Research Department, Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, Pinderfields Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, WF1 4AL, UK.
Primary Care Sheffield, Fifth Floor, 722 Prince of Wales Road, Sheffield, S9 4EU, UK.
BMC Res Notes. 2023 Oct 5;16(1):255. doi: 10.1186/s13104-023-06526-5.
There is increasing focus to review the societal impact of research through assessment and research excellence frameworks. These often link to financial and reputational incentives within the academic community. However, timeframes to demonstrate impact using these approaches are often long and are not designed to show benefit to service collaborators who require evidence of improvement and change to their services more immediately. Impacts that are measured this way may also miss out on unintended and positive impacts that occur as by-products of research, or through the 'ripple effect' that research may have on practice. Importantly, demonstrating how research makes a difference can improve the research culture in services, and motivations in service partners to become, and stay involved in research. This article describes, and provides access to, a tool called VICTOR (making Visible the ImpaCT Of Research) that was developed by a community of practice involving 12 NHS organisations through blending evidence from the literature, practice and service users. We describe the types of impact that have been collected by VICTOR and explore how collecting impact in this way might help research-practice partnerships and inform research methodologies and may be useful to show impacts alongside, and shortly after the research process.
越来越多的人关注通过评估和卓越研究框架来审查研究的社会影响。这些框架通常与学术界的财务和声誉激励措施相关联。然而，使用这些方法来展示影响的时间框架通常很长，并且不能证明对服务合作者有好处，因为他们需要更直接地看到服务改进和变革的证据。通过这种方式衡量的影响也可能会错过研究产生的意外的积极影响，或者研究对实践产生的“涟漪效应”。重要的是，展示研究的作用可以改善服务中的研究文化，以及服务合作伙伴参与和保持研究的动机。本文描述了一种名为 VICTOR（展示研究的影响）的工具，该工具由一个由 12 个 NHS 组织组成的实践社区开发，通过融合文献、实践和服务用户的证据。我们描述了 VICTOR 收集的影响类型，并探讨了以这种方式收集影响如何帮助研究实践伙伴关系，并为研究方法提供信息，并且可能有助于在研究过程中以及之后不久展示影响。
