Fostering Impactful Research: Structures & Incentives
Learn how to foster impactful research through effective structures and incentives. Discover key findings on research impact, evaluation strategies, and good research practices. Explore practical evaluation questions and where to ask them for maximizing research impact.
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How to provide structures and incentives to foster impactful research Presentation to Evaluation as a tool to achieve policies Roundtable, ENRESSH Dissemination Even, Paris, 18thFebruary 2020 Professor Paul Benneworth, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Our Key ENRESSH Research Impact findings 1. Research impact in society does not happen the way that evaluators think it does 2. Evaluators are pushing the wrong lever 3. Research impact comes from INCREMENTAL PROCESS of useful knowledge creation 4. Evaluate like you want all researchers involved
Research evaluation works by steering researchers Research evaluation works best when it steers all researchers to do more of what is seen as being good Good research evaluation goes with the grain of scientific practice
Impact is created when academics steer their research around societal problems Good research practices that create impact: 1. Create contacts with social users 2. Exchange knowledge with these social users 3. Across research cycles (inspiration dissemination) 4. In ways influencing scientist choices 5. That still allows scientists to create good research
How to evaluate this in practice This implies five evaluation questions: 1. Are there contacts with social partners? 2. Are social partners contributing knowledge? 3. Are these contributions continual? 4. Are scientists taking the knowledge into account in the choices they take? 5. Are the scientists also creating good research through these contacts?
Where do you ask these questions? In impact statements for research proposals In project final reports for funded projects In appointment, promotion, tenure committees In deciding who to give keynotes to for conferences In appointing people to journals In awarding people status within learned societies In making small awards for personal development
Who decides whether the answers are good enough ? We have similar questions for good research and we have ways of answering those questions, and judging them: WE (the researchers) answer them YOU need to help us be consistent!
