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Between ambition and evidence

June 11, 2015 | Public Programs
Measuring impact may be challenging, but does that mean we should accept a lack of ambition? Researchers in all fields are grappling with the challenge of how to measure impact (in many different contexts, which naturally leads to many different approaches), and so perhaps it is not surprising that the ‘impact culture’ is spreading to public engagement. But is the field rising to the challenge or should we think more broadly about how we demonstrate impact, perhaps freeing individual and smaller projects from the need to measure public impact and allowing them instead to focus on formative development? This editorial explores some of the issues in the field.

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  • Emma Weitkamp
    Author
    University of the West of England, Bristol
  • Citation

    ISSN : 1824-2049
    Publication Name: Journal of Science Communication
    Volume: 14
    Number: 2
    Resource Type: Reference Materials
    Discipline: General STEM
    Audience: General Public | Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Public Programs

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