Category: Events & Webinars

Dr Simon Kerridge, Director of Research Services at University of Kent and Chair of CASRAI, with over twenty years of experience in research management and administration, leads this webinar. Simon shares his knowledge about the impact weighting and panel criteria for REF2021, and, discusses the key changes from REF2014.

Despite growing interest in public engagement with research, and general acceptance of its importance, relatively little is understood within the sector about how to plan for and evaluate the impact(s) of such wide-ranging activities placed under the broad umbrella of ‘public engagement’. For this webinar VV invited invited Paul Manners and Sophie Duncan, Directors of […]

Researchers today are under increasing pressure to systematically plan for, measure, evidence, and, report the impact – economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits – of their work. Apart from the significant increase in weighting of the impact criteria in UK’s next national research assessment exercise, Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, all Research Councils UK (RCUK) […]

A popular tool for enhancing the effectiveness of research impact is ‘Theory of Change’. This is a framework that can be used for planning, monitoring and evaluating impact…

In December 2015, as part of its National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA), the Australian government announced the development of a national Engagement and Impact (EI) assessment exercise …

The initial instalment of HEFCE’s REF 2021 guidance was released on 1st September 2017. In this webinar, we will look at the implications of the updated guidance regarding impact for universities…

Most institutions now conduct internal assessment of outputs on a regular or ongoing basis and many are also looking at how to assess their research impact similarly…

With the REF2021 submission date nearing, universities are beginning to look more closely at strengthening their potential impact case studies.​​ As part of these discussions, researchers are asking what robust impact evidence consists of, and how to identify, collect and present it in their case studies…

This webinar video will discuss the need for researchers to engage beyond academia and the approaches to achieving research impact.

This video will discuss approaches to collecting impact evidence…