Research Impact (ResPACT): Pathway to impactful projects

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Dive into the concept of research impact

This course helps you to understand research impact and planning for an impactful project. You’ll learn the concept of research impact and how research impact makes a difference to the research outcomes. In addition, you’ll also learn about Impact Master Planning (IMP) and how to engage with stakeholders to help develop your research impact.

Explore reporting, communicating and continuous assessment for the impactful project

You’ll explore how to report and communicate your research with continuous monitoring and evaluation. This course will guide you in developing a plan for the impact of your research study. Ultimately, you’ll also learn about continuous assessment, introduce the basics of monitoring and evaluation, and discuss the approaches developed using Impact Master Tracking (IMT) and Impact Evaluation Rubric (IER) for monitoring and evaluating research impact.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 8 seconds Hello and good day. I am Dr Amer Siddiq, The Director of the Universiti Malaya Community Engagement Centre (UMCares) in Malaysia. Hi, I am Dr Azizi Abu Bakar, Research Officer at the Universiti Malaya Community Engagement Centre (UMCares), Malaysia. Hello everyone! I am Dr Ayu Hasan, I’m researcher at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. My name is Azlin from the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Welcome to our course. We are serious about impact and we want you to be equally equipped with tools to help make your project impactful. In our course, we will be introducing you to what is an impactful research, to communicate these ideas and finally to evaluate it.

Skip to 0 minutes and 52 seconds Our course includes a few case studies and most importantly for you, tools, to make your project better. We hope that you’ll find this course helpful and impactful for your individual work. And I’m waiting see you in our course later.

Syllabus

Week 1
Understanding and Planning for Impactful Projects
- Getting Started
  As introduction, this part will brief the first week overview, introducing the team and ice breaking for getting to know all of you.
- Understanding Research Impact
  In this part, we will introduce you on the concept of research impact by providing several established definitions, types of research impacts, and role of research impact to SDGs and ESG.
- Planning for Impactful Projects
  This part focuses on ways in planning and developing research impact with examples of case studies.
- Weekly wrap up
  To wrap up this week with simple quizzes to know your understanding about research impact as well as reflection on what you have learnt.
Week 2
Reporting, Communicating and Continuous Assessment for Impactful Projects
- Reporting and communicating your research
  Report your research using Impact Story Crafting template and learn the steps to communicate your research.
- Continuous assessment
  In this last part, we will introduce the basics of monitoring and evaluation and share how to track and evaluate your project or research using Impact Master Tracking (IMT) and Impact Evaluation Rubric (IER) tools.
- Weekly wrap up
  To wrap up this week with simple quizzes to know your understanding about communicating, reporting and continuous assessment of your research. Lastly we would like to hear your feedback for this course.

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On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Develop an understanding of what research impact is and its importance
Produce a plan for research impact and engage with stakeholders
Explain communicating and reporting of your research
Perform monitoring and evaluation of research impact

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for researchers from academia, undergraduate students, postgraduate students and industry players include business managers, program managers or anyone interested in seeing the impact of their research and organization.

Who developed the course?

Universiti Malaya

Universiti Malaya is the premier research university in Malaysia, committed to advancing knowledge and learning through quality research and education for the nation and for humanity.

Established
1905
Location
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
World ranking
Top 60Source: QS World University Rankings 2021


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Learn at your own pace
Discuss your learning in comments
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$89/one-off payment

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Learn at your own pace
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Access expires 27 May 2024

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