This important book will equip you with evidence-based tools you can use immediately to create a step change in your impact. Helping you recognise and demonstrate the wider benefits of your work, it will give you the practical knowledge and confidence to identify practical ways to maximise the impact of your research.

Written by renowned impact expert Mark S. Reed, this third edition has been fully updated with the latest evidence and includes new material on the ethics of engagement and impact, using social media, and influencing policy. Offering strategies to effectively engage with diverse groups, the book features:

• Five principles to fast-track your impact and practical steps to make this happen.
• Tools and techniques for designing and facilitating workshops, driving impact online, presenting with impact, influencing policy and more.
• New ‘How To’ guides including how to evidence impacts from social media; capturing the impact of training; making podcasts, videos and infographics; designing projects for impact; starting newsletters; and developing an institutional impact strategy.

Packed with practical tips, techniques, templates, case studies and stories, this book is essential reading for PhD students, independent researchers and academic staff at any career stage wanting a clear framework to fast-track the impact of their research.

Praise for the Second Edition
“Running through this book is the passion that Reed himself clearly feels about delivering impact from his own research, and also helping others do the same. This is most definitely a book about making a difference, not pretending to." Steven Hill, Head of Research Policy, Research England, UK

"Based on evidence and written with a personal touch, the Research Impact Handbook is your own mentor who explains the why and the how, with many practical resources which can be implemented right away to start making a positive impact on the world."
Dr Bec Colvin, Associate Professor, Australian National University, Australia

"Reed takes a complex, intimidating subject and presents it with refreshing simplicity, coherence and vision."
Phil Ward, Director of the Eastern Arc regional research consortium, UK

"This is the definitive A-Z of research impact. Essential reading for anyone involved in research."
Dr Katharine Reibig, Research Development Manager (Environment and Culture), University of Stirling, UK

“This book is just what all researchers new to impact need. Mark Reed’s approach to impact is grounded, considered, effective and yet humble and easy to follow.” Ged Hall, Researcher Development and Culture Team Leader, University of Leeds, UK

Mark S. Reed is Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship and Director of the Natural Capital Challenge Centre at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK. He is CEO of Fast Track Impact, Research Lead for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s UK Peatland Programme, Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme Global Peatlands Initiative Research Working Group, and he plays advisory roles for various UK government bodies.