Research for Impact
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Research for Impact at Coursera Overview
Duration | 20 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Research for Impact at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 20 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Research for Impact at Coursera Course details
- In this course, you will learn more about the Research for Impact approach - a set of principles and practices that will help you to make your research more impactful. Traditionally, the goals and outcomes of research projects were to contribute knowledge and communicate this knowledge through academic publications and journal articles. But If we truly want our research to have an impact, we need to do research differently. Research that influences change in policy, practice, behaviour and attitudes.
- On this six-week journey, Jesse DeMaria-Kinney and Mark New share their experience of the Adaptation at Scale for Semi-arid Regions (ASSAR) Project, where they developed and refined the Research for Impact approach. They are joined by researchers and practitioners who followed this approach in their research. Together you will explore the five elements of the Research for Impact approach, i.e. Theory of Change; Stakeholder Engagement and Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Communication, Capacity Development; and Influencing. You will also get opportunities to hear from researchers and practitioners on the ground who followed this approach, and hopefully become inspired and equipped to incorporate these principles into your own research projects.
- The course is free to enroll and take. You will be offered the option of purchasing a certificate of completion, which you become eligible for if you successfully complete the course requirements. This can be an excellent way of staying motivated! Financial Aid is also available.
Research for Impact at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Research for Impact
Welcome to the course
Bringing about change
Climate change and complex systems
Wicked problems and adaptation research
What is Research for Impact?
Elements of Research for Impact
Why researchers use Research for Impact
Case study: India - Adaptation along the rural-urban continuum - Chandni Singh
Case study: Botswana - Climate change adaptation: Perceptions vs. reality - Hillary Masundire
Case study: India - How vulnerability and climate change impacts migration from the deltas - Sumana Banerjee
Meet the course team
What to expect in Week 1
Dancing with systems
Adaptation is a wicked problem
Research ethics, principles and practice
Research impact
Case study: India - Adaptation along the rural-urban continuum - Chandni Singh
Case study: Botswana - Climate change adaptation: Perceptions vs. reality - Hillary Masundire
Learning guide tips
Week 1 resources
Glossary of Acronyms
Research for Impact approach
Week 1: Research for Impact
Planning for Impact
Introduction to Week 2
Social change and complexity
Planning for change with a complexity lens
Impact pathways in Research for Impact
Understanding the system you want to influence
Choosing your strategies
Observing, reflecting and adjusting
Case study: Ethiopia - Mitigating the effects of Prosopis Juliflora - Mark Tebboth
Case study: Ethiopia - Mitigating the effects of Prosopis Juliflora - Alemayehu Zewdie
In conversation with Marta
What to expect in Week 2
Theory of Change
Gender
Monitoring and learning
Case study: Ethiopia - Mitigating the effects of Prosopis Juliflora
Week 2 resources
Adjusting your course
Engaging and Partnering
Introduction to Week 3
Strategic partnerships
Why should I work with stakeholders?
Who are my stakeholders anyway?
Principles of stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder engagement methodologies
Power and politics in climate change research and action
Case study: Ghana Using Transformative Scenario Planning to identify community problems and collaboratively develop solutions - Prince Ansah
Case study: Botswana - Using Transformative Scenario planning and Vulnerability Risk Assessments to include community knowledge in policymaking - Chandapiwa Molefe
Researchers share their practical challenges in using the Research for Impact approach
In conversation with Daniel
What to expect in week
Participatory processes
Introducing power analysis
Case Study: Ghana - Using Transformative Scenario Planning to identify community problems and collaboratively develop solutions - Prince Ansah
Case Study: Botswana - Using Transformative Scenario planning and Vulnerability Risk Assessments to include community knowledge in policymaking - Chandapiwa Molefe
Week 3 resources
Stakeholder engagement and power relations
Week 3: Engaging and Partnering
Communicating for Impact
Introduction to Week 4
Why strategic communications?
Strategic communications and the Research for Impact elements
Planning for effective research communication - Part I
Planning for effective research communication - Part II
Planning for effective research communication - Part III
Knowledge systems, management, analysis and brokers
Case study: Ghana - Strategic communications for impact - Kwasi Appeaning Addo
In conversation with Prathigna
What to expect in week 4
Know your audience and craft your message
Channels - getting the message across
The elevator pitch
Case study: Ghana - Strategic communications for impact - Kwasi Appeaning Addo
Week 4 resources
Research communications and knowledge systems
Building Capacities
Introduction to week 5
Why do we need capacity development?
Developing researchers' capacities
Developing others' capacities
Different types and aspects of capacity development - part 1
Different types and aspects of capacity development - part 2
How to develop capacities
Dealing with challenges
Case Study India - Developing Stakeholder Capacity through games and 3D models - Renie Thomas
In conversation with Edmond and Amadou
What to expect in week 5
Whose capacities need to be developed?
Case Study India - Developing Stakeholder Capacity through games and 3D models - Renie Thomas
Week 5 resources
Capacity Development
Week 5: Capacity Development
Influencing for Impact
Introduction to Week 6
What is Power and Influence
Influence in Research for Impact
Who Are We Trying To Influence?
How to build an influencing strategy
Linking the elements in an influencing strategy
Case Study: Ghana - Diversifying capacity development activities to influence diverse stakeholder groups - Adiku Prosper Yaw
Researchers share their practical tips for using the Research for Impact approach
Course wrap-up and reflections
What to expect in week 6
Planning for Influence
Using evidence to influence policy
Killer facts
Case Study: Ghana - Diversifying capacity development activities to influence diverse stakeholder groups - Adiku Prosper Yaw
Week 6 resources
Week 6: Influencing
Week 6: Research for Impact
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