Course Description

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This session will give you an opportunity to think about what will be necessary to develop top-scoring impact case studies for REF2028, whilst thinking critically about some of the challenges and negative unintended consequences of impact in REF. You will learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact. Learn from research on what made top scoring case studies in REF2014, dissect the anatomy of a claim in a worked example from REF2021, and make sure you have everything in place to monitor and evaluate impacts, so you construct evidence-based case studies. As part of the session, you will receive your own copy of Prof Reed’s latest book, Impact Culture.

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Key benefits

 

We spend time with you before we train to ensure our workshops are tailored to the needs of your group. Our training includes:

• Think critically about impact in REF to avoid negative unintended consequences and missed opportunities, and build a healthy impact culture in your group

• Learn how to monitor, evaluate and evidence impact convincingly in your case study

• Discover easy and quick-to-use tools to fix problems with significance or reach in case studies

• Find out what makes a 4* impact case study, based on research into high versus low-scoring cases in REF2014 and a worked example showing the anatomy of a 4* claim from REF2021

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At the end of the workshop you:

• You receive slides and links to free resources to help you embed impact in your research

• You have the option to make a commitment to an action based on the course and receive a follow-up email from Prof Reed to check in and help as necessary after a month

• Prof Reed continues to answer all questions from participants via email after the course, guaranteeing a response to all questions within one week