Fast Track Impact

Season 4 | Episode 110: What is good practice engagement and impact?

This week, Mark talks through a series of good practice principles for engagement and impact, published in this blog post [https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/what-is-good-practice-engagement-and-impact]. Add your own feedback and ideas here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J_QY7HvW89Y08p3ySfEl8zL0XmcQ9cLg2K8rm0r7mYY/edit?tab=t.0]. The blog builds on a number of sources, including: Mark’s Impact Culture book [https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/impactculture] (see the bottom of this page for his impact culture toolkit) NCCPE engagement guidance [https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/support-engagement] Mark’s “Re-thinking impact…” paper [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01216-w] You can download a written transcript of this episode here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/102-D0TtgyLFHcZ75lg6fAHVvbFYK1x4t/view?usp=drive_link]

Season 4 | Episode 109: Evidencing engagement and impact for REF2029

This week, Mark explores what the recent REF2029 guidance means for impact, including a discussion of what we might be expected to write about in the new engagement and impact narrative, and an evidence-based approach to writing a 4* impact case study. NCCPE engagement guidance [https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/support-engagement] My “Re-thinking impact…” paper [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01216-w] What made a 4* impact case study in REF214 paper [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0394-7] My 4* REF2021 impact case study [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OdVLgd3l8A4u2fqTVnLdr6R_S_s6uyn7/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=110166471875735844888&rtpof=true&sd=true] Impact templates (in the Google Sheets menu, go to File > Make a copy to save an editable version) 3i analysis template [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bL28FUgd7R3nvGYjV5P7qrZkHgaqlYpZM5uJmFls-eA/edit?usp=sharing] Fast Track Impact Planning Template [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iGX6HM__TPQP4KDbqVytr-1FnQBn00KX7NXEaUR9CIQ/edit?usp=sharing] You can download a written transcript of this episode here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YoodKXw-kAWDBGIp6Q_WlhEs1exo8hre/view?usp=drive_link%7d]

Season 4 | Episode 108: Interview with Michael Parker from The Conversation about generating and evaluating impact from media engagement

This week, Mark talks to Michael Parker, Director of Operations at The Conversation, a news outlet that specialises in working with researchers, giving them editorial control on a global platform. Drawing from their work together creating the Media Impact Guide and Toolkit, Mark and Michael discuss how researchers can harness the media to get more impact from their research and provide evidence of both the reach and significance of the impacts that arise. Read the Media Impact Guide and Toolkit [https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/media-impact-guide-and-toolkit] Find out more about The Conversation  [https://theconversation.com/uk/] Follow Mark at @fasttrackimpact [https://twitter.com/fasttrackimpact] and @profmarkreed [https://twitter.com/profmarkreed] or on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/profmarkreed?originalSubdomain=uk]. If you want more information about training courses, please write to training@fasttrackimpact.com [training@fasttrackimpact.com] You can download a written transcript of this episode here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mnBz3GVAoHD6_G9RSh5g019GtuAccCiU/view?usp=drive_link]

Season 4 | Episode 107: Tips for evidencing impact with evaluation expert Eric Jensen

Eric Jensen is an expert in impact evaluation who has written a textbook on many of the most useful methods you'll need and leading two companies that specialise in impact evaluation consultancy and training alongside his academic research on environmental issues. In this interview, he provides tips to help you design a more effective survey to evaluate your impact, and explains how you can repurpose widely used impact planning tools as evaluation tools, that will help you improve your practice as much as they will give you evidence of impact. Find out more about the Institute for Methods Innovation [https://www.methodsinnovation.org] and Methods for Change [https://methodsforchange.org] Learn about Qualia Analytics software to help you both collect and analyse impact evaluation data Watch Eric training with Mark and others on the use of Theory of Change to evaluate impact [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCODib5tDK0] Read Eric's book, Doing Real Research: A Practical Guide to Social Research [https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/doing-real-research/book241193]  Follow Mark at @fasttrackimpact [https://twitter.com/fasttrackimpact] and @profmarkreed [https://twitter.com/profmarkreed] or on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/profmarkreed?originalSubdomain=uk]. If you want more information about training courses, please write to training@fasttrackimpact.com [training@fasttrackimpact.com] You can download a written transcript of this episode here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sO5sbNbX0IcWMirybyLEla6OxaQ3wPw0/view?usp=drive_link]

Season 4 | Episode 106: How arts-based methods can enrich your evaluation of impact - with Dr Rachel Blanche

This week, Mark interviews Rachel Blanche from Queen Margaret University Edinburgh to find out how arts-based methods can provide depth and rigour to an impact evaluation. They discuss a range of approaches including visual, performative and narrative methods, the types of evidence these methods can generate, how these approaches can empower participants in determining what’s meaningful, and how evaluating in this way can itself generate further impacts. Rachel shares two examples of arts-based methods used to evaluate impact in healthcare research – a theatre project capturing data on dementia care (citing this paper) [http://www.meetinggroundtheatrecompany.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/28-31JDCJF15Schneider.pdf] and a participative creative inquiry on osteoporosis [https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/10487] The paper we mention writing together about evaluating impact with arts-based (among other) methods can be accessed here [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733320302225?via%3Dihub] Watch the training Rachel and I ran on evaluating impact [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMzT_99JDDI] And you can find out more about Rachel's work here [https://www.qmu.ac.uk/schools-and-divisions/mcpa/mcpa-staff/rachel-blanche/] Follow Mark at @fasttrackimpact [https://twitter.com/fasttrackimpact] and @profmarkreed [https://twitter.com/profmarkreed] or on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/profmarkreed?originalSubdomain=uk]. If you want more information about training courses, please write to training@fasttrackimpact.com [training@fasttrackimpact.com] You can download a written transcript of this episode here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fuZYdS8MP8JXUJnIZWIlTCUo7e3VXhtY/view?usp=drive_link]