Integrating impact into funding proposals
Online course
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Course description
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Learn how to increase your success rates and integrate impact into your next research proposal. You will learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact. You will also learn how to use these tools to write more competitively about impact in funding proposals, putting what you learn into practice in a break-out room session where you will critique how impact was integrated into two contrasting example proposals. As part of the session, you will receive a PDF copy of the second edition of The Research Impact Handbook.
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Key benefits:
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Discuss insider tips and tricks, and get bid writing tools to help you co-produce your next proposal with the people most likely to benefit from your research.
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Discuss examples of impact sections from real research proposals.
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Learn how to integrate impact convincingly with your proposal, using a mapping approach to ensure your impact goals map onto your impact problem statement, beneficiaries and impact generation activities whilst managing risks and assumptions.
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Power all this with a systematic approach to identifying beneficiaries and an impact logic model that will make it easy to articulate specific and credible impacts.​
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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.
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You have the option to commit to an action based on the course and receive a follow-up email from Prof Jensen after a month to check in and help as necessary.
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Prof Reed and Prof Jensen 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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Discuss your training needs with a Fast Track Impact expert.
What people are saying about this course?
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"The idea of planning for impact is particularly informative and gave me an insight into how I will engage with stakeholders."
"I've learned how to be strategic [about impact] and ask myself hard questions."
"Managing my project in this way, identifying possible stakeholders and thinking of risks has never crossed my mind."
"It's been really useful to structure my thinking about impact and plan for impact."
"I will be much more specific and measurable in impact parts of future grant applications."
"Sharing stories of success as well as failure was very inspiring.”
"The group discussion around what impact is, and the templates were very useful."
"The best workshop I’ve been on this year."
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"Wonderfully insightful, useful and energising."