"Pathways to impact" means how you will maximise the impact from your work. You need to start thinking about this at the start of your research project. Below is a brief overview of MBIE's Results-Chain framework and examples of research by Otago academics who have embedded impact in their work. There are resources and tools available for planning impact into your work available online. For example, see Professor Mark Reed's Impact Tools and Templates.
The above is MBIE's Result-Chain Framework that clearly lays out the pathway from research inputs to impacts beyond academia. It is important to build in engagement from the early stages of research to ensure it can have broader impact. MBIE has also developed a narrative CV that researchers can use when applying for grants, as these are more effective than traditional CVs for demonstrating how impact will be planned for.
Impacts of Research PDF (Division of Health Sciences) (2019) - This booklet describes eight research impact case studies. They come from across the Division of Health Sciences and highlight different stages of the impact journey.
Discover the impact our Health Sciences research has on the world - Read how Otago researchers are generating benefits including health, societal, cultural, economic or environmental factors at the individual, whānau and community level.
Centre for Health, Activity and Rehabilitation Research - CHARR Research Impact in Action webpages.
Refugee-background students in Aotearoa: Supporting successful secondary to tertiary education transitions - a research project led by Vivienne Anderson from HEDC.
STARlab - STARlab (in the Social & Community Work Programme) conducts applied research using an interdisciplinary approach, and partners with communities, organizations, and government to enable systemic change.
The Centre for Sustainability is an interdisciplinary centre undertaking research that tackles local and global sustainability challenges. They work with communities, iwi, councils, businesses and government agencies to design and deliver research.
