ECR/PGR Webinar – Building in Impact in Research Design
Wednesday 25 February 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm GMT, online (UK)
Guest Speakers: Professor Jon Garland (University of Surrey) and Dr Natalie Djohari (Bournemouth University)
Overview: Thinking about Impact, what it means and how to incorporate it into your project’s design? This FREE session is designed to help PGRs and ECRs to plan for impact, providing advice and examples to help you get prepared ahead of time. Our first speaker, Professor Jon Garland, who is Impact Lead for the School of Social Sciences at Surrey, will share his expertise on impact and the REF (Research Excellence Framework). Second, Dr Natalie Djohari will share her insights on building in impact from the very start of research projects (large or small!). Whether you are thinking about impact for REF2029 or just want to focus on making your research matter to the right people at the right time, Jon and Natalie will draw on their professional experience to talk about working on research design and collating impact for funders and interested bodies.
Both speakers will talk for 15 minutes, followed by 20 minutes Q&A. All welcome!
About the speakers:
Dr Natalie Djohari is a social anthropologist with over 15 years of experience conducting impact driven research in academia and the third sector. She has contributed to major projects, including Fishercoast at UEA (on coastal wellbeing and migrant labour) and ProTechThem at Southampton (on digital harms associated with parents’ online sharing), and worked to map the victim’s journey with Dorset Police, demonstrate the impact of intervention programmes supporting young people at risk of offending, and evidence children’s recall of gambling advertising in premiership football. She is currently an Embedded Researcher at the Centre for Seldom Heard Voices at Bournemouth University, working with a local charity to improve research led practice in social care.
Jon Garland is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He has conducted extensive research into hate crime, policing, prisons, far-right groups, racism in rural and isolated areas, and racism, anti-racism and disorder in football, and has published seven books and numerous journal articles in those areas. He is Impact Lead for the School of Social Sciences at Surrey, is co-founder of the CHANGE network and sits on the Steering Committee of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network. He undertakes equality and diversity work with prisons across the male, female and youth estates.
Find more information and book your free place here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bschatecrimenetwork/1956529