3. Policy influence
Identify priorities and experience
Policy
Partnerships with government agencies
Create strategic outputs tailored for policy
analysts and official advisory bodies
Find policy champions and provide them
with actionable recommendations and
evidence
Use existing networks and connections
4. Commercial and hobbyist users
Articles and advice in trade press
Partner with commercial entities
Crowdsourced involvement
Involve RKT help structures to explore
impact interfaces
Innovations for use and solutions testing
Users
5. NGOs and conservationists
Participation on committees
Supply and disseminate evidence
Inform and influence activities
Work with their press offices
Collaborative public engagement
NGOs
6. Industry
Communications in trade press
Executive education and training
Regional and national partnerships for
epidemiology studies
Plug into RKT expertise to explore the
impact interface
Academic-industry exchanges
Industry
7. The wider public
Translate findings
Press releases
Develop case studies, features and
other communications outputs
Establish support and training for public
engagement activities
Multi-author blogging and social media
techniques
Publics
8. Work closely from the beginning
Early, active, sustained, engagement with
the academic team
9. Inspire a sense of opportunity
Impact should excite your creative juices.