Leading with Impact: Inspiring Purposeful Partnerships

This session continues the Australian Research Funding Landscape series, and focuses on how to build impactful research partnerships that benefit society and also build your research profile. 

Research funders, whether through grants, philanthropy, or industry partnerships, almost always expect to understand the impact (or the pathway to impact) of the funding they provide. The 'Leading with Impact: Inspiring Purposeful Partnerships' session will be presented by Sarah Angus, Senior Advancement Manager and Catherine McElhone, Research Impact Facilitator we will be joined by Alexandra Thomson, Industry Engagement Manager in the Faculty of Science.

The session will share practical UTS examples and tools to plan your impact, what partners you need, reflect on what you need to ensure your partnerships are successful, and how to plan engagement beyond academia to ensure your research can be adopted, developed, and used by those who need it most.

Learning outcomes:

• Communicate Impact: Learn how to effectively communicate the impact of your research.

• Understand Theory of Change: Apply the Theory of Change to plan and communicate your research impact.

• Build Partnerships: Reflect on what is needed for developing and stewarding successful partnerships.

• Tools: Understand available tools to support your engagement planning.

Events in the 2025 Australian Research Funding Landscape series

• ARC Funding for ECRs – Tuesday 27 May

• Introduction to Research Tenders and Panels (Cat 2 and Cat 3 funding) – Tuesday 17 June

• A foot in both camps: Crossing the ARC and NHMRC/MRFF funding divide – Wednesday 18 June

• Applied research: Engaging with industry and other clients – Wednesday 16 July

• International Grants: Insights and Preparation – Wednesday 16 July

• ARC Funding for MCRs – Wednesday 23 July

• Leading with Impact: Inspiring Purposeful Partnerships – Thursday 24 July

• Accelerate Your Research Impact with Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) – Wednesday 30 July

•  How to Train for a Grants Marathon: Research Success in Australian Grants – Thursday 31 July

• ARC Funding for Senior Researchers – Monday 4 August

• Navigating the NHMRC – Tuesday 19 August

• The MRFF Manifesto – Tuesday 26 August

This is a UTS Aspire event. UTS Aspire is a program of pan-university research development opportunities led by the Research Capability and Development Team.