Dr Claire DewhirstResearch Impact ManagerQueen’s University Belfast

c.dewhirst@qub.ac.uk

942 Academics

868 FTE returned in REF2014:

95%

109 Impact case studies over 28 UOAs

AHSS 44, EPS 39, MHLS 26

100% 3 or 4*: 57% (16 of 28 UOAs)

Research Intensity: joint 8th

Research Intensity for Impact: 7th

Defining Impact: More than REF

For the purposes of the REF, impact is defined as an

effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the

environment or quality of life, beyond academia.

Local - Global

Engagement and Collaboration

Evidence

Narrative

Types of Impacts

Follow the rules

Belief

“Social change is not going to come from just knowing more information, but from doing

something with it.”

Pia Mancini