The ENLIGHT toolkit for the self-assessment of research impact awareness, literacy and readiness is a self-reflection tool designed for universities who wish to explore at an institutional level their research impact potential. The toolkit guides users through focus areas considered as relevant for universities to be research impact-driven.
The toolkit is not a benchmarking tool but a diagnostic aid to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses and where there is space for improvement in the research impact environment. It is largely inspired by the Institutional Healthcheck Workbook of Dr. David Phipps and Dr. Julie Bayley, but also by other sources such as EARMA Impact Strategy Survey, Vertigo Ventures Impact Landscape Survey and the ACCOMPLISSH Assessment of Institutional Support and Staff Awareness of Research Impact.
You can use it either as a university management staff member, as academic, or as research support staff. The toolkit consists of 19 major questions organised around 6 major focus areas and provides the user with instant access to results. The toolkit is free, confidential and open to anyone to use.
Check it out here.
About ENLIGHT IMPACT Work
Impact is at the core of the mission of ENLIGHT and, as such, one of its main objectives is to promote an impact-based culture within ENLIGHT universities, including the promotion of a model of good practice of impact-directed management and the integration of impact across Higher Education, Research and Innovation activities.
For that purpose, ENLIGHT research impact team has developed this toolkit and a repository of international good practices on research impact assessment and measurement. It has also launched the call for Impact Awards to recognise and give visibility to research endeavours at ENLIGHT universities that are exemplars in planning for and achieving impact and it is organising the ENLIGHT Impact Conference on 30-31 March 2023.