Who ultimately benefits most from data-intensive research?
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:06 am
headshot of Eric Jensenheadshot of Mark ReedEric Jensen and Mark Reed, in the second of two blog posts, explore who benefited from data-intensive research in the UK and Australia.
Many researchers hope that the data that they generate will make a positive difference in the world. As established in our previous blog post, such impact is rarely delivered directly through research data alone.
Instead, active measures are required to vietnam rcs data augment research data in targeted ways to deliver impact.
Here, we present further findings from our research commissioned by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) aimed at revealing how research data contributes to non-academic impacts.
This research draws on a secondary analysis of existing impact case studies from the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the Australia Research Council (ARC) Engagement and Impact Assessment 2018.
Who benefited from the research data-linked impact?
Professionals (50% UK), government, policy, or policymakers (42% UK; 28% Australia), industry and business (38% UK; 21% Australia), and specific publics (16%) were the most common types of beneficiaries from the research data-linked impacts we analysed.
This finding is indicative of a two-step flow from data to impact that ultimately reaches publics or wider non-academic stakeholders:
intermediaries such as the government, policymakers, and businesses are typically the primary beneficiaries of research data-based impacts;
however.
Many researchers hope that the data that they generate will make a positive difference in the world. As established in our previous blog post, such impact is rarely delivered directly through research data alone.
Instead, active measures are required to vietnam rcs data augment research data in targeted ways to deliver impact.
Here, we present further findings from our research commissioned by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) aimed at revealing how research data contributes to non-academic impacts.
This research draws on a secondary analysis of existing impact case studies from the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the Australia Research Council (ARC) Engagement and Impact Assessment 2018.
Who benefited from the research data-linked impact?
Professionals (50% UK), government, policy, or policymakers (42% UK; 28% Australia), industry and business (38% UK; 21% Australia), and specific publics (16%) were the most common types of beneficiaries from the research data-linked impacts we analysed.
This finding is indicative of a two-step flow from data to impact that ultimately reaches publics or wider non-academic stakeholders:
intermediaries such as the government, policymakers, and businesses are typically the primary beneficiaries of research data-based impacts;
however.