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February 22, 2017

Why universities and academics should bother with public engagement

Richard Watermeyer, University of Bath and Jamie Lewis, Cardiff University

But are UK universities running the risk of institutionalising public engagement?

Charitable organisations need support in a number of areas from government and other stakeholders in order to measure and improve on their work. Sergio Dionisio/AAP

November 7, 2016

Community organisations lack the funding and data to measure their impact

Paul Flatau, University of Western Australia

Community organisations are trying to measure their impact but lack the funding and data availability to do it properly, new research finds.

Proof that research leaves a mark. Impact via Phatic-Photography from www.shutterstock.com

March 27, 2015

What REF case studies reveal on measuring research impact

Jonathan Grant, King's College London

The diversity of research impact makes it tricky to measure in numbers.

All these have been improved by crystallography. 2is3

February 7, 2014

The little-known science that improved everything around us

Timothy Prior, University of Hull

UNESCO has declared 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography. But why? Quite simply because the science of crystallography has revolutionised how we live – and yet few people know about it. Crystallography…

The social, economic and environmental impact of academic research can continue for decades. Flickr/Sanofi Pasteur

June 5, 2012

Universities to explain benefit of research to ‘end users’

Justin Norrie, The Conversation

Academics from a dozen universities will be required to explain to industry experts the economic and social value of hundreds…

Adam Chang’s portrait of academic JM Coetzee, whose writing has had international impact. AAP/Art Gallery of NSW.

November 16, 2011

Measuring research impact: ATN chief talks about the push for a new system

Matthew Thompson, The Conversation

The election of the Rudd Government in 2007 killed the momentum that had been building in the last few years of the Howard…

Do Australian universities suffer from an overload of auditing and metrics-based assessment? Are vision and flexibility being stifled? Flickr/Harald Groven.

November 2, 2011

No tyranny of metrics: scrapped Australian plan now a revolution in research assessment in England

Matthew Thompson, The Conversation

Visiting British expert David Sweeney could have star appeal for academics frustrated by the bureaucratic inflexibility of…

Top contributors

Timothy Prior
Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Hull
Jonathan Grant
Assistant Principal, Strategic Initiatives and Public Policy, King's College London
Richard Watermeyer
Reader in Education, University of Bath
Paul Flatau
Director, Centre for Social Impact, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia
Jamie Lewis
Lecturer in Sociology, Cardiff University