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How to create impact with patient and public involvement
Social impact
Your paper may be valued by your peers, but increasingly, that’s only one piece of the puzzle. These days, funders often ask you to show your work has relevance beyond the academic arena too.
But what form should that societal impact take and how can you demonstrate it? In this series of modules, we explore some definitions and measurements. We look at how you can bring a wider audience in contact with your work and some of the unexpected outcomes. We also explore the topic of lay summaries and how they can introduce your research to a whole new group of readers.
What you will learn
- What is societal impact
- Advice on sharing your research more widely
- Tips on writing a great lay summary
How to create impact with patient and public involvement
Research in health and medical sciences is always inevitably carried out with the intention to bring some benefit to the public.
How to write a lay summary
Journal articles are written with researchers in mind, so the content isn’t always easy to follow for people outside academia…or even that field of st
How your research can make an impact on society
Societal impact – you’ve heard the phrase but what does it mean and why is it important? We solve the mystery.Topic
Topic
- Certified Peer Reviewer Course
- Job search
- Finding the right journal
- Career planning
- Social impact
- Research collaborations
- Book writing
- Writing skills
- Publishing in the Chemical Sciences
- (-) Open science
- Funding
- Career guidance
- Fundamentals of manuscript preparation
- Ensuring visibility
- Becoming a peer reviewer
- (-) Research data management
- Fundamentals of publishing
- Fundamentals of peer review
- Ethics
- Technical writing skills
- Going through peer review
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Language
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