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Impact tools and templates
Stakeholder and public analysis template
Find out who might be interested in your research and how you could reach out to them more effectively to generate impact. Read the instructions and watch the video here (or read the advanced guide here). Or just download the template now as an editable Word file or PDF.
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Impact planning template
Make a plan to engage effectively with your stakeholders and publics to generate measurable impacts with limited time. Read the instructions and watch the video here, or go to Google Sheets here to view a blank template, and go to File > Make a copy to save an editable version.
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Impact tracking template
Check in regularly with your team to track whether or not you are getting impacts from your research. Read the instructions or download the template as an editable Word file or PDF.
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Social media impact template
Answer four questions to complete this template and start generating impact with less time and risk online. Read the instructions here or download the template as an editable Word file or PDF.
Research impact guides
Our essential series of 'how to' guides for researchers, designed to help you embed impact in your work:
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Planning for Impact
How to make an impact plan for your research
Find out how to make an impact plan for your next research project. Whether you are writing a grant proposal or making a plan for a funded project or research group, this guide will show you how to use the Fast Track Impact planning template to make a plan quickly and easily.
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How to do stakeholder analysis
Find out how to identify publics and stakeholders who might be interested in your research and prioritize them for engagement with this guide, based around the Fast Track Impact stakeholder analysis template
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QUICK version | ADVANCED Version
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From impact to transformation: ten essentials for transformative research
Take your impact to a new level by asking yourself ten questions that get you to think more deeply than ever before about the systems and assumptions you work within.
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5 ways to fast track the impact of your PhD
Generating societal, cultural and/economic impact from your Ph.D. is no longer an optional extra - it is an essential step on the career ladder and one we hope you will enjoy along the way
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Videos
How to do a stakeholder analysis
How to do a stakeholder analysis
Research impact planning
How to write an impact strategy
Impact planning with logic models and Theory of Change
Podcasts
What is impact? My new super-clear definitions and new checklist
Mark shares two new definitions he has developed that will enable you to become crystal clear about what impact is (and is not).
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Take your understanding of publics and stakeholders to a new level with the 3i's approach.
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The challenges and benefits of generating impact in your PhD
Mark interviews Dr Jenn Chubb about how students can generate impact during their Ph.D​.
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5 Lessons to co-produce impact when you have limited time
This week, Mark shares his top 5 lessons for co-producing impact with limited time, based on his forthcoming book, Impact Culture
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Find out who’s interested in your research;
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Next, start with their needs, not your ideas;
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Give as much as you get;
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Base action on bodies of work rather than your latest findings; and
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Be curious about what works.
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How to avoid your research generating "grimpact"
Mark interviews Professor Gemma Derrick from University of Bristol about her work to understand the characteristics and drivers of negative unintended consequences from research, what she calls "grimpact".
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How to write an impact strategy
Mark interviews Saskia Gent (Insights for Impact) and Jennifer Locket and Dawn Ashby (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) to learn from research that reviewed over 70 impact strategies from around the world.