Measuring Research Impact

In 2023, the British Academy, in association with the Academy of Social Sciences, commissioned a team of researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (University of Oxford) to carry out a piece of research that would explore research impact for the SHAPE disciplines (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy), looking at the body of impact case studies submitted to the most recent research assessment exercise in the UK (REF2021).

Explore the stories, successes and societal benefits of UK research in SHAPE disciplines: Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy. Provides access to the Impact Case Studies submitted to the United Kingdom's Research Excellence Framework of 2021.

A Canadian network of universities, colleges, and scholarly associations. Provides a collection of resources for assessing research impact in humanities and social sciences.

2017 report from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Provides a set of recommendations.

A YouTube recording of the Round Table at John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University (2023)

Pedersen, D. B., Grønvad, J. F., & Hvidtfeldt, R. (2020). Methods for mapping the impact of social sciences and humanities—A literature review. Research Evaluation, 29(1), 4–21.

2010. Provides a framework of academic, policy, practice, and wider societal and economic impacts.

An initiative that provides values-enacted frameworks for understanding and evaluating all aspects of the scholarship in humanities and social sciences.

A guide from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.