Achieving Impact in Research

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

This unique addition to the Success in Research series addresses the importance of understanding and achieving impact for the purposes of gaining research funding and reporting achieved impact for the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

The book includes contributions from researchers and researcher developers who feel that impact is ill-defined and poorly understood despite its prevalence in policy documents, websites and institutional activities. This succinct and cohesive text draws on the expert contributors' collective research practice, knowledge and experience.

Using a variety of examples, boxed activities and highlighted reflection points, this practical guide covers the following key areas:

The meaning of impact in relation to research
How the Impact Agenda fits with attitudes and ethics that motivate research
The different characterisations of research impact and when impact is apparent
How impact can be planned into proposals, evaluated and evidenced
The skills needed to be an impactful researcher
How impact can be supported through Knowledge Exchange and effective partnerships

This is a must-have guide for anyone seeking to understand and achieve impact in their own research.

The Success in Research series, from Cindy Becker and Pam Denicolo, provides short, authoritative and accessible guides on key areas of professional and research development.

Avoiding jargon and cutting to the chase of what you really need to know, these practical and supportive books cover a range of areas from presenting research to achieving impact, and from publishing journal articles to developing proposals. They are essential reading for any student or researcher interested in developing their skills and broadening their professional and methodological knowledge in an academic context.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Success in Research
Antal sidor:192
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781446267042

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Working across a range of disciplines (Psychology, Health & Social Care and Pharmacy), Pam Denicolo, a Professor Emerita from the University of Reading, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has wide-ranging experience both of using a range of research approaches and methods and of teaching how to use them well to a broad range of students and professionals world-wide. She has served on executive boards and committees of national and international learned societies and organisations devoted to research and teaching. She continues to publish widely student support materials, books, and journal articles on research because she remains passionately committed to mentoring and coaching newer researchers and academics.

Recensioner i media

This book is a very important contribution in the ever-changing field of research, now facing a new paradigm-shift where impact in terms of making changes in society has been pointed out as an important issue. As there is a gap between producing breakthrough research results and inform about them in a way making it possible for society beyond academica to use the outcomes, this book is important to every researcher. To make difference as a researcher, in the sense of producing research results with impact, is a matter of articulating the results in an understandable and interesting way. This book is an answer to the questions we researchers have of how to cope with the new requirements and helps us in an excellent way to understand how to bridge the gap between our research results and how to disseminate them in a broader society than we usually do.

Innehållsförteckning

What is the meaning of impact in relation to research and why does it matter? A view from inside academia - Colin ChandlerWhat is the meaning of the Impact Agenda - is it a repackaged or a new entity? Views from inside the Research Councils - Sophie Payne-GiffordHow does the Impact Agenda fit with attitudes and ethics that motivate research? - Jennifer ChubbWhat are the different characteristics of research impact? - Jo Lakey, Geoff Rodgers and Rosa ScobleWhen might research impact be apparent? - Christopher WoodHow can impact be planned into research proposals? - Rob Daley and Sara ShintonHow can impact evaluation be planned? - Tony Bromley and André de CamposHow can impact be evidenced: practical methods? - Tony BromleyWhat skills are needed to be an impactful researcher? - Jennifer ChubbHow can knowledge exchange support the development of impact through partnerships and university infrastructures? - Andy JacksonHow can you become an impactful researcher? - Ellen Pearce and Pam DenicoloAppendix I A special case: researcher development and the work of the impact and evaluation group - Christopher Wood and Pam DenicoloAppendix II An illustration of the Researcher Development Framework (Vitae)Appendix III The pathways to impact framework provided by RCUKGlossary