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A CIO for 2030: The Rise of the Chief Impact Officer
Earlier this week the world was swept by news of Prince Harry’s appointment as Chief Impact Officer (CIO) for BetterUp, a start-up founded in 2013 to prove a “people experience platform” that delivers services such as mental health support. The timing is important....
Could Openly Sharing Research Impact Help to Improve the Public Perception of Science?
Since the term “fake news” first began to circulate in 2014, the world has faced a deluge of “alternative facts” in what some have deemed to be a post-truth pandemic. The principles - of misinformation disseminated as incontrovertible truth - have long influenced...
Embedding impact into institutional strategy
We have started a new initiative on the international impact discussion list - a monthly discussion point. September’s discussion point was: Has anyone been able to align the impact agenda against existing institutional strategy...
Exciting New Collaboration Tool Coming Soon
Exciting New Collaboration Tool Coming Soon This is a time when we need collaboration more than ever to collectively work on solutions to the myriad of issues COVID-19 has created. But finding collaborators is difficult when travel is restricted and conferences and...
How VV-Impact Tracker Can Help You Report to the SDGs
What are the UN SDGs? The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an ambitious but achievable pathway for transforming the world by 2030. In this world, poverty will have been eliminated, everyone will have equitable access to resources, to social...
How VV-Impact Reviewer Can Help Your Organisation Meet its Goals
By Katie Brockwell and Kristy Evers Why is Impact Reporting Important? Many research organisations focus their mission statements on elements of transformation or responding to key local, regional, or global challenges (e.g. UN Sustainable Development Goals) with the...
3 Fascinating Insights into the Impact Rankings Results
The results of THE Impact Rankings 2020 were released last month. The impact rankings are the first global attempt to measure university progress specifically based upon the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). It can be a catalyst for action, a...
The 2020 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings
The Second Edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings has now been released. We are happy to announce that more than 850 universities from 85 different countries and 6 different continents have taken part. The Impact Rankings are the first global...
Now CPD Certified! Our E-Learning courses
We would like to announce that all four of our E-Learning courses are now CPD accredited! Our extensive experience within the industry, as well as first-hand knowledge of impact tracking enables us to have a unique database of relevant information. We provide...
