Impact Networks Drive Impact Culture Change

Much of the focus of impact related effort is on the researcher and their partners who are collaborating to make impacts on scholarship and beyond. More recently and driven by assessment systems or university mission statements impact supports are being developed at the institutional level. But as Sandra Nutley wrote in 2007 “systems level impact is in the future”. Well Sandra, that future is here. There are some impact related efforts focused not only on institutions but on networks and systems of impact and these systems can help drive impact culture. This session will focus primarily on lessons still being learned by York University (Toronto, Canada) and Research Impact Canada, a network of 20 universities collaborating to build institutional capacity for research impact.

The session will be interactive with discussion encouraged and a Q&A session to follow.

Time: 12.00pm – 1:00pm

Date: Monday 16 November

David J. Phipps, Ph.D., MBA

Assistant Vice President, Research Strategy & Impact

York University

Dr. Phipps is the administrative lead for all research programs and their impacts on local and global communities at York University (Toronto, Canada). He has received honours and awards from the Canadian Association of Research Administrators, Institute for Knowledge Mobilization, International Network of Research Management Societies and the EU based Knowledge Economy Network. He received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work in knowledge mobilization and was named the most influential knowledge mobilizer in Canada. He sits on knowledge mobilization committees around the world and is Network Director for Research Impact Canada.