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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...
6,530 views
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...
3,461 views
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...
2,241 views
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...
635 views
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...
2,347 views
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...
2,732 views
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,...
1,685 views
What makes a 4* research impact case study for REF2021?
Mark Reed, Bella Reichard, Jenn Chubb, Ged Hall
  • Mar 19, 2019
  • 11 min

What makes a 4* research impact case study for REF2021?

View an updated version of this blog In 2014, the UK became the first country to comprehensively assess the impact of its research as...
30,743 views
Fast Track Impact Planning Template
Mark Reed
  • Mar 18, 2019
  • 4 min

Fast Track Impact Planning Template

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...
5,532 views
How to move your REF impact case study to a new institution
Mark Reed
  • Nov 15, 2018
  • 4 min

How to move your REF impact case study to a new institution

The REF rules are clear: impacts remain with the institution in which the original research was conducted. If you move institutions, you...
1,110 views
How to get commercially sensitive data to evidence economic impacts from research
Mark Reed
  • Nov 9, 2018
  • 5 min

How to get commercially sensitive data to evidence economic impacts from research

If your research has been commercialized in some way, then you may be asked to evidence the economic benefits arising from your work....
842 views
How to conduct a testimonial interview to corroborate the impact of your research
Mark Reed
  • Feb 23, 2018
  • 5 min

How to conduct a testimonial interview to corroborate the impact of your research

​​Nobody likes soliciting compliments, so it can feel awkward asking someone you’ve worked with for a testimonial to corroborate the...
4,723 views
How to set up a stakeholder advisory panel for your research project (and why it delivers impact)
Mark Reed
  • Feb 20, 2018
  • 6 min

How to set up a stakeholder advisory panel for your research project (and why it delivers impact)

Most of us have left the idea of one-way "knowledge transfer" behind us long ago, but we rarely interrogate the ethics or evidence behind...
3,416 views
How to generate research impact from Twitter and LinkedIn
Mark Reed
  • Feb 16, 2018
  • 15 min

How to generate research impact from Twitter and LinkedIn

More and more researchers are turning to social media as a way of getting their research to a wider audience. But can social media really...
7,051 views
How to turn your next paper into an infographic
Mark Reed and Anna Sutherland
  • Nov 28, 2017
  • 4 min

How to turn your next paper into an infographic

Infographics are a great way of communicating your research to a wider audience, from other researchers to people who might use your...
11,541 views
Evidencing impacts from public engagement
Mark Reed
  • Nov 23, 2017
  • 8 min

Evidencing impacts from public engagement

Researchers are engaging with the public more than ever before, but most have no idea how they are benefiting the people they interact...
5,221 views
How to write a Horizon Europe proposal that impresses on impact
Mark Reed
  • Oct 31, 2017
  • 8 min

How to write a Horizon Europe proposal that impresses on impact

Exploiting your research for impact is essential if you want to get your Horizon Europe proposal funded. There are just three things you...
8,332 views
5 ways to fast track the impact of your PhD
Jenn Chubb and Mark Reed
  • Feb 8, 2017
  • 7 min

5 ways to fast track the impact of your PhD

Generating societal, cultural and/economic impact from your PhD is no longer an optional extra - it is an essential step on the career...
4,737 views
Top Twitter Tips for Research Impact
Prof Mark Reed and Dr Ana Attlee
  • Sep 30, 2016
  • 14 min

Top Twitter Tips for Research Impact

Our Top Twitter Tips are 4 years old today, and to celebrate, we've completely re-written and revised them for 2015. The previous tips...
2,165 views
10 lessons from grant proposals that led to the most significant and far-reaching impacts
Sarah Buckmaster and Prof Mark Reed
  • Feb 14, 2016
  • 10 min

10 lessons from grant proposals that led to the most significant and far-reaching impacts

In this blog, we analyse ‘pathways to impact’ in grant applications that led to the top scoring impact case studies in the latest UK...
6,483 views
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