Useful links

Academic Schools and Departments Impact Pages

Five minutes with Huw Davies: “When contextualised, research has the power to animate, inform, empower or infuriate”

The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) has many very useful resources, such as advice on planning public engagement,  working in a partnership, working with the media and much more.

The Conversation (http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-st-andrews) is an independent, not-for-profit media outlet that uses content sourced from the academic and research community, to which the University subscribe. Academics work with Journalists from The Conversation but have full control of the content and when it is released.

The Health Foundation has developed an online communications toolkit to help health and healthcare researchers (though most of it is relevant to any researcher) increase the influence and impact of their work.

Research Council links

Further information on how each UKRI Council supports knowledge exchange, innovation and impact can be found on each site:

Measuring impact

eventIMPACTS: This site provides a toolkit to measure the economic, environmental and social impact of cultural events https://www.eventimpacts.com/getting-started

Altmetric tracks real-time news and social media attention to a research output. Sign in with your username and password.

TEDx is designed to help organisations and individuals spark conversation and connection through a combination of live speakers and TED talk videos.

Partnership links

Impact and public engagement awards

  • THE Awards – to recognise the pioneering work that is taking place in universities to promote the arts.
  • The Guardian University Awards – to recognise best practice, innovation, creativity and excellence
  • ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize – an annual opportunity to recognise and reward the successes of ESRC-funded researchers who have achieved, or are currently achieving, outstanding economic or societal impacts.

Industry & business competitions

  • Converge Challenge – Scotland’s premier business competition which is open to staff and students of all Scottish Universities and Research Institutes.  We work with any industry sector, product or service-based idea at any stage of the development.

Industry & business opportunities

University Technology (UT) is a pan-Scottish university initiative that was originally launched in March 2004 by Scotland’s universities as part of a collaborative effort, over and above each university’s marketing efforts, to showcase new technology opportunities from Scotland’s academic research base.

Informatics Ventures is a knowledge exchange program that runs across the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) and helps foster innovation and entrepreneurship within  start-up and spin-out companies and develops strong relationships between Industry and Academia.

The Scottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE) helps students in Scotland discover their entrepreneurial talent and start up their own ventures. Their mission is to help create new student businesses and social enterprises and to increase the number of students who consider entrepreneurship a real option during and after their studies through a number of activities and events.

Interface is a knowledge connection for business. It exists to promote innovative business and academic collaborations through translating the needs of companies of all sizes, and from all sectors, into manageable projects for Scottish Universities and Research Institutions whether it involves knowledge exchange, business and product development, process or service improvement, or analysis and testing.

Scottish Enterprise identify and exploit opportunities for Scotland’s economic growth by supporting Scottish companies to compete, helping to build globally competitive sectors, attracting new investment and creating a world-class business environment. Might help in identifying local partners.

Policy links

Royal Society awards

  • Kavli Education Medal – awarded for impact in the field of science and mathematics education
  • Gabor Medal – for interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines
  • Michael Faraday Prize – for excellence in communicating science to UK audiences
  • Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Prize – for excellent use-inspired research on structural or functional materials that is both fundamental and for the benefit of society
  • Mercer Prize – for scientists whose research has been commercially exploited for significant wealth generation or societal benefit in the UK
  • Pfizer Prize – for scientists working in the biological sciences to promote capacity building in Africa
  • Winton Prize for Science Books – celebrates outstanding popular science books from around the world and is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience

Vitae impact guides and information

Enterprising Researcher and other booklets – leading world class professional and career development of researchers (you may need to register with Vitae to access these)

Tools for Policy Impact: A Handbook for Researchers

Engagement, influence and impact – What areas of knowledge and skill should you be developing for success in engaging and influencing others?

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