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Fast Track Impact

The podcast for researchers who want to be more productive and achieve real-world impacts from their research. Every week, Mark Reed gives you practical tips and discusses how you can enhance the impa... Read more

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Episode 37: Getting creative with impact evaluation

Episode 37: Getting creative with impact evaluation

How do you design an impact evaluation? There is no blueprint, but in this episode, Mark gives you the tools you will ne... Read more

17 Jul 2023

31mins

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Episode 36: How to monitor and evaluate your impact

Episode 36: How to monitor and evaluate your impact

In this first of a series of episodes on monitoring, evaluating and evidencing impact, Mark discusses one of the biggest... Read more

3 Jul 2023

36mins

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Episode 35: How to work with skeptics and achieve impact from your research online without risking your mental health: interview with George Hope

Episode 35: How to work with skeptics and achieve impact from your research online without risking your mental health: interview with George Hope

This week, Mark interviews George Hope, Communications Manager at Oxford Net Zero and Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub, based ... Read more

17 Jun 2023

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Episode 34: Are you really doing all you can to make a difference?

Episode 34: Are you really doing all you can to make a difference?

What do you see when you hold the mirror up to your attempts to achieve impact? Are you doing enough? If not, what are y... Read more

26 Mar 2023

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Episode 33: New platform for researchers to communicate their work simply and drive impact: in conversation with Sarah Wijesinghe, Founder of Brijjd

Episode 33: New platform for researchers to communicate their work simply and drive impact: in conversation with Sarah Wijesinghe, Founder of Brijjd

Disillusioned with how academia works, Sarah Wijesinghe left academia to set up Brijjd, a new social platform for resear... Read more

5 Mar 2023

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Episode 32: A story from "the middle of it": our collective experience of a broken system

Episode 32: A story from "the middle of it": our collective experience of a broken system

In this final episode on mental health, Mark questions the assumption that we need to be fixed and find a happy ending, ... Read more

20 Feb 2023

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Episode 31: Getting academics to engage with mental and physical health issues and build resilience

Episode 31: Getting academics to engage with mental and physical health issues and build resilience

Building on the success of the “health resilient researcher” course and the launch of health coaching for academics by F... Read more

12 Feb 2023

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Episode 30: Normalising failure - learning from a fieldwork fail with Ruby Annand-Jones and Paris Tuohy

Episode 30: Normalising failure - learning from a fieldwork fail with Ruby Annand-Jones and Paris Tuohy

When Paris Tuohy and Ruby Annand-Jones failed to collect the data they needed for their research, they felt frustrated a... Read more

11 Dec 2022

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Episode 29: Alternatives to the word "stakeholder"

Episode 29: Alternatives to the word "stakeholder"

Mark reports back on the workshop to discuss alternatives to the word stakeholder, where the group discussed whether or ... Read more

4 Dec 2022

33mins

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Episode 28: Should we banish the word "stakeholder"?

Episode 28: Should we banish the word "stakeholder"?

This week, Mark discusses problems with the word "stakeholder" and discusses alternatives that could enable us to decolo... Read more

19 Nov 2022

53mins

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