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Scholarly Communication: IMPACT

Information on Avondale reportable publications.

Why does Impact Matter?

  • Career progression

  • Document and quantify research impact

  • Justify future requests for grant funding

  • Quantify return on research investment

  • Discover how research findings are being used

  • Discover meaningful outcomes

Engagaement and Impact Assessment

The Australian Research Council (ARC) introduced Engagement and Impact  Assessment in 2018. EI assesses how well researchers are engaging with users of research, and shows how universities are translating their research into economic, social, environmental and cultural impacts.

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What is Impact?

The Australian Research Council (ARC) states research impact is the contribution that research makes to the economy, society, environment or culture, beyond the contribution to academic research. 

The following principles have been developed by the ARC to underpin the measurement of research impact:

  • Acknowledge that excellent research underpins impact.
  • Promote understanding through use of common language and terms associated with research impact.
  • Respect the diversity in research disciplines/sectors in demonstrating research impact.
  • Cooperate in developing a set of common, cost effective and efficient parameters for data collection and reporting.
  • Adopt a consultative approach with stakeholders in regards to implementing impact reporting in support of future research investments.
  • Encourage, recognise and reward positive behaviour in planning, monitoring and evaluating research impact.

Evidence of Impact

Quantitative  and contextual evaluation of impact requires collation from a variety of areas: Research output (citations), Scholarship Activities, Community Engagements.  It is important to keep track and update in all these areas by submitting outputs into ResearchOnline@Avondale and your Scholarship and Community engagements into your Profile on Selected Works.

TYPE OF IMPACT ACTIVITIES
Research Output Scholarship Activities Community Engagement

Articles

Books

Book Chapters

Conference publication

Referenced works

NITRO's

 

 Invited talk, editorial board member, oral presentation, organising a conference, workshop, professional memberships, theseis examination, hosting an academic visitor, panel member, mentorship, consutlancy, internal memberships, visiting and external institution, external HDR supervision, peer-review, other

Research applied to public events could demonstrate impact

:creating a report, evaluating audience awareness, knowledge.

Reports can include: type of event, who attended, what the aims were and what your overall findings concluded

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