Open Impact

Useful meeting with the ECS communications team to discuss the creation of some exemplar Impact case studies based around the research in ECS. Influenced by the rumblings slowly emerging concerning the nature of REF impact statements but also looking at the broader picture, we have identified one or two good stories to run with and they are being worked up as I type.

As well as generating the case studies we will also be document the process of generating the case studies to continue to identify areas where we can improve the process of initial data capture about research, help agregate research data to facilitate the initial construction of case studies and also try to identify additional data sources that it may prove beneficial to try and capture at source rather than after the fact.

All told, a productive meeting and I’m looking forward to seeing the first draft of a case study emerge in the next couple of weeks.