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Target Audience: All staff involved in research, in particular early- to mid-career researchers
This is a live, online course.
This two-hour online interactive workshop explores how you can ensure your academic research has a positive impact beyond academia. It discusses the stages involved in developing a real-world impact strategy, starting with knowledge exchange and leading onto measurable societal benefits.
Using practical examples from a range of social science, arts and humanities projects from the facilitator’s own experience, the session looks at how to focus and build your network so that your strategy achieves maximum impact.
Within the workshop, we will highlight the skills needed for navigating research cultures within and beyond academia, exploring what is similar and what is different, and why these differences matter.
By the end of the session, you will be confident in creating an impact plan for your current or future research project and be clear on how to build your ‘alt-ac’ research network beyond academia.
Course Outcomes/Objectives;
By the end of this two-hour online interactive workshop, participants should:
- Understand the importance of applying academic research.
- Become familiar with the stages involved in creating a real-world impact strategy.
- Understand how knowledge exchange leads to societal benefits.
- Gain insights into how the process of knowledge exchange contributes to achieving measurable societal benefits.
- Learn from practical examples based on a variety of social science, arts and humanities projects.
- Develop skills to build and focus an academic network.
- Learn how to build a network in their specific research field and how to focus this network to ensure maximum impact of their research.
- Learn about the distinctive research cultures within and beyond academia.
- Understand the similarities and differences between research cultures in academia and other sectors.
- Be equipped to create an effective impact plan.
- Understand the key components of an effective impact plan.
- Understand the importance of alt-ac research networks.
- Gain clarity on how to build an alt-ac research network.
Accessibility;
We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff.
- The session will take place on Zoom.
- Auto-captions will be enabled.
- There will be audience participation.
- You can keep your camera off.
- You can drop into the session.
- There will be several breaks throughout the session. The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
- Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants in advance of delivery upon request.
- Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access
Cancellation Policy
When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* charge to your Department / School if you do not attend your place on the course. There will be no charge as long as you cancel your booked place before the event or notify our staff at osdu@strath.ac.uk that you can no longer attend.
A Department / School is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary prerequisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you are expected to attend ALL parts of the course.
*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of a course of 1-day duration or less. For some courses, there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.
Delivered By: Dr Naomi Tyrrell, Research Your Way Ltd