TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact in the REF
T2 - Issues and Obstacles
AU - Watermeyer, Richard
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article focuses on ‘impact’ as a new condition of research assessment for UK academics. It explores a history of resistance to an ‘impact agenda’ and how impact as a component of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) – a system of performance based funding – is viewed by academics as an infringement to a scholarly way of life; as symptomatic of the marketisation of higher education; and as fundamentally incompatible and deleterious to the production of new knowledge.
AB - This article focuses on ‘impact’ as a new condition of research assessment for UK academics. It explores a history of resistance to an ‘impact agenda’ and how impact as a component of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) – a system of performance based funding – is viewed by academics as an infringement to a scholarly way of life; as symptomatic of the marketisation of higher education; and as fundamentally incompatible and deleterious to the production of new knowledge.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.915303
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03075079.2014.915303
U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2014.915303
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2014.915303
M3 - Article
SN - 0307-5079
SP - 679
EP - 700
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
ER -