The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges - Couverture souple

Smith, Katherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447339878 ISBN 13 : 9781447339878

Editeur : Policy Press, 2020

Synopsis

Measuring research impact and engagement is a much debated 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Katherine Smith is Professor of Public Health Policy at University of Strathclyde.

Justyna Bandola-Gill is a Research Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Justyna works at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Public Policy. Her research explores the interactions between research and policy, especially the ways in which knowledge is organised, governed and mobilised across different settings in order to achieve political goals. Currently, Justyna is working on an ERC-funded project exploring the global rise of a metrological fields (METRO: http: //www.metro-project.eu/), where her research explores the production and governance of global poverty indicators by International Organisations.

Nasar Meer is Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include: Islam and Modernity (ed, 2017); Interculturalism and multiculturalism: Debating the dividing lines (co-ed, 2016); Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2015, 2nd Edition); Racialization and religion (ed, 2014), Race and Ethnicity (2014) and European Multiculturalism(s) (co-edited, 2012). In 2016 he was awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Thomas Reid Medal for excellence in the social sciences, and in 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He holds a Personal Research Fellowship with the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) to study race equality in Scotland, and is Principal Investigator of The Governance and Local Integration Migrants and Europe's Refugees (GLIMER) (ESRC and Horizon2020: 2017-2020).

Ellen A. Stewart is Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Richard Watermeyer is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Bristol and is a sociologist of educational policy, practice and pedagogy. His research is predominantly concerned with a sociological analysis of change in higher education as motivated and framed by currents of, and challenges to global capitalism and (the weakening of) its policy incantations. He is especially well known for his internationally comparative and critical analyses of public engagement and societal impact generation as valorised academic functions. He is the author of Competitive Accountability in Academic Life: The Struggle for Social Impact and Public Legitimacy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar); co-editor of Pedagogical Peculiarities: Conversation at the Edge of University Teaching and Learning (Leiden/Boston: Brill/Sense); and is principal editor of the forthcoming Handbook on Academic Freedom (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Policy Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447339878
• ISBN 13: 9781447339878
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible