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Want your scientific research to be more accessible and meaningful?

  • Bridge the gap between research and impact.
  • Improve awareness of different audiences’ needs and expectations.
  • Gain confidence and skills for communicating research impact succinctly and in plain language.
  • Develop the know-how to approach research communication strategically.
  • Build your professional development with a microcredential.

What’s the course about?

Amplify Your Impact addresses a common challenge in research: translating complex, technical work into compelling messages that resonate with the right audiences.

It’s for researchers at any stage of their careers who are seeking to enhance the social, productivity, or commercial impact of their projects.

It equips them with the skills and knowledge to communicate their work effectively to diverse audiences. Its practical elements are directly applicable to any research project’s outputs and stakeholder engagement plans.

The course, offered as a microcredential through Impact Innovation,  emphasises practical applications, such as writing in plain English, leveraging visual tools, and addressing cultural and ethical considerations, enabling participants to bridge the gap between research and its societal impact.

These are transferable skills that benefit research careers, collaborative partnerships, and ongoing professional development.

How will it help my research team?

This microcredential is highly relevant for research academics, and professionals seeking to boost the visibility and influence of their work. Effective communication is critical when securing funding, building collaborations, and engaging with communities, industry, and policymakers.

The course aligns with industry expectations and best practices, fostering skills that enhance trust, credibility, and engagement across diverse platforms and audiences. It addresses critical gaps in translating complex research into accessible formats for different stakeholders, which is a requirement across ARC funding applications, research impact frameworks, and innovation management systems.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the program, participants will have:

  • A clear understanding of what research impact is and how to communicate it effectively.
  • Demonstrated ability to approach research impact communication strategically.
  • Developed a plan and a compelling elevator pitch to drive research impact communication activities.
  • Gained practical skills for crafting meaningful messages for different audiences and communication opportunities.
  • Learned how to integrate ISO Innovation Management Standards into communication strategies and AS ISO 24495.1:2024 Plain language into communication practices.
  • Applied their learning to specific communication opportunities.

How is it delivered?

Over 10 weeks, participants gain tools and techniques to communicate research impact clearly, credibly and confidently across a range of formats.

The sessions are usually run live, with self-paced learning between sessions by accessing curated resources from a dedicated online learning hub. However, it can be tailored to include in-person sessions depending on the organisation’s preferences.

What does the microcredential involve?

Impact Innovation can offer participants a microcredential for their professional development portfolios if they submit work for assessment. This microcredential aligns with Australia’s National Microcredentials Framework’s principles, requirements and minimum standards, including:

  • assessed learning or competency
  • verifiable skills and knowledge
  • minimum volume of learning of one hour and fewer hours than an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) award qualification
  • outcome-based
  • responsive and relevant to industry-need
    portability

Impact Innovation is not a registered training organisation (RTO); therefore, the evidence of participation with assessment completion is a non-credit microcredential. However, participants may choose to submit this microcredential when seeking recognised prior learning (RPL) towards a formal qualification. The decision to accept the microcredential as evidence of assessed prior learning will be at the discretion of the RTO issuing the qualification.

Impact Innovation will award a digital certificate to each participant who satisfactorily completes the participation and assessment requirements for this microcredential.

To book or learn more about the Amplify Your Impact key comms skills for research teams, call 0439 53 43 55 or send an email request to: service@presencecommunications.com.au

“The standard of the communication documents produced by the participants demonstrated the program’s practical value.

When our researchers communicate better, our entire innovation system benefits. In a high-stakes funding environment, the ability to produce high-quality, targeted documentation without the need to rework it for different audiences improves organisational efficiency.

By focusing on research impact rather than project milestones, our teams gained transferable skills for turning complex data into something influential, and that has supported the entire organisation to move confidently toward its goals.”

Avril Hogan, Chief Operations Officer, One Basin CRC