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 few strategic point...

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 media can be one of th...

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 up half the night p...

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

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 REF2014. This inclu...

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

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 it is part of my job...

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 institutions are interpreti...

For National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants, your track record is heavily weighted in the assessment criteria (70% in Invest...

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

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 this. We are creati...

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 most important achi...

Newsletters are a surprisingly efficient and effective way of getting engagement with your research, that can lead to impact. In recent years I have heard ma...

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 take a look at some...

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 on impact in REF2013...

There is an art to writing a strong research impact case study. Part 1 of this guide presents preliminary findings of a larger qualitative and quantitative l...

If you want your research to make an impact, you need a plan. In this video and guide, I will show you how to use the Fast Track Impact Planning Template to ...

Don’t be fooled by the large sums of money available from the Global Challenges Research Fund – competition is fierce for these funds, and many researchers a...

Research projects often end with workshops or conferences for stakeholders in which researchers treat their audiences to death by PowerPoint, hoping that the...