Responding to Growing Global Requirements for Demonstrating Impact Performance
Creating high-quality impact reports is now a key fundamental of organisational performance and requires a solid understanding of impact across the organisation. Introducing impact literacy and a culture for impact across your organisation is essential whilst also building your impact data set for use in reporting.
The challenge is that few organisations and people even know what impact reporting is – let alone how to do it well.
The increasing importance of impact assessment
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of the £2billion funding available per year through the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 is determined by impact and engagement
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What you can do to prepare
Creating impact adoption across your institution or even department can seem daunting, but there are lots of methods and strategies to achieve this, and they are often interconnected. Below are some examples to consider:
How can we improve your processes?
Assessments take place in cycles, typically lasting between five-seven years. To maximise your success, you should introduce processes that embed impact as part of regular activities, which will then significantly reduce the burden on your teams when it comes to the submission deadline.
Identify Impact Officer(s)
Determine who will become the lead for Impact Case Studies (ICS), and how this role will interface with other areas of the university e.g. strategic planning
Begin engagement
Propose a critical path, then begin the engagement and process development, ensuring impact is added to existing processes and activities as well as review incentives (such as research meeting agendas)
Include impact training
Identify ICS
Submission Year
Mock Review
Conduct Reviews
Complete Workshops
Engage Impact Champions – Demonstrate ‘What’s in it for me’
Develop internal examples
CONSIDER BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT
SHOW ROI
Make compliance easy
How we can help
| Feature | Software | Services | ImpactEcosystem |
| Integrations: Repository, User Management and Grants | 
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| ImpactEcosystem onboarding and dedicated training, empowering your colleagues to use the technology to improve their capture and reporting of impact |
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| CPD-accredited eLearning courses that cover impact basics through to specific Impact Case Studies (ICS) and national assessment training |
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| Participation in quarterly Steering Groups to help shape product and services, and share knowledge |
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| In-person workshops and full training options, including "what makes as 4* impact case study" |
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| Annual health checks to assess impact readiness and recommend improvements |
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| Annual Impact Case Study Reviews, built within ImpactTracker & ImpactReviewer and shared to provide continual constructive support |
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| 1-2-1 Impact Mapping / Feedback sessions in person/virtual (1 hour) to provide recommendations and actions to improve ICS. |
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| Polish documents Ready for Submission: Receive drafts in Word /GDoc format. Clean and marked up versions to be provided |
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Why work with hivve?
The only organisation supporting multi-regional impact assessments around the world
SeasonED impact experts
10+ years of experience in review impact case studies in the UK and Hong Kong
Scalable Knowledge
Build impact literacy within your organisation and improve your results
Engaging Workshops
Complete impact mapping exercises to identify the impact across projects
How we can help
| Feature | Software | Services | ImpactEcosystem |
| Integrations: Repository, User Management and Grants |
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| ImpactEcosystem onboarding and dedicated training, empowering your colleagues to use the technology to improve their capture and reporting of impact |
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| CPD-accredited eLearning courses that cover impact basics through to specific Impact Case Studies (ICS) and national assessment training |
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| Participation in quarterly Steering Groups to help shape product and services, and share knowledge |
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| In-person workshops and full training options, including "what makes as 4* impact case study" |
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| Annual health checks to assess impact readiness and recommend improvements |
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| Annual Impact Case Study Reviews, built within ImpactTracker & ImpactReviewer and shared to provide continual constructive support |
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| 1-2-1 Impact Mapping / Feedback sessions in person/virtual (1 hour) to provide recommendations and actions to improve ICS. |
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| Polish documents Ready for Submission: Receive drafts in Word /GDoc format. Clean and marked up versions to be provided |
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How we can help you:
We can support you by developing internal understanding of what to report and best practices for doing this
We can provide feedback, practical insights and key actions to improve your Impact Case Studies (ICS) and environment statements
We can help you set up systems and processes for recording impact and evidence
We can help you to finalise your reports ready for submission
We can help you keep abreast of developments in impact assessment with our specially curated events:
How we can help
| Feature | Software | Services | ImpactEcosystem |
| Integrations: Repository, User Management and Grants |
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| ImpactEcosystem onboarding and dedicated training, empowering your colleagues to use the technology to improve their capture and reporting of impact |
|
|
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| CPD-accredited eLearning courses that cover impact basics through to specific Impact Case Studies (ICS) and national assessment training |
|
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| Participation in quarterly Steering Groups to help shape product and services, and share knowledge |
|
|
|
| In-person workshops and full training options, including "what makes as 4* impact case study" |
|
|
|
| Annual health checks to assess impact readiness and recommend improvements |
|
|
|
| Annual Impact Case Study Reviews, built within ImpactTracker & ImpactReviewer and shared to provide continual constructive support |
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| 1-2-1 Impact Mapping / Feedback sessions in person/virtual (1 hour) to provide recommendations and actions to improve ICS. |
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| Polish documents Ready for Submission: Receive drafts in Word /GDoc format. Clean and marked up versions to be provided |
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Customer success stories
We equip our customers with the resources to achieve excellence in research impact assessments globally.
The University of Oxford continued to work with Vertigo Ventures (now after they were able to help us investigate new areas of impact we had not previously considered, engage with various stakeholders to collect, verify and demonstrate the impact of our research and they added value overall. Throughout the project Vertigo Ventures were pleasant to work with, took our comments on board and delivered the project on time.
What are some examples of HEI impact strategies around the world?
EIA 2024 (Postponed)
Australia’s scheduled Engagement & Impact Assessment (2024) has been delayed, and the governmental response to the Review of the Australian Research Council Act 2001 agrees in principle that the evaluation of excellence, impact and research capabilities within Australian universities needs reform.
Institutional strategies
RAE 2026
SEP 2021-2027
PBRF QE 2026
In June 2022, New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) agreed in principle to recommendations to extend the definition of research excellence – which could lead to impact assessment playing a role in funding distribution after the next Quality Evaluation round in 2026.
HumEval 2015-2017
REE 2022
REF 2029
The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) pioneered impact in national assessments in 2014, with impact growing in importance for the 2021 edition and playing a key role in funding allocation. The next REF will take place in 2029; learn more about REF 2021 here.
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