This workshop is part of Translation Manchester's training programme From bench to patient benefits – core skills and steps to realising impact, developed in collaboration with training consultancy how2glu and funded by the Wellcome Trust Translational Partnership Award.
This programme has been designed for researchers at the University of Manchester. If you are working on health innovation projects and want to enhance your soft skills and capability to translate your research this programme is for you! Please use your University of Manchester email address to register. Any registrations from personal email addresses will not be accepted.
About this workshop
Identifying intended outcomes early in the research process helps you to design better options to achieve research impact, make stronger cases for support to partners and funders, and makes it easier to to create a compelling narrative as you chart progress.
Building-in evaluation from the outset enables you to continually improve your research strategy, adapt your approach to enable higher quality knowledge exchange and greater impacts, and help develop sought-after transferable skills.
In this workshop we will look at different kinds of success measures and what kinds align well with the early stages of a project when there are more unknowns and potential is challenging to pin down. We’ll focus on how to identify intended outcomes and create change statements in this context, and how to choose indicators that demonstrate progress.
We will look at how to create an evaluation framework, what kinds of data will help you baseline and indicate/prove that your research is delivering/will achieve research impact, how to gather it throughout your project, and how to take a proportionate approach to measuring and reporting progress.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the benefits of building-in evaluation into early project stages
- Understand how to identify ‘success measures’ and create measurable change statements and proportionate indicators
- Understand how to strategically determine priorities for measurement and reporting
- Know what kinds of data is required and what methods can be used to baseline and measure research impact
About the programme
The series of eight workshops focuses on developing the skills, capabilities and confidence that will help you embark on the process of translating your research findings to achieve practical solutions that improve patient health. You can choose to attend individual workshops or the whole series. You need to register to attend each workshop.
More details and how to register to attend other workshops in this series here.
This programme will not provide you with guidance on how to translate your research findings, however, it will equip you with the necessary soft skills, mindset, and tools to enable you to do so. For more specific training on translational research see Translational Research Skills Training Portal.
