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If you're still grappling with whether or not to keep engaging with X/Twitter, it is interesting to see what UK Higher Education Institutes are doing...

Responsible impact planning should ask what could go wrong, who might be harmed and what will happen after the funding ends. This new paper by Jan vom Brocke and colleagues provides a practical 40-question checklist for planning, delivering, measuring and communicating impact.

Engaged research framework with really useful reflective questions and checklist from Campus Engage lnkd.in/d7Fhbrt9

Wilfred Mijnhardt has combined 20 different impact evaluation frameworks used by Universities and Business Schools internationally to create this codex - a really useful source of ideas for measurable impacts you can plan for or evaluate across a range of categories...

On the theme of transformation, I'm looking forward very much to this new book, now available for pre-order, on the Three Horizons approach, which I've used in a number of my own research projects to identify transformational impact pathways...

The Three Horizons Approach

This open access book introduces a new framework to navigate polycrises and showcases how the Three Horizons thinking can tackle contemporary challenges.

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This new practical guide to regenerative practice by Sam Buckton and colleagues can help you move beyond short-term impacts to the kinds of long-term transformation the world needs so badly right now www.ecocentricfutures.org/guides/tools...

Tools for regenerative practice: 30 frameworks, exercises and methods in service of human and planetary flourishing | Ecocentric Futures

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Part of me isn't surprised by this, but it should make us all think carefully about how we evaluate impact over the long-term, and encourage us to be more conservative about claims based on evidence of immediate behaviour change.

Free course from the REINFORCING Project on the ethics of engagement reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...

I love this new short film University of Bath about the kind of engagement with research that really works. I talk about empathic engagement whereas they call it relational engagement but it comes to the same thing: relationships built through care, trust and time...

"Impact is not a product to be delivered, but a possibility to be cultivated" - new paper by Anne Toomey et al encourages us to change how we talk about impact, to create more realistic expectations and pathways to impact (1 of 2) academic.oup.com/rev/article/...

Updated training slides on How to write a 4* REF output (which will also help you write more highly-cited papers) www.slideshare.net/slideshow/wr... Bring me into your group for a UoA-specific training session: www.fasttrackimpact.com/write-a-pape...

We spend a lot of time planning for certainty in a world that is inherently uncertain, but Susan Hilbolling and colleagues argue that "serendipity is a skill that can be practiced" rather than a matter of chance.

All my free resources for researchers who want to use their evidence to influence policy www.fasttrackimpact.com/i-want-to-in...

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Watch the video of my free training on how to Fast Track Your Impact. If you were signed up to attend, check your inbox today for a link to the slides, free book, follow-on course and other resources, and discount codes! youtube.com/watch?si=YI528pa7YSgaLT9L&v=ANJ5iji8beA&feature=youtu.be

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New analysis of REF2014 and REF2021 case studies by Wang Zuorong et al shows how libraries, museums and archives enable research to generate impact in different ways.

Rare free opportunity to join my influencing policy course (based on my book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy). Get practical tips and an opportunity to reflect deeply on what it means to use your evidence responsibly to affect policy change www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/influencin...

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Making evidence work: How can "embedded researchers" support decision-making in local government? New paper from The York Policy Engine wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-...

Join my most popular impact training course free (funded by EU) next month! www.linkedin.com/events/forpe...

Free online course - Introduction to Creative Public Engagement (part of Being Human Festival) Thursday 5 March 2026, 11.00-12.00 www.beinghumanfestival.org/introduction...

Introduction to Creative Public Engagement

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REF impact writing often assumes a neat chain: research → engagement → outcome → impact. Creative practice rarely behaves that way.

New paper by Karolina Lendák-Kabók et al. looks at how early career researchers in the social sciences understand research impact and what changes when gender is taken seriously.

Watch leading experts discuss the future of the impact agenda, as I celebrate the launch of the Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook - fascinating insights from Steven Hill, Emanuela Reale and Gemma Derrick, alongside my own thinking and perspectives from Eric Jensen.

The future of research impact: reflections and directions

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Finding diverse, context-specific solutions to global problems requires multiple voices, including the knowledge of marginalised groups alongside evidence from research.

Book now for this year's Social Sciences Impact Conference in Oxford this March - the theme is on navigating uncertainty to create change www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/impact-confe...

Social Sciences Impact Conference 2026

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Useful tool to help researchers manage power in engagement processes (developed for conservation, but relevant across contexts) agritrop.cirad.fr/616368/1/Pow...

Thanks to such inspiring speakers and everyone who contributed to the discussion today! Here are the slides from the event www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3l99e...

Professor Mark Reed@profmarkreed.com · 8mo ago

Co-author a paper with me and other leaders in impact, to shape the future of the field. By working with people from different disciplines, outside academia and from around the world, I want to build a future agenda for impact that changes how governments and HE pursues impact.

Free training on participatory methods relevant to engagement and impact from EU-funded REINFORCING Project (3 Feb) - book here: reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...

Last chance to book your place to hear from thought leaders in research impact and co-author a paper with us on the future of the impact agenda. This will be my last message to promote this, as we already have >200 booked, which is a lot of co-authors if you all want to write!

Professor Mark Reed@profmarkreed.com · 8mo ago

Co-author a paper with me and other leaders in impact, to shape the future of the field. By working with people from different disciplines, outside academia and from around the world, I want to build a future agenda for impact that changes how governments and HE pursues impact.

Get 20% off the new 3rd edition of The Research Impact Handbook www.routledge.com/The-Research...