Beyond Downloads, Views, and ‘Likes,’ How Do You Know Your Research Is Having an Impact?

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You’ve done the desk literature reviews, collected and conducted field studies, crafted and deployed surveys, analyzed the data, written up the results, and released your study findings. Is it having any real influence or impact? How do you know?

This blog, written by Laura Kim and Michelle LeMeur, provocatively explores the ‘influence challenge’ many of us wrestle with through the lens of what they found trying to trace uptake by stakeholders of findings from a series of research initiatives conducted last year on the impact of COVID-19 on inclusion in the international development workforce conducted last year on the impact of COVID-19 on inclusion in the international development workforce.

Beyond Downloads, Views, and 'Likes,' How Do You Know Your Research Is Having an Impact? (October 2023)

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