Research Impact
Helping world-leading research reach further
The Research Impact campaign focuses on three short videos about engaging and impactful scientific research developed in the UK and disseminated by publishers.
The aim of the campaign is to champion the UK’s scientific output, showcasing why it is one of the best places in the world to conduct academic research, and demonstrating how this benefits the public.
The campaign highlights the key partnership role of academic publishers in supporting the research community and helping UK research reach further.
The research featured in the videos includes the economics of the green energy transition, technology in elite women’s football and quantum physics. Researchers from Oxford, Cambridge, and St Mary’s Universities explain their research and how publishing has helped it have greater impact.
Research Impact: Why are women footballers still using kit made for men?
Dr Katrine Kryger, Ten questions in sports engineering: technology in elite women’s football, St Mary’s University, published in Sports Engineering (Springer Nature).
Research Impact: How to save the world $12 trillion
Dr Rupert Way, Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition, Oxford University, published in Joule (Elsevier).
Research Impact: Breaking down the barriers of complex systems
Dr Carmem Gilardoni, Spin-relaxation times exceeding seconds for color centers with strong spin–orbit coupling in SiC, Cambridge University, published in The New Journal of Physics (IOPP).