Research Impact
Alexandra Byrnes,
Research Publication Officer
Rio.Data@uts.edu.au
UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F
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Covered in this tutorial
● What is research impact?
● Role of RIO and support RIO offers
● ERA and HERDC
What is research impact?
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​Inputs
​Activities
​Outputs
​Outcomes
•​​Research income •​Research work
•​Publications
•Commercial
and training
including eproducts, licences
•Staff
•Workshop/confere publications​
and revenues
•Background IP​
nce organising
•Additions to
•New companies •Infrastructure
•Facility use
national collections spinoffs, startups
•Collections
•Membership of
•New IP: patents or joint ventures
learned societies and inventions
•Job creation
and academies
•Policy briefings
•Implementation of
•Community and •Media​
programs and
stakeholder
policy
engagement​
•Citations
•Integration into
policy​
​Benefits
•​Economic, health,
social, cultural,
environmental,
national security,
quality of life,
public policy or
services
•Higher quality
workforce
•Job creation
•Risk reduction in
decision-making
WHAT DOES IMPACT ASSESSMENT MEAN FOR RESEARCHERS?
You should keep tabs on the use of your research in end user communities by;
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Maintaining strong links with users of your research. Scienceweek, Science in Schools,
professional associations, government, industry,…
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Building end users into your research projects.
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Reflecting on the effects of your research.
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RESEARCH AS AN OUTPUT
Output
“Research is defined as the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a
new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings. This
could include synthesis and analysis of previous research to the extent that it leads to new and
creative outcomes.“
“comprising of creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of
knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of
knowledge to devise new applications”
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HERDC (Quantity)
Higher Education Research Data Collection
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Research income and research publication data used to allocate research block
grants to each university.
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Traditional outputs - Books, book chapters, journal articles and conference
papers
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Criteria
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Was the publication peer reviewed in full? (for journal articles and
conference papers)
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Was it disseminated? (Eg does it have an ISBN, ISSN or DOI?)
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Was the author/s affiliated to UTS for the publication?
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Was it published by a commercial publisher (for books and chapters)
HERDC (Quantity)
Cat 1 – National Competitive Grants (ARC, NHMRC, …)
Cat 2 – Other Commonwealth, State, Local Government
Cat 3 – Industry, International, Philanthropic
Cat 4 – Co-operative Research Centres
ERA (Quality)
Excellence in Research Australia survey.
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Traditional outputs
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Non-traditional outputs
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Visual or Design Exhibition of Creative Works
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Curated or Produced Substantial Public Exhibitions or Events
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Written Creative Works
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Recorded or Rendered Creative Works
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Architectural Creative Works
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Live Performances of Creative Works
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Role in Production of Creative Works
RIO
● Support for grant application and contract research
● Research ethics application
● IP and commercialisation
● Research reporting
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Symplectic
• Manages publication data for the university
• Populates public web profiles for our academics / researchers
• Provides data for internal (eg promotion) and external (eg
HERDC) reporting
• Data collection for HERDC (and, in the future, ERA) is managed
through the system
All publications must be entered into Symplectic.