This workshop explores how to design and plan an achievable project for making meaningful impact with your research.

Using Design Thinking processes, you will identify and map your key beneficiaries, devise methods for gaining deeper insights into their needs and expectations, generate innovative ideas for making an impact, build a prototype of your project and test your ideas via a peer review with fellow researchers.

Presenter:Dr Aimee Blackledge, Researcher Developer, LDC Development Team

Refreshments: Tea/Coffee and Lunch will be provided in the North Atrium

The following elements of the Making an Impact 2019 Framework are relevant to this session:

Impact Clusters: Making an Impact on Society; Making an Impact on Culture; Making an Impact on Public Policy or Services; Making an Impact on the Economy; Making an Impact beyond Academia - Participants will have the opportunity to design a personal project, which may address any of the selected impact clusters.

Knowledge and Skills Axis: Research partnerships; Working with business; Working with the public and third sector; Skills, enterprise and entrepreneurship; Public and community engagement - Participants will have the opportunity to design a personal project, which may address any of the selected knowledge and skill elements.

The Researcher Development Framework (RDF) attributes developed during this session are relevant to the following sub-domains: Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities: A1, A3; Personal Effectiveness: B1, B2, B3; Engagement, Influence and Impact: D3

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Making Meaningful Impact with your Research