Course Description

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This course enables impact case study authors, UoA leads and impact professional services staff to prepare for and write top-scoring impact case studies for REF2029. You will learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact, learn from research on what made a top scoring case study 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 electronic copies of the second edition of The Research Impact Handbook and 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 avoid the number one predictor of low scores in REF impact case studies by distinguishing clearly between engagement and impact

• Get the latest intelligence on requirements for impact case studies and engagement and impact statements in REF2029

• Learn how to monitor, evaluate and evidence impact convincingly in your case study, using methods that are quick and easy for anyone to use

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

• Learn how to construct 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

• Discuss your own case study, and get feedback on your impact plans and evidence challenges to develop your own REF2029 case study.

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At the end of the workshop:

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

• You are invited to an optional free follow-up programme over five weeks, so you can apply what you have learned. You can work through these steps yourself from the handbook, but by signing up to take these steps online, you get access to extra material. Each step consists of a 6 minute video with accompanying text and tasks.

• Prof Reed is available to answer questions from participants via email after the course.