The phrase "societal relevance" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use the phrase "societal relevance" to describe the importance of something to society at large. For example, "The new program provides skills training for students, increasing their societal relevance in the workforce".
As a result, university press releases and webpages routinely proclaim their scholars' status as experts, emphasising the policy and societal relevance of their work.
Such interactions should be designed to bring societal relevance and trust to science-policy interfaces, and more effectively inform decision-making to keep pace with rapid global change.
Efforts to raise the status of climate policy have gained scientific legitimacy, while climate research has found a growing political consensus and increased societal relevance, reflected not least of all in significantly improved funding.
Despite their great societal relevance, the recent track record of demographic forecasts is not praiseworthy.
Extreme flows are key components of river flow regimes that affect manifold hydrological, geomorphological and ecological processes with societal relevance.
One of these that is receiving growing attention for its societal relevance is that of electricity distribution.
Many processes do not even enter maps in the first place, due to distant spatial or temporal drivers, societal meaning and relevance, and transformation over time (although this is hidden in a map; Wood 2010).
We find also that the characteristics of research groups (e.g. size and multidisciplinarity) and individuals (e.g. academic status and star scientist) are associated with involvement in KT activities and that a deliberate focus on the societal impacts and relevance of the research conducted is strongly related to active engagement of research groups in all the modes of KT considered in this study.
For health effects with limited societal and policy relevance, we recommend focusing on no-regret measures.
We are not arguing that all EE research has to demonstrate societal or practical relevance.
Therefore, its societal impact and relevance to health policy is underestimated and measures for its reduction are given little priority by policy makers [ 15].
