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Finally, a workshop that helps you write a winning grant application! 

NHMRC Investigator Grant

Impact Track Record Workshop

Identifying and articulating research impacts

NHMRC Inv Track Record Workshop (eventbrite) (1)

Exciting news! The latest dates for the NHMRC Investigator round have been announced, and it will open on the 13th of September 2023. 

Are you an academic researcher eager to make a lasting impact with your research and secure NHMRC grants successfully? We invite you to a comprehensive half-day workshop that focuses on specific understanding, skill-building, and articulation elements of research impact. With a limited number of seats available (25 participants only), this exclusive workshop ensures personalized attention and ample opportunities for interaction.

Workshop Details

26 September 2023
11:00am – 2:00pm AEST
Live Online Workshop 
 

$350 AUD 

Excludes GST
PDF copies of slides

Access to workshop recording for one month

Our insider guide to writing the impact track record elements

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In the previous round of Investigator grants, 29% of our clients were successful in securing more than $16,500,000 in research funding

This live and online half-day workshop focuses on specific understanding, skill building and articulation elements of research impact. The workshop will support you through the process of understanding impact, identifying the adopters and users of your research and mapping your impacts. We will show you how to use your impact map and turn it into a compelling impact narrative in your track record.

We want to help you take your work to the next level. You will gain the skills, and understand tools to capture meaningful information that you can use when writing about impact in grant application track record.

There is an increasing need to understand how to best structure, articulate and communicate your research impact. This workshop is designed to help you do just that.

Workshop Content

Understanding research impact
  • Deep dive into the four types of impact, as required by the NHMRC (Knowledge, Health, Economic, and Social)
  • Consideration of the value and impact of all research outputs (including datasets and software) in addition to research publications
  • Indicators of impact
    • Consideration of the broad range of impact measures including qualitative indicators of research impact, such as influence on policy and practice.
  • Outputs vs. outcomes for impact
    • Gain clarity around dissemination activities versus reach versus impact
  • Evidence considerations by impact and indicator type, what is needed to support your claims
Research Users
  • Identify the impact activities used to translate the research and the audiences of these activities.
  • Mapping research users to identify potentially uncaptured impacts and to build the impact pathway as part of a narrative.
Writing the impact sections
  • Breaking down the impact track record components
  • Anatomy of the impact track record sections
  • What goes in each section, and how to frame the elements
  • Building the case study, with examples
  • How to articulate impact in a compelling way
  • Linking the research and the researcher’s contribution to the impact
Workshop structure & modules

The session will be live online so that you have the opportunity to fully participate in the same way you would in a traditional face to face workshop. We will be using Zoom for the sessions, and participants will have the ability to ask questions using their microphones. If you can’t make a session, you will get access to the recording after the workshop.

Your Workshop Facilitator

Tamika Heiden has dedicated the last five years of her career to impact pathways through knowledge translation and the identification and assessment of research impact. Tamika is passionate about making a difference and delivering projects that create significant and lasting change for her clients. Tamika’s more than a decade of career experience as a researcher and research manager in the fields of health, sport and medical research, along with her formal qualifications in knowledge translation and impact make her one of the few specialists that doesn’t just talk the talk. Tamika enjoys helping her clients to form partnerships, develop impact plans, and be rewarded for their efforts. Tamika founded and hosted the annual online Research Impact Summit. Tamika's passion for impact, along with the summit success, led to her becoming known as  the “Australian powerhouse of Research Impact”, and resulted in her winning the 2018 Knowledge Mobilization Forum award for Innovation. With a 4000 strong audience representing 47 countries, Tamika has interviewed more than fifty experts in the fields of stakeholder engagement, translation and implementation, and research impact.

Dr Tamika Heiden

Tamika Heiden has dedicated the last five years of her career to impact pathways through knowledge translation and the identification and assessment of research impact. Tamika is passionate about making a difference and delivering projects that create significant and lasting change for her clients. Tamika’s more than a decade of career experience as a researcher and research manager in the fields of health, sport and medical research, along with her formal qualifications in knowledge translation and impact make her one of the few specialists that doesn’t just talk the talk. Tamika enjoys helping her clients to form partnerships, develop impact plans, and be rewarded for their efforts. Tamika founded and hosted the annual online Research Impact Summit. Tamika’s passion for impact, along with the summit success, led to her becoming known as  the “Australian powerhouse of Research Impact”, and resulted in her winning the 2018 Knowledge Mobilization Forum award for Innovation. With a 4000 strong audience representing 47 countries, Tamika has interviewed more than fifty experts in the fields of stakeholder engagement, translation and implementation, and research impact.
Learning outcomes

After the workshop, participants will have mapped engagement with stakeholders, impact activities, and relevant indicators and identified potential evidence for use in their case study. They will have begun writing the case study with the appropriate language to articulate and highlight their past impacts.

What people say about our services

This is my first big grant, and after attending this seminar I have a really useful guide to follow for each section. I am more confident that I will be able to write my grant. I particularly like the handouts and worksheets.

Workshop Participant, Deakin University

Sept 2022

This workshop has equipped with necessary understanding and skills to write my Investigator Grant. Lots of good tips and strategies were provided.

Workshop Participant

Sept 2022