Resources for science communicators and researchers making a difference

[Daniela Martin]

Dear all,

I'd like to invite you to subscribe to Fast Track Impact's monthly newsletter. In it, we share resources, reflections and practical tools for researchers and science communicators who want their work to make a real-world difference. If you’re thinking critically about engaging audiences, communicating responsibly, and supporting inclusive and ethical research impact, this newsletter is for you.

This month’s edition includes:

• A new open-access paper, Responsible Research Impact: Ethics for Making a Difference, introduces a practical framework for supporting more inclusive, reflective, and responsible impact practices.
• A free webinar on 7 May, Socially Inclusive Stakeholder Analysis, in which Prof Jensen will offer guidance on identifying and engaging diverse publics more meaningfully.
• A new webinar recording, Pitching Policy Options in Webinars and Seminars, shares a two-part session on co-producing evidence-based messages and presenting them effectively to achieve real-world policy impact.
• A new online course, Commercialisation as a Pathway to Research Impact, exploring how to manage intellectual property and ethical tensions when turning ideas into innovations.
• Updated guidance and templates for influencing policy, developed with NERC and ESRC.
• New research on “inconspicuous impact”, feminist law reform, the REF, and using songwriting to evaluate research with people living with dementia.

You can read the full newsletter here and subscribe to future editions here.

I hope you have a great week!

Best wishes,

Daniela