Cunliffe, Ann L.Scaratti, G.2017-02-152017-02-1519/01/2017Cunliffe AL and Scaratti G (2017) Embedding impact in engaged research: Developing socially useful knowledge through dialogical sensemaking. British Journal of Management. 28(1): 29-44.http://hdl.handle.net/10454/11354NoThis paper explores how we can embed impact in research to generate socially useful knowledge. Our contribution lies in proposing a form of engaged research that draws upon situated knowledge and encompasses dialogical sensemaking as a way of making experience sensible in collaborative researcher−practitioner conversations. We draw attention to the intricacies of doing socially useful research and illustrate how five conversational resources can be used within dialogical sensemaking through an example of a research project in which impact and relevance were embedded and where researchers and practitioners worked together to resolve an important social and organizational issue.enImpactEngaged researchReflexivityArticlehttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12204