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Research impact is increasingly expected within academia, but does the pressure to ‘do impact’ risk an unhealthy focus on what can be counted rather than what counts? Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset looks at impact from inside the research sector, celebrating the opportunity to make a difference whilst recognising the challenges this brings.
Taking you from basic concepts through to principles of practice, impact expert Julie Bayley demystifies impact and guides you on the path to understanding the why, what, who and how of research-led change. What do unicorns tell us about what matters? Or strip clubs tell us about failure? And what can Murder She Wrote teach us about assembling evidence?
Whether you’re a researcher, research lead or research manager, Creating Meaningful Impact will help you realign your impact sat-nav and develop an authentic, critical and healthy approach within the wider pressures of academia.
Julie Bayley’s book, Creating Meaningful Impact, is an enlightening romp through the excitement, the pressures, the demands of doing impact well, both in terms of institutional success and in terms of a researcher’s personal and professional development. As book blurbs often suggest, the book is a rollercoaster, but one very much aimed at the fainthearted, who stand to learn a lot from Julie’s immense expertise, warmth, wit and superlative use of imagery. So, if you are tickled by the idea of becoming a more mindfully impactful researcher, swipe right on ‘Impact Tinder’ and read this book!
Dr Julie Bayley is Director of Research Impact Development and Director of the Lincoln Impact Literacy Institute (LILI) at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is a research-active Health Psychologist and has delivered impact consultancy around the sector for many years. Julie is also a proud patient advocate and dementia carer.
Chapter 1. What is research impact?
Chapter 2. Impact literacy
Chapter 3. Impact, values and power
Principle 1. Chase meaning not unicorns
Principle 2. Work out what your research powers up
Principle 3. Think directionally not linearly
Principle 4. Evidence? Think ‘What would Jessica Fletcher do?’
Principle 5. Create a healthy space
Principle 6. Own your expertise but don’t be a jerk
Principle 7. Be an impact lighthouse
Principle 8. Be you
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