OPTIMISING THE IMPACT OF YOUR RESEARCH: A BYOP WORKSHOP

This workshop aims to creatively challenge how we think about impact; collaboratively apply practical resources (from WiseGP and CRISP) to your own work (BYOP); and collectively discuss strategies and opportunities for implementation.

Impact matters. It is a moral and ethical responsibility of doing research to consider the impact of our work. Demonstrating impact is important for career progression. Impact describes our research making a difference in our communities. Every research study counts when we think about impact. Its not just getting RCT evidence into guidelines – its everything we do with our research that influences and changes the thinking and actions of people, communities, society, political groups and more. But how can we make your research more impactful?  In this workshop we use 2 very different pieces of work to bring you practical examples of how we can generate impact. WiseGP is a national initiative, developed from and with the work of clinicians, to embed and strengthen scholarship within everyday clinical practice (www.wisegp.co.uk). We’ll outline the 4 step model WiseGP uses to guide its impact planning. CRISP is an international research collaboration to improve the reporting of primary care research (https://crisp-pc.org/). The CRISP checklist lists what primary care end users of your research need to see in your papers for them to be useful. The CRISP checklist highlights what primary care end users need in your papers for research to be useful.  We invite you to Bring Your Own Paper/Project to this workshop. Having introduced the tools, we will work in facilitated small groups to apply them to your own research projects. Whether you are writing the bid, writing up a paper, or thinking about wider knowledge exchange opportunities, this workshop will help you creatively challenge, expand and plan your impact work.  We will then come together as a large group to discuss the issues arising - including what actions are needed from SAPC/AAAPC, funders (NIHR), universities and others to ensure we collectively optimise the impact and value of research. You will leave the workshop with a personal impact plan and an invitation to share the outcomes on SAPC and WiseGP websites. We will also write a summary of our discussions on the wider actions needed to share with research leaders.