NWCDTP/ NWSSDTP Research Impact PGR Training Event
Friday 27th October 2017, 10am-3pm
Venue: FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Research impact has become an integral part of the academic experience, and for those planning a career in academia an early understanding of the basics are essential to ensure students are properly prepared for job applications, funding bids, and the drivers of Universities around research assessment.
For those planning careers outside HEIs the benefits of networking, promotion of research and the needs of business are equally relevant. For those early in their PhDs engagement with the principles of the impact agenda can be of huge benefit in supporting your research directly, building a portfolio of evidence, creating new opportunities and raising your profile. An understanding of the current Research Excellent Framework (REF) can also help you understand better how your University operates.
This event will enable students to work in this area, to think carefully about their future research plans and outreach ideas, to become future research leaders. If you don’t think your own area of research has potential impact, then you need to come to this event. Every discipline in a University provides examples to the government of the practical influence of their research area, and every single subset of every discipline has potential audiences outside of academia.
This event will enable students to think in new ways about their own research, and give them tools/vocabulary/ insight into how to develop their own impact activities in future. It will open them up to new opportunities and to networking that will enhance their own research and that of their peers. The event, tailored for all AHRC DTP students, and open to ESRC NWSSDTP funded students, will give an overview and help you understand just what impact is, and what it means to you and your own research.
There will be a brief overview of the REF for context, and practical examples of how engaging with non-academic audiences can help your research and career. A panel with cultural partners and other PGRs will explore the benefits of interacting with businesses, galleries and museums, including the benefits of placement schemes. There will then be a practical workshop to help you develop a personalised impact plan, to support and maximise the potential of your PhD project.
There will be a cap of 50 places available for this event, so priority will be given to students funded through the DTPs.