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2. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 PROGRAMME 1.15pm Welcome 1.30pm Session I: Impact Evidence – Presentation and Q&A 2.15pm Session II: Post-REF Results De-brief – Panel and Discussion 3.00pm Coffee Break 3.15pm Session III: Mainstreaming impact information 4.00pm Closing remarks 2

4. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 WHY WE’RE HERE 4 Impact is important to funders New Year, fresh eyes for internal processes Outcomes of REF 2014 Practical solutions

5. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 BACKGROUND 2009 •Founded Vertigo Ventures 2010 •Developed a comprehensive impact taxonomy 2011 •Wrote impact reports, including REF, for organisations across sectors, using the taxonomy 2013 •Clients asked for help with creating ‘institutional memory’ for impact 2014 •Partnered with Building Blocks •Leading web development firm, works with higher education, employees over 70 staff 2014 •Launched and rolled out VV-Impact Tracker from July, across UK universities 5

7. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 WHAT IS IMPACT 7 HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND (HEFCE) DEFINITION OF IMPACT For the purposes of the REF, impact is defined as an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia. (REF, 2012). Research paper Presentation at event Event Chair presents findings to National body National body lobbies government Change in legislation and resulting effects Publicationinformation e.g. journal,date, DOI Event programme Meeting agenda Meeting minutes Policy/Act updates 1 2 3 4 5

8. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 Future funding requires impact evidence Total impact £ value is expanding Organisations require impact in these terms 8 EU Horizon 2020 (€17bn) •20% marks ~ impact RCUK (£1.5bn) •Pathways to Impact statements Charities fund research and report impact (£0.9bn) •Impact case-studies for donors REF 2020 (£1.9bn) •Weighting increase from 20% to 25% (Witty Report) •Average funding increase from £1.7m to £2.1m Source: Universities UK

9. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 EXISTING SITUATION 9 Unstructured data File repository only Administrative burden Time intensive Retrospective impact capture only Neglects behaviour change requirement Manage as we go Strategic lens Re-purpose information for different audiences

10. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 MOVING FORWARD 10 Impact Reporting Culture Collect and store impact information Storyboard impact information

11. CONFIDENTIAL © Vertigo Ventures 2015 THANK YOU OUR NEXT EVENT IS A WEBINAR IN APRIL 2015 ON IMPACT CAPTURE SYSTEMS 11

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Good afternoon, thank you for joining us today. It is wonderful to welcome you here to this VV event at the RI. I am Laura F, MD of VV. Before we get started, there is some housekeeping to go through. There is not a scheduled fire alarm today so if you hear one, please exit out of the front of the building in a safe and orderly manner. The restrooms are located on the first floor. There will also be some photographs being taken so if you are feeling shy, please let Bokani know. Chatham house rules – please excuse the pun for our guests from Chatham House . If you are going to tweet, please do not accredite any individual with the comments. Our # for social media is #vvimpact’. Speakers – Tatjana is going to vigiliant with time keeping and will hold a 5 min and 1 min slide at the back to help with this. I am here with a wider team for you to seek out with any questions. We have Bokani, creates the news insights on a Monday, who many of you may read. Andy Todd is our Chief Architect for VV-IT and Technical Manager- any questions re: our tech, roadmap etc. Andy is the person. Alex is an account manager. Tatjana – supports operations Tom from Symplectic is also the key person to speak to regarding how VV-IT and S systems are going to speak to each other and what the partnership means in practice.
I am delighted to welcome Sir Anthony Cleaver to kick start the day’s proceedings. Sir Anthony Cleaver’s achievements are inspiring, starting out as a Systems Engineer at IBM (CHECK RE ATM?) and later rising to CEO and Chairman of IBM. IBM is a household name to us all here today. A company that turned over US$92bn in 2014. It held the record for the most patents generated by a company for 22 consecutive years. Its employees have garnered 5 Nobel Prizes and inventions include the ATM, the hard drive and SQL. In addition to that Sir Anthony has also been the Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority where he led the privatisation and subsequent floatation of UKAEA’s commercial activities. Sir Anthony was asked by the Prince of Wales to lead the Business in the Community CR Index. A sustainability index to help companies systematically, measure, manage and integrate responsible business practice with business leaders from across sectors participating. Previous appointments also include Chair of the MRC and currently Chair of NERC. Although Sir Anthony is here in an independent capacity. On a lighter note, Sir Anthony served on the Governors at Birkbeck and Royal College of Music. As you can probably imagine, I have merely skimmed the surface into Sir Anthony’s journey but it is a huge honour and privilege to invite Sir Anthony to say a few words. May we put our hands together for Sir Anthony.
Why we are hosting the event today - Impact is important to funders, whether it is RCUK, HEFCE, leading charities etc as there is increasing value to justify investment in research and on the more positive side, really understand the true value being generated from investment in this space. In practice this means more money is associated with impact performance. E.g. REF 2014 = £1.7m per org on average. Expected to increase to £2 .3m with the Witty Report by Sir Andrew Witty’s recommendation to increase the weighting of impact for the next REF, expected to be 2020. The REF results were announced before Xmas and the case studies live We have had the time away to come back with fresh eyes and thoughts on how to implement research strategies as the next REF period is open. So we need to come up/implement practical solutions to support a more successful round in 2020. With this in mind, we have an action packed agenda.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with VV, allow me to introduce us. VV founded in 2009 and we were having to write impact reports and share our impact – socio and enviro, not just financial to various FTSE CEOs. Here we realised each time it came to reporting, we started with a blank piece of paper, trying to identify what impact we had had. We knew we had done good work but now needed to communicate that into a compelling story that others could readily understand. So we created a taxonomy of impact info with 6 key questions and with options for us to choose at each question to act as prompts. We shared this with a uni for feedback, who shared how this would be useful for REF. Therefore started working with unis for REF on cases that needed evidencing Then became about scalability – we need to capture evidence and collect impact pathways for REF 2020 and pathways to impact. Launched VV-IT with the first few unis in the summer.
We work with universities and research organisation who asked us to pull an event together to look at impact post REF.
For those of you not familiar with the REF, here’s the HEFCE definition of impact. We focus on supporting people to capture the information leading to a change occurring as we want to understand what difference we are having from doing a series of activities. E.g. here we have a typical pathway to a change in legislation that we saw during the REF. What is key here is not only capturing the different activities that occurred but also evidencing them. Without evidence all you have is a claim – you can’t attribute the outcome to your work. Research users are being accounted for in the first time – never before have unis been accountable for how people use their work and what outcomes it generates. Unis see the opportunity as doing this now- impact system is priority for next 2 years.
Because we now need to show impact to these audiences And as an organisation, we need to understand what we are doing well at- is that we win lots of awards, or are particularly good at creating jobs. This information now needs to be unlocked.
We had been asked to develop VV-IT because: For example, unstructured data is a nightmare: an academic is faced with large text boxes which don’t provide guidance to users, not only making the process more challenging but also making it near impossible for an organisation wide aggregated report It needs to be as easy as possible for the end-users to use The ways to capture impact are retrospective only and do not prompt or encourage impact creating activities + visibility of what = successful impact pathways. We have seen that simply roll-out out a tool and expecting it to be used does not work. People do not use it. It needs to be part of a wider behaviour change piece.
Our work is on the practical implementation of people identifying, collecting and storing their impact information. This is VV-IT It is a tool to support organisations to identify, collect and store impact information. -it is a Saas platform available online with min set up requirements. Two key areas are the Evidence Vault – ur online scrapbook of evidence and project information Impact – where you can storyboard your information into impact pathways. LJMU are now going to share how they have been reporting impact And what they are doing to support adoption

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