Impact culture
Online course
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Course description
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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:
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Understand your impact culture, considering how robust, ethical and action-oriented research, deep and diverse values, community and capacity enables impact.
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Use diagnostic questions to identify bright spots and issues in your impact culture.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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 Reed to check in and help as necessary after a month.
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Prof Reed continues 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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Prices
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Full-day session (6 hours)
£3580 (VAT exempt)
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Half-day session (3 hours)
£1920 (VAT exempt)​​
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What are people saying about this course?
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“I feel more motivated to achieve impact, now I know that all impact matters equally.”
“Lots of interaction and learning from others on the course.”
“Getting time to reflect on my own values regarding impact in response to the questions raised by the training.”
“I will follow through on my own impact goals and also initiate new positive efforts in my department.”
“The focus on action planning was useful, and having time to think and discuss issues with colleagues.”
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“I very much enjoyed how you made us think and explore impact; I especially found the tree/roots diagrams helpful in regard to priorities and how they overlap.”
“Really thought-provoking.”
“Useful tools that I’ll be able to put into practice.
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"I'll stop thinking about impact with only my 'REF hat' on."
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"I got some great advice from colleagues."
If you would like to purchase a copy of Impact Culture, click here