...(and what you can do about it) We’ve all got one, but what does your digital footprint say about you? Not everyone who asks themselves...

When was the last time you audited your digital footprint? Do you know what people see when they google your name and affiliation? How co...

Since the advent of PowerPoint, researchers have been doing visual design on an almost daily basis, usually not very well. Most of us wil...

Most of us are aware of the power of stories to help us communicate our research, whether we’re writing a keynote speech or a blog, or st...

Like other users of Kudos, I was recently given complimentary access to Kudos Pro, so I decided to take it out for a spin and made this p...

Since March 2020, UKRI and its Research Councils no longer require Pathways to Impact and Impact Summaries in research proposals. While t...

In this guide I will summarise all the key things you need to know about the submission of im pact case studies in REF2021, and provide a...

Many of us think that media engagement and impact go hand in hand, but this is not necessarily the case. Engaging with social and mass me...

A PhD student stands nervously on stage as 250 students noisily pack into the lecture theatre. It is his first ever lecture and he stayed...

I recently updated my guide on How to do stakeholder analysis to analyse publics and stakeholders against three criteria: interest, influ...

Training is a common pathway to impact for many of us. There were 92 impact case studies that used training courses to generate impact in...

Most researchers don’t want to become business owners or spend their lives on the road, communicating their results to those who need the...

As anyone who has attended my trainings will know, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021). I see ...

We’re getting to a point in the REF cycle where details really matter, so in this blog I'm collating relevant new insights on how institu...

For National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants, your track record is heavily weighted in the assessment cri...

Podcasts have grown rapidly in popularity in recent years, and they give everyone the opportunity to turn their research into a show, wha...

Do you spend hours creating the perfect place to think, and then get frustrated when the ideas don’t start to flow? There is a reason for...

When you have to fit your CV to two pages in a grant application, what you choose to cut or keep says a lot about what you think are your...

Newsletters are a surprisingly efficient and effective way of getting engagement with your research, that can lead to impact. In recent y...

We know research impact unfolds in complex and unpredictable ways, so how on earth do we learn from and evaluate it? In this blog, I will...

I’m often asked if it is preferable to submit case studies based on a single person or multiple people. University of Cambridge did well ...

View an updated version of this blog In 2014, the UK became the first country to comprehensively assess the impact of its research as par...