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Tag Archives: impact
Jan 8 2013
Researching research: New skills of targeting audiences and networking are now necessary to create impact
6 CommentsCorrectly targeting your audience and specifically tailoring outputs to policymakers is key to improving the impact of your research. Sarah Lester explains how building contacts and targeted dissemination of research requires skills outside those traditionally used in academia. Since 2009 … Continue reading
Posted by: January 8, 2013
Tagged with: Academic communication, Climate Change, impact
Dec 20 2012
REF nightmares before Christmas
Comments OffIn a moment of frivolity Athene Donald sketched out how a REF committee in a dysfunctional department might pan out. As chair of her own local REF committee she is delighted to say my own experiences bear no relationship to … Continue reading
Posted by: December 20, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Research Excellence Framework
Dec 18 2012
Finding the time to blog
4 CommentsPat Thomson doesn’t have too much time on her hands, and she isn’t trying to be trendy, yet she is finding time to write a blog. Here, she explains how she has altered her schedule to rely on a much … Continue reading
Posted by: December 18, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, Blogging, impact
Dec 17 2012
Altmetrics are the central way of measuring communication in the digital age but what do they miss?
7 CommentsInspired by the push towards altmetrics, Nick Scott sees great potential to better communicate indicators of academic success. But this does constitute impact? Here, he puts forward questions on media mentions, website page hits and the ‘dark stuff’. The LSE … Continue reading
Posted by: December 17, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, Future of Impact conference, impact
Dec 13 2012
Efforts to strengthen UK universities will suffer if campaigns ignore their European counterparts
Comments OffMoves to prove impact have led to a rise in campaign groups in support of public universities and the social sciences across the UK and Europe. Anne Corbett finds a worrying level of insularity in the UK’s organisations and argues … Continue reading
Posted by: December 13, 2012
Tagged with: government, impact
Dec 12 2012
A new paradigm of scholarly communications is emerging: A report from the Future of Impact conference
7 CommentsPolicymakers and academics agree that the economic or public impact of research can’t be demonstrated through just citations and bibliometrics yet open access publishing, altmetrics and online methods must be further developed before we can rely on them to prove … Continue reading
Posted by: December 12, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, government, impact, open access, Research Excellence Framework
Dec 11 2012
Proving dissemination is only one half of your impact story: Twitter provides proof of real-time engagement with the public
9 CommentsGetting a research story into the broadcast media can be an important opportunity to show impact. Alistair Brown explains how to use Twitter to monitor real time responses to a radio story, in order to assess the effect on a public community. … Continue reading
Posted by: December 11, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, digital era, impact, public engagement
Dec 10 2012
Calling open access academic book publishers: How authors and publishers could make a modest profit
7 CommentsReputation, professional copyediting and promotion; academics gain a lot from working with a professional publisher but there’s no need to go it alone to go open access. Martin Weller writes that there are lots of ways to go open access … Continue reading
Posted by: December 10, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact, open access
Dec 7 2012
Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: “The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.
2 CommentsPart of PPG’s Impact of Social Sciences project focuses on how academic research in the social sciences influences decision-makers in business, government and civil society. Rebecca Mann talked to Andrew Herbert OBE, former Chairman of Microsoft Research. He explains the … Continue reading
Posted by: December 7, 2012
Tagged with: Business, impact
Dec 6 2012
Universities should sink their resources into publishing partnerships with scholarly societies
14 CommentsChristopher Land writes that a hybrid partnership between the university press and scholarly society would put publishing back under academic control and would produce a more open, and impactful, form of publishing. In UK universities this year, conversations are dominated … Continue reading
Posted by: December 6, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact
