Although hard to define, Narrative CVs are changing how we think about researcher assessment

LSE Impact blogFor their supporters, narrative academic CVs present a means to bypass aspects of a research evaluation culture that is overly focused on the volume and venue of publications. Drawing on a sample of work promoting this format, Frédérique Bordignon, Lauranne Chaignon and Daniel Egret, show how these texts more often foreground the problems they are meant to address, than how the format would work in practice. However, at the same time, they argue that the emergence of this new format and terminologies, is reopening debates around the role academic assessment can play in promoting better research culture and practices.Link to blog post