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Integrating Impact into Funding Proposals
2 hours
Online
Learn how to increase your success rates and integrate impact into your next research proposal. You will learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact.
You will also learn how to use these tools to write more competitively about impact in funding proposals, putting what you learn into practice in a break-out room session where you will critique how impact was integrated into two contrasting example proposals.
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
- A PDF copy of the second edition of The Research Impact Handbook
- Useful resources you can borrow and adapt for your work
- Discuss insider tips and tricks, and get bid writing tools to help you co-produce your next proposal with the people most likely to benefit from your research.
- Discuss examples of impact sections from real research proposals.
- Learn how to integrate impact convincingly with your proposal, using a mapping approach to ensure your impact goals map onto your impact problem statement, beneficiaries and impact generation activities whilst managing risks and assumptions.
- Power all this with a systematic approach to identifying beneficiaries and an impact logic model that will make it easy to articulate specific and credible impacts.​
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) - Integrating Impact into Funding Proposals
December 15, 2025 (09:00)
How to demonstrate clear, measurable impact in funding applications Learn how to increase your success rates and integrate impact into your next research proposal. You will learn about practical tools to time-efficiently increase the significance and reach of your impact. You will also learn how to use these tools to write more competitively about impact in funding proposals, putting what you learn into practice in a break-out room session where you will critique how impact was integrated into two contrasting example proposals. This workshop is led by Prof. Eric Jensen. Read more about our trainers here.
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