Research Impact: Guidance on Advancement, Achievement and Assessment

ISBN-13: 9783030570279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 135 str.

Hugh McKenna

Spis treści

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface 

How to use your textbook 

Glossary

Chapter 1 The UK Research Excellence Framework and Research Impact

• Introduction 

• Key learning points

• What is the REF

• The Reach of Research Impact

• The Significance of research Impact

• Research Impact and public engagement

• Reasons why impact case studies are assessed as week

• Social media And impact

• How research impact is assessed in other countries (e.g. Australia, Sweden)

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 2 The case for research impact 

• Introduction 

• Key learning points 

• Do we really need impact today?

• The necessity and meaning of impact

• Impact defined 

• Other interpretations of impact

• Main paradigms and philosophies and their influence on the

• development of research impact 

• Theory and practice of ensuring impact

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 3 How to make your research more impactful

• Introduction 

• Key learning points

• The traditional approach to research impact

• A Reactive approach to Research impact

• A proactive approach to research impact  

• The who, what, when, where and how of research impact

• How to influence an impact on practice

• Clinical Governance

• How to influence an impact on policy

• Barriers to achieving impact. 

• Role of interdisciplinary research in driving impact.

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 4 Evidence based decision making

• Introduction 

• Key learning points 

• From evidence based practice to evidence based policy

• What stimulated the Evidence Based movement?

• The role of Archie Cochrane

• How to change the status quo

• Why should we want it and what is, and is not, evidence?

• What are certainty and agreement in the use of evidence?

• What legitimate reasons are there for ignoring the best Evidence?  

• Continuous quality improvement and research impact

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 5 Impact from Research and Research from Impact

• Introduction 

• Key learning points 

• First steps – reflecting on the need for research impact

• The role of external stakeholders

• Levels of research and their effect on establishing impact

• Impact on processes, people and places

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 6 Research Impact as a drive for new roles

• Introduction 

• Key learning points 

• Defining role

• Background to the development of new roles in research impact

• Some implications of the new roles in research impact

• Researchers’ role

• Stakeholders’ role

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 7 The quality of the research underpinning impact

• Introduction 

• Key learning points

• Qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods: which lends itself best to driving impact?

• The art and science of dissemination

• Purposes of dissemination

• Research impact and open access publication

• Impact time lag 

• Implementation and change leading to impact

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 8 Criteria for Impact description, analysis and evaluation

• Introduction 

• Key learning points 

• Step 1: Impact description

• Step 2: Impact analysis 

• Step 3: Impact evaluation 

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles.

Chapter 9 Case study examples of outstanding Research Impact 

• Key learning points 

• Case studies from Nursing and Midwifery

• Case studies from Pharmacy

• Case studies from Dentistry 

• Case studies from Allied Health Professions

• Case studies from Medicine 

• Reflection points

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Bibliography- recommended online sources, texts and articles

O autorze

Professor Hugh McKenna, CBE, PhD, B.Sc (Hons), RMN, RGN, RNT, DipN(Lond), AdvDipEd, FFN RCSI, FEANS, FRCN, FAAN., M.A.E is a general and psychiatric nurse by background and was recently Dean of Medical School Development at Ulster University, UK. Prior to this he had overall responsiblity for Research and Impact at Ulster University. He has over 250 publications, including 16 books. He was awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his work on health and community and is a Fellow of four prestigious organisations. In 2013, he was presented with the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Royal College of Nursing and in 2014, he was presented with a lifetime achievement Award at the Institute of Psychiatry. In a 2018 Government report he was named as one of the 70 most influential nurses in the 70 year history of the NHS. 

Currently, he is an Adjunct/Visiting Professor in universities in Slovenia and Australia. In 2014, he chaired the UK Research Excellence Framework panel for Pharmacy, Dentistry, Allied Health Professions, Biomedical Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery. He chairs the same panel for the next REF. He has also chaired a clinical health research quality panel for the Swedish Research Council and panels for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation. He is chair of Inspire Wellbeing, the largest mental health, learning disability and addiction charity on the island of Ireland. Recently he received an Honorary Doctorate from Edinburgh Napier University and the University of Maribor. 

In 2019, he was appointed to the Academia Europaea, founded as an initiative of The Royal Society to be the official scientific advisory body for the EU. He is a Trustee for the Alzheimer’s Society UK and a non-executive director for a large health and social care trust. He has presented papers and conducted workshops on research impact in numerous countries on five continents.

Blurb

Research for research sake is no longer tenable or affordable; to be valuable to society, research must have impact! This textbook takes the reader on a journey from how the UK Research Excellence Framework assesses impact to real examples of outstanding research impact case studies.  Along the way, Prof. Hugh McKenna describes and explains the case for research impact, the challenges, the link between research impact and evidence informed practice, achieving impact through changing policy and engaging with the public, how researchers can make their research findings more impactful and how research impact is assessment nationally and internationally

It is written in an easily accessible and understandable style, with reflective exercises amply distributed throughout its pages and helpful guides helping to engage readers and notably health professionals who are often turned off by the normal heavy research tomes. This book makes the complex simple and the wearisome fascinating. The short chapters are interesting and authoritative and can be read on a ‘standalone’ basis, allowing readers to ‘dip in and out’.

From his experience in various countries, the author has a unique insight into what research impact is, how it is assessed and how and where research findings can have the most benefit. The stimulus for this book has been the excellent feedback that the author has received from health professionals, students and fellow researchers.  There is always a risk that good knowledge and experience do not transfer well into a good textbook. In Research Impact: Guidance on Advancement, Achievement and Assessment, nothing has been lost in the transition.

The book will be of great interest to many health researchers from nursing to midwifery to pharmacy, medicine or any allied health professional, but also to any research manager in all professions  who want their research to bring positive change  to society, culture, the economy, health and quality of life. It will be of particular interest to those who want to understand the difference between research impacts that are weak and those that are outstanding and how such assessments are made.