Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact Illusions, Myths and M
‘This is quite simply a brilliant book, offering a critical analysis of impact and REF which is long overdue… It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how and why the growing need to show a particular kind of impact from research is restructurin
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QUESTIONING THE ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH IMPACT Illusions, Myths and Marginal Sectors
Rhodri Thomas
Palgrave Critical University Studies Series Editor John Smyth University of Huddersfield Huddersfield, UK “This is quite simply a brilliant book, offering a critical analysis of impact and REF which is long overdue. Thomas focuses on the rise of the impact agenda in tourism and related subjects, but this book has a great deal to tell us about the nature of the neoliberal university, regardless of discipline. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how and why the growing need to show a particular kind of impact from research is restructuring academia; this new agenda has far reaching consequences for critical researchers, so-called marginal subjects and for everyday working cultures in academic departments.” —Professor Rosaleen Duffy, University of Sheffield, UK “This book presents a much needed, hard hitting and honest critique of the UK government’s research impact agenda... Professor Thomas argues, rather controversially, but yet very convincingly, that tourism and related research has very limited impact due partly to the marginal nature of this sector in public policy terms…. the book goes beyond critique to present plausible solutions on how higher education institutions can and should generate impact. In this book Professor Thomas demonstrates that he is able to deal with serious and contentious issues in a very accessible, engaging and sometimes humorous way. This book is essential reading for all those who are concerned about the future of tourism higher education and who will be inspired to advocate for change in their own institutions, not just in the UK but across the world.” —Professor Donna Chambers, University of Sunderland, UK “This is a novel exploration of the concepts and boundaries of the assessment of research impact as operating particularly in the UK. Its strengths lie in its personal perspectives and in the fact that it unpicks the policies and myths surrounding the impact process.” —Professor Gareth Shaw, University of Exeter, UK
Aims of the Palgrave Critical University Studies Series Universities everywhere are experiencing unprecedented changes and most of the changes being inflicted upon universities are being imposed by political and policy elites without any debate or discussion, and little understanding of what is being lost, jettisoned, damaged or destroyed. The over-arching intent of this series is to foster, encourage, and publish scholarship relating to academia that is troubled by the direction of these reforms occurring around the world. The series provides a much-needed forum for the intensive and extensive discussion of the consequences of ill-conceived and inappropriate university reforms and will do this with particular emphasis on those perspectives and groups whose views have hitherto been ignored, disparaged or silenced. The series explores these changes across a number of domains including: the deleterious effects on academic work, the impact on student learn
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