Webinar Archive
THE University Impact Rankings: Measuring universities’ contribution to the UN SDGs
Times Higher Education is set to launch the world’s first university impact ranking. The initiative – the first global attempt to document evidence of higher education impact – is designed to capture unique new insights on universities’ work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Universities contribute a huge amount to society, and this data can offer a new perspective on how they’re addressing some of the most pressing global issues. This work has never been fully explored in the past, and has never been recognised in global rankings. The need and desire for clear, new metrics on impact is strong, and while this is a highly challenging area of data collection, it’s also an important and necessary step forward.
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How universities can contribute to UN’s SDGs
Universities and the academic sectors more generally, with their broad remit around the creation and dissemination of knowledge and their unique position in society, have a critical role to play in the achievement of the SDGs. Education, research, innovation, teaching, public engagement and leadership will be essential in helping society to transform into pathways of sustainable development.
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Preparing for Impact in REF2021
Dr Simon Kerridge, Director of Research Services at University of Kent and Chair of CASRAI, with over twenty years of experience in research management and administration, leads this webinar. Simon shares his knowledge about the impact weighting and panel criteria for REF2021, and, discusses the key changes from REF2014.
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Public engagement as a pathway to impact
Despite growing interest in public engagement with research, and general acceptance of its importance, relatively little is understood within the sector about how to plan for and evaluate the impact(s) of such wide-ranging activities placed under the broad umbrella of...
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The rise of impact and the growing need for institutional research impact strategies
Researchers today are under increasing pressure to systematically plan for, measure, evidence, and, report the impact - economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits - of their work. Apart from the significant increase in weighting of the impact criteria in...
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The rise of theory of change – what does it mean for impact evaluation and evidence collection?
A popular tool for enhancing the effectiveness of research impact is ‘Theory of Change’. This is a framework that can be used for planning, monitoring and evaluating impact…
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ARC guidelines – succeeding in the Engagement and Impact Assessment 2018
In December 2015, as part of its National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA), the Australian government announced the development of a national Engagement and Impact (EI) assessment exercise …
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REF2021 consultation report
The initial instalment of HEFCE’s REF 2021 guidance was released on 1st September 2017. In this webinar, we will look at the implications of the updated guidance regarding impact for universities…
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Internal impact reviews – what is institutional good practice?
Most institutions now conduct internal assessment of outputs on a regular or ongoing basis and many are also looking at how to assess their research impact similarly…
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What does 4* impact evidence look like?
With the REF2021 submission date nearing, universities are beginning to look more closely at strengthening their potential impact case studies. As part of these discussions, researchers are asking what robust impact evidence consists of, and how to identify, collect and present it in their case studies…
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Engagement and approaches to impact
This webinar video will discuss the need for researchers to engage beyond academia and the approaches to achieving research impact.
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Collecting impact evidence
This video will discuss approaches to collecting impact evidence…
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Securing engagement for impact data capture
This video is about the engagement for impact data capture.
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What makes a good impact case study (UK)
This webinar on ‘What makes a good impact case study’ took place on 20-February 2017…
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What makes a good impact case study (Australia)
This webinar on ‘What makes a good impact case study’ took place on 20-February 2017…
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What is impact?
This video discusses what is research impact….
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