Achieving Impact in Research

Informationen zum Autor Working across a range of disciplines (Psychology, Health & Social Care and Pharmacy), Pam Denicolo, a Professor Emerita from the University of Reading,   a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has wide-ranging experience both of using a range of research approaches and methods and of teaching how to use them well to a broad range of students and professionals world-wide. She has served on executive boards and committees of national and international learned societies and organisations devoted to research and teaching. She continues to publish widely student support materials, books, and journal articles on research because she remains passionately committed to mentoring and coaching newer researchers and academics. Klappentext This exciting new text helps researchers to successfully understand and achieve impact in their research, and to demonstrate this impact in order to secure funding and to show excellence in REF This is a book that both challenges your thinking about achieving impact in research while also providing helpful practical support. The format of the book guides you through the text providing practical tips and suggestions along the way. The integrated personal reflection points and activities embedded throughout are helpful in keeping you fully engaged with the subject. I can highly recommend this book to students, researchers and academics. Zusammenfassung This exciting new text helps researchers to successfully understand and achieve impact in their research! and to demonstrate this impact in order to secure funding and to show excellence in REF Inhaltsverzeichnis What is the meaning of impact in relation to research and why does it matter? A view from inside academia - Colin Chandler What is the meaning of the Impact Agenda - is it a repackaged or a new entity? Views from inside the Research Councils - Sophie Payne-Gifford How does the Impact Agenda fit with attitudes and ethics that motivate research? - Jennifer Chubb What are the different characteristics of research impact? - Jo Lakey, Geoff Rodgers and Rosa Scoble When might research impact be apparent? - Christopher Wood How can impact be planned into research proposals? - Rob Daley and Sara Shinton How can impact evaluation be planned? - Tony Bromley and André de Campos How can impact be evidenced: practical methods? - Tony Bromley What skills are needed to be an impactful researcher? - Jennifer Chubb How can knowledge exchange support the development of impact through partnerships and university infrastructures? - Andy Jackson How can you become an impactful researcher? - Ellen Pearce and Pam Denicolo Appendix I A special case: researcher development and the work of the impact and evaluation group - Christopher Wood and Pam Denicolo Appendix II An illustration of the Researcher Development Framework (Vitae) Appendix III The pathways to impact framework provided by RCUK Glossary ...

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What is the meaning of impact in relation to research and why does it matter? A view from inside academia - Colin Chandler
What is the meaning of the Impact Agenda - is it a repackaged or a new entity? Views from inside the Research Councils - Sophie Payne-Gifford
How does the Impact Agenda fit with attitudes and ethics that motivate research? - Jennifer Chubb
What are the different characteristics of research impact? - Jo Lakey, Geoff Rodgers and Rosa Scoble
When might research impact be apparent? - Christopher Wood
How can impact be planned into research proposals? - Rob Daley and Sara Shinton
How can impact evaluation be planned? - Tony Bromley and André de Campos
How can impact be evidenced: practical methods? - Tony Bromley
What skills are needed to be an impactful researcher? - Jennifer Chubb
How can knowledge exchange support the development of impact through partnerships and university infrastructures? - Andy Jackson
How can you become an impactful researcher? - Ellen Pearce and Pam Denicolo
Appendix I A special case: researcher development and the work of the impact and evaluation group - Christopher Wood and Pam Denicolo
Appendix II An illustration of the Researcher Development Framework (Vitae)
Appendix III The pathways to impact framework provided by RCUK
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This book is a very important contribution in the ever-changing field of research, now facing a new paradigm-shift where impact in terms of making changes in society has been pointed out as an important issue. As there is a gap between producing breakthrough research results and inform about them in a way making it possible for society beyond academica to use the outcomes, this book is important to every researcher. To make difference as a researcher, in the sense of producing research results with impact, is a matter of articulating the results in an understandable and interesting way. This book is an answer to the questions we researchers have of how to cope with the new requirements and helps us in an excellent way to understand how to bridge the gap between our research results and how to disseminate them in a broader society than we usually do. Mona Holmqvist 20130910

Product details

• Authors: Pam Denicolo, Pam Denicolo
• Assisted by: Pam Denicolo (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2013
• EAN: 9781446267059
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-6705-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Success in Research; Success in Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories