Impact community follow-up survey

Thanks to everyone who responded to my last survey to shape a new community of practice around impact. This originally arose from a group of professional services colleagues who I worked with over the last year who wanted to keep meeting up, and thought it might be nice to extend the group to others who want to share experiences and support each other in their work on impact. You can see the full results here.

It is clear that there is huge interest in this, so I'm now working to set up a programme of discussion and training activities for the next year, including resource sharing and discussion via a dedicated email list linked to each month's activity, and a mentoring scheme.

But I need your help to shape this - please take this survey (it should take less than 5 minutes) to vote for your favourite sessions and contribute to these sessions yourselves via case studies or by offering your own additional sessions. I’d also love your feedback on the mentoring programme I’m developing.

Thanks for your help!

Mark

Prioritise community activities

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* 1. Which of the following (free) training and discussion events (based on suggestions from the last survey) would you be most likely to attend (tick as many as apply)?

Training: Monitoring and evaluating impact, with invited guest case study and discussion

Training: Logic models and Theory of Change (including the identification of impact indicators) with invited guest case study and discussion

Training: How to make research underpinning impact more rigorous, ethical and action-oriented – practical tips, invited guest case study and discussion

Training: How to build targeted social capital at scale with those who can benefit most from research – practical tips, invited guest case study and discussion

Training: How to motivate researchers to engage with impact on their own terms – practical tips, invited guest case study and discussion

Training: How to build institutional capacity for world-changing impact – practical tips, invited guest case study and discussion

Training: Empathic leadership for impact – practical tips, invited guest case study and discussion

Training: How to write an impact strategy, with invited guest case study and discussion

Training: Communications for impact – harnessing the power of B2B marketing for research (with invited case study

Training: Designing and delivering impact training, with invited guest case study and discussion

Show and tell: Impact culture initiatives – submit what you’re doing and those selected get to present to the group and do an interview with Mark to be written up for our website

Show and tell: Your most unexpected 4* REF2021 case studies (after results are released)

Show and tell: community building and boundary organisations – what works?

Discussion: Impacts that went wrong – how they were saved or what we could learn

Surgery session – impact challenges you want help with (submit to the group in advance and come prepared with answers/suggestions)

Resource and advice sharing session: public engagement (including online engagement)

Resource and advice sharing session: evidencing impact

Sharing good practice: How are you planning for impact in the next REF cycle?

Sharing good practice: how do you motivate researchers to engage with impact?

Sharing experience: how have you changed pathways to impact in response to COVID?

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* 2. In addition to the training and discussion sessions above, I hope to continue the impact reading group. Can you suggest books, articles and authors to you would like to be invited for future reading group sessions?

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* 3. Would you be able to offer a case study or perspective based on your own professional practice for any of the sessions above that include an invited guest case study (see all sessions starting "training" in the list in Question 1)? If so, please provide your name/affiliation and the session you could contribute towards.

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* 4. Are there any important missing sessions that you could offer and run for the community? Please state the title of your proposed session and your name/affiliation

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* 5. Is there anything else you would like to say about the planned community events?

Feedback on mentoring scheme

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* 6. I have developed a 6 session coaching programme based on ideas in The Productive Researcher and my forthcoming Impact Culture book. If you have time to look at this, I’d love to hear what you think of this draft coaching guide? Please provide any feedback here (optional – it is 22 pages long!):

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* 7. If you are interested in working as a mentor for this scheme, please add your name, professional role, number of years in the role and country (all those selected will receive training from me based on the final version of the coaching guide).

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* 8. Is there anything else you would like to say about the planned mentoring programme?

Thanks for your help with this! If you have any questions, please get in touch with me at: mark.reed@fasttrackimpact.com

Impact community follow-up survey

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* 1. Which of the following (free) training and discussion events (based on suggestions from the last survey) would you be most likely to attend (tick as many as apply)?

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* 2. In addition to the training and discussion sessions above, I hope to continue the impact reading group. Can you suggest books, articles and authors to you would like to be invited for future reading group sessions?

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* 4. Are there any important missing sessions that you could offer and run for the community? Please state the title of your proposed session and your name/affiliation

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* 5. Is there anything else you would like to say about the planned community events?

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* 7. If you are interested in working as a mentor for this scheme, please add your name, professional role, number of years in the role and country (all those selected will receive training from me based on the final version of the coaching guide).

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* 8. Is there anything else you would like to say about the planned mentoring programme?﻿

* 8. Is there anything else you would like to say about the planned mentoring programme?