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Case Study – The Earthshot Prize

The Earthshot Prize is a prestigious global environmental award designed to catalyse transformative change to protect and restore our planet. Each year, five groundbreaking solutions receive a GBP 1 million award to scale their impact.  Challenge While nominees of The...

Preparing for Impact Success in REF 2029

The webinar “Preparing for Impact Success in REF” took place online on the 2nd of July to an audience of some fifty academics and research impact professionals from more than thirty universities across the UK. This was the first in an ongoing series of webinars to...

Case Study – Protecting Southeast Asia Seas

Protecting Southeast Asia Seas The 30x30 Fund is a philanthropic initiative dedicated to protecting 30% of Southeast Asia’s marine areas by 2030. It mobilises resources to establish new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), expand the coverage of existing MPAs, and improve...

Impact Journey: The Discovery Stage

In this blog we take a brief look at the Discovery stage and how those entering this level can move beyond, to Understanding.

Introducing the Impact Journey

In October last year, hivve launched the impact journey at the fifth annual Impact Symposium. Learn more about the journey through our blog!

hivve Celebrates Ten Years of ImpactTracker with Global Customers

hivve and h2 Software today announced a collaboration to address the global Business School sector’s need to capture impact-related data.

New Job Opening – Impact Consultant (UK)

We’re excited to announce that we are hiring for an Impact Consultant, based in the United Kingdom! Apply within.

hivve Ltd and H2 Software Ltd Announce Impact Accreditation Partnership for Business Schools

hivve and h2 Software today announced a collaboration to address the global Business School sector’s need to capture impact-related data.

REF 2029 – UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) Delayed from 2028

Join us and our global panels on Wednesday 1st November 2023 for the Future of Research Impact Assessment!

Impact Symposium 2023: The Future of Research Impact Assessment

Join us and our global panels on Wednesday 1st November 2023 for the Future of Research Impact Assessment!

VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 225

The REF’s focus on linear and direct impact is problematic and silences certain types of research. Read more The University College Corks published an economic and societal impact report earlier this year. Read more The Heriot-Watt University's British Sign Language...

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VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 224

Open access book publishing should be community-focused and aim to let diversity thrive, not be driven by a free market paradigm. Read more Pathways to excellence in public engagement: A noble ‘PEACE prize’. Read more ‘Are we there yet?’: A multi-method study of the...

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VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 223

Navigating trade-offs between research, impact, and collaboration. Read more NCCPE publishes response to REF consultation. Read more Developing approaches to research impact assessment and evaluation: lessons from a Canadian health research funder. Read more THE...

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VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 222

VV's webinar: How universities contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more Best practices in film research. Read more Writing for impact. Read more Craft metrics to value co-production. Read more Virtual Issue: Measuring the Impact of Arts and...

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VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 221

New open access publication on research impact. Read more Information systems (IS) research: making an impact in a publish-or-perish world. Read more Linguistics, language and the impact agenda. Read more Academics tune in to podcasts to help get their message...

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VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 220

New global ranking to evaluate universities' wider impact on society to be out next year. Read more Our statement on the recently launched Global University Impact Ranking. Read more EU to start tracking impact of individual researchers. Read more Better, fairer, more...

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VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 219

Riff-ing again on the REF consultation. Read more THE University Impact Rankings: FAQs. Read more How can academics engage with SPICe and the Scottish Parliament? Read more Assessing Health Research and Innovation Impact: Evolution of a Framework and Tools in Alberta,...

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New Product Manager joins the team

New Product Manager joins the team

Vertigo Ventures is delighted to welcome Dr. Lucy Davies to the team as the new Product Manager for our VV-Impact Tracker software. Lucy is passionate about encouraging and helping researchers to make their work matter in the world outside academia, and, enabling them...

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VV-Impact Newsletter Vol. 218

Press Release: Announcing the launch of the world’s first university impact ranking. Read more VV's upcoming webinar: Structuring 4* impact case studies using the storyboard function of VV-Impact Tracker. Read more Scientific excellence and social relevance are two...

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