Building an impact literate research culture: Research Impact Summit talk Nov 2016
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Building an impact literate research culture Julie Bayley Health Psychologist, former Impact Officer, ARMA Impact Champion @JulieEBayley https://juliebayleyblog.wordpress.com/ [email protected] Winner 2015 - Impact
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Building an impact literate research culture
Julie BayleyHealth Psychologist, former Impact Officer, ARMA Impact Champion
@JulieEBayley
https://juliebayleyblog.wordpress.com/
[email protected] 2015 - Impact
Impact:
The demonstrable real world benefit of research
Key wordsAttributable, Change, non-academic, evidence,
Impact = change
Patient access to services
Quality of life
Effectiveness of therapy
Confidence in self care
Mortality
Severity of symptoms
Medicine waste
MisdiagnosisIm
pro
ved R
edu
ced
Primary academic
drivers
Assessment
Public benefit and social responsibility
Funding
Unease
‘Test anxiety’
‘Not expert’
‘Other people do it’
attribution
Fatigue
Delivering on expectations
AcademicResourcing
Research management
Information management
Collating formal submissions
Prioritising
Managing change
Strategy
Institution
Access
Usefulness
Appropriateness
Suitability
Needs based
Sustainability
Burden
User
Challenges
LITERATE
WHAT
IndicatorsEvidence
BeneficiariesTracking
Assessment process
Skills Application
TailoringInteraction
ActivitiesOutputs
Engagement processes
Demonstrable benefits (impact)
Insufficient understanding of
roles and skills
Insufficient understanding of
endpoints / effects
Insufficient understanding
of processes
Impact literacy
From Bayley, J. and Phipps, D. Building the Concept of Impact Literacy. Paper submitted.
WHAT
HOW WHO
Develop internal impact
‘agency’
Identify and enhance own skills
Define effects with beneficiaries
Engage, build & maintain partnerships
Choose appropriate activities
Select dissemination formats
Recognise & value engagement activities
Identify indicators
Track and report
Resource engagement
Embed impact into core research processes
Support academic and professional staff development
Find institutional partners
Information management
Strategic alignment
Longer term monitoring
Commssupport
Apply and share skills
Partner with skilled others
Reward
Developing an impact literate culture
Clarify roles
Upcoming skills paper: Bayley, J., Phipps, D., Batac, M. and
Stevens, E. Development and synthesis of a Knowledge Broker
Competency Framework. Accepted in Evidence and Practice
Top tips
1. Embed impact into the research process• Don’t just bolt it on at the end of a project
2. Recognise ‘one size doesn’t fit all’. • Fundamental research and arts and humanities can particularly struggle with blunt
measurements of impact
3. Harness and build skills within institution; build your impact agency• Build impact literacy across the organisation
4. Engage not enrage• Impact is achievable but not simple. Value the effort as well as the result
Impact is achievable. But it’s not simple
Support processes
Value people
Connect meaningfully
@JulieEBayley
https://juliebayleyblog.wordpress.com/
