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How to … Maximise Your Clinical Education Research Impact.
Danica Anne Sims1,2, John Sandars3, Wai Yee Amy Wong4
1Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
The Clinical Teacher
|March 4, 2026
Summary
Demonstrate research impact early and continuously for funding success. Engage beneficiaries to ensure relevance and plan for tangible outcomes beyond academia in Clinical Education Research.
Area of Science:
- Clinical Education Research
- Research Impact
- Postdoctoral Training
Background:
- Increasing funder and institutional expectations for research impact beyond academia.
- Limited practical guidance for Clinical Education Research (ClinEdR) on planning, achieving, and evidencing impact.
- Need for strategies to support postdoctoral researchers in demonstrating research value.
Purpose of the Study:
- Provide pragmatic advice for postdoctoral researchers to design fundable ClinEdR projects with demonstrable impact.
- Emphasize integrating impact considerations from the project's inception.
- Guide researchers in planning, achieving, and evidencing meaningful change.
Main Methods:
- Advocating for early and ongoing engagement with diverse research beneficiaries (educators, learners, institutions, policymakers, patients).
- Highlighting the value of clear impact goals and credible pathways, distinguishing outputs, outcomes, and benefits.
- Discussing methodological choices (participatory, design-based, implementation-focused) that embed change.
- Recommending impact checkpoints throughout the research lifecycle.
- Outlining audience-specific dissemination strategies and methods for evidencing impact beyond academic metrics.
Main Results:
- Early engagement shapes research questions, design, and outputs, enhancing grant applications and uptake.
- Clear impact goals and pathways increase the likelihood of achieving desired changes.
- Methodological choices and embedded checkpoints facilitate a non-linear, context-dependent impact realization.
- Deliberate dissemination and diverse evidence gathering strengthen research value.
Conclusions:
- Integrating impact thinking across the research lifecycle enhances ClinEdR relevance, reach, and value.
- Proactive impact planning and execution support postdoctoral researchers in meeting diverse expectations.
- This guide offers a framework for maximizing the societal and academic contributions of ClinEdR.
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