Impact at HDR UK
Our vision is that every patient, clinical trial, biomedical discovery and public health policy benefits from the use of large scale data and advanced analytics.
Impact at HDR UK is defined as:
Evidence of better health research through the use of better data infrastructure with demonstrable positive effects on:
- Health data science methods and technology
- Public trust
- Health and well-being
- Decision-making
- Research culture and capacity
This definition covers HDR UK’s potential impacts across time and programmes. Due to the long-term nature of delivering impactful change to people’s lives (generally 10 to 20 years), this definition will likely be used in the short term to measure our progress towards the potential of impact.
In line with HDR UK’s ambitions to redesign research assessment, the Impact Framework captures the value of team science in producing impact – and the culture that enables this. Of note, the framework is not meant to constrain impacts and programmes may make impacts across several areas.
Assessing impact
We encourage programmes across the Institute to prepare impact case studies for peer review each year.
The Impact Committee
Our Impact Committee meet each month to select the most impactful HDR UK research outputs.
Case Studies
Case study examples of how we have enabled research across the UK.