What is a Research Impact Narrative?

Check out this 2-minute amazing video from The Research Impact Academy (based in Australia) on how to craft a research impact narrative. In this video, Tamika Heiden explains six elements in an impact narrative:  The Research Impact Academy (RIA) supports researchers and organisations to thrive by providing the tools and strategies needed to achieve meaningful […]

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Wrapping up the 2025 KxM Research to Impact Fellowship

This article was originally posted on Knowledge Exchange (KX) at UBC’s website and has been cross-posted here. July 4, 2025 This spring, we wrapped up the inaugural KxM Research to Impact Fellowship, a new UBC initiative designed to build capacity among early-career researchers to mobilize knowledge effectively across academic, policy, nonprofit, and community settings. This intensive program […]

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Canadian approaches to research impact and its assessment

Source: Cross-posted from Edward Nason’s LinkedIn Post. In Canada, research impact assessment has grown from multiple communities in the research ecosystem, sharing a desire to deliver greater research impact. While we might not have a national system for assessing research impact, we do have significant talent, experience and tools at our disposal to drive, deliver […]

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RIC featured in AESIS’s newsletter

RIC was recently featured in the Network of Advancing & Evaluating the Societal Impact of Sciences (AESIS)’s January 2025 newsletter under “AESIS Member Contributions.” Please see below for the post. Another great year for the Research Impact Canada (RIC) network Author(s): David Phipps, York University & Research Impact Canada, Canada RIC was founded in 2006 […]

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Celebrating Leadership in Knowledge Mobilization: Announcing the Winners of the Peter Levesque Award!

Research Impact Canada is excited to announce the winners of the Peter Levesque Award for Knowledge Mobilization Leadership. This award recognizes individuals and teams who have made significant contributions to advancing knowledge mobilization and building capacity for impactful research. The award was presented at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2024, held at the Grande Bibliothèque […]

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The Bartlett Manual of Impact

The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, based at University College London, is by many measures a place of ‘excellence’. We have a variety of experts working across a huge range of disciplines (from architecture to planning, environment, energy and resources, project management, economics and beyond) sharing their insights with the world and proactively creating […]

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Leadership for Knowledge Mobilization

The following post was originally posted to Pathways to Possibility‘s website. On July 5th, 2023, Michael Johnny, Darren Levine, and Laura Stephan co-hosted the webinar “Leadership for Knowledge Mobilization“.  In this session, we talked about how knowledge mobilization, leadership and the power of collaborative relationships intersect. It is often said that knowledge mobilization is all about […]

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Drafting Societal Impact in Grant Applications

David Phipps was invited to write the following for the Society for Research Administrators International after he presented at their annual conference late in 2022. Please see the original post from SRAI. Picture this. Caesars Palace. The Pompeian room. Standing room only at 11 am on November 4, 2022 at the SRAI conference. A truly […]

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Switching from stakeholder

The word stakeholder is becoming increasingly contested due to its colonial connotations. Has this hit your radar and are you trying out other words? In November, Mark Reed posted a thought piece on the use of the word stakeholder concluding “ultimately that means re-thinking our use of the word “stakeholder”.” The issue with the word […]

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So, you’re new to research impact?

Please note that the original blog post can be found at The Research Whisperer. The impact that research generates in society is a hot topic internationally. It can be a complex topic and poses different challenges depending on whether you are a researcher, research professional, funder, or research user. Over the last year, the four […]

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