Dissemination and User Engagement

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify the ‘pathways to impact’ i.e. consider how to practically embed research methods, results and outcomes for the benefit of academic and non-academic stake-holders.
• Evaluate the academic impact of research
• Critically evaluate research
• Draft research summaries and articles for dissemination to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Identify the academic beneficiaries of their research, i.e. consider how their research questions, methods, and findings will extend the knowledge/methods base
• Identify the economic / societal beneficiaries of the research, e.g. demonstrate an understanding of the relevance of the project for educational psychology in practice

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Appreciate the need for research to achieve ‘impact’

Journals and models of publication

Presenting at scientific conferences

The process of submitting a paper to a peer reviewed journal

The peer review process

Pathways to impact

Students will participate in a small number of workshop sessions and then use the techniques practiced to prepare to disseminate their own research.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Team work abstract

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Peer review

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.