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Hi everyone

I'm excited to be starting a new year in which my new book, Impact Culture, will be published and I will be working with you all to create new, more compassionate and creative cultures through a series of events and other initiatives over the coming year.


Impact culture: new book and programme of events

My new book, Impact Culture will be published on 25th March. Reserve 9.00-10.00 UK on the 25th March for the launch event, which will run as a Reading Group, and keep an eye out for the email inviting you to join my launch team, to get an exclusive pre-publication signed copy that you can read before the launch.

The fourth season of the Fast Track Impact podcast is launching this month and will be focussing on impact culture and resilience, including a number of episodes I'm creating with my wife, former hospital doctor turned health coach and Managing Director of Fast Track Impact, Dr Joyce Reed. I'll be notifying you of new episodes via Twitter and LinkedIn, or stay tuned here to catch the new season.

I'm launching a free impact programme of events that will run for the duration of 2022, based on the events you all ranked as most needed in the poll I ran last year. Many of the sessions have been co-created with members of the community who suggested the sessions. The first one is next month and you can book now:
  • Monitoring and evaluating impact, with invited guest case study and discussion (with Mark Reed, Poppy Townsend (UKRI) and Rachel Blanche (QMU)): 09.30-11.00 UK time, 28th February 2022 Book now
  • There will also be a quarterly Reading Group running throughout 2022, and for the first of these we will be joined by Professor Jonathan Grant, to discuss his new book, The New Power University - the social purpose of higher education in the 21st century. Join us from 10.00-11.00 on 14th March 2022 Book now

Other new impact culture resources:
Impact culture training:
  • Impact culture: training course to discover how you can transform your working environment and create a culture you can belong in. Whether you seek ideas that will change the world or you just want to reclaim a place in which you can think deeply, this course invites you to overcome what is preventing you doing the best work of your career. Every participants gets a copy of Impact Culture as part of the course


New course open to all researchers

Kick start your year with a place on the Health Resilient Researcher course, now open to all researchers. Sign up for the four hour course on the 8th of February 2022 and start your journey to health resilience leading to greater wellbeing at work and beyond. Making lifestyle changes will improve your sense of time, reduce work related stress, and improve research curiosity and motivation. Secure your place today for £120 (reduced fee for PhD students and ECRs) - includes one hour follow-up drop-in session for all participants after a month to give you the support you need to make lasting changes. 

We are also running this as an internal training course for institutions - if you want to integrate this into your graduate school or staff training programme for 2022, find out more here.


Research impact news and resources


New research on impact
  • Despite aiming to have their work put into practice and achieve impact, most research projects only provide evidence of research products that are usable in theory, and social outcomes, typically for those they engaged. New systematic review by Denis Karcher and colleagues: Is this what success looks like? Mismatches between the aims, claims, and evidence used to demonstrate impact from knowledge exchange processes at the interface of environmental science and policy
  • Deconstructing impact: A framework for impact evaluation in grant applications. New briefing and paper by Lai Ma and Rachael Agnew
  • Professionals dedicated to developing research impact should work closely together and extend efforts to make their work accessible and directly applicable to practice. Read and comment on this new paper (in open review) by Eric Jensen, Mark Reed and colleagues: Evidence-based research impact praxis: Integrating scholarship and practice to ensure research benefits society
  • Science advice in the UK: fascinating and useful insights into how science advice actually works in UK Government
  • Paper calls for a standardised approach to writing impact case studies that provides more transparency on stakeholder engagement, research ethics and conflicts of interest
  • How did COVID-19 affect public engagement by universities? New report from NCCPE
  • Excluding outputs from a future REF and basing it on impact and research environment alone would have minimal impact on rankings and funding distribution, according to a new analysis by Mehmet Pinar and Tim Horne
  • Government funding for research impact has shaped public engagement units in the UK as internal services helping researchers amplify impact compared to their EU counterparts who focus more on external dissemination activities. New paper by Gabriela Ojeda-Romano et al https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-021-00801-9
  • Empathic leadership enables colleagues to achieve work-life balance. New study shows 86% of people who felt their leaders were empathic had achieved work-life balance compared to 60% who felt their leaders were less empathic. Small sample but interesting.
  • Governing by narratives: new paper by Justyna Bandola and Katherine Smith explains how Universities are becoming "impact gatekeepers, filtering out narratives that are deemed overly complex or insufficiently persuasive"
  • I'm writing a commentary piece about this, so will share more lessons soon, but I just finished a programme of training for ECRs in evidence synthesis in which policy colleagues chose the topic and each researcher submitted a synthesis for peer-reviewed publication and wrote a policy brief about their findings. The result: evidence into policy, capacity building for ECRs and papers for their CVs, all for less than £3K per review. Read the syntheses and policy briefs here



Other new resources from Fast Track Impact Finally, although not new, in case you missed any of these, the top 3 Fast Track Impact blogs from 2021 were:
  1. Empathic leadership (part 1): Counter-intuitive leadership goals
  2. Empathic leadership (part 2): Valuing uncertainty in leadership
  3. Empathic Leadership (part 3): The purpose of an empathic lead

I hope you've found some of this useful. Do get in touch (just hit "reply" to this email) if you want to discuss anything you've read. Stay tuned for my next email (hopefully later this month) with details of how to join my launch team and get your pre-publication signed copy of the new book...

Mark
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CEO Fast Track Impact 
www.profmarkreed.com
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