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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Katherine (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bandola-Gill, Justyna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.
Colección:Policy Press scholarship online.
Temas:
Research > Great Britain.
Recherche > Grande-Bretagne.
EDUCATION / Research.
Research
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Industry and technology
  • Policy
  • Publics
  • Practice
  • Targets, impacts and REF panel preferences
  • 'Easy' and 'difficult' impacts
  • Linking research to impact
  • The consequences of the impact agenda for academic practices
  • Increased engagement and collaborative work
  • Co-production as a restriction on critical scholarship
  • Research impact as a restriction on academic freedom and autonomy
  • Research impact and academic careers
  • The impact agenda and research quality
  • Research impact shaping research projects
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • 5 Impact on whom? Contrasting research impact with public engagement
  • Definitions: the relationship between impact and public engagement
  • Rationalising public engagement
  • Safer bets? A perceived preference for policy and commercial impacts
  • Contrasting public engagement with other forms of research impact
  • Disciplinary differences in focus on public engagement

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