Societal Impact Toolkit

SDG Impact - Towards societal impact through open research

This toolkit has been created to help you understand how other researchers view societal impact and how they鈥檝e been successful in creating it. It鈥檚 filled with plenty of advice and insights from researcher interviews, as well as further reading resources to help you find out more about societal impact and how to create it for your own research.

You will discover:

What societal impact is and how important it is to researchers
Methods researchers use to maximize societal impact
How to engage and communicate for impact
How to evaluate societal impact, and much more

Read the complete researcher interviews

Throughout the toolkit we've woven in the experiences and advice from senior career researchers who have had great success with societal impact. Representing a whole range of disciplines, these experts share what's helped them expand the audience of their research. Browse the complete individual interviews in our blog series, "Exploring societal impact," or click the highlighted posts below.

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Exploring societal impact: 鈥淧articipation leads to better quality, more impactful research.鈥�

Professor Mai Chin A Paw explains her participatory approach to her research and how she supports her PhD students to do the same.

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09 Nov 2020

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Exploring societal impact: 鈥淲e have a mandate to maximise how our research is used.鈥�

Prof. Iannuzzi shares his entrepreneurial journey and how he is helping other academics to become entrepreneurs.

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10 Nov 2020

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Exploring societal impact: "You need to bring two worlds together."

In this series installment we learn how Dr. Melanie Ehren works with policymakers and educators in carrying out her research.

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28 Oct 2020

Explore our survey findings

Our survey was conducted in June 2019, with more than 9,000 active researchers responding from across a broad range of regions, career stages, subject fields and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of interest. The researchers were asked a broad range of questions related to societal impact of research 鈥� from what importance they placed on it to how they measured it.

The results are discussed and linked to throughout the societal impact toolkit and can be explored in their entirety below.

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