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INPUTS ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS OUTCOMES IMPACTS
WHAT YOU WHAT PRODUCTS AWARENESS CONSEQUENCES
NEED YOU DO OF YOUR AND USE OF OF PEOPLE USING
RESEARCH OUTPUTS OUTPUTS

• Research funding • Research& • Publications • Postgraduates • Academic
• Researcher development • Prototypes, • Cited outputs • Cultural
knowledge • New methods artefacts,datasets • Licence income • Economic
& expertise • Collaboration & software • Follow on income • Educational
• Previous projects • Learning • Patents, products • Uptake of device • Environmental
• Facilities & • Experimentation & services & therapist • Health
equipment • Theorising • Methods & process • Uptake of tools • Political
• Staff • Exhibitions & & instruments • Social
performances • Media coverage • Technological
• New companies

PLANNED WORK
INTENDED RESULTS

CAN BE CONNECTED DIRECT INFLUENCE INDIRECT INFLUENCE

Figure 1. The impact journey 6

ACADEMIC IMPACT ACADEMIC CULTURAL ECONOMIC
Contribution to a company's
Contribution to advances across and
Contribution to people's
within disciplines, including significant
revenues and profits (micro level),
understanding of ideas and reality,
values and beliefs.
advances in understanding, method,
and economic returns through
theory and application.
increased productivity or economic
growth (macro level).
EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Contribution to education, training Contribution to managing the Contribution to public health, life
and capacity-building, including environment, such as protecting expectancy, health-related quality of SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
through curricula, educational tools, natural resources, reducing life, prevention of illness, and reduced
and qualifications. environmental pollution, improving health inequality.
weather forecasting, and tackling
the climate crisis.
POLITICAL SOCIAL TECHNOLOGICAL

Contribution to how policymakers act, Contribution to community welfare Contribution to the creation or
to how policies are constructed, and and quality of life, and to behaviours, improvement of products, processes
to political stability. practices, and activities of people and services.
and groups.

Figure 2. Academic, societal and economic impacts 6

6 What is Impact? - Research Impact Toolkit (ucd.ie). accessed 28 August 2024
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