“We say that either you do research or you do impact, or either you do rigor or you do relevance. But in practice, it is a continuum, and...

"How do we build a bridge between the poor and the rich? The formal and the informal? How do we not exacerbate this divide? At UCT, we...

“Since academia is taking up a lot of my time, pursuing any kind of impact must go hand-in-hand with keeping my emotional well-being in...

“Impact can mean different things for different people. For me, impact is really about being somehow relevant for society and...

"To me, impact is at the core of our job and why we exist as academics. It should be just a natural part of our job. It is a...

“For me impact is more about a dual interaction between public and academia. I see it as a two-sided process, especially for qualitative...

“From a broader perspective, I consider impact as directly or indirectly contributing to the movement towards a more sustainable economy...

“For me, impact is about helping others. I’m just helping individuals and organizations to accomplish impact by doing things differently”...

“I am just one person, no policy-maker really cares about me. When people start to be informed about what’s really going on in the world,...

“I have always been driven by the question ‘How can I leave the world around me better off?’, and that has been a big motivation for...

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Impact Scholar Community, we invited Judith Walls (University of St. Gallen) and...

"I work with different collaborators in these different areas, and it allows me to really leverage my specific expertise with regards to...

“Impact is about incrementally transforming the lives of the people: our students, the people on our campus, and the managers that we...

“Recently, someone from the organization I conducted my PhD research at messaged me to say that thanks to my research they included...

“Impact for me is changing the ecological and social conditions in communities, and bringing all of that experience and knowledge to the...

Impact as a Process “We need to stop ourselves from thinking about impact as the direct and measurable outcome and instead see it as a...

"In my mind, we, as researchers, are not doing research to have an extra bunch of papers in the library or online. Instead, it is the...

“Having impact requires genuine intention: The will to have an impact, being committed, and making the effort,” says Sara Lindeman. Sara...

“As an academic, you can have an impact in different ways but for me, it is about combining academic research with making an impact”,...