HRCI was delighted to welcome attendees to this in-person Irish Health Research Forum event in November 2022.
Everybody wants health and social care research to have positive impact for patients, the public, healthcare professionals or other so-called knowledge users. But what exactly do we mean by “impact”? How do we talk about it? Why is societal impact from health research so hard to realise? How do we better plan for it, measure it and report it? Who is responsible for ensuring that research outputs get used?
At this event we discussed how we can get better at achieving societal benefit from health research in Ireland.
We were delighted to welcome some inspiring contributors, including:
Sarah Bowman, Director of Strategic Engagement & Impact Assessment, Office of the Dean of Research, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Austin Warters; Manager of Services for Older People, HSE
Dr Virginia Minogue, Research Management Consultant, Adviser, Coach and Mentor; HSE Research and Development
Dr Graham Love; Partner, Mazars
Dr Maura Hiney, Head of International Cooperation, Evaluation and Targeted Programmes, Health Research Board
Dr Mark White, VP Research, Innovation & Grad studies, South East Technological University
Dr Avril Kennan, CEO, Health Research Charities Ireland