Insights on research impact, AI in academia, and the future of research assessment
A new grant proposal costs an Australian researcher around 34 working days, and the part you rewrite most often is the impact narrative. Smart Grant Adaptation redrafts the impact-relevant sections of your application to fit each funder’s structure, limits and assessment criteria, from a single ResearchImpact report.
The argument for narrative impact assessment has been won. But the evidence inside those narratives is locked in prose, invisible to any system that needs to find, compare, or reuse it. What if every impact report also produced the structured data that makes its evidence portable, verifiable, and reusable?
Every researcher begins with a question that refuses to leave them alone. Yet the moment that question enters the machinery of modern science, its fate becomes entangled with a paradox that shapes every decision we make. Explore how understanding research impact has become the silent compass behind every choice in science.