Disciplining British IR: How the professionalization of higher-education and social media have shaped the discipline of International Relations in th

这个项目探讨了英国国际关系（IR）研究的“监管”，看看高等教育议程的变化是否助长了不符合“专业”标准的方法的边缘化。这很重要；一个学科的“不太正确的知识”地位对学生的参与、职业前景、专业机会和大学内学者的福祉产生不利影响（Pereira, 2017，第3页）。从2001年到2020年，本研究将考察学术界对IR的三个重要发展的影响：(i) RAE/REF（研究评估工作/卓越研究框架）定义的“影响”的议程设置影响，（ii）使用学术界衡量成功的指标，以及（iii）通过社交媒体运作的公共知识分子的兴起。通过采用政治社会学的方法来分析这种背景下的国际关系状况，这种跨机构和跨学科的研究可以产生原创性的研究，向更广泛的社会科学通报高等教育议程设置的影响，以及新发展的影响，如社交媒体在学术界的普及。理解这些发展是至关重要的，不仅因为它们影响了国际关系的研究，也因为它们对整个社会科学的影响，还因为大学里的这些发展塑造了英国学者和毕业生如何为现实世界制定政策。

This project explores the 'policing' of the study of International Relations (IR) in Britain to see if changes to the higher-education agenda have fuelled the marginalisation of approaches that do not fit in with 'professional' standards. This is important; a subject's status as 'not quite proper knowledge' has a detrimental impact on student engagement, career prospects, professional opportunities and the well-being of scholars within universities (Pereira, 2017, p. 3). Focusing from 2001 to 2020, this study will examine the impact of three important developments within academia upon IR: (i) the agenda-setting influence of 'impact' as defined by the RAE/REF (Research Assessment Exercise/Research Excellence Framework), (ii) the use of metrics within academia to gauge success, and (iii) the rise of the public intellectual operating via social media. By adopting a political-sociological approach to analyse the state of IR within this backdrop, this cross-institutional and interdisciplinary study can produce original research that informs the wider social sciences of the implications of higher-education agenda-setting, as well as the implications of new developments, such as prevalence of social media within the academy. Such developments are crucial to understand, not just because they effect the study of IR, nor because of the implications for the entire social sciences, but because these developments within universities shape how Britain's academics and graduates form policies for the real world.