How we’re learning
Understanding impact
We embrace a learning-led and flexible model that supports real-time evaluation, reflective practice, and transparent sharing of both success and failure.
Our approach to understanding impact is that it is:
Co-produced: working with the Impact Alliance, Enablers and Change Makers to design an approach to understanding impact
Meaningful: that it is useful and meaningful for everyone involved, taking account of people and organisations being interested in a range of different outcomes
Flexible: can adapt and apply to the very wide range of organisations and communities we are working with
Our principles for understanding impact are that it is:
Beneficial: committed to learning, ethical, applicable
Robust: rigorous, open minded, proportionate
People-centred : empathetic, many-voiced, socially engaged
Situated: community focussed, culturally responsive
Flexible: adaptable, responsive, reflective
Transparent: open data, awareness/ sharing across the Alliance, learning from failure, shared with others
Participants
If you are taking part in an Impact Alliance activity, and have been invited to help us to understand our impact, please find some useful information here.
More information
Who’s taking part, what information is collected, how it will be used, how long it will be kept and more.
Your Wellbeing
Sources of support and advice, particularly ones which are local to the six Pilot Communities.
Contacts
If you have any questions at all, please contact us:
Dr Karen Gray, karen.gray@bristol.ac.uk or 0117 455 6611.
Concerns or complaints? If you have concerns about the research, please contact: Professor Helen Manchester: helen.manchester@bristol.ac.uk.
Or to make an independent complaint: University of Bristol Research Governance Team on research-governance@bristol.ac.uk .