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This week, Mark explores what the recent REF2029 guidance means for impact, including a discussion of what we might be expected to write about in the new engagement and impact narrative, and an evidence-based approach …
This week, Mark talks to Michael Parker, Director of Operations at The Conversation, a news outlet that specialises in working with researchers, …
Eric Jensen is an expert in impact evaluation who has written a textbook on many of the most useful methods you'll need and leading two companies …
This week, Mark interviews Laura Tucker (Vertigo Ventures), Tobias Schoep (GrowImpact), and Sarah Morton (Matter of Focus) about the platforms they have developed to help researchers keep track of their impacts. Find …
This week, Mark interviews Rachel Blanche from Queen Margaret University Edinburgh to find out how arts-based methods can provide depth and rigour to an impact evaluation. They discuss a range of approaches including …
Mark discusses a range mixed methods evaluation designs that can help you collect data to evidence impacts arising from industry, policy, media, …
How do you design an impact evaluation? There is no blueprint, but in this episode, Mark gives you the tools you will need to choose an evaluation …
In this first of a series of episodes on monitoring, evaluating and evidencing impact, Mark discusses one of the biggest mistakes that people make when the evaluate their engagement instead of their impact, and …
This week, Mark interviews George Hope, Communications Manager at Oxford Net Zero and Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub, based at University of Oxford, about how you can reduce the risks of engaging with social media and …
What do you see when you hold the mirror up to your attempts to achieve impact? Are you doing enough? If not, what are your excuses and …
Disillusioned with how academia works, Sarah Wijesinghe left academia to set up Brijjd, a new social platform for researcher to communicate their research simply to the widest possible audience. Mark learns about her …
In this final episode on mental health, Mark questions the assumption that we need to be fixed and find a happy ending, when so many people feel stuck in the middle of a story that has no end in sight. He shares …
Building on the success of the “health resilient researcher” course and the launch of health coaching for academics by Fast Track Impact, Dr Joyce Reed discusses some of the most common challenges driving researchers …
When Paris Tuohy and Ruby Annand-Jones failed to collect the data they needed for their research, they felt frustrated and guilty - not just about …
Mark reports back on the workshop to discuss alternatives to the word stakeholder, where the group discussed whether or not we should in fact be …
This week, Mark discusses problems with the word "stakeholder" and discusses alternatives that could enable us to decolonise our vocabulary as …
This week Mark talks to Petra Boynton, social psychologist academic, consultant and trainer, about her work on "being well in academia". They …
Do you have a toxic relationship with your line manager or supervisor? This week, Mark discusses three ways you can tackle your relationship so you can stop dreading your meetings and start thriving again at work.
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This week, Mark considers how to move beyond simply learning from mistakes, to understand how our mistakes have shaped who we are, transforming regret into an experience of being more authentic. He tells a story of a …
This week, Mark discusses how to transcend the labels we often hide behind as academics, so we can embrace failure and mistakes as a necessary part of who we are, sitting with discomfort and being able to feel the …
Anxiety is baked into many academic cultures, but for some that fear can be debilitating. In this episode Mark talks about his own struggle with …
Most researchers suffer from imposter syndrome at some point in their careers, but few talk about it, so it can feel like you are alone in feeling the way you do. In this episode Mark shares his own experience of …
Why do we say "yes" to things we later regret, or struggle to share early drafts of our work with collaborators? Why we get upset when colleagues …
In this episode, Mark considers the difference between influential versus manipulative impact, and shares insights and practical tips that can help …
This week, Mark interviews Dr Katerina Cidlinska from the Institute of Psychology at the Czech Academy of Sciences about research she conducted …
In this episode, Mark is joined by Dr Joyce Reed, health coach and CEO of Fast Track Impact, to talk about the transformative power of coaching for academics, and how it can increase both productivity and resilience. …
Mark interviews Saskia Gent (Insights for Impact) and Jennifer Locket and Dawn Ashby (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) to learn from research that reviewed over 70 impact strategies from around the world. The research …
Mark interviews Professor Gemma Derrick from University of Bristol about her work to understand the characteristics and drivers of negative …
This week, Mark concludes his series on empathic leadership for impact by considering evidence from studies of expert negotiators that suggests empathic leaders can be significantly more influential. As he revises the …
In this episode, Mark discusses how leaders that want to facilitate impact need to cultivate bridging expertise to bridge ideas and networks, …
In this episode, Mark discusses how leaders need to have a deep understanding of their impact, to be authentic and therefore be able to connect empathically with their teams, drawing people to impact.
In this episode, Mark looks at a range of leadership models and discusses the sort of leadership needed to drive impact, drawing on his new book, …
This week, Mark interviews Dr Ged Hall about an innovative rolling 3 month programme for researchers to build skills and community around impact, …
Following his Reading Group appearance earlier this month, I'm interviewing Professor Jonathan Grant about his new book, The New Power University. …
In the fourth and final episode that includes an audio chapter from his new book, Impact Culture, Mark discusses how to build capacity for impact, …
In the third of four episodes that include audio chapters from his new book, Impact Culture, Mark discusses the importance of working strategically …
In the second of four episodes that include audio chapters from his new book, Impact Culture, Mark discusses some of the literature on purpose, and …
My new book, Impact Culture, is released on 25th March, and this is your opportunity to join the launch team and get involved in the impact culture …
In the first of four episodes that include audio chapters from his new book, Impact Culture, Mark introduces the first of four components of a …
In this episode, Mark is joined by his wife, Dr Joyce Reed, former hospital doctor turned health coach and Managing Director of Fast Track Impact. They talk about some of the hopes and fears of returning to in-person …
In this episode, Mark delves into some of the assumptions and world views that can prevent us doing research that is genuinely coproductive. He draws on a realisation that some of his own early work was far from …
This week, Mark shares his top 5 lessons for co-producing impact with limited time, based on his forthcoming book, Impact Culture
In this episode Mark introduces Season 4, discusses why we need to think harder about the culture in which we do our work, and unpacks what a …
Bella Reichard and Mark Reed discuss how their new paper analysing high- versus low-scoring impact case studies from REF2014 can be used to write more effective case studies, drawing from their experience advising …
Bella Reichard and Mark Reed read from their new paper analysing high- versus low-scoring impact case studies from REF2014.
Bella Reichard and Mark Reed read from their new paper analysing high versus low-scoring impact case studies from REF2014
This week, Mark asks how you can make room for the most important work of your life. What priorities most authentically express your identity and …
In a bonus episode this week from the climate conference in Madrid, Mark provides a worked example of how to use a policy seminar to generate and …
In this second part of his episode on evidencing impact, Mark reads the final sections of his forthcoming co-authored paper, describing five types …
This week, Mark reads from his forthcoming co-authored paper on evaluating impact, providing new definitions of research impact, reach and impact evaluation, an overview of national impact evaluations around the …
Take your understanding of publics and stakeholders to a new level with the 3i's approach. This week, Mark introduces a new Fast Track Impact guide …
Many of us encounter individuals with deeply held convictions that run directly counter to all the evidence we know as researchers. It is easy to dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy or irrelevant, but when we do so, …
When did you last think about what you could do to enhance your career, make things easier for yourself or enable yourself to do new and exciting …
Announcing the winner of the Unsung Impacts prize! Listen to inspiring impacts that will never be celebrated by any University, based on the entries to the Fast Track Impact Unsung Impact Prize 2019. Read the article …
We’re all familiar with the publish or perish mantra, but for many of us it is less about the number of publications we produce, and more about their quality. The need for rigour goes with saying, but we are all …
How do you introduce yourself to others, and what do the labels you choose say about you? How do these labels influence how others perceive you? In this episode, Mark explores the many labels we can all choose from …
Few of us have enough time to do all the things that are expected of us, and when we have more goals than we can achieve we will trade them off against each other in different ways. When we get it wrong, this can lead …
Interview with Bec Colvin and Chris Cvitanovic from Australia National University about their work with policy on climate change and first nations …
This week Mark interviews Yamni Nigam, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, and Clare Lehane, Impact Support Officer, at Swansea University, about how Yamni got her research on maggot therapy for wounds featured in four …
This week Mark discusses three ways you can evidence impacts arising from media coverage of your research, with a particular focus on understanding …
Have you ever thought about starting a podcast? This week, Mark talks to an academic whose podcast gets 1.5 million downloads a year and has spun …
Rosmarie Katrin Neumann talks about her PhD research on science-policy exchange, explaining how you can increase the likelihood that evidence from …
This week, Mark continues to reframe failure as something that deeply affirms our values and leads to greater meaning and contentment. In part 2, he thinks about how we step back, withdraw from the fight and change …
This week, Mark explores how you can reframe the failures and rejections that are part of everyday academic life as something that deeply affirms our values and leads to greater meaning and contentment. In part 1, he …
This week the podcast showcases a personalized approach to impact training being pioneered by Universities of Salford and Warwick. Find out how researcher development and impact teams can co-produce training to meet …
This week Mark interviews Jane Mills and Jasmine Black from CCRI at University of Gloucestershire about how they are using social media to generate research impact. They discuss how to build stories and engagement …
This week Mark considers how we can harness creativity in the research process to derive original insights, and shows how some of the best new ideas arise from the greatest personal and professional challenges. He …
In this second part, Mark discusses a range of practical methods for managing power in meetings and workshops, including methods for opening up the discussion and exploring, methods for analyzing and methods for …
How to make meetings and workshops with stakeholders and colleagues safe, fun and productive. This week, Mark explains how you can identify and …
This week, Mark interviews Saskia Walcott, an independent impact expert who has helped researchers generate and evaluate their impact for over 15 years. In this interview, she talks about her research on perceptions …
This week, Mark gives us an insight into two days of his working week, to illustrate how he puts the lessons from his book, The Productive …
This week Mark shares three ways to overcome imposter syndrome, based on his own experience battling feelings of inadequacy as a researcher. The …
This is the third and final part of Mark's series of episodes on getting research into policy, and the last episode of 2018. Building on the ethics …
In the second of this three-part series on getting your research into policy, Mark interviews a researcher who ended up leading a country's …
This week, Mark considers the moral premise of responsible policy engagement and discusses four ways that researchers often inadvertently lose the …
This week, Mark considers how you can learn from your experience in the lecture theatre to become more effective in your generation of impact, and how impact can inspire better learning and teaching. He also considers …
This week, Mark draws on his experience writing bids, as a reviewer and on funding panels, to explain how to write the impact sections of a grant proposal. Funders are increasingly expecting researchers to consider …
This week, Mark considers how researchers can become more authentic, and how this can reduce the likelihood of imposter syndrome and help you grow in confidence. To do this, he discusses the daily practice of letting …
This week, Mark interviews Karen Laing, Senior Research Associate and Co-Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Newcastle University. Karen has been studying co-production manuals and is developing her …
On Monday this week, Mark was at a Royal Society conference on changing research culture, where he was awarded a prize for changing research …
This week, Mark revisits his most recent book, The Productive Researcher, published a year ago this month. As he has taken the book on the road over the last year, he has been challenged by numerous questions and …
In this episode, Mark explores how you can become more resilient as a researcher, using grant and publication rejection and workplace bullying as …
This week, Mark asks questions that can enable you to achieve impacts from your research that disrupt old ways of doing things and lead to …
This week Mark looks at emerging evidence that the impact agenda is creating institutional cultures that can lead to unintended negative outcomes. …
This week Mark shows how you can use seven elements of powerful stories to plan for and create impacts that engage and inspire. He uses examples …
In the first episode of Season 3, Mark shares two new definitions he has developed that will enable you to become crystal clear about what impact …
In this final episode of the second series, Mark interviews Dr Jenn Chubb about how students can generate impact during their Ph.D. This is a critical look at both the benefits and the challenges of working with …
This week, Mark updates on progress towards publishing The Productive Researcher, which is out on 11th October.
This week, Mark interviews Sarah Cook from University of Dundee and Liz Oughton from Newcastle University to explore the potential for researchers …
This week Mark interviews researchers who have gone from having no experience working with business to working closely with industry to realize …
Mark interviews Ged Hall from The University of Leeds to find out how researchers can get support from professional services staff and other researchers to empower them to achieve impact. Whether you are a researcher …
This is the second week that Mark is reading from his forthcoming book, The Productive Researcher. In this episode, Mark explains how researchers can reconceptualize themselves to sharpen their focus and get better …
In this bonus episode, Mark talks about his latest paper, "A theory of participation". Although rooted in research on the environment, the paper …
This week, Mark explores the factors that increase motivation so you can become more productive in your work and find time and energy to generate more impact. This is based on an excerpt from his forthcoming book, The …
This week Mark looks at a variety of ways you can collect evidence to demonstrate whether or not your research has had (or is having) impact. This …
In this week's episode, Mark discusses four questions that can help you develop a social media strategy that can efficiently drive impact from your research. You don't have to write anything down - if you can answer …
In this episode, Mark discusses how researchers can get more out of their digital footprint, enhancing both their research and impact, without spending too much time or risking their reputation. In this episode, he …
In this first episode of the second series, Prof Mark Reed discusses how to do public engagement or impact, not just for the hell of it. A lot of …
In this episode, Mark is at the ARMA 2016 conference (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) to hear what leading thinkers think about the future of research impact. He interviews Phillip Ward from the …
In this episode, Mark explains the three most common motives for researchers to engage with the impact agenda. He then provides tips on how to translate these motives into priorities that can drive action.
In this episode, Mark walks you through seven questions that will give you a social media strategy to power your research to impact:
In this episode, Mark interviews the brains behind @CECHR_OuD to reveal how she reached 87,000 followers in four years, currently growing at 150 …
In this episode, Mark discusses how you can build a network of people who can empower you to have the impacts you want.
In this episode, Mark interviews Rosmarie Katrin Neumann about her work as a knowledge broker and asks if we might all as researchers, be able to do more to act as knowledge brokers.
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In this episode, Mark explores the range of reasons why people engage with research.
He describes research in which he asked the people who had engaged with researchers what had motivated their engagement, and these …
In this episode, Mark gives you a sneak peek behind the scenes of his new book, The Research Impact Handbook and tells you how you can write a …
In this episode, Mark presents eight powerful questions that will enable you to envision the impacts your research might have. Whether you already …
In this episode, Mark shares five ways you can enhance the impact of your research. He illustrates each of the five principles with practical suggestions about ways you can generate impacts from your research.
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