The Impact Agenda – an ESRC-funded seminar series

Seminar 4: New methods and technologies to create and capture impact

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Wilkins Room, University College London

Organisers

Rob Procter, Director, Manchester eResearch Centre, University of Manchester

Julia Lane, Program Director, NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy research program

Peter van den Besselaar, Professor of organization science, VU University Amsterdam

The Impact seminar series adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to examine and clarify the concept of ‘impact’ in the context of academic research in the humanities and social science. The aim is to identify the processes that influence impact and explore mechanisms that maximise it.

This seminar will ask how new ways of measuring impact influence the science system:

• What are the key challenges for impact measurement?

• What new kinds of tools and data are available and how might they be used?

• How might new tools change research programme management and science policy-making goals and practices?

• How might researchers maximise their visibility within these new kinds of datasets (e.g. publishing, social networking, blogging)

To view the programme and book a place please go to www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/impact/seminar-4/