Many researchers want to influence policy but don’t know where to start. A new AI prompt can help you identify opportunities tailored to your work. By giving ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot links to your institutional profile, publications, and projects, you can generate a structured overview of relevant policies, evaluations, international comparators, and opportunities to apply your research. The prompt also produces a draft engagement plan aligned to the policy calendar.   So

If you’ve ever seen me train or read my books (and increasingly my papers), you’ll know how much I foreground values in everything I do. Values shape what we do because they shape who we are. Sometimes it’s the values that drive us to engage with impact in ways that deepen our passion for research, something I explored in my impact culture paper with Ioan Fazey . Sometimes it’s the deep value we place on nature, which can be hard to articulate but profoundly shapes how we int

There are many great papers and guides on how to write a top-scoring REF impact case study, but few tools help researchers organise and prioritise their impact activities on-the-go. You might have multiple strands of research and impact at different levels of maturity, which may or may not come to anything. How do you keep track of them all, work out where the gaps are, and prioritise where you should invest the most effort?  I developed a template for my own REF2029 impact c