Mapping the impact
Exploring the payback of arthritis research
The decision of the Arthritis Research campaign (arc) to map its entire research portfolio and analyze the returns and outcomes associated with individual investments was ground-breaking. Nothing similar had been attempted by other major funding organisations and there was no freely available tool for the task, this report describes the tool that was developed to carry out this task, the RAND/ARC Impact Scoring System (RAISS). The mapping tool had to be capable of producing data that would stand up to sophisticated analysis while imposing minimal time and cost burdens on administrators, researchers and data processors. The final tool took the form of a simple, tick-box-based Web questionnaire that took most researchers less than an hour to complete. The impact map generated by the tool enables arc to see the returns from individual grants and compare different types of grant. The charity intends to use accumulated data to inform its funding strategy and project evaluation.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
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- Pages: 61
- Document Number: MG-862-ARC
- Year: 2009
- Series: Monographs
Contents
Chapter One
The Arthritis Research Campaign
Chapter Two
Conceptualising the system
Chapter Three
Developing and implementing the survey tools
Chapter Four
The final survey system
Chapter Five
Initial results and wider applications
The research described in this report was prepared for and funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign (arc) and was conducted by RAND Europe.
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