The Global Guide to Research Impact
13 February 2015
Audio & Video
This film accompanies session 1A “Impact Evaluation for Policymaking”. Presented by Beryl Leach, 3ie, and Miguel Jaramillo, Executive Director at Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), the…
12 February 2015
Blog Posts
Politics & Ideas has been invited to participate in the upcoming Think Tank Initiative´s Global Exchange that will bring together up to 200 think tanks,…
17 July 2014
Blog Posts
The Think Tank Initiative have recently published 48 stories of influence to document the changes their work is supporting. This blog (1of2) reflects on the approach used to develop these and other stories of influence.
30 June 2014
Blog Posts
In this post, Alex Gwyther reflects on the valuable work of UKCDS in building a body of knowledge around the evaluation of research impact. He goes onto highlighting a series of resources produced by UKCDS to help guide people through this complex area.
6 March 2014
Audio & Video
This post presents three new podcasts, developed as part of the PEC programme, on measuring the impact of research communications. These will provide a focal point for a peer-learning event on March 12th.
4 December 2013
Blog Posts
Sparkwise is an online tool that allows you to create interactive and dynamic dashboards to display all of your website and social media statistics and metrics…in one place and for free!
11 September 2013
Blog Posts
Alternative metrics tools are a new way to track and measure the social impact of research in real time. Altmetrics tracks research via social media uptake, ciatation counts, mentions or bookmarks, attention in blogs and even Wikipedia posts.
28 August 2013
Guides & Tutorials
Google also offers you a range of opportunities to report on and track the impact you and your research are having. This guide, written by Cheryl Brown and Siobhan Duvigneau, provides a number of simple ways to track and trace your research on the web.
11 April 2013
Blog Posts
In his latest post, Andrew Clappison reflects upon the discussion that took place during the Future of Impact Conference, and encourages us to think about the value of impact beyond the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF)
7 March 2013
Papers & Reports
This working paper offers guidelines that nonprofit organizations can use when designing evaluations to learn about both their investments in communications strategies and the impacts of those investments.
25 February 2013
Blog Posts
In this post, James Harvey explores some difficult and unanswered questions on research ‘impact’, such as “How deep is our understanding of influence itself?” and “Do we really have the processes in place to detect influence at all?”
28 January 2013
Blog Posts
In this article, James Harvey examines the relationship between influence and impact and how the questions that arise have implications for current thinking on monitoring and evaluation.
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
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