Strengthen your ability to create meaningful outcomes from research.

These capabilities focus on translating research findings into real-world benefits and measuring their success. Translation pathways include social awareness, policy influence, industry collaboration and commercialisation.

Key capabilities:

  • Planning for impact from the start, including end-user engagement. 

  • Identifying and evaluating pathways for research translation and adoption. 

  • Building capacity for commercialisation, policy influence and social change. 

  • Measuring and reflecting on research impact and outcomes.

Develop Pathways to Impact capabilities by: 

Foundational skills: Understanding the diversity of impact pathways and how they affect research dissemination and outputs 

Researchers

To understand research impact and the different pathways to achieve it, know about:

  • the different pathways for research translation and how they could be applied to research 
  • how to prepare research and data to meet requirements of a chosen translation pathway 
  • how to protect data that may be used in IP proceedings [See Research Foundations – Responsible Conduct of Research]  
  • what level of detail and record keeping is regulatory  
  • bodies associated with translation goals 
  • UTS partners that are experts in different impact pathways 
  • how output choice and dissemination methods affect the chosen pathway to impact. [See also Outputs and Dissemination] 

What’s next? 
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Professional staff

To identify and articulate the benefits of specific pathways to impact and advise on UTS support mechanisms, know about:

  • the different translation pathways that suit different research needs 
  • resources and support tailored to translation needs 
  • how to advise on dissemination and outputs [see also outputs and dissemination] 
  • how to advise on non-traditional outputs that may extend research reach 
  • how to guide researchers through procedures required to enact change and practical end-user application

What’s next? 
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Developing skills: Planning for research impact, how to evaluate success and identify appropriate translation pathways 

Researchers

To identify and articulate the benefits of specific research impact assessment methods and translation pathways, know about:

  • the potential beneficiaries and end users of research and how to (co)develop embedded engagement plans in partnership with them. [See Engaging and Partnering with End Users] 
  • how to work with end-users to design what success looks like, and appropriate measures to evaluate success. [See Engaging and Partnering with End Users] 
  • what is required for research to be developed, applied, adopted and used and how to apply this knowledge. [See also Engaging and Partnering with End Users] 
  • what it takes to develop research to be adoption-ready and how to build this into research activities
  • how to access sustainable methods of sourcing metrics to inform impact evaluation

What’s next? 
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Professional staff

To advise and assess research plans including by addressing the needs of end users and potential benefit pathways, know about:

  • how to guide researchers through different pathways to impact and methods of translation. 
  • how to assess the pros and cons of different pathways to impact and evaluate and provide guidance for differing impact goals. 
  • the motivators and drivers behind end-user needs and how to assist with engagement and dissemination. [See also Engaging and Partnering with End Users][See also Outputs and Dissemination] 
  • how to advise on impact measures (including non-traditional measures) for benchmarking purposes based on discipline and translation pathway norms. 

What’s next? 
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Developing skills: Working with end-users to implement research outcomes and evaluate outcomes for beneficiaries 

Researchers

To action impact pathways and measure their success, know about:

  • how to develop a compelling value proposition that appropriately costs research and drives investment and translation activities. [See also Research Funding][See also Research Foundations} 
  • how to develop a compelling value proposition that is mutually beneficial and (co)designed with the end-users of research. [See also Engaging with End Users] 
  • how to determine metrics for success that are aligned to research goals alongside the needs of beneficiaries. 
  • how to evaluate your impact by analysing impact metric data using qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques. [See also Research Foundations] 

What’s next? 
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Professional staff

To apply various impact measures appropriate to different research disciplines, know about:

  • how to connect researchers with appropriate government agencies, industry users, clinical practitioners etc appropriate to the research translation pathway. [See also Engaging with End Users] 
  • how to directly support and/or connect researchers with UTS staff and in-house support across various translation pathways. 
  • how to use tools to gather, store and analyse data for impact metrics and instruct researchers on how to use these tools 
  • how to analyse impact metric data and advise on qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques. [See also Research Foundations]

What’s next? 
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Advanced skills: Developing an impact strategy to diversify and/or scale and/or strengthen impactful outcomes for UTS research activity 

Researchers

To increase the scale and diversity of research impact, know about:

  • how to engage with the impact pathways of research collaborators to scale the impact of collaborative research activity. [See also Engaging and Partnering with End-Users][See also Collaborating and Concentrations 
  • how to reflect and re-evaluate research for additional opportunities to diversify research impact methods for increased impact or increased outcomes for beneficiaries. [See Engaging and Partnering with End-Users] 
  • how to grow research impact from an individual scale, to community, national and/or international scales. [See Engaging and Partnering with End-Users]

What’s next? 
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Professional staff

To enact and/or advise on enhancing research impact, know about:

  • how to provide feedback and identify opportunities for increased impact or additional research outcomes. 
  • how to advise and directly foster stakeholder relationships. [See also Engaging with End Users] 
  • the strategic objectives of UTS and how to align research effort and resourcing to optimise research impact. 
  • how to grow research impact from an individual scale, to community, national and/or international scales. [See Engaging and Partnering with End-Users] 

What’s next? 
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Pathways to Impact Resources 

  • Connect with UTS experts using ROCF keywords in Discovery Profiles.

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