Professor Mark Reed
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Director, Natural Capital Challenge Centre, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship at SRUC | Impact training @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social (he/him). Get my new book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy: tkqlhce.com/click-10125883β¦ .. more
Director, Natural Capital Challenge Centre, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship at SRUC | Impact training @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social (he/him). Get my new book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy: tkqlhce.com/click-10125883β¦
Mark C Reed is an American academic administrator who is the 25th president of Loyola University of Chicago in Chicago. Prior to his tenure at Loyola, Reed served as the first lay president of St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. .. more
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Reinforcing
The European Platform for Open and Responsible R&I Practices
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Free workshop: co-creation approaches in research (run by the EU-funded REINFORCING Project)
π Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
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π Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
β° Time: 15:00β17:00 CET
Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
(based on counterfactual-based impact evaluation methods for assessing the impact of conservation projects, but relevant to many types of projects seeking to evaluate their impact). Thanks to Society for Conservation Biology for developing this tool!
Interactive Methods Selection by scb-impact
A decision framework tool for impact evaluation in conservation
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New interactive impact evaluation tool helps you choose the best method based on the context of your research, including types of data produced, timescales and project scales scb-impact.itch.io/interactive-...
Policy Options in Peatland Conservation and Restoration: A Review of the UNEP Global Peatlands Assessment and Future Strategy for Global Governance | Published in Mires and Peat
By Rosie Gearey, Mark S. Reed & 8 more. Article 32.25: Formulates three overarching recommendations to assist nations in improving effectiveness of their contributions within international and global ...
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3. Support locally led restoration, ensure fair benefit sharing, and build capacity for monitoring and adaptive management.
Read the paper (PDF): www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1461...
Read the paper (PDF): www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1461...
1. Align national laws and international commitments, clarify responsibilities across agencies, and strengthen reporting
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
New paper led by Rosie Geary with colleagues from the chapter I led in UNEP's Global Peatlands Assessment, integrating assessment findings with new literature to highlight options to improve peatland policy and practice around the world:
Journal Articles & Books | Mark Reed
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I've updated the "featured articles" on my website including links to accompanying blogs, podcast episodes, slide decks, videos and more www.profmarkreed.com/journal-arti...
Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world - Sustainability Science
Language matters in shaping perceptions and guiding behaviour. The term stakeholder is widely used, yet little attention is paid to the possibility that its use may inadvertently perpetuate colonial n...
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2024 paper: Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But what I learned from these colleagues as we wrote this paper has changed me as a person, and that means more than any best paper award.
Episode 3: Extreme coproduction
Podcast Episode Β· Fast Track Impact Β· 03/02/2022 Β· 32m
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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e.... Writing this paper was a 6-year journey from concept to completion, a time during which we all changed significantly as people, leading to our parting of ways, and I still have a long way to go until I catch them up.
(to avoid white centring, they suggested I mothball the paper entirely). I discussed the journey that ultimately took me to publishing the paper (with a positionality statement in which I apologised for the epistemic racism of my PhD papers) in this podcast episode:
The dual-authored 2023 paper was also one of the most contraversial papers I've written. Although seemingly only written by me and Hannah, it was significantly shaped by 3 co-authors who withdrew and asked not to be named for fear that the paper was racist - and they were right
This turned into a paper in which all the best insights came from my co-authors - all I had to do was create the space for everyone to do the thinking, and bring it all together into something resembling a coherent argument.
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We literally workshopped the 2024 paper via an open invitation on social media. What started as a Twitter spat between me and Laurie Prange over a blog that I hastily re-wrote after she won me over to the "right side of history" (www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/why-we-....
Fascinating that it is these two papers that have won "best paper" award in the journal Sustainability Science (impact factor = 5.3) in 2023 and 2024. What's interesting is that both papers were amongst the most collaborative I've ever written...
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions
Abstract. This paper examines the use of hyperbolic and promotional language, or βhypeβ, in the impact case studies submitted to the 2021 Research Excellen
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New linguistic analysis suggests less applied subjects and impact case studies focussed on technology or culture were more likely to use hyperbolic and promotional language, or βhypeβ thank other case studies in REF2021 academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
A new AI prompt to boost your policy impact
Many researchers want to influence policy but donβt know where to start. A new AI prompt can help you identify opportunities tailored to your work. By giving ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot links to your...
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New AI prompt to boost your policy impact - I've used this to help a number of colleagues now and keep getting surprised at the amount of useful ideas that come up. Interested to know how this works for you if you try it out...? www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/a-new-a...
My question: what would happen if you reconnected the impact agenda to your deepest sources of value, whether faith-based or secular?
Why the impact agenda needs deeper roots - how one faith tradition helped both make and break impact, and how getting in touch with our own spiritual convictions can reshape our own relationship with impact...
Structured ways to prioritise REF2029 impact activities
There are many great papers and guides on how to write a top-scoring REF impact case study, but few tools help researchers organise and prioritise their impact activities on-the-go. You might have mul...
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Structured ways to prioritise REF2029 impact activities - read my new blog and download the template www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/structu...
H3Uni Practitioners Forum #08: SCALE 3D β Seeing Impact in Three Dimensions with Tim Strasser Β· Zoom Β· Luma
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In this session you'll get a practical and experiential taste of the SCALE 3D model and how the way of seeing impact in terms of "deepening,β¦
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I'm not familiar with this framework myself but have used H3UNI materials widely in my own impact work and really like what they do luma.com/qe961ip7?mc_...
Interesting workshop from H3UNI on "Seeing Impact in Three Dimensions" with Dr. Tim Strasser on 17 November, based on the SCALE 3D framework, a practical model for understanding and expanding the depth, breadth, and longevity of transformative change....
How can we achieve 30x30 in a just and equitable way? βRelational commonsβ respond to four pervasive fictions that often reproduce inequality and injustice in conservation:
⒠property rights as⦠| Kat...
How can we achieve 30x30 in a just and equitable way? βRelational commonsβ respond to four pervasive fictions that often reproduce inequality and injustice in conservation:
β’ property rights as autono...
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Katie's work has been a huge influence on me - although this was developed for making a difference in conservation, it applies to any field of endeavour www.linkedin.com/posts/drkati...
These new ways of thinking are at the heart of any impact culture that genuinely seeks the best for those less fortunate than ourselves. I cannot overstate the importance of getting your head around this stuff...
Professor Mark Reed
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Valuable resource for researchers aiming to translate ideas into meaningful policy influence: eprints.soton.ac.uk/505162/1/110...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
Β· Oct 6
- Creative evaluation captures emotional and cultural dimensions of impact that metrics overlook.
- Methods are most effective when purposefully aligned with the policy challenge.
- Methods are most effective when purposefully aligned with the policy challenge.
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
Β· Oct 6
- Creative methods such as poetry, games and visual tools help express lived experience beyond conventional consultation.
- Think kits promote reflexive dialogue between research and policy rather than one-way communication.
- Think kits promote reflexive dialogue between research and policy rather than one-way communication.