The questions of defining ‘impact’ and confirming the value of academic research are hot topics for the higher education community not only in the UK, but around the world. Paul Benneworth, project leader at HERAVALUE, here discusses three communities with interests in impact – governments looking for impact, researchers investigating impact, and academics who deliver the impact – and argues for a better understanding of the interaction between them
Pressures have increasingly been put upon social scientists to prove their economic, cultural and so...
It’s understandable that academics whose research area does not lend itself to impact and those whos...
Evaluation of university-based research already has a reasonably long tradition in the UK, but propo...
© 2017, © 2017 Society for Research into Higher Education. The principle that research should demons...
The ‘impact agenda’ for academic research denotes a set of policies which encourage and incentivise ...
The UK higher education community is well served for news and policy discourse by the weekly Times H...
Academics should be engaged with the wider world, but impact, if it is routinised, loses its potenti...
Following on from the recent debate at the ‘From Research to Policy: Academic Impacts on Government’...
The UK higher education community is well served for news and policy discourse by the weekly Times H...
This paper reviews recent culture-change in British higher education (HE) and an increasing emphasis...
Since the Research Excellence Framework of 2014 (REF2014) ‘impact’ has created a conceptual conundru...
While academic social science is extremely effective at generating public value, it is less adept at...
Evaluation of university-based research already has a reasonably long tradition in the UK, but propo...
This paper reflects on the emergence of an impact agenda and its incorporation as a feature of the a...
For many academics in the UK the current Research Excellence Framework (REF) has pulled the notion o...
Pressures have increasingly been put upon social scientists to prove their economic, cultural and so...
It’s understandable that academics whose research area does not lend itself to impact and those whos...
Evaluation of university-based research already has a reasonably long tradition in the UK, but propo...
© 2017, © 2017 Society for Research into Higher Education. The principle that research should demons...
The ‘impact agenda’ for academic research denotes a set of policies which encourage and incentivise ...
The UK higher education community is well served for news and policy discourse by the weekly Times H...
Academics should be engaged with the wider world, but impact, if it is routinised, loses its potenti...
Following on from the recent debate at the ‘From Research to Policy: Academic Impacts on Government’...
The UK higher education community is well served for news and policy discourse by the weekly Times H...
This paper reviews recent culture-change in British higher education (HE) and an increasing emphasis...
Since the Research Excellence Framework of 2014 (REF2014) ‘impact’ has created a conceptual conundru...
While academic social science is extremely effective at generating public value, it is less adept at...
Evaluation of university-based research already has a reasonably long tradition in the UK, but propo...
This paper reflects on the emergence of an impact agenda and its incorporation as a feature of the a...
For many academics in the UK the current Research Excellence Framework (REF) has pulled the notion o...
Pressures have increasingly been put upon social scientists to prove their economic, cultural and so...
It’s understandable that academics whose research area does not lend itself to impact and those whos...
Evaluation of university-based research already has a reasonably long tradition in the UK, but propo...