Engagement and Impact

Work with a local community group, school, youth group, refugee organisation or adult learning group to explore how your research connects with their interests. This could generate co-produced resources or a small public event. 

Evidence could include interviews, participant feedback, co-designed outputs and community partner statements.

Design simple feedback mechanisms, such as surveys, interview questions, consent wording, teacher feedback forms and evidence logs. 

Many researchers do outreach but forget to collect usable evidence for impact.

Develop a short sequence of workshops linked to your research theme. 

Collect evidence before-and-after the workshops, using pupil surveys, teacher reflections, photographs, attendance numbers and follow-up activities.

Design a workshop helping teachers use current research in archaeology, ancient history or classics in the classroom. This is especially useful because teachers become multipliers: one session can influence many pupils over time. 

Evidence could include teacher evaluations, later classroom use and examples of adapted lesson plans. 

Develop a web resource around your research theme, with clear audience pathways: “For teachers”, “For students”, “For families”, “For community groups”. 

Evidence could include analytics, downloads, embedded feedback forms and partner use.

Turn a research project into downloadable teaching resources for primary, secondary or sixth-form teachers: lesson plans, worksheets, object-based activities, enquiry questions, slides and teacher notes. 

Evidence could include teacher feedback, pupil responses, downloads, classroom use and testimonials.

Develop a structured independent research challenge for sixth-formers, linked to academic research. This could include research questions, source packs, object evidence, reading lists and guidance on how to build an argument.

Create a set of short blogs, videos or social media posts that translate your research project into accessible stories. This works best when paired with feedback prompts or events, rather than simply broadcasting content. 

Evidence could include reach, engagement, comments, shares and qualitative responses.

Create a family or school trail connected to a museum display, archive, excavation or heritage site. This could include activity sheets, sensory prompts, object questions and “think like an archaeologist” tasks. 

Evidence could include visitor numbers, feedback cards, observations, museum staff comments and repeat use.

Create a portable handling or replica-based resource linked to your research project.

 Evidence could include school borrowing records, user feedback, pupil work and teacher testimonials.