About Fast Track Impact
Fast Track Impact is the world's leading source of evidence-based resources and training for researchers who want to generate impact from their research. Our mission is to change the way researchers generate and share knowledge so that their ideas can change the world. We've trained >15,000 researchers from >200 institutions in 55 countries since 2015.
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Fast Track Impact was co-founded by Prof Mark Reed (SRUC) and Dr Ana Attlee (Project Maya Community Interest Company) in 2013, funded by UK Research and Innovation, and launched as an independent spin-out company in 2015, led by Prof Reed as Chief Executive Officer and Dr Joyce Reed as Managing Director. Fast Track Impact merges with not-for-profit organisation, the Institute for Methods Innovation in 2025, extending the range of courses and trainers available, with Prof Reed continuing to develop content, new courses and support participants via email.
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Prof Mark Reed
Mark Reed is a Professor and research centre Director at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), and a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and the University of Leeds. He has over 200 publications that have been cited more than 30,000 times and has won awards for the non-academic impact of his research. He is author of The Research Impact Handbook, The Productive Researcher, Impact Culture and The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy. He provides training and advice to Universities, research funders, NGOs and policy-makers internationally.
Dr Eric Jensen
Prof. Jensen is a social scientist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge in sociology. He is part-time professor at the University of Warwick, where he has led courses on public engagement with science, science policy, audience research and social research methods (including surveys and statistics). He is also a doctoral research supervisor for the University of Oxford. As a visiting research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Jensen works on a Sloan Foundation-funded project on research software policy.
