JISC Impact Analysis: Facilitation and Synthesis Project
JISC is funding an opportunity for researcher groups to develop their capability to analyse and articulate the impact and benefits of their work, by working in partnership with FE and HE staff who have expertise in impact analysis. The objective is to stimulate the cross-pollination of existing expertise and technology to enhance capacity in the impact analysis of research across the sector.
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1. Interfacing Research and Impact Systems (IRIS)
Lead institution: Exeter University
Project Lead: Sarah Ward
Project partners/ collaborators: Plymouth University; Manchester Beacon; The Silvanus Trust; Severn Trent Water
The project aims to identify existing impact indicators, potential new ones and develop these indicators into a formal toolset; exploring the possibility of integrating these within a technology interface. The project centres on identifying knowledge gaps and then undertaking activities to close those gaps. It will develop a process toolset for identifying, analysing and articulating the impact and benefits of research (i.e. formalising the process of how people ‘search’ for research/impact).
2. DIEGO – Disseminating Impact form Engagement with User Groups and Organisations
Lead institution: DeMontford University
Project Lead: Jennie Flemming
Project Manager: Elizabeth Lunt Project Partners: University of Edinburgh
The project links Researchers and Information Management Expertise from De Montfort University with an Impact Analyst at the University of Edinburgh to develop a case study looking at the analysis of the impact of participatory research in the area of Social Action. It will apply previously developed impact approaches from the Impact Analyst to analyse and evaluate the impact of the research. The project includes the development of a DSpace Impact Repository and project blog to support the analysis and case study development.
This case study will be based within Social Action research, looking specifically at the impact of participatory research. The key focus of the study will be on analysis of the impact of the uses, refinement and dissemination of participatory approaches in which the Researchers very experienced. The aim is to develop a systematic and targeted approach to understanding the impact of this research within, for example, community groups and networks. This will enable a better understanding of the impact and naturally enhance the capacity to make an impact in the future. The impact analyst and researchers will work to apply approaches and processes previously developed by the analyst to collate, evaluate and understand the impact of participatory research. The information management expertise will provide support for this process through the impact repository which will collate the information found and a blog or wiki to enable the discussion and analysis of the impact. The relevance of the outputs of the MICE project will also be considered, specifically for use with a DSpace repository as will be set up here.
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