Measuring research impact and engagement is a hot topic in the UK and internationally. This book is the first to provide a critical review of the research impact agenda, situating it within international efforts to improve research utilisation

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Hauptverfasser:	Smith, Katherine ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn), Bandola-Gill, Justyna ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn), Meer, Nasar 1980- (VerfasserIn), Stewart, Ellen 1984- (VerfasserIn), Watermeyer, Richard (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bristol Policy Press 2020
Zusammenfassung:	Measuring research impact and engagement is a hot topic in the UK and internationally. This book is the first to provide a critical review of the research impact agenda, situating it within international efforts to improve research utilisation Front Cover -- The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on authors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: critical reflections on research impact -- Overview of the rest of the book -- Data sources employed in the book and authorship of chapters -- Note -- 2 The rise of research impact -- The emergence of research impact as an idea -- Defining research impact -- Situating research impact internationally -- Tracing the emergence of research impact as an idea in the UK -- Notes -- 3 Debating the UK impact agenda -- Introduction: key concerns with, and critiques of, the UK's impact agenda -- Concern 1: the theoretical challenge to research impact -- Concern 2: the problems with demonstrating and attributing 'impact' -- Concern 3: the difficulty of meaningfully measuring research impact -- Concern 4: the potential to encourage and reward 'symbolic' research use or 'performative impact' -- Concern 5: impact as a challenge to the autonomy of academia -- Concern 6: the assumption that research impact is necessarily 'positive' -- Concern 7: overloading policy audiences and/or confusing 'more research use' with 'better research use' -- Concern 8: unnecessary exclusion of impact examples via the application of an arbitrary time limit -- Concern 9: the resources required to achieve, demonstrate and assess research impact -- Concern 10: reifying 'impact heroes' and traditional elites -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Do experiences and perceptions of research impact vary by discipline? -- Research impact across disciplines -- 'Genuine impact' versus 'REF impact' -- Creating narratives of impact -- The complexity and collective nature of research impacts -- Conceptual versus instrumental impacts -- Impact targets audiences
Beschreibung:	viii, 238 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:	9781447339878 9781447339854