Speaker Bio: Dr Julie Bayley is Associate Professor and Director of Research Impact and Culture at Northeastern University London. She was previously Director of Research Impact Development and founder/Director of the Lincoln Impact Literacy Institute (LILI), both at the University of Lincoln (UK), working extensively on impact development and REF. Julie undertakes extensive consultancy and commissioned research on impact across the sector, and collaborates nationally and internationally on initiatives to build healthy, impact-literate practice. She won the ARMA INORMS Excellence in Research Management Leadership award (2025), Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) ‘Impact Innovations’ award (2022) and ARMA Research Impact Award (2015), and her bestselling book ‘Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset’ was published in April 2023. Julie is a BPS Chartered Psychologist and HCPC Registered Health Psychologist with a PhD in Health Psychology and Impact, and undertakes a range of research in health, impact, patient engagement and patient-centred outcomes. She is Policy Lead for the BPS Division of Health Psychology, member of the REF2029 Research Diversity Advisory Panel and previously Director of Qualifications for the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA). Outside of her professional life, Julie is a involved in multiple projects as a vascular patient advocate and was a dementia carer for many years.