Podcasts
Impact and Knowledge Exchange in an Evolving Research Environment
The aim of the panel session was to reflect on research impact and knowledge exchange from different angles, from user perspectives and wide public debates, through institutional contexts and the interfaces with different funding bodies, and to international experiences.
6 February 2026
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Approaches to facilitating research impact
Whilst research has always had impact, research impact is still a relatively new concept in REF terms.
6 February 2026
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In metrics we trust? Impact, indicators & the prospects for social science over the next five years
Citations, journal impact factors, H-indices, even tweets and Facebook likes – there are no end of quantitative measures that can now be used to assess the quality and wider impacts of research.
6 February 2026
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What was I thinking?! – being an academic in the age of impact
The context for this talk is offered by one of the defining debates in cultural policy studies, namely the one around the tension between a desire to be useful to those who administer the arts and culture and the aspiration to preserve the cultural policy scholar’s critical distance from the object of analysis, intellectual autonomy and the freedom to critique.
6 February 2026
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Competing for excellence: Perverse and constructive effects of evaluation machines in academia
6 February 2026
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Understanding research impact: analysis of the REF impact case studies
6 February 2026
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Chatting with Luzaan Kock on innovative interprofessional education (IPE), Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and finding where you are meant to be
In episode six we chat with Dr Luzaan Kock, a lecturer in the Interprofessional Education (IPE) unit in the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
2 February 2026
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Chatting with Geoff Stetson on faculty development, feedback and MedEdMentor (and practicing what you preach)
In episode seven we chat with Dr Geoff Stetson, an internal medicine clinician, Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and Director of Clinical Faculty Development at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine.
2 February 2026
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What can we learn from asking students directly about their experiences of French lessons?
To develop their practice, languages teachers need detailed feedback about the quality of their classroom teaching.
2 February 2026
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Developing Oral Language through a Drama-based Intervention
Oral language refers to the linguistic skills needed to understand and produce spoken discourse.
2 February 2026
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