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Masterclass
Assessing the impact
of your research |
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| Event venue |
The Cuillin
Room, Charles Stewart House, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh. |
| Date |
29 November
2011 • 12.30pm - 5pm (Lunch included) |
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Description
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This half-day workshop
provided an opportunity to get hands-on experience
of assessing the impact of the participants own research. Building on an impact
assessment framework developed using contribution analysis,
the masterclass allowed participants to build a case study of the impact research, either
on a project, programme, or research centre level. During the afternoon there was the opportunity to build a contribution story for research, assess risks
and assumptions and start to identify useful indicators of research impact.
The Masterclass was run by Sarah
Morton and Katrina Reid.
Sarah Morton has ten years experience of activities to increase
the uptake
of research at CRFR. She has also been investigating the processes
of
research impact as part of an ESRC funded PhD study. This included
developing and piloting a framework for assessing impact across
a range
of projects. She has also assessed different potential methods
and indicators for research impact.
Katrina Reid has experience of supporting community and voluntary
sector
organisations to demonstrate the difference made by their activities
though
providing training, 1:1 support and facilitating peer support
opportunities
for developing self evaluation tools and techniques . The demonstration
of
soft outcomes has been an area of particular focus thorughout.
Katrina has
also focused on sharing the impact of these services, learning
generated
and celebrating successful inititiatives in a range of ways
which are engaging
for other voluntary organisations, local authorities and the
Scottish Government. |
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