Our #DataImpactFellows work in diverse areas, some of them combining more than one role. This gives them a great chance to explore the question “What does impact mean to me?” Here are David Kingman’s thoughts.
Over the past year I’ve had the rcs data malaysia experience of working for two different employers simultaneously, one of which is a small think tank while the other is a large public sector organisation.
Although the work I do for the two organisations is fairly similar, as it mainly revolves around generating new insights from socio-economic and demographic datasets, I’ve found that the type of outputs I produce from these data tend to be quite different, which is largely a consequence of the different audiences who are consuming my work in these two roles.
The Intergenerational Foundation
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As the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) is a think tank, my work there is produced for several different audiences:
The general public, who we hope will discover our research through traditional media coverage and on social media;
Journalists, who we try to attract by writing eye-catching press releases;
Policy-makers, who we try to reach by summarising my analysis in responses to public consultations and by giving evidence to All Party Parliamentary Groups.
Hopefully, if a piece of work succeeds in generating impact among one of these audiences then that should make the research more likely to create impact with the other ones as well.