Impact culture
Online course

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Course description​

In this course, you will discover how you can transform your working environment and create a culture you can belong in. Whether you seek ideas that will change the world or you just want to reclaim a place in which you can think deeply, this course invites you to overcome what is preventing you doing the best work of your career. At the very least, you will see how it is possible to create a protective bubble in a toxic culture. But at best, unexpected new ways of working will emerge and spread from person to person and group to group. This is the way innovations spread, minds change and new cultures are born: diverse, authentic and values-driven cultures that inspire the creative thought the world needs so badly right now. As part of the session you receive an electronic and audio copy of Professor Mark Reed’s book, Impact Culture.

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Key benefits:​

• Understand your impact culture, considering how robust, ethical and action-oriented research, deep and diverse values, community and capacity enables impact.

• Use diagnostic questions to identify bright spots and issues in your impact culture.

• Identify your spheres of influence and levels of trust within and beyond your academic community, and start building the social capital you need with stakeholders to achieve impact.

• Learn from evolutionary organisations, contrasting top-down change management linked to extrinsic incentives from funders, with more bottom-up approaches that draw on your intrinsic motivations.

• Design your own experiment to try small, safe changes that you can evaluate and scale to do the best work of your career.

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At the end of the workshop:​

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

• ​​If you choose to commit to taking a specific action based on the course, you will receive a follow-up email from your trainer(s) after a month to check on your progress and offer assistance if needed.

• Receive curated responses to participants' questions via email after the workshop, with responses provided 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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