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The Humanities<\/strong>\u00a0Research Impact team<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the Humanities Research Facilitator team<\/strong><\/a> are both lead by Chloe Jeffries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Research Impact team can advise on all aspects of research impact, including impact in funding applications, monitoring impact through the project lifecycle and beyond; identifying appropriate knowledge exchange and impact funding schemes; providing bespoke training sessions, and signposting to other areas of specialist professional services and support within the University. The team also supports the development of Impact Case Studies for the Research Excellence Framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Research Facilitator team offer bespoke advice to researchers on grant applications, funding opportunities, fellowships, and more. They have extensive expertise across project lifecycles from conception through to completion and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This site is intended to be an easy way for colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities to find information on support for impact and research activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Please get in touch<\/a> with your school representative if you have any queries or would like to discuss your work in more detail.<\/p>\n

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What is research impact?<\/h2>\n

There are many definitions of what constitutes research impact and it is a very fluid term. In its simplest definition, research impact is about making a difference in the \u2018real world\u2019, outside of academia. Research contributes to numerous types of real world impact, including improving health and wellbeing, creating economic prosperity, enhancing cultural enrichment and quality of life and improving environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n

Why is research impact important?<\/h2>\n

Being able to evidence the real-world benefits and changes that have happened as a direct result of your research is a prerequisite for the majority of funding bodies, not just in the UK, but globally. For UKRI grant applications, impact activities must be integrated into the overall plan for the project with thought given to required funding and audience reach. Applicants are asked to describe their plans to generate social, economic and\/or academic impact and increasingly it is important to allow space for areas of co-production and interdisciplinarity, particularly within larger grant applications, to evidence that the wider implications of the research are being considered.<\/p>\n

There is also a moral obligation on the University as a whole to ensure that public funds are being used to benefit society outside of the world of academia, and that local and global communities are able to access and gain from the projects conducted here at the University of Manchester.<\/p>\n

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The Research Impact teams across all three faculties of the University teamed up to offer a five module online training suite which which covers many of the core aspects of Research Impact.<\/p>\n

You can book as many or few sessions as you would like and attend in any order although we recommend that you start with the ‘Introduction to Research Impact’ course before moving onto other sessions, particularly if you are new to research impact.<\/p>\n

The training is open to all research staff including post-graduate researchers, and professional services staff, but as capacity is limited, researcher colleagues will be prioritised in the first instance. <\/p>\n

All session are available for booking on the university’s training catalogue, search ‘RESIMP’.<\/p>\n

Module 1: Introduction to Research Impact<\/strong><\/a> (RESIMP001) <\/p>\n

This module provides an overview of research impact, including:<\/p>\n