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Danner, Liz
(2024).
Abstract
My research explores the impact of the research impact agenda on research culture with a focus on career development within UK higher education. While public engagement as a pathway to impact is prioritised and rewarded at the level of research projects and institutions, provision for individual career development to create these impacts and recognition of individual impact contributions remains variable and even contested. My analysis of national and institutional strategy and action plans for research and career development identified an increasing strategic prioritisation of engagement and impact over time, career development continued to focus on introductory skills. I posit that more advanced training, opportunities to apply skills and time to reflect on effective practices will enable professional and academic university staff to move from introductory training to establish individual engagement identities which embed engagement theory and practice throughout their work.
Plain Language Summary
In this talk I will present new analysis of institutional and national strategy to identify trends in the prioritisation and provision for engagement and impact career development within the UK higher education context. My audience will gain insights into national initiatives have driven change within institutional processes and have an opportunity to reflect on how to provide more effective training and support for engaged research careers. I will also place this pilot study within the context of my doctoral research on the impact of the research impact agenda and outline the next phases of my work.
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