CGHE Annual Conference, 24-25 May 2022
Chair: Ellen Hazelkorn
Speakers: Alis Oancea, Gemma Derrick, James Robson, Maria Rucsandra Stan and Xin Xu
In this session, we will share insights from our ongoing empirical work on six research systems that have been differentially shaped through formalized performance-based periodical assessments of research (in Australia, England, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Hong Kong SAR). The study explores reflectively these systems and places them in critical dialogue with experiences from other contexts, including from Africa, Latin America and North America. During the session, we will outline emerging findings on the policy frames and configurations of these systems and their relationships with global dynamics of knowledge. We will also anticipate the next phase of the study, which dives into organisational framings for research, including structures, missions, cultures, practices and inter-sectoral links; and listens actively to individual accounts of the lived experience of a wide range of participants and stakeholders in the research (eco) system. We draw on these insights to design and pilot a survey of global dynamics of research that takes a balanced and participatory approach across both the global north and the global south. We aim for the findings to recognise and showcase the diversity of voices and cultural traditions and contexts in relation to understandings of research values, quality, impact and equity, as well as to provide implications from the standpoints of various stakeholders.
