This year, the focus of Making an Impact is on developing individuals’ practice and enhancing their skills and knowledge in engagement and impact. The programme has been purposely designed to provide the space and time for colleagues to reflect on their own strengths and areas of impact development through self-directed resources and coaching.
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Key themes for 2025
- Strategic Collaboration: Building high-impact partnerships across disciplines, sectors and global networks to drive meaningful change
- Media Influence and Research Visibility: Mastering media engagement to amplify research impact, shape public discourse and enhance credibility
- Project and Team Leadership: Cultivating dynamic leadership skills to inspire, empower and drive research engagement and impact
- Planning for grants and REF2029: Developing robust strategies for securing funding and maximising REF2029 success through high quality research planning
What is different in 2025?
At the heart of the series is valuing individuals’ professional practice and impact, and consequently, specialised 1:1 coaching is available to all academic staff from postdocs to research fellows to principal investigators (PIs), on the following themes:
- Research project management
- Working with stakeholders beyond academia
- Enhancing your contribution to research engagement and impact
These opportunities will be available throughout May and provide valuable opportunities for staff to reflect on their own strengths and areas for development in engagement and impact.
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Feedback from participants from Making an Impact 2024 included:
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“I work across the road but was oblivious to the work that goes on here. It has encouraged me to do more of these kinds of tours, to find out what else is going on around campus. From a sustainability perspective it is really good to learn where the energy on campus really comes from, there is a drive to work more sustainability and this is part of understanding where our work practices can make the most difference.” “These series are a great platform for engagement, networking, and skill enhancement.” “Having joined the university in April, this is my first year attending Making the Impact Series, and I can safely say that it has been an amazing experience, with several insightful sessions. The sessions are a mix of online-offline setting making it really easy to attend without having to commute. There is information relevant for academics at various stages of their career ranging from research collaboration to writing for different publications to discussing the impact of AI. Its contemporariness makes it interesting. ” "[I will] be more strategic in my relationships with industry partners, ensuring that I am meeting their needs, as a result of attending." “It provided me and my practice with a robust framework that has crystalised what I learnt organically but couldn't articulate so clearly. This enables me to evaluate industry partnerships and bridge the cultural gaps better. I have shared my learning with colleagues.” |
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The Making an Impact On-Demand Resource Hub
Supplementing the live programme, the Making an Impact Resource Hub contains a rich and diverse open-access resource freely available for all research staff and students to access at a time and place that suits you. The resources include: 200+ recorded sessions, 13 podcasts, 15 visual summaries, 16 keynotes, 55 workshops, 38 webinars, and 7 panel discussions covering the ‘From Liverpool to Impact’ strand in which Liverpool PhD alumni working in various sectors share their experiences and opportunities for research partnership and impact. There are also 50+ additional curated resources (including toolkits, checklists, virtual tours, TED talks) on inclusive leadership; using LinkedIn to foster research collaborations; informational interviews; making a cultural impact online; business development; collaboration and many more areas spread across four general themes according to research impact objectives:
- Boosting your academic research impact and knowledge exchange potential
- Capturing and sharing information and evidence relating to research impact
- Developing the reach of your research activity, interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration
- Contributing to a positive and inclusive research culture
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