Rahul Ghosh's Linkedin Analytics

With over 15 years of experience in the non-profit and academic sectors, I have an extensive background in impact planning, delivery, monitoring/evaluation, and reporting, along with stakeholder management and strategic communication. I specialise in working with research institutions, providing practical and strategic support for impact and knowledge exchange to academics, research professionals and senior management. I have deep knowledge of developing/delivering impact trainings, embedding impact planning and evaluation into research processes, and developing/implementing impact strategies for a range of organisations. As Research Impact Lead at King’s College London, my main responsibility was around embedding, optimising, evaluating and communicating the impact of our research and knowledge exchange programmes. From 2019-21, I led on the development of King’s impact case study submission to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework's Main Panel B (REF’s physical sciences, informatics, engineering and mathematics panel). This majorly contributed to King's best ever impact ranking of 3rd among all multidisciplinary research institutions in the UK (and directly earned King's c. £100 million in quality related research funding). Post REF, in collaboration with my team and senior university leaders, we conducted an institution wide impact review and developed an action plan, in order to further strengthen the impact evaluation and learning culture across King’s. Previously, I worked as the Impact & Communication Manager at Vertigo Ventures, the leading impact consultancy within the global academic sector. In my role, I provided training and consultancy services to client universities globally on various impact related topics, and, led on all external communications. At Goldsmiths College, University of London, I was the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer focusing on bid development, providing post-award support to academics for impact delivery and communication, and, developing/implementing institutional strategies in order to build an impact culture at Goldsmiths. I also worked for Open Knowledge Foundation - a pioneer and global leader in the field of open data - where my main focus was on impact evaluation and communication of key projects, and building organisational capacity around this through training and consultation.