TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION - 4 December 2014
There has been a great deal of discussion, much of it critical, of
the impact agenda in higher education and in the research excellence
framework.
We have been cautioned that this agenda might
prioritise lower over higher quality research if it has demonstrable
social reach, that the role of ethics is unclear (so researchers might
be facilitating questionable policy agendas or corporate practices) and
that the impact of much valuable exploratory and theoretical work (often
in the arts and humanities) is almost impossible to assess.
But thus far nobody has really explored the potential effect on individual researchers who “have impact”.
As
the REF 2014 loomed on the horizon, I was asked to submit an impact
case study about my research on “lad cultures” and sexual violence in
higher education.
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