'Beyond good intentions: designing ethical research impact' with Wade Kelly

While the push for research impact continues to grow globally, the ethical dimensions of generating and evaluating research impact are receiving increased attention. How do we ensure our impact efforts don't inadvertently cause harm to vulnerable populations? What does ethical impact look like in practice? Drawing from international research and practice, Dr Wade Kelly discusses frameworks and approaches to ethically designing for impact, ethical impact assessment, strategies for meaningful engagement with communities, and practical approaches to embedding ethics throughout the impact lifecycle. This presentation explores the complex ethical landscape of research impact, moving beyond simple 'do no harm' principles to examine how researchers can proactively build ethical considerations into their impact work, and provides insights for researchers and research professionals seeking to ensure their research is not only impactful but responsible.

Dr Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in the Researcher Development Academy at Deakin University, specialising in developing researchers' impact and engagement capability across the career span. An influential contributor to the impact discourse in higher education, Dr Kelly brings extensive experience advising university leadership, faculties, institutes and funders on strategically embedding impact into policy, practice, and culture. His scholarly foundations provide the underpinnings of the engagement and impact development and cultural change approaches. In 2022, his edited book, "The Impactful Academic: Building a Research Career That Makes a Difference," was released by Emerald Publishing.