Impact Strategy Survey

The EARMA Policy and Representation Committee acts as a source of active engagement for EARMA members in relation to research policy issues. Following several discussions, presentations at EARMA’s annual conferences and short articles in EARMA’s newsletter, the Committee is undertaking a survey to explore institutional impact strategies.

We aim to identify and share best practice in how organisations are responding strategically to the research impact agenda, and the ways in which this relates to national and European policy contexts. The results of the survey will be presented in a report available to all respondents, and will form the basis of a presentation at the EARMA Annual Conference in April 2020.

Please respond to the following questions from the perspective of your own organisation. Ideally, we would like one consolidated response per organisation. Please include links to relevant websites in your response:

1.Name of organisation(Required.)

2.Country where your organisation is based(Required.)

3.What definition (or definitions) of research impact are adopted by your organisation?

4.What role does impact play within your national research quality assessment processes, policy or frameworks? For example - do these agencies collect impact case studies?

5.Is impact incorporated into the proposal templates of your national funding agencies?

6.How are you working with impact at the organisational level, e.g. do you have an impact strategy or is research impact embedded elsewhere in your organisational strategy?

7.Does your organization employ any staff with a specific remit to support the delivery of research impact?

Yes

8.If so, approximately how many full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff does this represent?