David Stewart, HeadTeacher, Oakfield School and Sports College Interactive Technologies and Games (ITAG) Conference 2015 Health, Disability and EducationDates: Thursday 22 October 2015 - Friday 23 October 2015 Location: The Council House, NG1 2DT

1. IMPACT!!!
Real World Impact
An overview by the
NICER Group
Nottingham
ITAG 2015

3. Impact
VERB or NOUN??

4. What is impact?

5. Research with impact!!

6. Nottingham Trent University
• Demonstrating your scholarly impact using
bibliometrics
• Demonstrating your wider research impact
using alternative metrics (altmetrics)
• Managing your researcher identity .

7. Importance of the user voice
• One of the principles, taken from the Research
Councils UK (RCUK) Pathways to Impact web
resource includes:
Ensure user perspectives are strongly
represented.

8. Longitudinal – Be patient

9. Impact on the Gatekeepers
• Teachers
• Head Teachers
• Families
• Care workers/Support workers
• Employers
• Commissioners!!
• Local Authority

10. Taking a pride
Cambridge University
The people who arrive in this city
change Cambridge.
The ideas that leave this city change
the world.

11. Research Excellence Framwork
Impact Case Studies 2014

12. Conveyor Belt

13. Beth -

14. Points to consider
• Ethical issues and real people’s lives
• Longitudinal impact
• The user voice is not just for Christmas!
• How impact is evaluated
• How is impact celebrated
• Honesty