Mark Reed

My new book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy comes out 20th September! Get your copy here: tkqlhce.com/click-10125883…

Free online course - Introduction to Creative Public Engagement (part of Being Human Festival) Thursday 5 March 2026, 11.00-12.00 beinghumanfestival.org/introduction-c…

Read the paper (open access): doi.org/10.1080/257411… #ResearchImpact #REF2029 #KnowledgeExchange #PracticeResearch #ResearchCulture

- Use form intelligently: alongside metrics, capture process, digital traces, testimonies, and repeat engagements to show credible pathways of influence.

REF impact writing often assumes a neat chain: research → engagement → outcome → impact. Creative practice rarely behaves that way.

Why this matters: If impact is treated as “extra-curricular”, it will be done by those who can afford the time, networks, and security. That is an equality issue as much as an impact issue. Read the paper (open access) doi.org/10.17356/ieejs… #ResearchImpact #ECRs

Women more frequently raised practical barriers such as limited support, limited funding, low energy, and difficulties communicating to non-academic audiences. Men more often highlighted politics and the weak rewards for impact within career progression.

New paper by Karolina Lendák-Kabók et al. looks at how early career researchers in the social sciences understand research impact and what changes when gender is taken seriously.

We're leading what we hope will be an agenda-setting paper, based on these insights and the discussion we had. Listen into the discussion and share your own thoughts here! I'd love to continue this discussion with you all... youtube.com/watch?v=eHDJJS…

@fasttrackimpact Watch leading experts discuss the future of the impact agenda, as I celebrate the launch of the Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook - fascinating insights from Steven Hill, Emanuela Reale and Gemma Derrick, alongside thinking from me Eric Jensen.

The solution: we need to focus as much on building capacity in the local institutions and people with access to this knowledge as much as we need to challenge the hierarchies that privilege certain voices (like mine and others like me) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This systematic review by Ronald Maliao et al provides new empirical evidence of the "disappearing effect" of gender and geography that hides traditional/Indigenous knowledge from sight in citation networks.

Finding diverse, context-specific solutions to global problems requires multiple voices, including the knowledge of marginalised groups alongside evidence from research.