The Ethics of Engagement and Impact – How to apply ethical principles to engagement and impact
15/09/2025
Developed by Fast Track Impact, the Institute for Methods Innovation and the University of Plymouth, this interactive workshop will explore the essentials of ethical research impact. Academy members will gain insights into ethical impact practices, ensuring their research responsibly benefits society and effectively engages diverse stakeholders.
Key benefits
- Gain essential knowledge about ethical research impact and learn a structured framework to guide your ethical practices, enhancing the integrity and effectiveness of your work.
- Develop strategies for meaningful stakeholder involvement, systematic impact analysis, and co-design approaches for impactful research.
- Learn to ensure equity and inclusion by identifying and addressing barriers to engagement, and adapt communication channels to include diverse perspectives in your research processes.
- Acquire skills to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks and negative impacts, while maintaining accountability through continuous evaluation of your research and engagement activities.
- Equip yourself with actionable strategies and best practices to create meaningful, long-term impacts with your research, ensuring it responsibly benefits society.
Format: Online
Duration: Three hours
To book your place register via Eventbrite. Please note this is an Academy members only event. To join the Academy see here.
Meet the speakers
Professor Eric Jensen
The training will be delivered by Professor Eric Jensen. Professor Jensen is a social scientist with a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge. He is a part-time professor at the University of Warwick, where he has led courses on public engagement with research, science policy, impact evaluation and social research methods. He is also a doctoral research supervisor for the University of Oxford. Professor Jensen has delivered training on research impact, community and public engagement and evaluation around the world (trained >15,000 researchers, policymakers, learning and impact professionals from >1,000 institutions in > 75 countries, including on the ground in 30 countries, delivered in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese). He has 20+ years of research and practice experience in social research, evaluation, public and policy engagement and science communication. He has delivered hundreds of training workshops on evaluation methods and evidence-based science communication, as well as leading and consulting on projects large and small on public engagement with research, impact evaluation, socially responsible research, and environmental communication.
Fast Track Impact is the world's leading source of evidence-based resources and training for researchers who want to generate impact from their research. Fast Track Impact is operated by the international not-for-profit charitable organisation, the Institute for Methods Innovation.