Skip to main content
Research Development Office

Marriott School of Business Research Impact Challenge

Are you ready to take your research to the next level? Do you want to boost your visibility and influence in your field? Do you like winning awesome prizes? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you should join the Research Impact Challenge!

The Research Impact Challenge is a fun and easy way to grow your research impact by completing 30-minute activities. These activities are designed to help you ensure research visibility and prepare you to lead out in future research endeavors. For example, you can learn how to create an ORCID profile, optimize your Google Scholar page, track your citations, and more!

For each activity you complete, you get one entry into a weekly drawing for awesome prizes. With more than 10 challenges to choose from each week, there is no limit to the impact you can have. Plus, you can level up your impact with weekly workshops that teach research impact skills. Workshop attendance = 2 entries into the weekly drawing.

The Research Impact Challenge is open to all faculty researchers in the Marriott School of Business. You can benefit from this challenge and have fun along the way.

So what are you waiting for? Join the Research Impact Challenge today and start making an impact!

Weekly Challenges

Ensure Research Visibility (May 1-5)

Is your research hidden behind pay walls? Make your research visible.

Market Your Research (May 8-12)

Want people to hear about, read or fund your research? You will need materials that tell the story and importance of your work. Pick one of the following challenges that will help you develop marketing materials to tell your research story!

  • Research Marketing Basics: Hands on instruction in crafting a Research Sales Pitch, filling out a Research Highlight Template, and writing a Letter of Intent/Interest.

  • Write a Letter Of Intent/Interest for a research project
    NSF program officer outreach guide
    Foundation outreach guide
    Fill in a Research Highlight Template (use the premade template, or design your own)
    Research Highlight Template
    Craft a 30 second Research Sales Pitch (use the template or design your own)
    Research Sales Pitch Template
    Make/update a graphic that tells the story/impact of your research
    Reach out to a funder or organization about your research
    NSF program officer outreach guide
    Foundation outreach guide
    Share research update on social media/LinkedIn
    Create an infographic about a research topic or findings from your research
    Write a blog post/adapt a white paper for a blog post
    Update your faculty profile/about you page/research interests
    Create a “branded” email signature using BYU Marriott/BYU brand messaging, or a link to a recent publication
    Choose your own activity to help you market your research
    Learn about/search for organization/foundation that might be interested in funding your research (Use PIVOT, grants.gov, GrantStation)

Prepare for Future Research (May 15-19)

Carve out time to think about the next steps for your research and how to strategically incorporate your research in your career plans.

Enhance Research Network (May 22-26)

Building connections with other researchers. Expand your research network to grow your research impact!

  • Research Networking Tools: Learn effective methods of finding collaborations on BYU campus, across the BIG 12, and in the broader research community with tools like Faculty Research Interest Database, PIVOT and Research Rabbit.

  • Check out Research Rabbit to visualize potential research connections/collaborations
    https://www.researchrabbit.ai/
    Use the Faculty Interest Database to find potential collaborators across BYU disciplines
    https://researchdevelopment.byu.edu/research-interest-database-v2
    Send a thank you to someone you cited in a recent publication (include a link to your recent publication)
    Reach out to a Pre-CFS colleague at BYU Marriott and learn about their research goals
    Invite a colleague to lunch
    Follow a researcher in your field on social media
    Catch up with current research in your field
    Share what you learned from another researcher on your social media (tag that researcher)
    Reach out to that person you met at a conference but never followed up with
    Complete a task from a previous week that you did not do, but wanted to
    Choose your own activity to help you enhance your research network