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Ethics of Engagement and Impact
2 hours
Online
Developed by Fast Track Impact, the Institute for Methods Innovation and the University of Plymouth, this interactive workshop explores the essentials of ethical research impact.
Participants will gain insights into ethical impact practices, ensuring their research responsibly benefits society and effectively engages diverse relevant parties.
This live workshop gives you the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with other professionals and direct engagement with the trainer. When you register for this training workshop, you will receive the following:
- Live 2-hour online workshop led by Prof. Eric Jensen
- Useful resources you can borrow and adapt for your work
- Gain essential knowledge about ethical research impact and learn a structured framework to guide your ethical practices, enhancing the integrity and effectiveness of your work.
- Develop strategies for meaningful parties involvement, systematic impact analysis, and co-design approaches for impactful research.
- Learn to ensure equity and inclusion by identifying and addressing barriers to engagement, and adapt communication channels to include diverse perspectives in your research processes.
- Acquire skills to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks and negative impacts, while maintaining accountability through continuous evaluation of your research and engagement activities.
- Equip yourself with actionable strategies and best practices to create meaningful, long-term impacts with your research, ensuring it responsibly benefits society.
Prof. Eric Jensen
Professor Jensen draws on more than 20 years of social research, evaluation and engagement experience to strengthen evidence‑based research impact.Â
Professor Jensen is a social scientist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge in sociology. He is a part-time professor at the University of Warwick, where he has led courses on public engagement, science policy, audience research and social research methods (including surveys and statistics). He is also a doctoral research supervisor for the University of Oxford and a visiting research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
Professor Jensen has been an invited trainer for numerous research and innovation institutions and governments around the world on topics relating to engagement, evaluation and evidence-based research impact. He has delivered training in English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese to more than 18,000 researchers, policymakers, and learning and impact professionals from over 1,000 institutions in 75+ countries, including in‑person programs in 30 countries.
Professor Jensen has authored 200+ peer‑reviewed articles (3,000+ citations) in outlets such as PLOS ONE, Public Understanding of Science, PNAS, and Nature; books with Cambridge University Press and SAGE; chapters in books published by Oxford University Press, Springer, and Palgrave; and commissioned reports for UNESCO and the European Space Agency.
Available live workshop sessions
9:00 (UK Time) - Ethics of Engagement and Impact
September 16, 2025 (09:00)
How to apply ethical principles to engagement and impact Developed by Fast Track Impact, the Institute for Methods Innovation and the University of Plymouth, this interactive workshop explores the essentials of ethical research impact. Participants will gain insights into ethical impact practices, ensuring their research responsibly benefits society and effectively engages diverse relevant parties. This workshop is led by Prof. Eric Jensen. Read more about our trainers here.
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