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.

Read our Impact Strategy Framework, which provides information on how we developed a theory of change on impact.

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. For more information, read our Impact Assessment Report.