Research Impact

1. Research Impact

2. What Impact Means • Commercial Outcomes • Benefits to Society • Informing Policy • Broader Awareness • Stakeholder Engagement • Improvements in the Environment • Increasing Depth of Knowledge • Professional Development

3. Research Grant Applications • BBSRC • 'Impact' refers to the benefits scientific research has on the economy, society and knowledge • Central government requiring justification for money spent supporting research

4. Impact for Research Students • The most important aspects of impact for you are to • Communicate what you are doing • Recognise the impact being a researcher has had on you as an individual

5. Peer Review Starting your final year or beyond – take the blue sheet From the start of your second year – take the green sheet Everyone including first year of your degree – take the pale yellow sheet

6. Broad Communication GROUP A – the building blocks e.g. Molecular Biology Microbiology Cell Biology Biochemistry GROUP B –parts of people e.g. Physiology Pathology Surgery Neurology GROUP C -a whole person or a group e.g. Sociology Psychology Health Sciences Assistive Technology

7. Where from here? • The impact statements could become something we ask all research students for so they can be published on the web • We hope you can use what you have discussed in your ePortfolio and beyond