Our research impact is the demonstrable contribution that our work makes to society – to individuals, communities, organisations, nations and the economy.
Engaging with research users and identifying potential impacts from the outset will help you to plan processes by which your research may directly or indirectly catalyse change. Planning includes considering the kinds of impact you are hoping to achieve; that is, what might change, for whom, to what extent, and when.
The NIHR have produced a comprehensive toolkit which can help you to plan for impact at the start of a research project – which will help you to outline how you will engage with research users to deliver impact from your research.
This toolkit is designed to help you to learn the main stages of a standard IR process, which will lead to results that are comparable across regions and countries.
People leave our training armed with powerful tools and techniques that they can implement immediately to create a step change in the impact of their research. Underpinning these techniques is a unique relational approach to impact that enables people to generate deep and lasting change through their research. Consistent with this approach, we work with people long after the training event, helping people work through a series of steps to put what they've learned into practice in the weeks and months that follow.