The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges

The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges
ISBN-10
1447339878
ISBN-13
9781447339878
Category
Education
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2020-05-13
Publisher
Policy Press
Authors
Smith, Katherine, Bandola-Gill, Justyna

Description

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. Using empirical data, it discusses research impact tools and processes for key groups such as academics, research funders, ‘knowledge brokers’ and research users, and considers the challenges and consequences of incentivising and rewarding particular articulations of research impact. Ideally timed for the next REF in 2021, it draws on wide ranging qualitative data, combined with theories about the science-policy interplay and audit regimes to suggest ways to improve research impact.

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