Insights for Impact supports researchers, projects and institutions to develop stronger impact. Universities are increasingly under pressure to demonstrate that they are making progress with the impact of their research. This means that researchers must think about their work in new ways and respond to new demands from government, funders, and managers. Researchers and research organisations are faced with rapidly changing requirements to show how their work benefits society, and to demonstrate the impact it has in the real world. Drivers of this include the requirements of funders, universities’ civic missions, and most pressingly the government’s periodic assessment of research, the Research Excellence Framework or REF next due in 2020. At Insights for Impact, our work supports and enables researchers to address often conflicting pressures. We also empower faculties, departments, and schools to develop programmes of support, and to account for impact successes in a holistic way. Insights for Impact can help right across the research structure for research leaders, research managers, PIs or individual academics.
