The School of Management’s Research Impact Coordinator support researchers to identify, evidence and enhance the impact of their research.

Research impact is defined as an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia.

We are looking for a postgraduate level Casual Administrative Assistants to assist with the identification and generation of impact opportunities and help collect evidence of School of Management and University of Bath research impact.  The activities this might include:

• Carrying out online searches of evidence of impact in the grey literature (Primary role).
• Interviewing key stakeholders.
• Evaluating research impact activities and/or projects.
• Reviewing existing research information systems such as PURE, Researchfish and Altmetric to identify and track research impact.

The job will involve working with the School of Management’s Research Impact Coordinator and meeting with researchers to gain an understanding of their research insights what impacts they hope to achieve / have achieved to date; identifying potential sources of evidence of impact including key stakeholders; undertaking online searches that are likely to lead to evidence of impact; actively identifying information from external sources to enrich our existing data; and manually populating Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PURE to record findings.

This job will require a self-motivated individual with great attention to detail, the ability to work independently, and IT proficiency. Familiarity with the research environment, previous experience of conducting desk-based research (i.e. literature reviews, rapid reviews, online information searching, grey literature) and use of research information systems such as Altmetric and PURE is desirable.  Knowledge and experience of conducting evaluations together with experience and skills in qualitative and quantitative data collection methods are also desirable.  Training will be provided based on applicant’s experience and needs.