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Research Impact

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What Impact Means

• Commercial Outcomes• Benefits to Society• Informing Policy• Broader Awareness• Stakeholder Engagement• Improvements in the Environment• Increasing Depth of Knowledge• Professional Development

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Research Grant Applications

• BBSRC– 'Impact' refers to the benefits scientific research

has on the economy, society and knowledge

• Central government requiring justification for money spent supporting research

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Impact for Research Students

• The most important aspects of impact for you are to

– Communicate what you are doing

– Recognise the impact being a researcher has had on you as an individual

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Peer Review

Starting your final year or beyond– take the blue sheet

From the start of your second year – take the green sheetEveryone including first year of your degree

– take the pale yellow sheet

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Broad Communication

GROUP A – the building blocks

e.g.Molecular BiologyMicrobiologyCell BiologyBiochemistry

GROUP B –parts of people

e.g.PhysiologyPathologySurgeryNeurology

GROUP C-a whole person or a group

e.g.SociologyPsychologyHealth SciencesAssistive Technology

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Where from here?

• The impact statements could become something we ask all research students for so they can be published on the web

• We hope you can use what you have discussed in your ePortfolio and beyond


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