Examples of our impact

To help us achieve our impact, we gather information on the outcomes of our work through a variety of activities. These include gathering case studies, conducting surveys and running the NCRM Impact Prize.

Researchers who have participated in our activities, whether as learners, trainers or collaborators, have provided us with 70 case studies about the impact they have achieved following their involvement with NCRM. A selection of these are available to read below.

Case studies

Click on the below links to read some of our case studies. Authors include a training participant, a course leader, a resource user, the leader of a research project and the organisers of a scheme to support resarchers in the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Enhancing the measurement of sentence severity to ensure the accuracy of the sentencing guidelines project
• How NCRM enabled me to think through ethnographic fieldwork problems during the pandemic
• Attending Helen Kara’s course on creative research methods
• Impact of leading a participatory action research teaching session at NCRM
• Changing research methods practices (CRP): undertaking social science research in the context of Covid-19

If you would like to write a case study about how NCRM has helped you, email Dr Rose Lindsey, Senior Research Fellow: r.lindsey@soton.ac.uk.

NCRM Impact Prize

In the 2023 edition of the NCRM Impact Prize, researchers were asked to tell us about the impact of their involvement with NCRM since January 2020. NCRM received nearly 50 applications. Summaries of the applications of our winners are available via the links below.

• Lucía Guerrero Rivière: Impacts of participatory film training
• AALC and Inspire Women Oldham: Creative co-production methods for collaborative social change
• Tess Hartland: Co-produced creative methods
• Professor Jane Hirst and team: Enhancing maternity care through interdisciplinary collaboration and data science
• Dr Leon Moosavi: Decolonial research methods
• Dr Nicola Simpson: Co-creation in mental health spaces

User survey

Findings from our activities show that NCRM training is having both short-term and long-term impacts. For example, in a survey of people who had attended NCRM events since January 2020, two thirds of respondents said that they had already used their new or improved skills.

Further details from our surveys will be published in the near future.