​Academics and researchers, even when working in fields without obvious technological application, economic output or seemingly unrelated to urgent societal challenges, have an amazing and privileged opportunity to make a genuine and meaningful difference to the ‘real world’. For this, the research community needs to understand how to make impact happen. The research community needs to be impact literate. 

Impact literacy describes individuals’ ability to understand, appraise and make decisions with regards to impact. It also involves understanding how the what (type, indicators and evidence of benefit),  how (activities and engagement processes) and who (organisations’ and individuals’ skills and roles) of impact combine to produce effects. Research institutions should also extend literacy beyond the individual and build an impact literate research culture.

Who better to motivate and train the academic community than Dr Julie Bayley? She is the newly appointed Director of Research Impact Development at the University of Lincoln and the 2015 winner of the National Research Impact Award of ARMA UK (Association for Research Managers and Administrators).

Programme:

• 10:00 - 11:30: Intro by rector Rik Vandewalle & Hot Topic Lecture
  For all researchers and research support staff. 80 places available. Conference room 'Ned Kahn'
  

• 12:00 - 13:00: Network Lunch
  For lecture attendees

• 14:00 - 16:00: Training Seminar
  PhD students and postdocs only
  Only 20 places available. Seminar room in the Zebrastraat.

Registration is free for Ghent University staff. You can register separately for the different parts of the day. Please do so using the Event Manager page.