Event Details

Overview of the workshop

Deriving societal and economic benefit (impact) from university research is increasingly being recognised as a core function of institutions and the support they provide.

With much of the focus of the impact community being on the preparation and submission of impact case studies for REF2021, this workshop offers the opportunity for the leaders and managers of impact to consider the steps they might take post REF to protect, consolidate or grow the support provision for impact within their institutions.

The workshop will combine short presentations, facilitated sessions and networking to draw out and share good practice in this area and to use these contributions to build individual strategic approaches to managing the transition to the post-REF period and securing appropriate resource to supporting the key learning outcomes.

Key learning outcomes:

• Understanding of key drivers of institutional strategy
• Consolidated perspectives of impact’s contribution to institutional strategic agenda
• Assessment of delegates’ current impact support provision against these strategic agenda
• Perspectives to enable the delegates to shape discussions on impact support post-REF

The target audience is leaders or managers of impact in higher education institutions who have responsibility for creating or delivering an impact strategy and securing resource for it.

This course builds on previous work by the Impact Special Impact Group on the professionalisation of the role of Impact and will contribute to the development of this agenda.