IRP Form

Impact Research Profile

1. Introduction

This profile is designed to give you an insight into your current approach to research impact, by helping you to understand your own areas of strength and those areas that you can choose to develop in the future.

The profile should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. Your honesty will determine the usefulness of the exercise.

Don’t pretend: answer on the basis of what you would actually do in your current research practice, and not what might make you look good to other people!

Consider each statement in the form, individually. Code each numbered statement in terms of whether “when you are designing your research approach, do you include consideration of the following?“

Yes: If you would include consideration of a statement in your current research practice – then click the statement.

No: If you would not include consideration of a statement in your current research practice – then leave it as it is.

2. Completing the IRP

Basic information

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Statements

"when you are designing your research approach, do you include consideration of the following?"

01. The benefit to stakeholders of improving their lives?
02. The construction of a model that includes essential solution criteria to win support?
03. Who needs to be influenced to realise the benefits in the real world?
04. Involving the end-user of the solution in the definition of the problem and the form that the solution takes?
05. Consideration of the context within which the problem sits?
06. What success might actually look like?
07. The use of fast prototyping of solutions to accelerate development?
08. The people whose buy-in to your research could facilitate its progress and ultimate success?
09. Wider implications of the research problem as an opportunity?
10. The measurable difference that could be realised as a result?
11. How your research might change working practices?
12. The type of value or positive change that could be realised through solving real problems that matter to people?
13. The decision-criteria for each progressive step in your research method?
14. What new value or opportunity will be delivered?
15. The general situation in which you are interested?
16. The point of leverage in a system or work process that we want to influence?
17. How your research will be disseminated to optimum effect?
18. Reviewing other researchers’ interpretation of the issues you are interested in?
19. Who must be involved in the research & innovation process for it to succeed?
20. Whether your research might influence or inform government policy?
21. Those whose behaviour do we want to influence?
22. What is the quantifiable value that could be realised?
23. Whether your research influences industrial practice?
24. The current cost of not solving the research problem?
25. Whether there is an opportunity to redefine the problem by looking at it from a new or different perspective?
26. My work being valued and recognised by others outside my immediate network.
27. The communication strategy I require to engage effectively with influential stakeholders?
28. How my method will make a novel contribution to theory, practice, and ensure a measurable impact?
29. The type of headline that a journalist might write to describe the change that has been realised?
30. How this research could make a difference to society and the accomplishment of UN Sustainable Development Goals?

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