Our impact strategy

The NCRM Impact Strategy Framework provides a detailed description of how NCRM conceptualises and understands the impact that it generates through its training and capacity-building (TCB) activities.

In our unique position – as a national provider of research methods TCB – our definition of impact, and the type of impacts that we generate, differ from those of research-focused projects and organisations.

We define impact as "the strong positive effect that our activities and resources have on our beneficiaries".

This covers a range of effects, which include:

• the effect of our activities and resources on the knowledge and skills of academic and non-academic researchers
• the effect that the application of newly acquired or improved skills has on the work of our beneficiaries and the subsequent effects of this work on others
• the effect that our activities have on the methodological landscape across and beyond the social sciences, and across different sectors.

During our current funding phase (2020-2025), we have collected and analysed different types of evidence to demonstrate the type of impacts we are generating.

Read our Impact Strategy Framework