The Impact Agenda
The Impact Agenda
复制标题
影响议程
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
R. Watermeyer
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Katherine E. Smith;J. Bandola;N. Meer;E. Stewart;R. Watermeyer
随着国际上对促进和评估研究影响的兴趣日益增长，这本书审查了随之而来的争议、后果和挑战。它特别强调学习英国的经验，因为英国处于一系列激励、监测和奖励研究影响成就的新方法的前沿。这本书旨在理解这些变化的起源和理由，并批判性地评估它们对学术实践的影响。结合对现有文献的审查和一系列新的定性数据(来自访谈、焦点小组和文件分析)，影响议程的独特之处在于，它提供了对各种形式的研究影响评估正在塑造学术实践的方式的全面、跨学科的实证审查。虽然这本书的主要焦点是英国，但该书也考虑了其他对研究影响感兴趣的国家正在采取的不同方法(特别是澳大利亚、加拿大和荷兰)。在注意到日益重视外向型工作带来的好处的同时，这本书提请人们注意与研究影响评估相关的广泛挑战和争议，特别是与英国选择的方法有关的挑战和争议。最后，它利用书中的见解提出了一种替代的、理论上更稳健的方法，以激励和奖励从事和使用学术研究以造福社会的努力。
As international interest in promoting and assessing the impact of research grows, this book examines the ensuing controversies, consequences and challenges. It places a particular emphasis on learning from experiences in the UK, since this is the country at the forefront of a range of new approaches to incentivising, monitoring and rewarding research impact achievements. The book aims to understand the origins and rationale for these changes and to critically assess their consequences for academic practice. Combining a review of existing literature with a range of new qualitative data (from interviews, focus groups and documentary analysis), The Impact Agenda is unique in providing a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary empirical examination of the ways in which various forms of research impact assessment are shaping academic practices. Although the primary focus of the book is on the UK, the book also considers the different approaches that other countries with an interest in research impact are taking (notably Australia, Canada and the Netherlands). While noting the benefits that the increasing emphasis on outward facing work is bringing, the book draws attention to a wide range of challenges and controversies associated with research impact assessment and, in particular, with the UK’s chosen approach. It concludes by using the insights in the book to propose an alternative, more theoretically robust approach to incentivising and rewarding efforts to undertake and use academic research for societal benefit.