It has always seemed strange to me that to become an academic leader, you have to first become a respected expert in your field. This is...

I launched the Health Resilient Researcher training at the beginning of 2021, and I have noticed a recurring theme across disciplines,...

Recently, I had an interview with CNM (College of Naturopathic Medicine) about burnout from stress. I talked about how how stress affects...

Professor Mark Reed from Fast Track Impact and SRUC will be co-hosting a session on impact culture with the Adaptation Research Alliance...

Someone asked me today what skills they needed to learn to become an empathic leader. Perhaps they should invest in training to become a...

“What is health coaching for the academy?” Over the course of the last few years there is a growing realisation that work home balance is...

In this second blog on empathic leadership for impact, I want to consider the importance of valuing uncertainty in leadership. Embracing...

What are your leadership goals? Maybe you want to empower teams of people who can change the world. That sounds like a worthy goal for a...

We all miss the real life interaction, the smell of that coffee and the sound of that buzz as you walk into a meeting room. At the same...

Critical research – research that foregrounds the contingency of knowledge, social structures, and relations – is often impassioned by...

...(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...

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

Discovering that your research has commercial value is a mixed blessing for many researchers. Many researchers who come up with valuable...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...