Pathway to Impact

New cohort starting February 2024
Duration: 20 weeks
Registration deadline: 1st February
Price: 15,000 EUR (member discounts apply)

Developing a way to capture and measure the impact of your external engagement is important for universities – whether it’s to manage your performance, enhance your reputation, access more funding or raise awareness internally on the benefits of external engagement.

Through the Pathway to Impact program, we’ll help you map your external engagement activities, main results and supporting structures, and use this to create your own impact framework to capture and measure your engagement going forward.

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Demonstrate your organisation’s external engagement impact with a tailored framework

Who should participate?

Organisations that have difficulty coordinating and tracking the impact of their external engagement, and are seeking to improve how they capture and measure impact. Recommendations for the core team include a mixture of staff involved in engagement activities across student engagement, careers, technology transfer and (research) impact.

What is involved?

Focus groups to gather university objectives and definitions in relation to engagement measurement & impact, and map engagement activities & stakeholders.
Data collection activities to assess engagement activities, inputs, results and current metrics & methods for measurement.
Consolidation of inputs into a tailored Pathway to Impact Framework, and exploring its application, potential new metrics, and data gathering methods.
Knowledge exchange events to learn more about measuring engagement outputs, outcomes and impact.

Why join the program?

Develop your own tailored framework based on institutional goals, activities and capabilities to use for capturing engagement.
Gain actionable insights on useful and measurable metrics as well as data collection methods for measuring engagement.
Build a solid foundation and set yourself up for success through equipping your team with the tools and knowledge to measure impact of your external engagement.
Raise awareness internally around the relevance and importance of capturing engagement and develop your approaches to showcasing impact.

Program activities and timeline

Kick-off

Introduction to the topic

Week 1 | Introduction to the program and participants, and an interactive session on defining university engagement and impact.

Focus group

Desired future state

Week 2-3 | Gather university objectives in relation to engagement measurement and impact, and map engagement activities and stakeholders.

Survey

Current state analysis

Week 4-7 | Participants receive tailored surveys to disseminate across university leadership, and academic and professional staff to assess engagement activities, inputs, results and current metrics and methods for measurement.

Workshop

Touch point

Week 7-8 | Half-way event for the cohort to re-connect and hear from external guest speakers with an interactive workshop on engagement outputs, outcomes and impact.

Analysis

Survey analysis and reporting

Week 8-10 | Analysis of results and tailoring the framework based on the outcomes of focus group and self-assessment survey.

Workshop

Develop your framework

Week 11-13 | Validation workshop around the Pathway to Impact Framework, its application, potential new metrics, and data gathering methods.

Framework

Finalisation and recommendations

Week 16-18 | UIIN will finalise and deliver the tailored Pathway to Impact framework with guidelines and recommendations on how to use it.

Wrap-up

Closing forum

Week 19-20 | Participant presentations to share learnings and insights and interactive discussion on future activities and implementation.

Program team

A/Prof. Dr. Todd Davey

Dr Balzhan Orazbayeva

Arno Meerman

Dr. Sarah Jaber

Empowering institutions to lead transformative change

"We absolutely loved the program. I think one of the really important benefits for us was to actually bring various different individuals from across the university together."

Carolin Plewa

Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Graduate Studies, The University of Adelaide

“Our experience with the Pathway to Impact program was definitely positive, allowing us to reach better awareness about the impact of our external engagement. We were carefully accompanied in the process which has generated, through intense teamwork, useful tools that can be used in future activities.”

Ca’ Foscari University Venice

TTO PInK, Promoting Innovation and Knowledge

"It is an excellent program with a very focused and specific goal in mind. Excellent time allocation and resources were made available and the coordination / guidance of the UIIN team provided was of the highest quality.”

Andries Welgemoed

Deputy Dean, Belgium Campus ITVersity