1. Introduction
Part 1: Principles to underpin your impact
2. What is impact?
3. Five principles to fast track your impact
4. Principle 1: Design
5. Principle 2: Represent
6. Principle 3: Engage
7. Principle 4: Accelerate
8. Principle 5: Reflect
Part 2: Steps to fast track your impact
9. Step 1: Envision your impact
10. Step 2: Plan your impact
11. Step 3: Cut back anything hindering or distracting you from your impact
12. Step 4: Get specific about your impacts and the people who can help you
13. Step 5: Achieve your first step towards impact and monitor your success
Part 3: Tools and techniques
14. Prioritising who to engage with
15. How to design workshops for impact
16. How to facilitate workshops
17. Driving impact online
18. Presenting with impact
19. Influencing policy
20. Monitoring, evaluating and evidencing impact
21. Conclusion
Part 4: How to guides
How to get testimonials to corroborate the impact of your research
How to evidence impacts from social and mass media
How to get longitudinal impact data with a postcard to your future self
How to get commercially sensitive data to evidence impact from research
How to capture the impact of training as a pathway to impact
How to make a podcast that generates impact
How to start a newsletter that will get read and generate impact
How to design an end-of-project meeting to both generate and evaluate impact
How to set up an advisory panel for your research project
How to create infographics without design experience or funding
How to turn your research findings into a video that people actually want to watch
How to develop an institutional impact strategy
How to facilitate a 3i analysis workshop
Biography
Mark S. Reed is Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship and Director of the Natural Capital Challenge Centre at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK. He is CEO of Fast Track Impact, Research Lead for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s UK Peatland Programme, Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme Global Peatlands Initiative Research Working Group, and he plays advisory roles for various UK government bodies.
Praise for the Second Edition
“Running through this book is the passion that Reed himself clearly feels about delivering impact from his own research, and also helping others do the same. This is most definitely a book about making a difference, not pretending to." Steven Hill, Head of Research Policy, Research England, UK"Based on evidence and written with a personal touch, the Research Impact Handbook is your own mentor who explains the why and the how, with many practical resources which can be implemented right away to start making a positive impact on the world."
Dr Bec Colvin, Associate Professor, Australian National University, Australia"Reed takes a complex, intimidating subject and presents it with refreshing simplicity, coherence and vision."
Phil Ward, Director of the Eastern Arc regional research consortium, UK"This is the definitive A-Z of research impact. Essential reading for anyone involved in research."
Dr Katharine Reibig, Research Development Manager (Environment and Culture), University of Stirling, UK“This book is just what all researchers new to impact need. Mark Reed’s approach to impact is grounded, considered, effective and yet humble and easy to follow.” Ged Hall, Researcher Development and Culture Team Leader, University of Leeds, UK
