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Influencing ESRC research policy and practice

Showcasing our expertise in the design and implementation of tools to evaluate the impact of academic research on the behaviour of practitioners and policymakers.

We have developed significant expertise over the past decade in the design and implementation of tools to evaluate the impact of academic research on the behaviour of practitioners and policymakers. This extends beyond our own field to impact evaluations of specialist single disciplinary initiatives to various interdisciplinary research centres.

Our diverse projects illustrate how we have applied our expertise in different contexts and suggests a valuing of our approach, notably by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Research related to the impact of academics on tourism policy and practice has developed independently alongside our ESRC-funded projects.

Review of ESRC-DFID Impact Support, Synthesis and Cohort-Building Services for Joint Research Programmes (2020)
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Department for International Development (DFID)
- Team: Professor David Parsons, Dr Kate Dashper, Dr Neil Ormerod, Lucy McCombes, Dr Davina Stanford and Kenneth Walsh
Find out more on the ESRC website
Evaluation of ESRC-funded Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP) (2017)
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Team: Dr Neil Ormerod and Professor David Parsons
Evaluation of ESRC-funded Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) (2017)
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Team: Dr Neil Ormerod and Professor David Parsons
Evaluation of the role of intermediaries in promoting knowledge exchange and research impact (2016)
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Team: Professor David Parsons, Dr Neil Ormerod and Professor Rhodri Thomas
Evaluating the economic impact of social science: Impact ‘Valuation’ Study (2015)
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Team: Professor David Parsons and Professor Rhodri Thomas
Find out more on the ESRC website
Evaluating the economic impact of social science: Pilot Study of Impact ‘Valuation’ (2015)
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
- Team: Professor David Parsons and Professor Rhodri Thomas
Find out more on the ESRC website
Evaluation of the impact of research undertaken at three ESRC-funded centres: Centre for Micro-economic Analysis of Public Policy (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Centre for Competitive Advantage of Global Economics (University of Warwick) and Spatial Economics Research Centre (London School of Economics) (2014)
- Funder: The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Team: Professor David Parsons, Professor Rhodri Thomas, Professor Ian Strange and Mr Kenneth Walsh
Find out more on the ESRC website
Evaluation of the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University (2013)
- Funder: The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Team: Professor David Parsons, Professor Rhodri Thomas, Dr Tom Fletcher and Dr Ulrike Kachel
Find out more on the ESRC website

Outputs and recognition

Thomas, R. (2021). Problematising ‘The impact of tourism research’: A reply to Brauer, Dymitrow, and Tribe (2020). Annals of Tourism Research. 88: 1002968
Thomas, R. (2020). Affective subjectivation or moral ambivalence? Constraints on the promotion of sustainable tourism by academic researchers. Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Thomas, R. (2018). Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact Illusions, Myths and Marginal Sectors. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Thomas, R. and Ormerod, N. (2017) Founts of knowledge or delusions of grandeur? Limits and illusions of tourism research impact: a reply to Wood. Tourism Management, 62: 394 – 395
Thomas, R. and Ormerod, N. (2017) The (almost) imperceptible impact of tourism research on policy and practice. Tourism Management, 62: 379 – 389

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