Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Let’s Play Fantasy Football for Big Thinkers
If you were to make up a fantasy football team for, say an intellectual Premier League, which thinks from Socrates forward might be among your picks?
Impact Requires Moving Past Conventional Academic Boundaries
The Dutch Senate last year passed a new Standard Evaluation Protocol that highlights the importance of social impact for research. Here, three academics from Erasmus University discuss some of the implications, using their own field of development studies as an example.
Roundtable Puts Social and Behavioral Research Back on Agenda
A roundtable sponsored by the U.S. National Research Council will examine applications of social and behavioral science.
REF: An Idea Whose Time Never Came
Reporting on panel looking at the UK’s Research Excellence Framework, Liz Morrish looks at whether the assessment tools created by government have extended their reach and left academics exposed.
Playing the Game of REF
A very strong overall REF performance signifies a large concentration of outstanding work. It is an unambiguous plus. All the same, precise league table positions in the REF, indicator by indicator, should be taken with a grain of salt.
With the REF, We Can Evaluate the Impact of Impact
Measuring impact was a key feature of the just-released Research Education Framework in the UK. But ‘impact’ isn’t as fair a measurement as we could hope.
Leiden Statement Emphasizes Importance of Social Science, Humanities
A network of coalitions of research universities from around the world have come out with a strong statement stressing the importance of social science and humanities in the academy and among policymakers.
Let’s Make Them All ‘Research Multi-versities’
Although universities and funding bodies pay lip-service to the importance of multi-discipline research, a physicist and an anthropologist argue there is a long way to go before the reality matches the rhetoric.
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