Research Impact as Ethos

<div><p>Researchers and research institutions are increasingly required to demonstrate research impact, and significant effort is going into enhancing and promoting the impact of research projects around the world. </p><p>But what exactly is research impact and how should we approach it, given the complex challenges the world faces? </p><p>To inform this report, we reviewed research impact literature from across the globe and talked with research leaders around RMIT to think through different approaches to research impact. </p><p>The result is this report and our framework of three ‘generations’ of research impact. </p><p>The last of these is an approach we call ‘research impact as ethos’ – one that takes seriously the challenge of generating a positive, learning-oriented research impact culture appropriate to the challenges at hand. </p><p>This is about research impact as more than the ‘backwash’ of research, but as a purposeful, connected and adaptive orientation to research work across and beyond institutions.</p><p>In addition to this report, our Rethinking Research Impact project has produced a practical Research Impact Canvas (worksheet) that is now being adopted in RMIT to help researchers think through the questions that matter as they plan and conduct their research.</p></div>https://cur.org.au/project/rethinking-research-impact/