A Personal Perspective on Impact

All members of the department are welcome: undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, teaching staff, technical staff - anyone who would like to attend and learn a little bit about what our speakers do in their research career. Members from other disciplines within the School, and the wider University community, are also welcome to attend.

All PhD students in Chemistry are expected to attend as part of their PhD training.

01 June 2022, 14:00 - 15:00

This is a past event

Most of our funders would like to see non-academic "impact" from the projects they support. In this talk, I'll give a personal perspective on impact, looking at both successes such as the Arria NLG spinout company and the simplenlg open-source package, and failures where expected impact did not materialise, such as the How Was School Today project. I'd like to conclude with a general discussion amongst attendees about impact possibilities.

Speaker: Ehud Reiter
Venue: Meston 2 and online
Contact: Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk)