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...

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...

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 ...

What is the impact culture in your institution or research group? Every group has a culture, and you may be able to describe some aspects of this (like your ...

If you want your research to have an impact, a good place to start is working out who might benefit from your work. In this short guide and accompanying vide...

The REF rules are clear: impacts remain with the institution in which the original research was conducted. If you move institutions, you can’t take your case...

If your research has been commercialized in some way, then you may be asked to evidence the economic benefits arising from your work. Economic claims are har...

Linking different types of policy impacts to specific pieces of evidence from research can be a major problem for researchers who want to evidence the impact...

​​Nobody likes soliciting compliments, so it can feel awkward asking someone you’ve worked with for a testimonial to corroborate the impact of your research....

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 more two-way models...

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 drive non-academic ...

Infographics are a great way of communicating your research to a wider audience, from other researchers to people who might use your research outside academi...

Researchers are engaging with the public more than ever before, but most have no idea how they are benefiting the people they interact with. Many researchers...

Exploiting your research for impact is essential if you want to get your Horizon 2020 proposal funded. There are just three things you need to get right to c...

Many researchers find the impact sections of their grant applications among the most challenging to complete. This guide explains exactly what you need to wr...