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Martina Arabadzhieva
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What is Societal Research Impact? A literature review
2021 •
Laura Soyer
Societal impact of research receives increasing attention across different national research landscapes as the wider impacts and benefits of research activities for societies at large come into scope. This noncomprehensive narrative literature review sets out to provide an insight into the concept of societal impact of research, its origins and manifestations, as well as the challenges with regards to the assessment of different types of impact.
WORKING PAPER Research Impact Evaluation, a Wider Context: Findings from a Research Impact Pilot
2014 •
Rosa Scoble
In the face of increasing pressure to demonstrate the socio-economic impact of funded research, whether it is funded directly by research councils or indirectly by governmental research block grants, institutions have to tackle the complexity of understanding, tracking, collecting, and analysing the impact of all their research activities. This paper attempts to encapsulate the wider context of research impact by delineating a broad definition of what might be classified as impact. It also suggests a number of different dimensions that can help in the development of a systematic research impact assessment framework. The paper then proceeds to indicate how boundaries and criteria around the definition of impact and these dimensions can be used to refine the impact assessment framework in order to focus on the objectives of the assessor. A pilot project, run at Brunel University, was used to test the validity of the approach and possible consequences. A tool specifically developed for...
Austrian Presidency of the EU Council Conference on the Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in Mission-oriented Research
Rethinking Research Impact Assessment: A Multidimensional Approach
2018 •
Sergio Manrique, Marta Natalia Wróblewska
An interest in the evaluation of research impact – or the influence of scientific research beyond academia – has been observable worldwide. Several countries have introduced national research assessment systems which take into account this new element of evaluation. So far, research on this practice has focused mainly on the practicalities of the different existing policies: the definition of the term ‘research impact’, different approaches to measuring it, their relative challenges and the possible use of such evaluations. But the introduction of a new element of evaluation gives rise not only to challenges of a practical nature, but also to important ethical consequences in terms of academic identity, reflexivity, power structures, distribution of labour in terms of workloads etc. In order to address these questions and the relevant needs of researchers, in this paper we propose a multidimensional model that considers different attributes of research impact: Responsiveness, Accessibility, Reflexivity, Ecology and Adaptability. This holistic, multidimensional model of evaluation, designed particularly for self-assessment or internal assessment, recognises the qualities a project has on these different scales in a broader perspective, rather than offering a simple and single numerical evaluation. This model addresses many of the ethical dilemmas that accompany conducting impact-producing research. To exemplify the usefulness of the proposed model, the authors provide real-life research project assessment examples conducted with the use of the Multidimensional Approach for Research Impact Assessment (MARIA Model).
MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMPACT OF RESEARCH
2022 •
Thomaz Wood Jr.
In recent decades, changes in science have been characterized by internationalization and the quest for impact. The present article introduces the impact assessment process of 23 research projects of the Capes Print Programs, carried out within the scope of Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Individual interviews were conducted with project leaders. The assessment reveals that, despite the Covid-19 pandemic interference, the projects have advanced in their internationalization goals. As for the impacts, those related to science and education predominated, with a significant number of projects also indicating impacts on public policies and organizational practices. The article adds to the understanding of alternative modes of knowledge production and research impact measurement. Furthermore, it can be useful to directors of research institutions, research managers and researchers interested in measuring the research impact on organizations and society.
Report on Survey among interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and post-survey interviews with policy stakeholders
SHAPE-ID Report on Survey among interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and post-survey interviews with policy stakeholders
2020 •
Bianca Vienni-Baptista
Through a qualitative survey among European researchers and interviews with policy makers we hope to enhance knowledge about interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration. The survey and interviews were carried out as part of Work Package 2 of the SHAPE-ID Horizon 2020 project (https://www.shapeid.eu), which is also conducting a systematic literature review. We aim to serve the research community and relevant stakeholders in society with new insights, examples of good practice and tips on how to overcome difficulties that might help their current and future interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary endeavours. We focus on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS), but are also interested in the growing collaboration between these fields and the so-called STEMM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics). We address two main questions: (i) When developing a European interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary project, what are the main difficulties people encounter in realising a good research team that is balanced in terms of the various interests and goals of the different participants, and (ii) Which factors of success and failure do researchers integrating AHSS in larger projects consider relevant for their daily practice of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research?
