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New rules could have a chilling effect on academic freedom of speech.
The new impact framework will improve some of the problems arising out of the ERA’s university research audit, but major challenges will remain.
A government report on research funding and policy has recommended introducing a funding incentive to ensure university research benefits society and business.
Prime Minister Turnbull has signalled a desire to move away from a ‘publish or perish’ academic culture toward one that prioritises public impact and engagement. It’s a challenge scholars should embrace.
Publicly-funded research should contribute to society in some way. But we need to think carefully about how we create a system that allows us to measure the impact of research.
A new policy on research outputs and funding will be introduced in South Africa in 2016. But it leaves too much unchanged from the old policy.
A lack of access to quality, peer-reviewed information can actually contribute to societal and educational inequality. How can Open Access help?
We need to know what ‘good’ interdisciplinary research looks like.
There are huge global inequalities in knowledge production and exchange. What drives this inequality and how can it be corrected?
What’s behind a plant scientist’s research getting reported in over 4,000 media outlets? Here’s her post-game analysis.
As more people around the world head to university, the quality of teaching and research is coming under tighter scrutiny.
The diversity of research impact makes it tricky to measure in numbers.
There can be little doubt that the research environment in universities is changing: it is now less a collegiate community of scholars than a competitive game of winners and losers. This transformation…
When McDonald’s came under sustained criticism from campaigners in the 1980s, the company responded by constructing a carefully crafted image of corporate social responsibility. It insisted that it cared…
Academics love games. We can’t resist playing them – but the Research Excellence Framework (REF) is our favourite. As the results of the UK’s 2014 assessment of university research are digested, academics…
Research assessment is only partly reliable as an indicator of the real quality of the work going on in higher education. It has a dual character. On one hand it is rooted in material facts and objective…
The dominance of a “golden triangle” of universities in the latest research assessment exercise has renewed concerns that other universities may get less government research funding in future. The results…
For the first time, the “impact” of academic research on the wider world has been included in a large-scale assessment of the quality of university research, which has just been published. One-fifth of…
Think of a researcher measuring the trajectory of a laser beam in a university physics lab or a history professor digging through a church’s long-lost archives and their work can often feel far removed…
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