Designing and evidencing impactful research: creating the ‘golden thread’

Thursday, 8 June, 2023 - 12:00 PM

Format: In-person masterclass (1.5 hours) - UoL only

Practical guidance on embedding and evidencing research impact into projects, with a particular focus on measuring social value.

Facilitator: Professor Jo Meehan

Professor Jo Meehan is Professor of Responsible Procurement and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at the University of Liverpool Management School.

Jo’s research centres on modern slavery in supply chains, social value in public procurement, and corporate power. Her work explores the commercial practices that allow social inequalities and environmental harm to persist, and crucially, what might be done to enable systemic change.

Her work has won numerous international awards and she has been described in the business press as “one of the UK’s most influential procurement academics”. Jo is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and she leads on the journal’s ’business-not-as-usual’ research.

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Aimed at

  • Post-doctoral researcher
  • Early career researcher
  • Academic teaching and research staff
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Principal investigator/manager of researchers/PGR supervisor
  • Research-related professional services staff
  • Postgraduate researcher
  • Research technical professional

Knowledge and skill axis

  • Research partnerships
  • Working with business
  • Working with the public and third sector
  • Skills, enterprise and entrepreneurship
  • Local growth and regeneration
  • IP and commercialisation
  • Public and community engagement
  • Personal and professional research impact skills

Innovation Theme(s)

  • Future economy
  • Growth at scale
  • Global opportunities
  • Government levers

RDF Domain(s)

  • A: Knowledge and intellectual abilities
  • B: Personal effectiveness
  • C: Research governance and organisation
  • D: Engagement, influence and impact