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Empathic leadership (part 2)
Mark Reed
  • Jan 17
  • 12 min

Empathic leadership (part 2)

In this second blog on empathic leadership for impact, I want to consider the importance of valuing uncertainty in leadership. Embracing ...
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Empathic leadership (part 1)
Mark Reed
  • Dec 1, 2020
  • 4 min

Empathic leadership (part 1)

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 ...
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Tips and tools for making your online meetings and workshops more interactive
Sawsan Khuri and Mark Reed
  • Oct 1, 2020
  • 9 min

Tips and tools for making your online meetings and workshops more interactive

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 t...
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Research Impact and Critical Research: Reclaiming Impact on Critical Terms
Ruth Machen
  • Oct 1, 2020
  • 5 min

Research Impact and Critical Research: Reclaiming Impact on Critical Terms

Critical research – research that foregrounds the contingency of knowledge, social structures, and relations – is often impassioned by de...
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15 questions to tell you if your professional online identity is an asset or a risk
Mark Reed
  • May 22, 2020
  • 9 min

15 questions to tell you if your professional online identity is an asset or a risk

...(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...
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How to bring coherence to a fractured digital profile
Mark Reed
  • May 22, 2020
  • 4 min

How to bring coherence to a fractured digital profile

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...
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Do your design skills undermine your credibility and impact?
Mark Reed
  • May 20, 2020
  • 4 min

Do your design skills undermine your credibility and impact?

Since the advent of PowerPoint, researchers have been doing visual design on an almost daily basis, usually not very well. Most of us wil...
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Mark Reed
  • May 20, 2020
  • 4 min

Three options for busy academics whose research could make money

Discovering that your research has commercial value is a mixed blessing for many researchers. Many researchers who come up with valuable ...
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The power of stories to construct a pathway to impact that can inspire change
Mark Reed
  • May 20, 2020
  • 15 min

The power of stories to construct a pathway to impact that can inspire change

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...
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New online impact planning tool launched by Kudos
Mark Reed
  • May 7, 2020
  • 5 min

New online impact planning tool launched by Kudos

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...
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How to integrate impact into a UKRI case for support
Mark Reed
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 6 min

How to integrate impact into a UKRI case for support

Since March 2020, UKRI and its Research Councils no longer require Pathways to Impact and Impact Summaries in research proposals. While t...
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Everything you need to know about the final REF2021 guidance on impact in less than a minute
Mark Reed
  • Mar 9, 2020
  • 11 min

Everything you need to know about the final REF2021 guidance on impact in less than a minute

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...
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Evidencing Impact from Media Engagement
Mark Reed
  • Jan 7, 2020
  • 16 min

Evidencing Impact from Media Engagement

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...
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Presenting with Impact
Mark Reed
  • Dec 2, 2019
  • 14 min

Presenting with Impact

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...
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3 i’s advanced stakeholder analysis
Mark Reed
  • Nov 19, 2019
  • 6 min

3 i’s advanced stakeholder analysis

I recently updated my guide on How to do stakeholder analysis to analyse publics and stakeholders against three criteria: interest, influ...
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Five things you need to do to capture the impact of training as a pathway to impact
Mark Reed
  • Nov 5, 2019
  • 2 min

Five things you need to do to capture the impact of training as a pathway to impact

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...
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How to get your evidence used at scale without giving up the day job
Sally Good
  • Oct 23, 2019
  • 3 min

How to get your evidence used at scale without giving up the day job

Most researchers don’t want to become business owners or spend their lives on the road, communicating their results to those who need the...
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New book calls for civil disobedience to fight “dehumanising” impact agenda
Mark Reed and Richard Watermeyer
  • Sep 24, 2019
  • 19 min

New book calls for civil disobedience to fight “dehumanising” impact agenda

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 ...
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Latest REF2021 intelligence
Prof. Mark Reed
  • Aug 29, 2019
  • 9 min

Latest REF2021 intelligence

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...
2,455 views0 comments
Writing your impact track record for NHMRC
Prof Mark Reed
  • Aug 3, 2019
  • 7 min

Writing your impact track record for NHMRC

For National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants, your track record is heavily weighted in the assessment cri...
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Prof Mark Reed
  • Aug 3, 2019
  • 4 min

How to pass ARC's National Interest Test

Brevity is the name of the game when writing about impact for Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects and Discovery Early Ca...
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How to make a podcast that generates research impact in 10 easy (and free) steps
Mark Reed and James Daybell
  • Jun 26, 2019
  • 16 min

How to make a podcast that generates research impact in 10 easy (and free) steps

Podcasts have grown rapidly in popularity in recent years, and they give everyone the opportunity to turn their research into a show, wha...
1,277 views0 comments
Four ways to cultivate deeper creativity by embracing failure, procrastination and criticism
Mark Reed
  • Jun 17, 2019
  • 9 min

Four ways to cultivate deeper creativity by embracing failure, procrastination and criticism

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...
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How to make an infographic CV featuring impact that you can submit with your next grant application
Mark Reed
  • Jun 6, 2019
  • 2 min

How to make an infographic CV featuring impact that you can submit with your next grant application

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...
3,458 views0 comments
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