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This session will give you everything you need to generate and communicate realworld impacts from your research. Learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact. Learn how to increase your success rates and integrate impact into your next research proposal from a highly successful bid writer who has co-chaired and served on multiple funding panels. The training is based on the latest research evidence and takes a unique relational approach to deliver wide-reaching and lasting impacts.
Key benefits:
- Learn about evidence-based principles for delivering research impact when you don’t have much time
- Discover easy and quick-to-use templates you can use immediately to:
- Prioritise stakeholders and publics to engage with first
- Create a powerful impact plan that will guarantee your researchmakes a difference without wasting your time
- Get bid writing tools to help you co-produce your next proposal with the people most likely to benefit from your research.
- Find out how to integrate impact into a Horizon Europe proposal (including an exercise to compare how impact was integrated into two contrasting example proposals, only one of which was funded)
At the end of the workshop you:
- Receive slides, and links to free resources to help you embed impact in your research
- Have the option to make a commitment to an action based on the course and receive a follow-up email from Prof Reed to check in and help as necessary after a month.
- Are invited to an optional free follow-up programme over five weeks, so you can apply what you have learned. You can work through these steps yourself from the handbook, but by signing up to take these steps online, you get access to extra material. Each step consist of a 6 minute video with accompanying text and tasks.
Prof Reed continues to answer all questions from participants via email after the course, guaranteeing a response to all questions within one week
About the trainer
Mark Reed is Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship and Director of the ThrivingNatural Capital Challenge Centre at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), and a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, Birmingham City University and the University of Leeds. He has over 200 publications that have been cited more than 30,000 times and has won awards for the non-academic impact of his research. He is author of The Research Impact Handbook, The Productive Researcher and Impact Culture and CEO of Fast Track Impact. He provides training and advice to Universities, research funders, NGOs and policy-makers internationally.
Fast Track Impact is an international training company working in the Higher Education and research and innovation sectors. Its mission is to change the way researchers generate and share knowledge, so that their ideas can change the world. It has trained >10,000 researchers from >200 institutions in 55 countries.