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By Mark Reed and Louisa Gilchrist Photovoice is more than photos plus interviews. Used well, it becomes a way of doing research that gives people control over how their experiences are seen and used. This blog adapts Heriot-Watt researcher Louisa Gil
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The third edition of The Research Impact Handbook has been released, building on its reputation as a practical guide for planning, delivering and evaluating impact. To mark this milestone, an international event will bring together some of the origi
I was recently listed in Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list, which identifies authors with multiple papers in the top 1% by citations for their field and publication year across the past 11 years. The method combines citation thresholds w
Many researchers want to influence policy but don’t know where to start. A new AI prompt can help you identify opportunities tailored to your work. By giving ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot links to your institutional profile, publications, and projects
If you’ve ever seen me train or read my books (and increasingly my papers), you’ll know how much I foreground values in everything I do. Values shape what we do because they shape who we are. Sometimes it’s the values that drive us to engage with imp
There are many great papers and guides on how to write a top-scoring REF impact case study, but few tools help researchers organise and prioritise their impact activities on-the-go. You might have multiple strands of research and impact at different
Research organisations are increasingly asked to show not only that their work has had an impact, but how the impact was generated....
By the Institute for Methods Innovation When conducting impact evaluation research, you might get results that are the opposite of what...
By the Institute for Methods Innovation By now, almost everyone is aware of AI chatbots, also known as Large Language Models (LLMs) like...
From January next year, I will renew my focus on academic impact research and generating impacts from my climate-related work. My goal is...
If you've created or are planning to create a website to showcase your research, it's important that ANY viewer should be able to access...
With the announcements in summer 2023 of the next REF, I started asking myself the question, how much are the REF2021 impact case studies...
REF2029 sees the re-introduction of an “impact narrative” worth at least 5% of each Unit of Assessment’s overall score, to assess...
