LJMU Wins Double in Inaugural TrackImpact.org Project Competition
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has triumphed in two of three categories at the first-ever TrackImpact.org Global Project Competition. The competition recognises some of the exceptional societal, economic, environmental and cultural impact delivered by...
Impact and Quality at Forefront of EUA’s Reforming Research Assessment
Today the European University Association (EUA) announced the publication of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment paper. The document makes public the final 8th July agreement at a Stakeholder Assembly of more than 350 organisations across 40+ countries...
UK Researchers Lose Out on Horizon Europe Grants
Original text by Alex Smith, Senior Marketing Strategist at Vertigo Ventures UK researchers have lost out on 115 grants – which had previously been approved through the €95.5 billion Horizon Europe programme – amidst the ongoing tensions between the UK and...
The PBRF Quality Evaluation 2025 Recommendations Introduce New Impact Considerations for New Zealand Institutions
On the 20th June 2022, New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) agreed in principle to the recommendations made by the PBRF Sector Reference Group (SRG) around changing the research definitions and design of Evidence Portfolios for the upcoming national...
The REF 2021 Impact Case Studies (ICS) Are Published; Now We Must Aim For the SDGs 2030 Deadline
Earlier today, the 6,781 Impact Case Studies (ICS) that had been submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 were published by UKRI. 78.9% of these were deemed to be of 4* (world leading) or 3* (internationally excellent) quality, which is hugely...
Science Must Not Be Stymied by Politics – or Geographical Inequalities
Original text by Alex Smith, Senior Marketing Strategist at Vertigo Ventures On Wednesday 8th June 2022, the ERC (European Research Council) notified 143 UK researchers that the grants they had secured through the Horizon Europe programme were to be terminated. This...
How the SDG Compass can help with university strategic planning
The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings will be released in one month’s time (April 26-28) at the THE Innovation and Impact Summit 2022. Our founder & CEO, Laura Tucker, along with Duncan Ross – Chief Data Officer of THE and M’hamed el Aisati...
Bridging the Gap between Research and Rewards through Global Collaboration
The pandemic may often be seen as the obvious driver for recent declines in research collaboration, but it has in fact masked a series of fundamental challenges to international co-operation caused by the wider economic, social and political climate of the modern...
A Proven Impact Track Record: Interviewing Robert Mansion, Senior Developer, on the History of ImpactTracker™
In the first part of our series in which we meet various members of the Vertigo Ventures team, we speak to Robert Mansion, one of the company’s earliest developers who has a wealth of experience with the ImpactTracker™ product, our flagship solution for capturing,...
Charities, Collaboration, and a Bright Future for the SDGs
In many ways, charities can be seen as exemplars when it comes to considering models for SDG success. “Unlike the corporate model, charities have the expressed and infallible aim of providing care. They are not laboured with the requirement to return shareholder value...