Knowledge Production and the REF: The Construction of Academic Excellence in Economics

知识生产和 REF：经济学学术卓越的构建

• 批准号: 2283725
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2283725
• 关键词: Knowledge; Production; REF; Construction; Academic

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a UK-wide assessment scheme for the quality of Higher Education (HE)research. REF results inform both the allocation of public research funds and rankings in national and internationalleague tables, thus playing a major role in determining HE institutions' direct and indirect income. Following the strongprogramme within the Sociology of Knowledge, I conceptualise the REF as an active constructor of 'academicexcellence', rather than an objective measuring tool. Existing qualitative research confirms that the REF process itselfimpacts what is considered valid knowledge in the social sciences in general, and Economics in particular. Furtherquantitative research focusing on the case study of Economics has associated the REF and its predecessor (the'Research Assessment Exercise') with a narrowing of the Economics discipline at the disadvantage of heterodox schoolsof economic thought. However, there is an important gap in the literature when it comes to qualitative empirical work onhow 'economic excellence' is constructed through the REF and to what extent these constructions are biased againstHeterodox Economics. The aim of my proposed research is to bridge this gap through conducting a discourse analysis ofboth REF guidelines and interviews with academics involved in multiple stages of the REF.

卓越研究框架（REF）是英国高等教育（HE）研究质量的评估计划。REF的结果为公共研究资金的分配以及在国家和国际学术排名表中的排名提供了信息，从而在确定高等教育机构的直接和间接收入方面发挥了重要作用。遵循知识社会学的强大计划，我将REF概念化为“学术卓越”的积极构建者，而不是客观的测量工具。现有的定性研究证实，REF过程本身会影响一般社会科学，特别是经济学中被认为有效的知识。进一步的定量研究集中于经济学的案例研究，将REF及其前身（“研究评估体系”）与经济学学科的缩小联系在一起，这对非正统的经济学思想流派不利。然而，有一个重要的差距，在文献中，当涉及到定性的实证工作如何“经济卓越”是通过REF构建的，以及在何种程度上这些建设是有偏见的againstHeterodox经济学。我提出的研究的目的是通过对REF指南进行话语分析和对参与REF多个阶段的学者进行访谈来弥合这一差距。