Integrating impact into your funding proposals

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Learn how to increase your success rates and integrate impact into your next research proposal with a session that provides everything you need to generate and communicate real-world impacts from your research. You will learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact. You will also learn how to use these tools to write more competitively about impact in funding proposals, putting what you learn into practice in a break-out room session where you will critique how impact was integrated into two contrasting example proposals. As part of the session, you will receive a hard copy and a PDF copy of the second edition of The Research Impact Handbook.

Session outline/ plan:

• Learn about evidence-based principles for delivering research impact when you don’t
• have much time.
• Discover easy and quick-to-use templates you can use immediately to:
• Prioritise who to engage with first.
• Create a powerful impact plan that will guarantee your research makes a
• difference without wasting your time.
• Discuss insider tips and tricks, and get bid writing tools to help you co-produce your
• next proposal with the people most likely to benefit from your research.
• Discuss examples of impact sections from real research proposals.
• Learn how to integrate impact convincingly with your proposal, using a mapping
• approach to ensure your impact goals map onto your impact problem statement,
• beneficiaries and impact generation activities whilst managing risks and assumptions.
• Power all this with a systematic approach to identifying beneficiaries and an impact
• logic model that will make it easy to articulate specific and credible impacts.

Presenter information:

Professor Eric A. Jensen

Prof Jensen is a social scientist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge in sociology. He is part-time professor at the University of Warwick, where he has led courses on public engagement with science, science policy, audience research and social research methods (including surveys and statistics). He is also a doctoral research supervisor for the University of Oxford. As a visiting research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Jensen works on a Sloan Foundation-funded project on research software policy.

Prof Jensen has 20+ years of research and practice experience in social research, evaluation, public and policy engagement and science communication. He has delivered hundreds of training workshops on evaluation methods and evidence-based science communication, as well as leading and consulting on projects large and small on public engagement with research, impact evaluation, socially responsible research, and environmental communication. Prof Jensen also serves as an Independent Ethics Mentor for European Commission-funded projects, reviewing data management and ethics planning. He has extensive experience in ethical approval processes in higher education.

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The Researcher Development Framework (RDF) attributes developed during this session are relevant to the following sub-domains:

Domain A: Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities

A1: Knowledge base

Domain B: Personal Effectiveness

B3: Professional and Career Development

Domain C: Research Governance and Organisation

C2: Research Management

C3: Finance, Funding and Resources

Domain D: Engagement, Influence and Impact

D3: Engagement and Impact

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