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Hello everyone,
Sorry this is a bit late this month (been on holiday), but I'm back now with another edition of the Fast Track Impact newsletter. Let’s get to it.

New from Fast Track Impact

In case you missed our announcement from earlier in the month, starting in 2025, I am transitioning my training to Prof. Eric Jensen from Institute for Methods Innovation. There are a few training slots left before the end of the year and then bookings will be with Eric from January onwards. All our Fast Track Impact resources will continue to grow and develop via the Fast Track Impact website resources page, YouTube channel, X and LinkedIn feeds. I will also continue my blog, newsletter, podcast and impact culture community of practice. Read my full announcement here.

Training opportunities:

On 2 September 2024, join us for the Influencing Policy free online training course.

On 8 October 2024, discover the essentials of ethical research impact in a free online workshop.

On 9 October 2024, join Bella Reichard for her very popular free session on kick starting you impact case study narrative for REF2029.

On 2 December 2024, join our free session The Productive Researcher for practical tools to prioritize your time and focus on your career goals.

Impact Research

A Canadian study on the benefits of doing public engagement showed increased purpose and career benefits as well as new research outputs and funding.

New study from Danick Trouwloon and colleagues offers advice on the best engagement strategies to generate impact in different contexts, including: knowledge transfer; commissioned research approach; direct engagement; and co-production.

New article by Matthias Huegel shows networks matter if you want to generate economic impacts from your research.

A new paper from Caitlin Hafferty and colleagues on the effectiveness of engagement in the digital age, identifying how the factors that shape outcomes take on new dimensions in digital contexts. Read her tweet thread on the paper here.

Open-access editorial summarising 12 papers on translational design, describing roles, tools, and methods that can be used by design researchers to generate impact.

Seeking the antidote to the competitive stress of the impact agenda? According to this article by Jonathan Paylor, it’s collective joy.

Interesting Reads & Resources

New book, From Purpose to Impact, focuses mainly on business schools but its call for more leadership on impact will resonate with most of us.

Now we are all measuring impact – but is anything changing? A thoughtful discussion blog on generating and measuring change in complex systems.

Useful blog from Jackie Reynolds reporting findings from a survey of professional services staff planning for the engagement and impact elements of REF2029.

Perspective article on evidence-based science communication from Eric Jensen and Alexander Gerber.

Can films change society? Watch this fascinating 8 min video essay about filmmaking as an effective pathway to impact.

I hope you've found something useful in this newsletter. If you think others would benefit from future emails, they can subscribe here. And just hit "reply" and get in touch if there's anything in the newsletter you'd like to discuss with me - I love hearing from people! I'll be in touch again next month with another newsletter edition.

Take care till then,

Mark

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