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Director, Natural Capital Challenge Centre, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship at SRUC | Impact training @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social (he/him). Get my new book: www.routledge.com/The-Research-Impa…

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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 24/09/2026
Writing a strong REF impact case study means explaining what changed, how research contributed and why it mattered, supported by evidence of reach and significance. This new UPEN blog offers advice on building REF2029 case studies, using examples from parliamentary engagement...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 23/09/2026
Read my new blog about what to do when politics are preventing your evidence having impact. I use three strategies: waiting for a change in government, reframing your evidence, and working with an intermediary. Read the blog post here: buff.ly/vfKC8Fl
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What to do when your research conflicts with government policy
What to do when your evidence doesn't fit current policy: wait actively, reframe your research and work with intermediaries.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 18/09/2026
Some of the most important impacts of policy fellowships are the wider effects they have on the policy ecosystem, creating connections within and between departments and offering opportunities for "structured serendipity" bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 09/09/2026
Being a trusted adviser can include being openly critical of the organisation seeking advice. In Ilana Bolingford’s research with Australian law academics one participant described a relationship with a regulator combining criticism of its work with broad support for its mission.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 03/09/2026
This library of free facilitation tools is a goldmine for anyone planning to use workshops as part of their pathway to impact www.sessionlab.com/library
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Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library
Hundreds of group facilitation activities for workshops, meetings and training sessions. Find the best team building activities, energisers, process facilitation and leadership development techniques.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 03/09/2026
Just stumbled across the idea of writing a news story from the future about the impacts you hope to see from your research (being used by colleagues in the Land Use for Net Zero Nature and People (LUNZ) Hub)...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 01/09/2026
Four good reasons to develop a Theory of Change for your research project: 1. To clarify thinking and build consensus around an initiative 2. To learn and improve 3. To frame and organise impact data collection 4. To report on your impact captureimpact.co.uk/blog/f/what-...
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What do you use your theory of change for?
In the post on 5th August shared a flowchart to help you work out whether you actually need a theory of change. This post assumes that you do and explores what you might use it for.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 31/08/2026
New research shows that women are under-represented as underpinning impact case studies in The Research Excellence Framework (REF), especially in impacts using commercialisation pathways such as patenting and manufacturing, which remain dominated by men arxiv.org/pdf/2608.26409
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 25/08/2026
This is one of the most useful guides to the sorts of impact claims you make from different types of impact - what's particularly insightful is the final two columns, differentiating between "permissible claims" and "prohibited leaps"...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 17/08/2026
“It feels like a genuine partnership of equals.” If it doesn't, then your coproduction probably isn't actually coproduced.
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Redirecting
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 17/08/2026
New review of over 2000 studies by Kathryn Okiver et al. shows growing recognition of the resourcing, work, time, and workforce required to embed evidence use within and between organisations, if evidence is too be used in policy ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
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What factors influence evidence use in policy? An updated systematic map - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
Background: In 2014, a large systematic map found that relational factors were amongst the most frequently reported facilitators of evidence use in policy. Since then, there has been a growth in evide...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 16/08/2026
Policy advisory services for governments could be better designed to reduce the potency of political attacks on the legitimacy of science in times of crisis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Policymakers need to rely on scientific knowledge to formulate effective policies, and the policy advisory systems (PAS) of most countries include scientific advisors. However, the legitimacy of scie...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 05/08/2026
Individually bookable training with me (and other key impact experts). No need to wait till I come to your institution - book now to get these 1 hour downloads of all most important tips I've learned over the years to fast track your impact! www.fasttrackimpact.com/masterclasses
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Expert masterclasses | Fast Track Impact
Join live online masterclasses on advanced research impact topics, led by experts who work directly in the field and focused on practical application.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 05/08/2026
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...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 04/08/2026
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.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 30/07/2026
Engaged research framework with really useful reflective questions and checklist from Campus Engage lnkd.in/d7Fhbrt9
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 01/07/2026
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...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 30/06/2026
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...
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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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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 30/06/2026
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...
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Tools for regenerative practice: 30 frameworks, exercises and methods in service of human and planetary flourishing | Ecocentric Futures
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 30/06/2026
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.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 26/06/2026
Free course from the REINFORCING Project on the ethics of engagement reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
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Reinforcing
The European Platform for Open and Responsible R&I Practices
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 24/06/2026
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...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 24/06/2026
"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/...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 18/06/2026
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...
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Client Challenge
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 13/06/2026
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.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 02/06/2026
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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I want to influence policy | Fast Track Impact
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 22/04/2026
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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Fast Track Your Research Impact
YouTube video by Fast Track Impact
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 14/04/2026
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.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 08/04/2026
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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Influencing policy
A practical online course for researchers on how to engage with policy safely, responsibly and effectively
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 01/04/2026
Making evidence work: How can "embedded researchers" support decision-making in local government? New paper from The York Policy Engine wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 27/03/2026
Join my most popular impact training course free (funded by EU) next month! www.linkedin.com/events/forpe...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 26/02/2026
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...
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Introduction to Creative Public Engagement
Thursday 5 March, 11am - 12pm
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 20/02/2026
REF impact writing often assumes a neat chain: research → engagement → outcome → impact. Creative practice rarely behaves that way.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 07/02/2026
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.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 04/02/2026
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.
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The future of research impact: reflections and directions
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 04/02/2026
Finding diverse, context-specific solutions to global problems requires multiple voices, including the knowledge of marginalised groups alongside evidence from research.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 27/01/2026
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...
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Social Sciences Impact Conference 2026
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 27/01/2026
Useful tool to help researchers manage power in engagement processes (developed for conservation, but relevant across contexts) agritrop.cirad.fr/616368/1/Pow...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 22/01/2026
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...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 20/01/2026
Free training on participatory methods relevant to engagement and impact from EU-funded REINFORCING Project (3 Feb) - book here: reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
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Reinforcing
The European Platform for Open and Responsible R&I Practices
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 07/01/2026
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!
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 23/12/2025
Get 20% off the new 3rd edition of The Research Impact Handbook www.routledge.com/The-Research...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 14/12/2025
This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based book I've seen on social media for research impact and it's free via Routledge Books here scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_url?...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 10/12/2025
Lots of us have tried this and reached the same conclusion, but now someone has written a paper about the fact that ChatGPT can't write impact case studies for REF link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Evaluating ChatGPT for research impact assessment: comparative insights from the UK REF - Scientometrics
This study assesses the capacity of a custom research evaluation tool built on OpenAI’s GPT-4, implemented through the ChatGPT interface, to replicate the qualitative depth and structure of the United...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 05/12/2025
My new blog with Louisa Gilchrist delves into a method that can change who shapes impact, what is made visible, and how long that impact lasts... www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/we-are-...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 30/11/2025
When there's a new policy buzzword everyone is jumping on, that connects with your research, should you "provide broad direction, deliberate to tailor policy to new contexts, or carry on regardless"?
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 27/11/2025
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.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 25/11/2025
To launch the Third Edition of my impact handbook, I'm hosting a workshop with foundational and disruptive figures in the global impact field to reflect on the future of the impact agenda. Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 25/11/2025
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available! The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research. During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December. 📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
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Professor Mark Reed @profmarkreed.com · 16/11/2025
More evidence that review articles are used more widely than original research articles to inform policy, and yet so the academic incentives are for original research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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What types of LIS research are preferred in evidence-informed public policy development? Investigating differences in policy citations of Review Articles and Original Research - Cuihua Li, Qianjin Zon...
Academic research, including library and information science (LIS) studies, cited as evidence for public policy development, is becoming increasingly prevalent....
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