An impact strategy helps translate your research into impact. Your impact strategy should consider what you’re trying to achieve, who your key beneficiaries are, what engagement and other impact-generating activities you’ll undertake (including at different points along the impact pathway), key indicators and evidence you’ll collect, risks and risk mitigation approaches.

Fast Track Impact’s Professor Mark Reed guides you through each step of creating an impact strategy using the?Impact Planning Template, starting with the development of specific impact goals.?

Download the template to create your own impact strategy. The plan will save you time and ensure that you maximise your impact.

It’s probably self-evident that certain kinds of research are more likely to lead to impacts beyond academia than others. Research that is designed to be translational, research that is co-designed by consumers, and research that is conducted in close collaboration with industry partners – these are just three examples of research destined for ‘real-world’ impacts.?

Depending on your research area, it may be possible for you to plan for such impacts. Perhaps some of your research will remain fundamental, continuing to advance disciplinary knowledge, but you might be in a position to initiate a more ‘applied’ or ‘engaged’ stream of research too.?