership between UCL and the universities of Cambridge, Manchester, Northumbria and Nottingham, in collaboration with the Government Office for Science, the Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology, Nesta, and the Transforming Evidence Hub. CAPE is funded by Research England.

We believe that policy which is informed by evidence is stronger, more effective, and provides better value for public spending. By using research expertise we can make a positive difference to the UK economy, our wellbeing and to the world around us.

Sign up for the CAPE newsletter.

Follow us on Twitter:
Follow @CAPE_acuk

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Home - CAPE (Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement)

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Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) has been created to support effective and sustained engagement between academics and policy professionals across the higher education sector.

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All of their resources are simple and clear. Just getting people to use them is hard!

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Impact tools and templates

Find out who might be interested in your research and how you could reach out to them more effectively to generate impact. Read the instructions and watch the video here (or read the advanced guide here ). Or just download the template now as an editable Word file or PDF .

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Make a plan to engage effectively with your stakeholders and publics to generate measurable impacts with limited time. Read the instructions and watch the video here , or go to Google Sheets here to view a blank template, and go to File > Make a copy to save an editable version.

Check in regularly with your team to track whether or not you are getting impacts from your research. Read the instructions or download the template as an editable file or Word PDF .

Answer four questions to complete this template and start generating impact with less time and risk online. Read the instructions here or download the template as an editable file or Word PDF .

Our essential series of 'how to' guides for researchers, designed to help you embed impact in your work:

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Planning for Impact

How to do a stakeholder analysis

Mark shares two new definitions he has developed that will enable you to become crystal clear about what impact is (and is not).

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5 Lessons to co-produce impact when you have limited time

This week, Mark shares his top 5 lessons for co-producing impact with limited time, based on his forthcoming book, Impact Culture

Find out who's interested in your research;

Next, start with their needs, not your ideas;

Give as much as you get;

Base action on bodies of work rather than your latest findings; and

Be curious about what works.

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How to avoid your research generating "grimpact"

Mark interviews Professor Gemma Derrick from University of Bristol about her work to understand the characteristics and drivers of negative unintended consequences from research, what she calls "grimpact".

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How to write an impact strategy

Mark interviews Saskia Gent (Insights for Impact) and Jennifer Locket and Dawn Ashby (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) to learn from research that reviewed over 70 impact strategies from around the world.

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I want to plan my impact | Fast Track Impact

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Impact tools and templates Find out who might be interested in your research and how you could reach out to them more effectively to generate impact. Read the instructions and watch the video here (or read the advanced guide here ). Or just download the template now as an editable Word file or PDF .

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Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks

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Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks

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An oldie but a goodie! A classic evaluation handbook.

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Sage Research Methods - Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks

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This practical book provides clear, step-by–step guidance on how to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework in a participatory, logical, systemat

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NCCPE has some excellent resources on partnership working including this one

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NCCPE has some excellent resources on partnership working including this one

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The Principles of Partnership Working | NCCPE

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The NCCPE works with universities to build inclusive knowledge through public engagement.

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Their evaluation principles are really robust and they have so many resources besides, including some great ones on creative evaluation techniques!

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We want to build a shared understanding of the differences that arts, culture, heritage and screen make to people's lives and to society.​

These collaboratively produced evaluation principles are a sharing of ideas to inform how evaluation is carried out and used in the cultural sector.

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Evaluation principles - Centre for Cultural Value

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We want to build a shared understanding of the differences that arts, culture, heritage and screen make to people's lives and to society.​ These collaboratively produced evaluation principles are a sharing of ideas to inform how evaluation is carried out and used in the cultural sector.

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This is also a good resource on equitable relations in impact

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This is also a good resource on equitable relations in impact

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REF 2021: Annex A: Examples of impact and indicators

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REF 2021: Annex A: Examples of impact and indicators

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Many of our academics find this to be a valuable resource, both with planning for impact, identifying the types of impact they could achieve, and the types of evidence they could collect

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We have a blended approach of both external resources and our own. Sometimes, there are resources that need to be either condensed or 'translated' into bitesize guidance to suit our academics. We also turn some text-heavy resources into visual representations, which some staff find helpful

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We've created a 'step by step guide on our intranet, which includes links to key external resources. We also use this to promote the support and training we provide

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I'm not sure if it's accessible outside of KCL, but they created a great infographic, What I Wish I'd Known: which had advice and tips for new impact officers. I think they shared it or it was in a presentation at an ARMA event.

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All our resources are on the intranet

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I've not come across anything (yet!) that provides concise, and practical advice and examples to support academics to collect testimonials, such as the type of questions. to ask. We get asked this a lot, so have created our own resources.

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REF Tips & Tricks for Emerging Impact Officers - ARMA Poster - Rhiannon Segar

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Planning & capturing impact from creative practice research/activities/outputs (in arts & humanities disciplines)

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Planning & capturing impact from creative practice research/activities/outputs (in arts & humanities disciplines)

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Sarah Morton offers training in knowledge mobilisation and makes a lot of information available for free on her website.

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We help you understand and evidence how the work you are doing changes people's lives.

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The Impact Chain – How to craft an effective impact case study narrative

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A vital part of any research assessment program is the ability to clearly demonstrate the impacts, whatever they may, of the research undertaken. In this post, Katy McEwan presents the impact chain…

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What is the Research Leader's Impact Toolkit?

This toolkit is for higher education institutions to develop an embedded approach to research impact. It covers a broad spectrum of impact areas to enable different staff groups and stakeholders to coordinate the leadership and management of impact. The toolkit is divided into nine sections underpinned by three main themes.

Who is it for?

This toolkit is for anyone tasked with research impact. So far this has been frequently used by people in these kinds for roles:

Research and impact officers

Coordinators and managers

Research Heads of Department

Directors of Research

Associate Deans of Research

Research Fellows

Use the introductory PDF Research Leaders Impact Toolkit for a complete guide on how to make the best of the toolkit according to your job role.

How will this benefit my institution?

The use of this toolkit will enable your institution to:

Develop or update a formal Research Impact Strategy

Devise strategies for leading, managing and practising impact

Align impact work with engagement, knowledge exchange, outreach and quality improvement

Inform research practice

Improve processes and infrastructure

Build capacity, skills and knowledge for research careers

How long will it take?

We have designed the toolkit for you to work through in the way that most suits you and your institution's needs. It can be used collaboratively with teams or individually. How long it takes is entirely based on the time you need to make it work for you. We see it used as part of an iterative process, and it is therefore a resource that you can return to.

I would like to discuss using the toolkit with teams in my institution.

We can help you to embed the toolkit quicker and deeper into your institution's research practice. See our in-house delivery options for more information.

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Research Leaders Impact Toolkit | Advance HE

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Resources on the intersection between Impact and Trusted Research.

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Resources on the intersection between Impact and Trusted Research.

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While the direct basic science research may not fall under the auspices of Trusted Research, what is done with the knowledge findings once it goes beyond academia, there is less control of what happens. Occasionally the contracts of that transfer aren't sufficient to control for the institutional risks should things go 'pear shaped'

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This might be useful for KE and various types of KE

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PraxisAuril is a world-leading professional association for Knowledge Exchange practitioners. Our extensive network includes 5000+ active Knowledge Exchange professionals from more than 182 member organisations.

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I find the UPEN network and resources very useful for the nuances of engaging with policy audiences

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Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) is a central space for academics, policy actors, and professional services staff who undertake and support academic-policy engagement. We champion academic policy engagement to strengthen evidence-informed policymaking in the UK.

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I read this book 10 years ago (was recommended by one of our REF advisors) and I found it ENORMOUSLY helpful in forming a general attitude to how to measure and evaluate impact. I'm paraphrasing wildly from my distant memory, but essentially it is looking at evaluation as a way of 'reducing uncertainty' rather than producing an absolute answer.

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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

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Buy How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business 3 by Hubbard, Douglas W. (ISBN: 9781118539279) from Amazon’s Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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NCACE for engaging with the cultural sector (v helpful in arts & humanities)

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NCACE for engaging with the cultural sector (v helpful in arts & humanities)

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There's so much more on this site than I've had time to read, but there's a substantial focus on case studies of knowledge exchange projects, which I thought could be very useful in helping academics (esp in A&H) see what KE activity & subsequent impact could 'look like'

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National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange

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Collection - National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange

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The NCACE Collection is a constantly growing online resource featuring our commissioned research reports, essays and think-pieces, case studies, blogs and mini-toolkits on topics relating to collaborations between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sectors. We often refer to this emerging field as Cultural Knowledge Exchange. The collection has been developed as a space … Continued

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At Sheffield we creted a whole site on impact with the following:

Five top tips for creating impact

University impact toolkits includes evidencing impact and types of impacts

Routes to impact

External impact toolkits

Impct in eductaion

Impct and REF

We also have an impact intern programme and we have a website for our students on finding impact evidence which is growing all the time.

It's all in the staff pages so I can't share it here unfortunately - sorry!

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At The Conversation Exchange this year there was a really good presentation by Plymouth Marine Laboratory on creating a culture of impact. It's the 5th presentation with a video of the full presentation and a link to the slides

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At The Conversation Exchange this year there was a really good presentation by Plymouth Marine Laboratory on creating a culture of impact. It's the 5th presentation with a video of the full presentation and a link to the slides

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Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

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What case study repositories have you found?

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What case study repositories have you found?

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Here's the obvious one as a starter :)

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What REF-specific analyses have you found useful?

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What REF-specific analyses have you found useful?