Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
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-10125883…
My new blog with Louisa Gilchrist delves into a method that can change who shapes impact, what is made visible, and how long that impact lasts...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My new blog with Louisa Gilchrist delves into a method that can change who shapes impact, what is made visible, and how long that impact lasts...
www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/we-are-...
www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/we-are-...
When there's a new policy buzzword everyone is jumping on, that connects with your research, should you "provide broad direction, deliberate to tailor policy to new contexts, or carry on regardless"?
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
When there's a new policy buzzword everyone is jumping on, that connects with your research, should you "provide broad direction, deliberate to tailor policy to new contexts, or carry on regardless"?
Co-author a paper with me and other leaders in impact, to shape the future of the field. By working with people from different disciplines, outside academia and from around the world, I want to build a future agenda for impact that changes how governments and HE pursues impact.
To launch the Third Edition of my impact handbook, I'm hosting a workshop with foundational and disruptive figures in the global impact field to reflect on the future of the impact agenda.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available!
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Co-author a paper with me and other leaders in impact, to shape the future of the field. By working with people from different disciplines, outside academia and from around the world, I want to build a future agenda for impact that changes how governments and HE pursues impact.
To launch the Third Edition of my impact handbook, I'm hosting a workshop with foundational and disruptive figures in the global impact field to reflect on the future of the impact agenda.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available!
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
To launch the Third Edition of my impact handbook, I'm hosting a workshop with foundational and disruptive figures in the global impact field to reflect on the future of the impact agenda.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available!
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available!
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
More evidence that review articles are used more widely than original research articles to inform policy, and yet so the academic incentives are for original research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
What types of LIS research are preferred in evidence-informed public policy development? Investigating differences in policy citations of Review Articles and Original Research - Cuihua Li, Qianjin Zon...
Academic research, including library and information science (LIS) studies, cited as evidence for public policy development, is becoming increasingly prevalent....
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November 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
More evidence that review articles are used more widely than original research articles to inform policy, and yet so the academic incentives are for original research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
20% off my book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy, on Amazon at the moment www.amazon.co.uk/Researchers-...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
20% off my book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy, on Amazon at the moment www.amazon.co.uk/Researchers-...
Free workshop: co-creation approaches in research (run by the EU-funded REINFORCING Project)
📅 Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00–17:00 CET
Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
📅 Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00–17:00 CET
Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
Reinforcing
The European Platform for Open and Responsible R&I Practices
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November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Free workshop: co-creation approaches in research (run by the EU-funded REINFORCING Project)
📅 Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00–17:00 CET
Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
📅 Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00–17:00 CET
Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
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-...
Interactive Methods Selection by scb-impact
A decision framework tool for impact evaluation in conservation
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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-...
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:
October 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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:
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...
Journal Articles & Books | Mark Reed
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October 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...
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...
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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...
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 ‘hype’ thank other case studies in REF2021 academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions
Abstract. This paper examines the use of hyperbolic and promotional language, or ‘hype’, in the impact case studies submitted to the 2021 Research Excellen
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October 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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 ‘hype’ thank other case studies in REF2021 academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
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...
A new AI prompt to boost your policy impact
Many researchers want to influence policy but don’t 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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October 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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...
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...
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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 - read my new blog and download the template www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/structu...
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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October 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Structured ways to prioritise REF2029 impact activities - read my new blog and download the template www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/structu...
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....
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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....
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...
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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...
Creativity in policymaking: new toolkit from University of Southampton shows how creativity and imagination can enable researchers to engage more diverse audiences to shape their attempts to influence policy, deepening engagement and transforming how policy ideas are generated 🧵
October 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Creativity in policymaking: new toolkit from University of Southampton shows how creativity and imagination can enable researchers to engage more diverse audiences to shape their attempts to influence policy, deepening engagement and transforming how policy ideas are generated 🧵
Evidencing the impact of public and community engagement with research is often seen as difficult. A new evaluation report from the Let’s Talk About Cough project shows how it can be done. 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Evidencing the impact of public and community engagement with research is often seen as difficult. A new evaluation report from the Let’s Talk About Cough project shows how it can be done. 🧵
The idea of “imperfect impact” challenges the polished success stories that dominate research impact narratives: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Why we need an imperfect impact agenda - Impact of Social Sciences
Tadhg Caffrey argues an emphasis on ‘Imperfect Impact’ can allow research communities to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of partnership work.
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September 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The idea of “imperfect impact” challenges the polished success stories that dominate research impact narratives: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
This new essay by Andiswa Mfengu argues that if we want research to have real impact, we need to rethink how it is assessed. Written from a South African perspective, the lessons apply globally: 🧵
September 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This new essay by Andiswa Mfengu argues that if we want research to have real impact, we need to rethink how it is assessed. Written from a South African perspective, the lessons apply globally: 🧵
New paper by Joseph Holden, Julia Martin-Ortega & David Hodgson shows how to design research processes to increase impact.
Although focused on water, the lessons apply anywhere—for funders & researchers alike: 🧵
Although focused on water, the lessons apply anywhere—for funders & researchers alike: 🧵
September 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New paper by Joseph Holden, Julia Martin-Ortega & David Hodgson shows how to design research processes to increase impact.
Although focused on water, the lessons apply anywhere—for funders & researchers alike: 🧵
Although focused on water, the lessons apply anywhere—for funders & researchers alike: 🧵
New paper shows why impact often fails to add up across an institution:
• Individual efforts rarely combine into a clear organisational strategy
• Funders demand evidence of impact, which staff see as bureaucracy
• Without the right approach, impact stays superficial
• Individual efforts rarely combine into a clear organisational strategy
• Funders demand evidence of impact, which staff see as bureaucracy
• Without the right approach, impact stays superficial
September 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New paper shows why impact often fails to add up across an institution:
• Individual efforts rarely combine into a clear organisational strategy
• Funders demand evidence of impact, which staff see as bureaucracy
• Without the right approach, impact stays superficial
• Individual efforts rarely combine into a clear organisational strategy
• Funders demand evidence of impact, which staff see as bureaucracy
• Without the right approach, impact stays superficial
How many of us need to make this move, whether as individuals or institutions? New interview with Wilfred Mijnhardt makes an argument for business schools that I think can be applied across any research domain blog.efmdglobal.org/2025/09/11/w...
September 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
How many of us need to make this move, whether as individuals or institutions? New interview with Wilfred Mijnhardt makes an argument for business schools that I think can be applied across any research domain blog.efmdglobal.org/2025/09/11/w...