Bringing national and international research impact experts to UCD, this seminar series gives researchers – and the wider research community across UCD and Ireland – valuable insights on how to plan, capture and communicate impact. The seminars will cover a wide range of topics relevant to researchers, research support staff, and others around the country involved in research impact. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
To be announced
Strategic scaffolding: connecting research and policy – Professor Matthew Flinders, 21 November 2023
Are we nearly there? The rocky road to reforming research assessment – Dr Elizabeth Gadd, 23 May 2023
Approaching research impact from a cultural perspective – its evaluation and consequences – Associate Professor Gemma Derrick, 26 October 2022
Assessing the societal impact of research – strategies in the EU and beyond – Simon Kerridge, 31 May 2022
Evaluating research and its impact – insights from the Chair of DORA – Professor Stephen Curry, 4 November 2021
Societal impact – How can we understand, evaluate and stimulate it? – Professor Gunnar Sivertsen, 9 June 2021
A landscape without pathways: where next for research impact? – Professor James Wilsdon, 14 October 2020
A Brief History of Impact – Dispelling the Myth of the Ivory Tower – Ursula Kelly, Viewforth Consulting, 28 February 2017
