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To examine how academic and non-academic panel members evaluate and score research impact within the UK's performance-based research funding system.

March 26, 2018Studies in Higher EducationOpen Access

Evaluating ‘impact’ in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF): liminality, looseness and new modalities of scholarly distinction

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RWRichard WatermeyerUniversity of Bristol JCJennifer ChubbUniversity of York

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Qualitative study reveals structural loosening and vulnerability among panel evaluators scoring societal research impact, indicating the emergence of new modalities of scholarly distinction.

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To examine how academic and non-academic panel members evaluate and score research impact within the UK's performance-based research funding system.
Analyzed qualitative accounts from senior academics and user-assessors serving on Research Excellence Framework (REF) disciplinary sub-panels.
Focused on panel assessments spanning the humanities and social sciences tasked with scoring university impact claims.
Revealed the emergence of a liminal space in research evaluation characterized by a loosening of traditional academic frameworks used to define scholarly excellence.
Identified marked emotional and intellectual vulnerability among assessors when making value judgments on non-academic societal and economic impact.

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Watermeyer et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0256bedc09a3db38b36608 https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1455082

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Qualitative study reveals structural loosening and vulnerability among panel evaluators scoring societal research impact, indicating the emergence of new modalities of scholarly distinction.

Evaluating ‘impact’ in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF): liminality, looseness and new modalities of scholarly distinction

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Evaluating ‘impact’ in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF): liminality, looseness and new modalities of scholarly distinction

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