Evaluating and evidencing impact
Online course
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Course description
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This course will give you everything you need to evaluate the significant and far-reaching impacts from your research and evidence these impacts convincingly. You will also learn techniques for monitoring, evaluating and evidencing your impact. You will have an opportunity to discuss your own evaluation and evidence plans and challenges with colleagues and get expert help. As part of the session, you can choose to receive your own hard copy of one of Prof Reed’s books, Impact Culture or The Research Impact Handbook.
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Key benefits:
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Gain clarity on the difference between impact and engagement, and define impacts in concrete, measurable terms
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Develop an evaluation plan tailored to your objectives
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Understand the strengths and limitations of key evaluation methods for assessing policy impact
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Effectively integrate EDIA-related metrics and technology into your evaluations
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Discover easy and quick-to-use tools to fix problems with significance or reach in case studies
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Capture compelling evidence to demonstrate policy impact for multiple purposes effectively
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Discuss your own impact evaluation plans and evidence challenges with colleagues and get advice
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At the end of the workshop:
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You receive slides and links to free resources to help you embed impact in your research
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You have the option to make a commitment to an action based on the course and receive a follow-up email from Prof Jensen to check in and help as necessary after a month.
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Prof Jensen and Prof Reed continue to answer all questions from participants via email after the course, guaranteeing a response to all questions within one week.
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This course is based on the Evaluating impact from research: A methodological framework paper and accompanying material in The Research Impact Handbook
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What's covered?
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Half-day (3-hour) session
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Full-day (6-hour) session
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(3 hours)
1,920 British pounds
(6 hours, split over two days)
3,580 British pounds
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What people are saying about this course
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“This has been exceptionally useful - thank you!”
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“I loved the practical tips and tools, stimulating me to think about how impact can be achieved and evaluated, and what impact actually means.”
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“Incredibly useful and detailed.”
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“As an ECR researcher, I know I have to demonstrate impact to progress in my career. However, impact has always felt like something I 'should' be doing. This course reframed the concept and made it into something that I want to do; something that can be exciting and rewarding and meaningful. I was half expecting this session to be dry and boring, but it was quite the opposite! There was plenty of space for discussion and I came away feeling much more confident about the prospect of making an impact. The resources and ideas for how to track and manage impact were particularly helpful and made the concept less abstract.”
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“I liked the emphasis on persistence and the ways in which someone can chase up impact statements and persevere with the ongoing relationship; also, the distinction between engagement and impact. It was very well explained.”
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“Talking through actual examples was immensely useful.”
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“I will definitely take a more methodical approach to designing and developing impact. I will also start to better record evidence as I go along.”
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“I liked the pace of presenting and asking the audience to comment on questions in the chat, giving us some time to reflect. Great use of the online delivery method.”
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“There were a lot of personal-focused discussions, which were interesting”
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“As a practitioner first and foremost, impact has always been my driving force. The idea of systematically recording that impact is new to me and something I will now address.”