Briefing note eight: Evaluating impact
Evaluating impact
From the beginning of your project think how you are going to monitor and evaluate public involvement and its impact throughout the project. Working with the people you involve, document and write up an evaluation of the public involvement in your research recording short and long term impacts. This will help you for future projects and provide valuable knowledge for other researchers looking to involve members of the public in their work.
Help to build the evidence base and let others know about what worked well and what didn’t and the impact of public involvement in your research by:
- including the information in your research reports
- publishing information on the impact in journal articles
- contacting INVOLVE to put an article in our newsletter
- adding details to the research project database on the INVOLVE website.
Find out more about reporting evaluating impact of public involvement in your study:
INVOLVE Evidence Library – a collection of references that consider the impact of public involvement in research
Exploring the impact: examples of public involvement in research
PiiAF – The Public Involvement Impact Assessment Framework and Guidance (Popay, Collins et al 2013)
Economic and Social Research Council impact record
Exploring impact study; public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research (Staley 2009)
What does it mean to involve consumers successfully in NHS research? A consensus study. (Telford et al 2004)
Public involvement in research applications to the National Research Ethics Committee (Tarpey 2011)