Pathway to Impact
Duration: 20 weeks
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 attend
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.
Learning outcomes
- 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 elements
Kick-off | Week 1
Introduction to the topic
Introduction to the program and participants, and an interactive session on defining university engagement and impact.
Focus group | Weeks 2-3
Desired future state
Gather university objectives in relation to engagement measurement and impact, and map engagement activities and stakeholders.
Survey | Weeks 4-7
Current state analysis
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 | Weeks 7-8
Touch point
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 | Weeks 8-10
Survey analysis and reporting
Analysis of results and tailoring the framework based on the outcomes of focus group and self-assessment survey.
Workshop | Weeks 11-13
Develop your framework
Validation workshop around the Pathway to Impact Framework, its application, potential new metrics, and data gathering methods.
Framework | Weeks 16-18
Finalisation and recommendations
UIIN will finalise and deliver the tailored Pathway to Impact framework with guidelines and recommendations on how to use it.
Wrap-up | Weeks 19-20
Closing forum
Participant presentations to share learnings and insights and interactive discussion on future activities and implementation.
Program team
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."
“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.”
"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.”
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Dr. Sarah Jaber, Director
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