ARIS Webinars

Would you benefit from a deeper understanding of broader impacts (BI)? Would you like tips and strategies for building partnerships, leveraging existing resources, evaluating BI activities and other essential skills for addressing the BI criterion? 

ARIS offers introductory (“BI 101”) and focused-topic webinars which are ideal for individual researchers, BI professionals who support researchers’ BI efforts, or anyone wishing to learn more about broader impacts.

If you’re new to broader impacts, we recommend you start with BI 101 and then move on to focused topics as your work demands.

Most webinars are two hours (unless otherwise noted).  Please see below for descriptions of webinars and costs. ARIS members are eligible for a 50% discount.

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Our “BI 101” workshop has helped thousands of people make sense of the NSF BI criterion and has empowered them to approach their grant writing with more clarity and confidence.  This activity-based workshop will cover the history of the BI criterion, provide strategies for conceptualizing, developing, implementing and evaluating BI activities, and share tips on leveraging existing resources and establishing robust partnerships to build your “BI identity.”  

Cost: $100 ($50 for ARIS members)

The NSF CAREER Award is one of the most important and prestigious grants an early-career faculty member can receive. While all NSF grants (including the CAREER Award) are evaluated on intellectual merit and broader impacts, CAREER Awards also have a unique requirement to present an investigator education plan. This webinar will focus on strategies for developing a competitive NSF CAREER Award, with emphasis on the broader impacts and education plan.

Cost: $100 ($50 for ARIS members)

The NSF refers to broadening participation as “expanding efforts to increase participation from underrepresented groups and diverse institutions throughout the United States.” This webinar will explore broadening participation activities, why they are a priority for the NSF as well as other funding agencies, and how to plan, implement and assess them successfully. Several specific examples will be presented and discussed.

Cost: $50 ($25 for ARIS members)

Developing and implementing successful broader impacts activities is often dependent on identifying the right BI partner(s) and establishing a productive collaboration. But, where do you go to find a good BI partner? What are the elements of a successful partnership? And, how can you ensure that the relationship is mutually beneficial for both members of the partnership? These and other questions will be explored in this interactive webinar.

Cost: $100 ($50 for ARIS members)

Most researchers are comfortable thinking about and discussing their research identity — who they are as researchers and what contributions they hope to make to their discipline through their research over the course of their careers. It is far less common, however, for researchers to think about their impact identity — the lasting impacts they aspire to have on their community and on society, as a whole, through their broader impacts work.

This interactive workshop will introduce the concept of a broader impacts identity and walk investigators through a process for starting to define their own BI identity. While any researcher is likely to benefit from this workshop, it is particularly relevant to early-career researchers (as well as to broader impacts professionals who work with researchers and can play a crucial role in helping them develop their BI identities).

Cost: $100 ($50 for ARIS members)

All NSF proposals must not only have a broader impacts component, but a well-articulated plan for evaluating the broader impacts activities that are being proposed. This can present a challenge for investigators who are not trained in program evaluation. This workshop will provide a brief introduction to the basics of program evaluation and connect participants with some tools and resources to help them get started. It will also explore the question of self-evaluation vs. “outsourcing” by working with an external evaluator.

Cost: $100 ($50 for ARIS members)

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