ARIS BI Toolkit: BI Wizard

02-05-25

The Broader Impacts Wizard will help you develop a BI plan that will satisfy the U.S. NSF's BI requirements and fulfill your interest in communicating your science. The quick, easy process will help frame discussions with your BI partner(s) to produce an outline of important points to include...

ARIS BI Toolkit: Planning Checklist

02-05-25

This checklist was developed from the original Guiding Principles document as a quick assessment to help you gauge the completeness of your Broader Impacts plan.

An Insider Perspective on BI

03-06-25

This article in BioScience provides a brief history of NSF Broader Impacts (BI) and suggestions for how to write an effective BI plan. (Susan D. Renoe; 2025)

The Current State of Broader Impacts

02-26-21

Each year, ARIS seeks to understand the current state of Broader Impacts (BI) in national context. Forums helped identify needs and solicit recommendations. Stakeholder groups included university administrators and faculty, government officials, non-academic stakeholders, and BI professionals. Participants identified issues that inhibit innovative and successful BI outcomes and presented...

Mapping Institutional Pathways for Advancing Research Impacts

03-26-25

This report synthesizes insights from seven national reports to identify key challenges and opportunities in scaling publicly engaged research in higher education. Five interrelated themes highlight the need for universities to adopt coordinated strategies ensuring research is academically rigorous and socially impactful. (Rebecca E. Heiser, Julie Risien, Laurie Van...

Evolution of Broader Impacts Report

07-17-23

In 2023, it had been more than five years since the Broader Impacts (BI) community shared thoughts on the current and future state of BI. ARIS invites you to download and share Evolution of Broader Impacts (PDF) with colleagues. It makes for a great summertime read!

Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop

05-15-25

Intensive professional development program offered by the Emerging Engagement Scholarship Consortium. Events provides advanced doctoral students and early career faculty with background literature, facilitated discussion, mentoring, and presentations designed to increase their knowledge and enhance their practice of community-engaged scholarship.

Perspectives on Broader Impacts

02-26-21

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) receives 50,000+ proposals for funding each year. The foundation distinguishes among proposals through a merit review process. By evaluating every proposal according to its intellectual merit and its Broader Impacts, NSF ensures that publicly funded research has tangible benefits to society that...

Knowledge and Impact Research Toolkit

02-26-21

Repository of impact tools focused on topics such as knowledge mobilization planning, stakeholder engagement, and organizing accessible events to help community impacts. Toolkit created in partnership by Research Impact Canada and ARIS.

Unveiling Impact Identities: A Path for Connecting Science and Society

08-26-21

A thoughtful process for scientists to develop their “impact identity,” a concept that integrates scholarship in a scientific discipline with societal needs, personal preferences, capacities and skills, and one’s institutional context. (J. Risien & M. Storksdieck; 2018)

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