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Books - Research impact & Engagement
Achieving Academic Promotion by
Academic promotion doesn't come easy: a successful application requires you to demonstrate continued growth in every area of your role as a researcher, educator and member of the academic community. Furthermore, the detail of the promotions process varies from one country to another and even from one institution to another. So where does an ambitious academic start? Achieving Academic Promotion demystifies the process by bringing together international perspectives - both personal accounts and reflections on the structures and processes of promotion in different contexts - to help you understand the steps you can take at any stage of your career to move up the ladder. Featuring compelling and encouraging personal stories of success, as well as practical tips and takeaways, this timely book is essential reading for the academic who wants to be promotion-ready.
ISBN: 9781787569027Publication Date: 2019
Applied evaluative informetrics by
This book presents an introduction to the field of applied evaluative informetrics, dealing with the use of bibliometric or informetric indicators in research assessment. It sketches the field's history, recent achievements, and its potential and limits. The book dedicates special attention to the application context of quantitative research assessment. It describes research assessment as an evaluation science, and distinguishes various assessment models, in which the domain of informetrics and the policy sphere are disentangled analytically. It illustrates how external, non-informetric factors influence indicator development, and how the policy context impacts the setup of an assessment process. It also clarifies common misunderstandings in the interpretation of some often used statistics.
ISBN: 9783319605227Publication Date: 2017
Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences by
Grants and fellowships are increasingly essential to an academic career, and competition over federal and foundation funding is fiercer than ever. Yet there has hitherto been little training available for this genre of writing. Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences demystifies the process of writing winning grant proposals in the humanities and social sciences. Offering practical guidance, step-by-step instructions, and examples of successful proposals, Walker and Unruh outline the best practices to crack the proposal writing code. They reveal the most common peeves of proposal reviewers, and offer advice on how to avoid frequent problem areas in conceptualizing and crafting a research proposal in the humanities and social sciences. Contributions from agency and foundation program officers offer the perspective from the other side of the proposal submission portal, and new research funding trends, including crowdfunding and public scholarship, are also covered. This book is essential reading for all those involved in funding applications. Graduate students, research administrators, early career faculty members, and tenured professors alike will gain new and effective strategies to write successful applications.
ISBN: 9781611323207Publication Date: 2017
The Impactful Academic by
Globally, researchers are being asked to plan for and demonstrate the impact that their research has on culture, society, health, and the economy. Higher education is changing, moving away from rewarding academics primarily for peer-reviewed academic publications and asking academics to report on how their work contributes to society more broadly. For many academics, impact poses a worrisome proposition. Impact has not generally been integrated into PhD training and many universities have been slow to respond to the emerging impact agenda, leaving a knowledge, training, and support gap. The Impactful Academicoffers a holistic, all-of-career approach to impact aimed at active researchers and those who support research impact. It ruminates on the question of what an academic with impact looked like in the past, and what it will look like going forward as concepts around impact are solidified by government and granting agencies. The authors come from various backgrounds including engaged scholars who are generating impact, and impact professionals who have been critical to supporting academics across disciplines on their impact journeys. The reader will emerge with more than an impact plan for a single research project or grant, but rather a holistic, career-centric approach to impact.
ISBN: 9781801178440Publication Date: 2022
The impact of the social sciences: how academic and their research make a difference by
Based on a three year research project studying the impact of academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreaking book undertakes the most thorough analysis yet of how academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts, contributes to economic prosperity, and informs public understanding of policy issues.
ISBN: 9781473921511Publication Date: 2016
The research impact handbook by
This book will help you fast track the impact of your research, whether you are a PhD student or a Professor, a medieval historian or a medic.
Call Number: 300.72 REEDISBN: 9780993548208Publication Date: 2018
Using Evidence by
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to understanding and enhancing evidence use. It builds on and complements the popular and best-selling What Works?: Evidence-based policy and practice in public services (Davies, Nutley and Smith, Policy Press, 2000), by drawing together current knowledge about how research gets used and how this can be encouraged and improved. In particular, the authors explore various multidiscipliary frameworks for understanding the research use agenda; consider how research use and the impact of research can be assessed; summarise the empirical evidence from the education, health care, social care and criminal justice fields about how research is used and how this can be improved and draw out practical issues that need to be addressed if research is to have greater impact on public services. Using evidence is important reading for university and government researchers, research funding bodies, public service managers and professionals, and students of public policy and management. It will also prove an invaluable guide for anyone involved in the implementation of evidence-based policy and practice.
ISBN: 9781847422323Publication Date: 2007
Describing impact
Meagher, L., & Edwards, D. (2020, September 18). A_How to tell an impact story? The building blocks you need [Blog post]. Impact of Social Sciences https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/09/18/how-to-to-tell-an-impact-story-the-building-blocks-you-need/
Williams, K., & Lewis, J. M. (2021). Understanding, measuring, and encouraging public policy research impact. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80(3), 554–564. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12506
Appropriate use of metrics
de Rijcke, S., Waltman, L., & van Leeuwen, T. (2021, May 19). Halt the h-index [Blog post]. Leiden Madtrics https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/halt-the-h-index
Moed, H. (2017, November 3). A_How can we use research performance indicators in an informed and responsible manner? [Blog post]. The Bibliomagician https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/how-can-we-use-research-performance-indicators-in-an-informed-and-responsible-manner-guest-post-by-henk-moed/
Swijgshuisen Reigersberg, M. E. (2018, November 21). Metrics, research assessment and league tables: An Australian perspective [Blog post]. The Bibliomagician https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/metrics-research-assessment-and-league-tables-an-australian-perspective-guest-post-by-muriel-swijghuisen-reigersberg/
Track record
"The assessment of researcher performance today is based on decisions of researchers in the past." (Polonsky, 2008, p. 67)
Brian, D. (2018, February 6). Building your track record. The Research Whisperer. https://researchwhisperer.org/2018/02/06/building-track-record/
Polonsky, M. (2008). What is a Research Track Record? Australasian Marketing Journal, 16(2), 67–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1441-3582(08)70015-6
H-Index
Albion, P. R. (2012). Benchmarking citation measures among the Australian education professoriate. The Australian Educational Researcher, 39(2), 221–235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-012-0060-1
Furnham, A. (2019). What I have learned from my Google Scholar and H index. Scientometrics, 122(2), 1249–1254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03316-4
Harzing, A.-W. (2016, August). Reflections on norms for the h-index and related indices. Retrieved May 11, 2021, from Harzing.com website: https://harzing.com/blog/2016/08/reflections-on-norms-for-the-hindex-and-related-indices
Kamrani, P., Dorsch, I., & Stock, W. G. (2021). Do researchers know what the h-index is? And how do they estimate its importance? Scientometrics, 126(7), 5489–5508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03968-1
*** Merga, M. K., Mat Roni, S., & Mason, S. (2020). A_Should Google Scholar be used for benchmarking against the professoriate in education? Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03691-3