Measuring impact in the humanities: Learning from accountability and economics in a contemporary history of cultural value
Measuring impact in the humanities: Learning from accountability and economics in a contemporary history of cultural value
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10.1057/s41599-017-0002-7
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2017-10-31
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Bulaitis, Zoe
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作者：
Bulaitis, Zoe
本文从人文学科的角度探讨了英国高等教育科研评估的未来。最近的政策变化（如2010年布朗报告和2014年REF）表明，人文研究越来越需要提供可量化或商业化的结果，以实现价值。虽然自1986年第一次研究评估活动（RAE）以来，研究评估活动一直是英国高等教育的正式组成部分，但在过去的6年里，学院内部对研究的重视程度发生了重大变化。具体而言，本文回应了研究评估标准中“影响”测量的优先级越来越高。本文将从20世纪80年代至今，在英国文化政策制定的历史背景下，高等教育的最新变化。这样一项工作突出了向“影响”转变过程中的具体挑战和细微差别。首先，本文详细介绍了公共文化机构（如博物馆和美术馆）如何成为20世纪80年代文化政策的结果，经济和社会责任的负担。从博物馆学和艺术管理的文献丰富的领域提供了宝贵的资源和证词，应该在未来的学术人文考虑。其次，本文考虑了20世纪90年代以来创意产业对知识生产感知的影响。在英国的文化评估机制的这一特定的历史，本文的结论表明，无论是通过一个纯粹的经济方法，也不是拒绝问责将服务于人文学科。虽然有丰富的社会科学研究，探讨评估方法和评估文化，但在这一重要的辩论中缺乏人文研究。这篇文章从人文的角度提出了一个回应。因此，这一贡献提高了认识，迫切需要人文学者参与这些新兴的和重大的辩论，在英国的研究评估的未来。
This article addresses the future of research assessment within higher education in the UK from a humanities perspective. Recent changes to policy (such as The Browne Report 2010 and the 2014 REF) indicates that humanities research is increasingly required to provide quantifiable or commercial results in order to attain value. Although research assessment exercises have been a formal part of UK higher education since the first Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 1986, the last 6 years have seen a significant change in how research is valued within the academy. Specifically, this paper responds to the increasing prioritisation of 'impact' measurement in research assessment criteria. The article situates recent changes in higher education within a historical context of cultural policy-making in the UK from the 1980s to the present day. Such an undertaking highlights the specific challenges and nuances within the shift towards 'impact'. Firstly, this paper details how public cultural institutions (such as museums and art galleries) became subject to practises of economisation and social accountability as a result of 1980s cultural policy. A rich field of literature from museology and arts management provides valuable sources and testimonies that should be considered in the future of the academic humanities. Secondly, this paper considers the implications of the creative industries upon the perception of knowledge production since the 1990s. Following this specific history of cultural assessment mechanisms in the UK, this article concludes by demonstrating that neither the adoption of a purely economic approach nor a refusal of accountability will serve the humanities. Whilst there is a wealth of social science research that explores valuation methods and assessment culture there is a lack of humanities research within this vital debate. This article presents a response from a humanities perspective. As a result, this contribution raises awareness of the urgent need for humanities scholars to engage in these emerging and significant debates concerning the future of research assessment in the UK.