EARTH - Impact Away Day 2024

Friday 12 Jan 2024, 10:00 → 15:05 Europe/London

Council Chamber, Main Building

10:00 → 10:20 Impact Away Day: Welcome and introductions

Convener: Alastair Graham

10:00 Welcome and purpose of day

Speaker: Alastair Graham

10:05 Impact and REF2028 - what we know so far, what we are aiming to achieve

Some points:
- the new REF definition of impact
- intrinsic links to engagement
- new weightings for categories
- narrative of School impact
- case studies will still remain

10:20 → 11:05 Impact Away Day: Impact self-reflection workshop

10:20 Defining impact in geosciences

Small group disscussions:
How do you define impactful research?
Where do you see impact in the work of others?

Speaker: Alastair Graham

10:35 Self-reflection and discussion: How is my work impactful?

Goal: Identify why your research is relevant
Snippets to read 'from impact to transformative research' and '10 questions to ask yourself' (Fazey et al. 2018)
Start briefly discussing to whom your work might have relevance (we will follow up on this after coffee break)
Introduce 3i/stakeholder analysis spreadsheet

10:55 Group feedback and discussion

11:05 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Impact Away Day: Pathways to impact

11:30 Creating your own pathways to impact

Part 1 - discussion and reflection in small groups
(1) Question 1: Who is interested in my research?
(2) Question 2: How might they influence my ability to achieve impact (indirectly)?
(3) Question 3: Who is impacted?

Part 2 - new tools for helping with Impact
Introducing a stakeholder analysis proforma
Introducing and working with the Impact Planning Template
Introducing and working with Impact Monitoring Spreadsheet (with Andrew)

12:20 Group feedback

Do you feel supported in your impact work? Is there anything that would enable you to achieve better impact?

12:30 → 13:20 Lunch

13:20 → 15:00 Impact Away Day: Impact pillars

13:20 Identifying School Impact Pillars and Case Studies

Part 1 - Brainstorming session:
What are the interdisciplinary central pillars of our School's research?
Can we map individuals, groups, centres to these?
What themes/topics are we renowned for?

Part 2 - Google survey to complete: Case study ideas
- Purpose of this short survey is to canvas for existing, emergent, or long-look ideas of case studies in the School.

14:20 New CDTs

Carrie and Marc will discuss changes to the NERC CDTs

Speakers: Carrie Lear, Marc-Alban Millet

15:00 → 15:05 Closing remarks