Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
Research on a community's oral history shapes a major museum exhibition with documented visitor engagement.
- Is an instance
Critical scholarship informs a widely watched documentary changing public understanding of a historical event.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Claiming cultural impact from a single conference talk with no broader cultural uptake.
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Confusing dissemination (public lectures) with cultural impact (cultural change).
Editorial commentary
Cultural impact includes contributions to museums, galleries, performance, broadcast media, creative writing, conservation of cultural heritage, and shifts in public understanding of history, identity and the arts. It is particularly central to the humanities and creative arts disciplines, where outputs may themselves be performances, exhibitions or creative works. Cultural impact assessment uses audience-engagement statistics, expert testimony, critical reception, and case-study narratives. REF impact case studies in the humanities provide extensive worked examples.
References
- Arts and Humanities Research Council impact toolkit. REF 2021 impact case study database.
Also known as
Cultural impact (research)
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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