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Maximizing Applied Research Impact on Scientific Career Growth

Learn how to utilize applied research to enhance, not hinder, your scientific career. Understand the benefits and challenges of engaging with practitioners, creating "living human laboratories of practice" to validate strategies, and managing interactions to drive international agendas. Discover how to balance income generation with academic independence, produce quality outputs, and impact policy communities effectively.

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Maximizing Applied Research Impact on Scientific Career Growth

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  1. How to use applied research to build upon rather than distract from a scientific career • Angela Hull, Heriot-Watt University

  2. Applied Research • Dialectical relationship with practitioners is to mutual benefit • ‘living human laboratories of practice’ to test and validate different strategies • Timing and relevance of contribution • Requires entrepreneurial approach to work

  3. But will this detract from your career advancement and promotion chances? • Income generation • Publish or perish • Impact of research on policy community • Impact of research on international agendas

  4. Managing interaction with practice • Protect academic independence • Need clients, who seek and pay for deeper level of reflection • Build up tacit knowledge

  5. Quality Outputs from Applied Research • AIM: Drive international theory and policy and practice agendas • Strong theory and method required • Need extra substance from engagement with practice to: • Produce good research questions fully explored • Fully contextualise writing • More significance: going further/saying more • Strong conclusions and return to theory

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