My new book, Impact Culture, is released on 25th March, and this is your opportunity to join the launch team and get involved in the impact culture community of practice, which launches today!

Get involved in the impact culture community

Today I'm launching a new website for anyone who wants to improve their research culture and put impact at the heart of what they do. It includes:

• A programme of free training events and discussion groups run by members of the impact community. The first event is on impact monitoring and evaluation on 28th February and already has over 300 people booked, so book now to avoid disappointment. Our second event is a more intimate reading group with Jonathan Grant on his new book, The New Power University, on 14th March. Place are limited on this one, so book your place if you want to join us.
• Sign up for a new JISCMail impact culture email discussion group to keep the discussion going between events
• Free content from the book - over 90% is available open access via the website, including an impact culture toolkit where I've collected together all the most practical and transformative ideas from the book

Join the launch team and get a pre-publication copy of the book

I would also like to invite you to join the launch team for the new book, which includes a signed pre-launch copy of the book with free postage and packing anywhere in the world and a place at the launch event, which will run as an online Reading Group.

Your responsibilities as a member of the launch team will be to:

1. Attend the launch event having read as much of the book as possible, so you are ready to discuss it with others;
2. Write a short review of the book on Amazon (whether you love it or hate it), to help others decide if they want to read it too. To do this, you will be asked to buy a free Kindle version of the book the week before launch, so your review is for a verified purchase; and
3. Help promote the book to your colleagues or networks (if you like it!).

In return for this, you get:

• An exclusive signed copy of the book (this is the only way you will ever be able to get a signed copy)
• Get your copy up to a month before the book goes on sale to the rest of the world
• Free postage and packing anywhere in the world (all other customers will have to pay this)
• An exclusive place at the launch event (everyone else will have to tune in via YouTube and won't be able to interact with the author or other participants)
• Free audio, PDF and Kindle version of the book

Please only buy a ticket if you are able to join the launch event and can commit to writing a review. Places are limited to 100.

If you are purchasing books outside the UK and EU, you may have to pay taxes and custom charges before you can collect your book. If as a result, you do not receive your book, we will refund your order. 
 

Summary of the book

Do you feel demoralised and demotivated by an increasingly managerial, metricised academy?

Does it seem like you have to be all things to all people (now also generating impact on top of everything else) and at the same time maintain a work-life-balance?

As a result, does it feel like there is no room for you to be yourself and authentically pursue your best work?

Are you responsible for managing impact but want to do things differently?

Do you want to create an impact culture that inspires and draws people to doing research in ways that will give them time to be curious, creative and challenged, and if all goes according to plan, also make the world a better place?

In this book, you will 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 book invites you to overcome what is preventing you doing the best work of your career.

You will be able to experiment with practical ideas and creative ways of thinking to re-motivate and inspire you. You will build on what works and adapt what doesn't, creating your own culture with your closest colleagues.

At the very least, you will see how it is possible to create a protective bubble in a toxic culture. But at best, unexpected new ways of working will emerge and spread from person to person and group to group. This is the way innovations spread, minds change and new cultures are born: diverse, authentic and values-driven cultures that inspire the creative thought the world needs so badly right now.

All of this can happen within the structures of your existing institutional home, no matter how supportive or toxic your current culture might feel. If enough of us start to work differently, we can dismantle some of the structural barriers that prevent change in the metricised academy.

But you don’t need to wait for that to happen. Whatever your position, from PhD student to professor, you can make a difference. Change can start now, with you. With us

Try before you buy

Download a sample of Part 1 of the book before you commit to joining the launch team.

Or listen to my podcast where I previewed the audiobook version of one chapter last week, and will be previewing three more chapters of the following weeks. 

If you like what you read/hear, then you can join the launch team here.

I'm looking forward to working with you on the launch team and seeing you on 25th March and at the events we've got planned for the rest of the year!

Mark
______________________________
CEO Fast Track Impact 
www.profmarkreed.com
Tel. 07538082343
Find me on Twitter and LinkedIn