EARTH - Impact Away Day 2024

Session

Impact Away Day

12 Jan 2024, 10:00

Council Chamber, Main Building

Conveners

Impact Away Day: Welcome and introductions

• Alastair Graham

Impact Away Day: Impact self-reflection workshop

• There are no conveners in this block

Impact Away Day: Pathways to impact

• There are no conveners in this block

Impact Away Day: Impact pillars

• There are no conveners in this block

6. Welcome and purpose of day

Alastair Graham

12/01/2024, 10:00

7. Impact and REF2028 - what we know so far, what we are aiming to achieve

12/01/2024, 10:05

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

2. Defining impact in geosciences

Alastair Graham

12/01/2024, 10:20

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

3. Self-reflection and discussion: How is my work impactful?

12/01/2024, 10:35

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

4. Group feedback and discussion

12/01/2024, 10:55

8. Creating your own pathways to impact

12/01/2024, 11:30

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...

9. Group feedback

12/01/2024, 12:20

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

10. Identifying School Impact Pillars and Case Studies

12/01/2024, 13:20

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.

11. New CDTs

Carrie Lear, Marc-Alban Millet

12/01/2024, 14:20

Carrie and Marc will discuss changes to the NERC CDTs