{"title":"Academic life in the impact vanguard:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv11g95dd.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11g95dd.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378348,"journal":{"name":"The Impact Agenda","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130996269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer
{"title":"The Rise of Research Impact","authors":"Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv11g95dd.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11g95dd.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter charts the origins and emergence of the research impact agenda in the UK, noting some of its historical antecedents and international influences. It explores the apparent motivations and rationales that have underpinned the various dimensions of research impact assessment, and the associated expectations that different actors appear to have. The chapter includes a visual summary of key developments in the evolution of research impact assessment and incentivisation in the UK.","PeriodicalId":378348,"journal":{"name":"The Impact Agenda","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121275397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Impact AgendaPub Date : 2020-05-13DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447339854.003.0008
Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer
{"title":"Looking Back: Evolving Public Health Perspectives on Research Impact","authors":"Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447339854.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447339854.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter takes a more historical approach, using public health as a case study to explore how views of efforts to stimulate and reward research impact have changed over time. To achieve this, the chapter compares the views of academics interviewed in 2003-2007, the run up to the RAE in 2008, just before the emergence of ‘research impact’, with the views of academics working in the same field in 2011-2015, who experienced REF2014 and the first attempt to assess impact case studies.","PeriodicalId":378348,"journal":{"name":"The Impact Agenda","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129323371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer
{"title":"Do experiences and perceptions of research impact vary by discipline?","authors":"Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv11g95dd.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11g95dd.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter widens the focus of the book to explore whether there appear to be any disciplinary patterns amongst perspectives on, and experiences of, research impact in UK academia. This chapter includes an analysis of whether published perspectives on the impact agenda appear to vary by discipline (as predicted by Nowotny et al, 2001), informed by new focus group and interview data conducted for this book.","PeriodicalId":378348,"journal":{"name":"The Impact Agenda","volume":"224 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124468429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Impact AgendaPub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.46692/9781447339861.001
Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer
{"title":"Introduction: critical reflections on research impact","authors":"Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer","doi":"10.46692/9781447339861.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447339861.001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter briefly explains what we mean by ‘the impact agenda’ and what the UK approach to research impact assessment involves. This chapter also makes the case for why an empirical investigation of the recent changes associated with research impact assessment is required and provides key definitions and an overview of the rest of the book.","PeriodicalId":378348,"journal":{"name":"The Impact Agenda","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134464326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Impact AgendaPub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.46692/9781447339861.007
Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer
{"title":"Academic life in the impact vanguard: the view from knowledge exchange organisations","authors":"Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer","doi":"10.46692/9781447339861.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447339861.007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on academics working in university-based groups that have been charged with, and funded to achieve, knowledge translation and research impact. These are, we suggest, academics working at the vanguard of the impact agenda, who we might consider as experimental subjects from whom we can learn. This chapter includes a summary of the types of knowledge brokerage roles and organisations that have been created in the UK and the perceived and stated rationales for these new roles and organisations, and an analysis of interview data providing insights into the perspectives of academics working within two such groups.","PeriodicalId":378348,"journal":{"name":"The Impact Agenda","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127920237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Impact AgendaPub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.46692/9781447339861.009
Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer
{"title":"Telling tales of impact: as seen through the eyes of user assessors","authors":"Katherine E. Smith, J. Bandola-Gill, N. Meer, E. Stewart, R. Watermeyer","doi":"10.46692/9781447339861.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447339861.009","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter we turn our attention to those charged with the task of judging the 'reach' and 'significance' of impact claimed by academic researchers in narrative case studies in REF2014. Knowledge pertaining to how the societal and economic impact of scientific research is evaluated is sparse. This is especially true in the context of the UK's national system of research assessment, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), in light of the confidentiality and rules of non-disclosure enforced by Research England and the UK Research & Innovation (previously the Higher Education Funding Council for England - HEFCE).","PeriodicalId":378348,"journal":{"name":"The Impact Agenda","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131695008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}