About Fast Track Impact
Fast Track Impact is the world's leading source of evidence-based resources and training for researchers who want to generate impact from their research. Our mission is to change the way researchers generate and share knowledge so that their ideas can change the world. We've trained 15,000+ researchers from from more than 200 institutions in 55 countries.
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From 2025, Fast Track Impact is operated by the international not-for-profit charitable organisation, the Institute for Methods Innovation (methodsinnovation.org). Fast Track Impact was co-founded in 2013 by Prof Mark Reed (SRUC / IMI) and Dr Ana Attlee (Project Maya Community Interest Company) , funded by UK Research and Innovation.
Prof Mark Reed
Mark Reed is Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship and Director of the Thriving Natural 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 20,000 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.
Prof Eric Jensen
Prof Jensen is a social scientist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge in sociology. He is part-time professor at the University of Warwick, where he has led courses on public engagement with science, science policy, audience research and social research methods (including surveys and statistics). He is also a doctoral research supervisor for the University of Oxford. As a visiting research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Jensen works on a Sloan Foundation-funded project on research software policy.
Prof Jensen has 20+ years of research and practice experience in social research, evaluation, public and policy engagement and science communication. He has delivered hundreds of training workshops on evaluation methods and evidence-based science communication, as well as leading and consulting on projects large and small on public engagement with research, impact evaluation, socially responsible research, and environmental communication. Prof Jensen also serves as an Independent Ethics Mentor for European Commission-funded projects, reviewing data management and ethics planning. He has extensive experience in ethical approval processes in higher education.