Pathways to Impact

Working together with our research communities and other partners, we want to encourage researchers to be actively involved in thinking about how they will achieve excellence with impact and to explore the pathways for realising the impact. The implementation of Academic Beneficiaries, Impact Summaries and Pathways to Impact (formerly known as Impact Plan) within the Research Council application and assessment process aims to aid this.

This toolkit has been developed following ongoing dialogue with the research community about Pathways to Impact and is part of a wider programme of activity to improve the supporting guidance. These pages provide a single point of access to Research Councils UK (RCUK) guidance and resources for completing the Research Councils Je-S application form and understanding the pathways towards economic and societal impacts.

• Why do RCUK consider demonstrating and maximising the impact of research to be significant?

• What do RCUK mean by ‘impact'?

• Pathways to Impact: RCUK expectations and policies

• RCUK Guidance for completing the Pathways to Impact