The EARMAimpact Lunchtime Webinar Series Returns with a focus on Impact Culture
Following the success of the 2024–2025 lunchtime series, the EARMAimpact Training Working Group is pleased to announce the next EARMAimpact Webinar Series. Running from October 2025 through Summer 2026, the series will focus on thematic clusters, starting with Impact Culture (Oct–Dec 2025).
The autumn sessions will explore how research organisations can embed a culture of impact through leadership, structures, and everyday practice.
Confirmed sessions:
- October 8, 2025: “Cornerstones of Impact Management” by Anne-Maree Dowd (Principal Consultant, Tractuum Pty Ltd; former Executive Manager for Performance and Impact, CSIRO; Editor of Cornerstones of Impact Management)
- November 12, 2025: “Freeze, flex, fight: Academics' responses to the impact agenda and how to navigate them” by Stefan de Jong (Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam; expert in the organization and evaluation of societal impact)
- December 10, 2025: “Scaling and Sustaining Impact Culture Across Institutions” by Paula Adam (Head of Research Lab, AQuAS, Government of Catalonia; Co-founder, International School on Research Impact Assessment) and Jonathan Grant (Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, KAUST; Author of The New Power University)
Please note that recordings of all webinars are available under the EARMAimpact resource share. Join us this autumn to explore how research organisations can strengthen their culture of impact through leadership, strategy, and practice!
Speakers
Anne-Maree Dowd
Session 1: Cornerstones of Impact Management
Impact is a buzzword, yet many institutions still struggle to weave it into the very fabric of their organisation. In this lunchtime session, Anne-Maree Dowd will explore why internal alignment and leadership are the twin pillars of embedding an impact-orientation across your entire institution.
Dr Anne-Maree Dowd (OrgPsych), Principal Consultant at Tractuum Pty Ltd, is a highly regarded expert in corporate strategy, portfolio and impact management, enterprise performance, and evaluation. For 12 years she was the Executive Manager for Performance and Impact at Australia's national science agency (CSIRO), where she built an organisation-wide impact maturity level unmatched by any other Australian organisation. Dr Dowd is lead Editor and Author of a new book "Cornerstones of Impact Management", published in April 2025, was written in collaboration with leading global contributors to advance thought leadership in the field.
Dr. Stefan de Jong
Session 2: Freeze, flex, fight: Academics' responses to the impact agenda and how to navigate them
Based on his experience as an impact adviser and international comparative research, Stefan will discuss how academics' respond to national impact policies and organizational strategies. He will also reveal the implications of those responses for impact practices. Finally, he will reflect upon what these responses and implications mean for research managers and administrators.
Dr. Stefan de Jong is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Sociology of the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has been a visiting scholar at The University of Manchester, the University of Chicago and INGENIO CSIC/UPV. Previously, he was an impact and grant adviser at Leiden University. His research focuses on the organization and evaluation of societal impact as well as the contribution of professional staff to academic knowledge development. Stefan has widely published on these topics in international peer reviewed journals and on international blogs. Furthermore, he has moderated over one hundred impact workshops for students and academics.
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