Valuing failure (part 2)
This week, Mark continues to reframe failure as something that deeply affirms our values and leads to greater meaning and contentment. In pa...
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20 of 48 episodesValuing failure (part 1)
This week, Mark explores how you can reframe the failures and rejections that are part of everyday academic life as something that deeply af...
Personalised impact training: interview with Emma Sutton, Davina Whitnall and Sandy Sparks
This week the podcast showcases a personalised approach to impact training being pioneered by Universities of Salford and Warwick. Find out...
Using social media to build engagement throughout the research process - interview with Jane Mills and Jasmine Black
This week Mark interviews Jane Mills and Jasmine Black from CCRI at University of Gloucestershire about how they are using social media to g...
Creativity from dark places - how to find new depths of creativity by seeking challenge, procrastination and the irrational
This week Mark considers how we can harness creativity in the research process to derive original insights, and shows how some of the best n...
Managing power in meetings and workshops - Part 2
In this second part, Mark discusses a range of practical methods for managing power in meetings and workshops, including methods for opening...
Managing power in meetings and workshops - Part 1
How to make meetings and workshops with stakeholder and colleagues safe, fun and productive. This week, Mark explains how you can identify a...
Impact is a state of mind: interview with Saskia Walcott
This week, Mark interviews Saskia Walcott, an independent impact expert who has helped researchers generate and evaluate their impact for ov...
The Productive Researcher: a day in the lifeâ¦
This week, Mark gives us an insight into two days of his working week, to illustrate how he puts the lessons from his book, The Productive R...
3 ways to overcome imposter syndrome
This week Mark shares three ways to overcome imposter syndrome, based on his own experience battling feelings of inadequacy as a researcher....
Research into Policy Part 3: Practical skills to inform and influence
This is the third and final part of Mark's series of episodes on getting research into policy, and the last episode of 2018. Building on the...
Research into Policy Part 2: Getting heard is easier than you think (interviews with researchers and policymakers at the 2018 UN climate summit)
In the second of this three-part series on getting your research into policy, Mark interviews a researcher who ended up leading a country's...
Research into Policy Part 1: Four reasons you may be inadvertently manipulating rather than influencing policy
This week, Mark considers the moral premise of responsible policy engagement and discusses four ways that researchers often inadvertently lo...
Learning about impact from your teaching and evaluating pedagogical impacts
This week, Mark considers how you can learn from your experience in the lecture theatre to become more effective in your generation of impac...
How to write more competitive impact sections in your next grant proposal
This week, Mark draws on his experience writing bids, as a reviewer and on funding panels, to explain how to write the impact sections of a...
How authentic are you as a researcher?
This week, Mark considers how researchers can become more authentic, and how this can reduce the likelihood of imposter syndrome and help yo...
Practical advice on "co-producing" research with the people who will benefit: interview with Dr Karen Laing
This week, Mark interviews Karen Laing, Senior Research Associate and Co-Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Newcastle Unive...
Tinder for researchers? Ideas from the Royal Society Research Culture Conference
On Monday this week, Mark was at a Royal Society conference on changing research culture, where he was awarded a prize for changing research...
Learning to love what you do, and doing less to be more - lessons from training with The Productive Researcher one year on
This week, Mark revisits his most recent book, The Productive Researcher, published a year ago this month. As he has taken the book on the r...
Transformative and disruptive impact. Part 2 - for you as a researcher
In this episode, Mark explores how you can become more resilient as a researcher, using grant and publication rejection and workplace bullyi...