Podcast
Impact and Knowledge Exchange in an Evolving Research Environment
The aim of the panel session was to reflect on research impact and knowledge exchange from different angles, from user perspectives and wide public debates, through institutional contexts and the interfaces with different funding bodies, and to international experiences.
21 September 2015
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Approaches to facilitating research impact
Whilst research has always had impact, research impact is still a relatively new concept in REF terms.
21 September 2015
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What was I thinking?! – being an academic in the age of impact
The context for this talk is offered by one of the defining debates in cultural policy studies, namely the one around the tension between a desire to be useful to those who administer the arts and culture and the aspiration to preserve the cultural policy scholar’s critical distance from the object of analysis, intellectual autonomy and the freedom to critique.
21 September 2015
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Understanding research impact: analysis of the REF impact case studies
21 September 2015
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In metrics we trust? Impact, indicators & the prospects for social science over the next five years
Citations, journal impact factors, H-indices, even tweets and Facebook likes – there are no end of quantitative measures that can now be used to assess the quality and wider impacts of research.
21 September 2015
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