Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
Director, Natural Capital Challenge Centre, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship at SRUC | Impact training @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social (he/him). Get my new book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy: tkqlhce.com/click-10125883… .. more
Director, Natural Capital Challenge Centre, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship at SRUC | Impact training @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social (he/him). Get my new book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy: tkqlhce.com/click-10125883…
Mark C Reed is an American academic administrator who is the 25th president of Loyola University of Chicago in Chicago. Prior to his tenure at Loyola, Reed served as the first lay president of St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. .. more
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How should policy actors respond to buzzwords? Three ways to deal with policy ambiguity - Policy Sciences
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New paper by @paulcairney.bsky.social explores three options for dealing with the latest buzzword in your field: define, deliberate and do link.springer.com/article/10.1...
When there's a new policy buzzword everyone is jumping on, that connects with your research, should you "provide broad direction, deliberate to tailor policy to new contexts, or carry on regardless"?
The last paper I workshoped like this won "best paper" award and is gaining citations rapidly, but I'm hoping for more real-world impact from this endeavour...
To launch the Third Edition of my impact handbook, I'm hosting a workshop with foundational and disruptive figures in the global impact field to reflect on the future of the impact agenda.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available!
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
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The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
Co-author a paper with me and other leaders in impact, to shape the future of the field. By working with people from different disciplines, outside academia and from around the world, I want to build a future agenda for impact that changes how governments and HE pursues impact.
Launching the third edition of The Research Impact Handbook
The third edition of The Research Impact Handbook has been released, building on its reputation as a practical guide for planning, delivering and evaluating impact. To mark this milestone, an internat...
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Find out more: www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/launchi...
Book your place (2-3 pm, 22 Jan 2026): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
Book your place (2-3 pm, 22 Jan 2026): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available!
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
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To launch the Third Edition of my impact handbook, I'm hosting a workshop with foundational and disruptive figures in the global impact field to reflect on the future of the impact agenda.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
Workshop attendees are invited to co-author an agenda-setting co-authored paper in Research Evaluation.
buff.ly
🤩 The Third Edition of The Research Impact Handbook is now available!
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
The updated volume offers clear guidance for strengthening the reach and application of research.
During the Routledge Black Friday sale, get 25% off! Valid until 2 December.
📚 www.routledge.com/The-Research...
What types of LIS research are preferred in evidence-informed public policy development? Investigating differences in policy citations of Review Articles and Original Research - Cuihua Li, Qianjin Zon...
Academic research, including library and information science (LIS) studies, cited as evidence for public policy development, is becoming increasingly prevalent....
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More evidence that review articles are used more widely than original research articles to inform policy, and yet so the academic incentives are for original research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Researcher’s Guide to Influencing Policy : Reed, Mark S.: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Reinforcing
The European Platform for Open and Responsible R&I Practices
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Free workshop: co-creation approaches in research (run by the EU-funded REINFORCING Project)
📅 Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00–17:00 CET
Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
📅 Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00–17:00 CET
Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/reinfor...
(based on counterfactual-based impact evaluation methods for assessing the impact of conservation projects, but relevant to many types of projects seeking to evaluate their impact). Thanks to Society for Conservation Biology for developing this tool!
Interactive Methods Selection by scb-impact
A decision framework tool for impact evaluation in conservation
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New interactive impact evaluation tool helps you choose the best method based on the context of your research, including types of data produced, timescales and project scales scb-impact.itch.io/interactive-...
Professor Mark Reed
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· Oct 27
Policy Options in Peatland Conservation and Restoration: A Review of the UNEP Global Peatlands Assessment and Future Strategy for Global Governance | Published in Mires and Peat
By Rosie Gearey, Mark S. Reed & 8 more. Article 32.25: Formulates three overarching recommendations to assist nations in improving effectiveness of their contributions within international and global ...
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3. Support locally led restoration, ensure fair benefit sharing, and build capacity for monitoring and adaptive management.
Read the paper (PDF): www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1461...
Read the paper (PDF): www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1461...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 25
1. Align national laws and international commitments, clarify responsibilities across agencies, and strengthen reporting
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 25
New paper led by Rosie Geary with colleagues from the chapter I led in UNEP's Global Peatlands Assessment, integrating assessment findings with new literature to highlight options to improve peatland policy and practice around the world:
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
Journal Articles & Books | Mark Reed
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I've updated the "featured articles" on my website including links to accompanying blogs, podcast episodes, slide decks, videos and more www.profmarkreed.com/journal-arti...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
Sustainability Science
Sustainability Science is a hybrid journal that probes interactions between global, social, and human systems, the complex mechanisms that lead to degradation ...
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Sustainability Science Best Paper Awards: link.springer.com/journal/1162...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world - Sustainability Science
Language matters in shaping perceptions and guiding behaviour. The term stakeholder is widely used, yet little attention is paid to the possibility that its use may inadvertently perpetuate colonial n...
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2024 paper: Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
But what I learned from these colleagues as we wrote this paper has changed me as a person, and that means more than any best paper award.
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
Episode 3: Extreme coproduction
Podcast Episode · Fast Track Impact · 03/02/2022 · 32m
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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e.... Writing this paper was a 6-year journey from concept to completion, a time during which we all changed significantly as people, leading to our parting of ways, and I still have a long way to go until I catch them up.
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
(to avoid white centring, they suggested I mothball the paper entirely). I discussed the journey that ultimately took me to publishing the paper (with a positionality statement in which I apologised for the epistemic racism of my PhD papers) in this podcast episode:
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
The dual-authored 2023 paper was also one of the most contraversial papers I've written. Although seemingly only written by me and Hannah, it was significantly shaped by 3 co-authors who withdrew and asked not to be named for fear that the paper was racist - and they were right
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
This turned into a paper in which all the best insights came from my co-authors - all I had to do was create the space for everyone to do the thinking, and bring it all together into something resembling a coherent argument.
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
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We literally workshopped the 2024 paper via an open invitation on social media. What started as a Twitter spat between me and Laurie Prange over a blog that I hastily re-wrote after she won me over to the "right side of history" (www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/why-we-....
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 19
Fascinating that it is these two papers that have won "best paper" award in the journal Sustainability Science (impact factor = 5.3) in 2023 and 2024. What's interesting is that both papers were amongst the most collaborative I've ever written...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 17
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions
Abstract. This paper examines the use of hyperbolic and promotional language, or ‘hype’, in the impact case studies submitted to the 2021 Research Excellen
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New linguistic analysis suggests less applied subjects and impact case studies focussed on technology or culture were more likely to use hyperbolic and promotional language, or ‘hype’ thank other case studies in REF2021 academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 16
A new AI prompt to boost your policy impact
Many researchers want to influence policy but don’t know where to start. A new AI prompt can help you identify opportunities tailored to your work. By giving ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot links to your...
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New AI prompt to boost your policy impact - I've used this to help a number of colleagues now and keep getting surprised at the amount of useful ideas that come up. Interested to know how this works for you if you try it out...? www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/a-new-a...
Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 16
Why the impact agenda needs deeper roots
If you’ve ever seen me train or read my books (and increasingly my papers), you’ll know how much I foreground values in everything I do. Values shape what we do because they shape who we are. Sometime...
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Professor Mark Reed
@profmarkreed.com
· Oct 16
My question: what would happen if you reconnected the impact agenda to your deepest sources of value, whether faith-based or secular?