Resources

Engage Your Research Guide

For more information on engaged research, please see Engage Your Research, our introductory guide to engaging and involving the public in research. This guide will introduce you to how, where and why to engage the public in your research.

When the target users of your research are included in the conversations, design, conduct or communications about research they can identify overlooked research considerations and opportunities. Collaborating with public contributors can help researchers to explain research ideas, concepts and relevance in a more accessible way.

Building the Ecosystem for Engaged Research

This book discusses the ecosystem and infrastructure needed to successfully embed a culture of societally engaged research at a systems level.  To date, few initiatives have concentrated on systematically building a research ecosystem that promotes engagement, enhances capacity, and integrates institutional processes to connect this engagement with research impact. This book present a critical reflection of engaged research as a systemic and dynamic process which continuously changes, and which requires adaptation. It discusses the transformations required to achieve sustainable change and the actors responsible for implementing those transformations.

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IUA Framework for Engaged Research

This (opens in a new window)How-To Guide was informed by a literature review and year-long national and international consultation with over 350 researchers, policy makers, funding agency personnel and societal partners. 

In 2022, Campus Engage, the Irish Universities Association, the Higher Education Authority, and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning partnered to advance training and resources on engaged research and innovation for societal impact. Content was informed by the latest European and Irish policy for research innovation, including Horizon Europe and national policies and funding strategies. 

Action Catalogue (Methods)

The (opens in a new window)Engage2020 Action Catalogue is an online decision support tool to enable researchers, policy-makers and others wanting to conduct inclusive research, to find the method best suited for their specific project needs.

It consists of 57 methods with the common denominator that their focus is research driven by involvement and inclusion. The tool searches methods on upto 32 different criteria, with the possibility of weighing the importance of each criterion. The Engage2020 Action Catalogue is an outcome of the Engage2020 project, which is funded by the European Commission (DG Research).

Public & Patient Involvement in Research

Public & Patient Involvement (PPI) is a the term used in health and social care for the research practice that involves public(s) and patients in decision-making, prioritising, planning, conducting and communicating research with the overall goal of improving research relevance and impact for society.

The PPI Ignite Network @ UCD has a PPI website with a rich variety of resources and supports for those involving public(s) or patients in decision-making, prioritising, planning, conducting and communicating research. 

UCD Promote Your Research

The Promote Your Research website by UCD Research contains tips and guides to increase the visibility, citation rate and impact of your research outputs.

This includes tips on how to write your research in plain English and how to create a range of different media outputs including infographics. It also contains useful tips on how to keep track of where your research is being picked up and used.

UCD Research Impact Toolkit

UCD Research hosts the Research Impact Toolkit.

This toolkit provides you with resources and tools to help you plan, capture, communicate and monitor the impact of your research. 

The tools on the Research Impact Toolkit website are designed to help researchers to save time. By working no harder than you already do, the tools can help you drastically increase the impact arising from your research. 

UCD Citizen Science Community of Practice

The (opens in a new window)UCD Citizen Science community of practice is intended for UCD staff, researchers and students doing or interested in doing citizen science for research, teaching or public engagement.

Through the voluntary, ground-up community of practice, discover how citizen science can:

• Advance knowledge, research and innovation
• Benefit staff, students, research, as well as the citizens involved
• Be a powerful tool for engaging people in research and addressing important research and societal challenges

European Citizen Science Platform