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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🕰️ Design for lasting impact Short-term wins don’t guarantee meaningful change. Plan for sustainability, handover, and long-term benefit, not just metrics. 📍 8/9

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📊 Maintain accountability and evaluate engagement and impact Be transparent about who is responsible for what. Use rigorous methods to evaluate whether impact claims hold up and for whom. 📍 7/9

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🌍 Seek to ensure equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) Responsible impact means dismantling barriers to participation, not reproducing them. Who is at the table? Who is not? 📍 6/9

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🛑 Manage risk and reduce the potential for harm Don’t assume good intentions are enough. Impact work can cause harm if risks aren’t identified and managed from the outset. 📍 5/9

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

⚖️ Engage ethically with all relevant parties Respect autonomy. Communicate clearly. Share decision-making. Engagement must be more than consultation: it must be an ethical partnership. 📍 4/9

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🤝 Build capability and capacity to engage as equals. Support everyone affected by impact work, especially marginalised groups, to participate meaningfully. Equal footing requires resources, access, and time. 📍 3/9

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

As researchers, we’re asked to show how our work makes a difference. But an impact that matters also needs to be ethical. This paper sets out six guiding principles for navigating that responsibility. 📍 2/9

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢 Responsible research impact: Ethics for making a difference Our new paper is out now as a pre-print 🔗 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-9... Here’s a breakdown of the six principles for doing research impact responsibly ⬇️ 📍 1/9

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 13/03/2025

My Research Impact News is back! Read the March edition now mailchi.mp/17a4bbcb2712...

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Research Impact News - corrected

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 11/03/2025

I'm excited to announce that I'll launch my latest book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy, with colleagues at the University of Leeds on 10th April, 14.00-15.30 online. Book your place now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/protocols-...

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Protocols for Influencing Policy - In Conversation with Mark Reed

Join us for the launch of The Researcher’s Guide to Influencing Policy, a practical guide to making research matter.

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The 3rd edition of The Research Impact Handbook will come out this summer with Routledge! Next up will be the 3rd edition of The Productive Researcher, now out of print but still available on Kindle and Audible

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Analyzing who is relevant to engage in environmental decision-making processes by interests, influence and impact: The 3i framework

Who should you prioritise to engage with your research when you've got limited time and resources? Read our new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., book the course www.fasttrackimpact.com/analysing-re... or use this free template to do your own analysis docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Outcomes in participatory environmental processes are strongly affected by choices about who is engaged. Inclusive engagement diversifies the range of…

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Should we be building capacity or making it easier to engage with research? New qualitative study shows that a key barrier to impact is the required time, effort and prior knowledge it takes for people to engage with researchers and evidence health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Attitudes and perceptions regarding knowledge translation and community engagement in medical research: the PERSPECT qualitative study - Health Research Policy and Systems

Background The medical research community widely endorses the importance of ensuring that research outputs are relevant and accessible to knowledge users, as well as the value of engaging the latter i...

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Using ChatGPT for Communications – Methods for Change

Using ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot for Communications (Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 2 pm to 5 pm, UK time). Email me if you want a 10% discount code (there are a limited number of discounted seats available) methodsforchange.org/live-worksho...

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 28/02/2025

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The best things in life don't come easy: this new paper reflects on the "discontents" of engaged research including narrow definitions of what counts as academic work, polarised views on knowledge and truth, potential for backlash, and the risk of burnout scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_url?...

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 28/02/2025

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New paper on the impact of social media shows how researchers and academic publishers often initiate conversations that appear short-lived but lead to sustained connections between academia and professional communities link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Examining scholarly communication on X (Twitter): insights from participants tweeting COVID-19 and ChatGPT publications - Scientometrics

This study explores the dynamics of online scholarly communication through the lens of diffusion of innovation theory, examining participant reactions and interactions surrounding publications on two ...

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 26/02/2025

People, Culture & Environment indicators that could make up 25% of scores in REF2029. One factor being piloted is research integrity and ethics (2029.ref.ac.uk/publication/...). The ethics of engagement and impact are a key part of this, currently unaddressed in most universities.

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 25/02/2025

Useful explainer on significance and reach for those new to impact from @researchimpactacademy.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuYL...

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What are Reach and Significance in Research Impact?

YouTube video by Research Impact Academy

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 25/02/2025

Listen to me in conversation with @hallged.bsky.social talking about the ethics of engagement and impact, what inspired me to specialise in impact, and two of my "impact heroes". I really enjoyed this chat with an old friend and hope it inspires you just as much! player.captivate.fm/episode/6966...

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(Episode 104) Research Impact Heroes: Insights from Professor Mark Reed

Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!

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Researcher Development @ Leeds @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

#ResearchCultureUncovered launches new series #ResearchImpactHeroes with @hallged.bsky.social talking to Prof Mark Reed @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social about the transformative power of research impact, ethical standards & building a collaborative research culture player.captivate.fm/episode/6966...

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(Episode 104) Research Impact Heroes: Insights from Professor Mark Reed

Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Are you ready for REF? Taking bookings now to help your team put everything place to ensure your impacts get top scores for your impact case studies (I will be doing a few of these himself and we now have in-person options) www.fasttrackimpact.com/prepareref2029

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Preparing for impact in REF2029 | Fast Track Impact

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Webinar from National Coordinating Centre on Public Engagement: Celebrating and Supporting UK Engagement Practice (11 March) www.publicengagement.ac.uk/whats-happen.... See the rest of their seminar series here: www.publicengagement.ac.uk/nccpe-seminars

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Amazing impact opportunity if you do research on peatlands and want free training and support to write and publish your first evidence synthesis in collaboration with UNEP Find out more via Q&A sessions docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Or apply here: www.methodsinnovation.org/evidence-syn...

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

YEAR-END SALE - 20% off The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy www.tkqlhce.com/click-101258...

Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Really useful new set of impact resources from Impact Planning & Evaluation Network including templates, explainer videos and other useful tools to help you plan for and evaluate the impact of your research www.ipen.co.nz/impact-news/...

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

YEAR-END SALE - 20% off The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy www.tkqlhce.com/click-101258...

Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Have you seen our ethical research and engagement resources? www.fasttrackimpact.com/ethical-enga... It grew out of this blog on best practice engagement and impact www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/what-is... (and will soon be part of a paper)

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New pre-print uses a grounded theory analysis of 200 REF impact case studies to create a theoretical model of how impacts are generated osf.io/preprints/so...

Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New: Mark Reed is working with colleagues at Institute for Methods Innovation to offer feedback on draft REF2029 impact case studies, helping you come up with strategies to deepen and extend your impact, collect convincing evidence and write compelling 4* narratives t.co/eEb64COOZP

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

How to use ChatGPT to accurately estimate the likely score of a draft REF2029 impact case study arxiv.org/pdf/2410.19948

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Analysis of 3 research institutes shows that engaging in impact evaluations increased interactions with researchers from different disciplines within their institution, and changed how researchers formulated research questions to better meet external needs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Culture of impact in agricultural research organisations: What for and how?

Research organisations experience increasing demands to analyse on the multidimensional societal impacts of their activities. This leads to more refle…

Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

More brand new courses now available to book! www.fasttrackimpact.com/training-cou...

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

More brand new courses now available to book! www.fasttrackimpact.com/training-cou...

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New Danish study of humanities PhDs shows how attempts to generate impact from doctoral research are inextricably linked with personal meaning-making, intellectual creativity and imagination, and ethical care pure.au.dk/ws/portalfil...

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Read our latest Research Impact Newsletter mailchi.mp/8004f9373c20...

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Fast Track Impact @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Analysing relevant parties for research impact: new paper published today with accompanying new course! Read the paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., book the course fasttrackimpact.com/analysing-re... or use this free template to do your own analysis docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Analyzing who is relevant to engage in environmental decision-making processes by interests, influence and impact: The 3i framework

Outcomes in participatory environmental processes are strongly affected by choices about who is engaged. Inclusive engagement diversifies the range of…