{"id":334,"date":"2018-08-15T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/research-marketing\/?p=334"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:23:51","slug":"achieving-and-evidencing-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/knowledge-exchange-and-research-impact\/2018\/08\/15\/achieving-and-evidencing-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving and Evidencing Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 14<sup>th<\/sup> June 2018 we welcomed Saskia Walcott from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walcottcomms.co.uk\/\">Walcott communications<\/a> to the University of Bath to talk about achieving and evidencing impact as part of our Lunch with Impact series.\u00a0 Saskia provided a great session setting out why research impact is important, why it is useful to plan for impact and provided an overview of evaluation to evidence impact.\u00a0 She introduced the attendees to two key tools \u2013 stakeholder mapping and Theory of Change to help not only plan for but also evidence impact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/research-marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/08\/Impact-blog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-336 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/research-marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/08\/Impact-blog-300x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/knowledge-exchange-and-research-impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/08\/Impact-blog-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/knowledge-exchange-and-research-impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/08\/Impact-blog-218x215.png 218w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/knowledge-exchange-and-research-impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/08\/Impact-blog.png 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The following are some of the key messages that were shared during this session:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Impact is dynamic and long term \u2013 it can often be down to serendipity \u201cYour role is to facilitate\u2026you can not make the impact happen\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Impact is a team sport involving multiple players and baton passes<\/li>\n<li>Impact needs to be considered throughout the process as well as after the research outputs<\/li>\n<li>Importance of considering the context of the research and understanding the assumptions you have made of how your research will lead to impact \u2013 Theory of Change can be a useful tool to support you to do this as well as plan and evidence your research impact<\/li>\n<li>Top-tips to Evaluation include planning your evaluation with your stakeholders, baseline and use a mix of methods to collect both qualitative as well as quantitative data \u2013\u201clayering up your data\u201d \u2013 to evidence your impact<\/li>\n<li>Lego can be a very useful additional tool to do stakeholder mapping!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For any help with your research impact, please contact the University of Bath team on <a href=\"mailto:research-impact@bath.ac.uk\">research-impact@bath.ac.uk<\/a> or use our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/ris\/impact\/toolkit\/\">Research Impact Toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out for future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/ris\/events\/lunch-with-impact-workshops.html\">Lunch with Impact sessions<\/a> planned for Autumn\/Winter 2018.\u00a0 If you have an idea for a future session then please contact <a href=\"mailto:A.Hovanessian@bath.ac.uk\">A.Hovanessian@bath.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 14th June 2018 we welcomed Saskia Walcott from Walcott communications to the University of Bath to talk about achieving and evidencing impact as part of our Lunch with Impact series.\u00a0 Saskia provided a great session setting out 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