Impact Ignite 2025
From Ideas to Action: Practical Research Impact
25th & 26th November 2025
Novotel Southampton, UK
Welcome to Impact Ignite 2025
Where Research Impact Meets Practical Action
Impact Ignite 2025 is the essential conference for everyone driving research impact forward. Whether you’re a research impact officer, funder, policy maker, academic, or practitioner, this event is your opportunity to connect, collaborate, and ignite real-world change.
Unlike traditional conferences that focus primarily on sharing high-level research and theory, this event dives deeper into practical implementation and real-world applications that have enabled and supported research impact. Speakers will be asked to deliver concrete next steps, tangible strategies, and actionable tools that participants can immediately incorporate into their work. Our speakers will be encouraged to present beyond outcomes and to instead reveal the processes behind their successes and or “glorious failures. Through this focus this event aims to give attendees a clear roadmap for replication and adaptation. This event will provide a dynamic mix of presentations, lightning talks, table discussions, and hot seat sessions, ensuring abundant opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and collaboration. Attendees will leave equipped with new insights, applicable solutions, and a network of fellow professionals eager to share knowledge and support each other’s goals.
This isn’t just another conference—it’s a movement. Together, we’ll explore stories, strategies, tools, and solutions to accelerate and amplify the societal, economic, and environmental impacts of research.
No matter your role, Impact Ignite 2025 has something tailored for you:
- For Research Impact Officers and Managers: Learn actionable strategies to support your researchers and demonstrate measurable impact.
- For Funders and Policymakers: Discover innovative approaches to embedding impact in funding frameworks and decision-making.
- For Academics and Impact Practitioners: Share your success stories, find new tools, and collaborate on future projects.
- For Research Administrators: Gain insights into how to create a culture of impact in your institution.
- For Impact Champions: Connect with peers who are shaping the future of impact practices.
At Impact Ignite 2025, you’ll gain practical tools, fresh ideas, and meaningful connections to transform how you create, support, and communicate research impact.
Why Attend Impact Ignite 2025?
In today’s fast-paced research landscape, achieving real-world impact requires more than groundbreaking findings—it demands practical know-how, strategic thinking, and strong partnerships. At Impact Ignite 2025, we aim to bring together the brightest minds and forward-thinkers to explore:
- Proven Strategies: Discover frameworks and methodologies that have delivered measurable impact across disciplines.
- Collaborative Opportunities: Connect with peers, industry leaders, and policymakers to foster powerful partnerships.
- Actionable Insights: Leave with practical tools and steps you can implement immediately in your work.
- Real-World Examples: Learn from case studies showcasing successful and even unsuccessful pathways to research impact.
Who Should Attend?
This conference is designed for:
- Researchers aiming to amplify their work’s societal, economic, and environmental impact.
- Universities and institutions committed to embedding impact as a core part of their mission.
- Impact officers, research support staff, and professionals leading knowledge translation initiatives.
- Policymakers, industry leaders, and community organizations invested in research-driven innovation.
Conference Themes
Innovative Practices
Strategies, tools, or solutions that enhance research impact
Transformational Stories
Case studies that demonstrate tangible outcomes and lessons learned.
Collaborative Models
Examples of partnerships that have amplified research impact
Practical Insights
Evidence-based approaches to creating, capturing, or communicating impact.
Lessons for the Future
Reflections on successes, challenges, and what’s next in research impact.
Event Sponsors
