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Measuring research impact and engagement is a much debated topic in the UK and internationally. This book is the first to provide a critical review of the research impact agenda, situating it within international efforts to improve research utilisation. Using empirical data, it discusses research impact tools and processes for key groups such as academics, research funders, 'knowledge brokers' and research users, and considers the challenges and consequences of incentivising and rewarding particular articulations of research impact.
It draws on wide ranging qualitative data, combined with theories about the science-policy interplay and audit regimes to suggest ways to improve research impact.

The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges

Introduction: critical reflections on research impact

The rise of research impact

Debating the UK impact agenda

Do experiences and perceptions of research impact vary by discipline?

Impact on whom? Contrasting research impact with public engagement

Public intellectualism and the impact agenda: international perspectives

Academic life in the impact vanguard: the view from knowledge exchange organisations

Looking back: evolving public health perspectives on research impact

Telling tales of impact: as seen through the eyes of user assessors

Conclusion: what would an evidence- informed impact agenda involve?