Competitive Accountability in Academic Life: The Struggle for Social Impact and Public Legitimacy

by Richard Watermeyer

Since the onset of the UK's Research Excellence Framework in 2014, the environment for academic research has changed dramatically. Competitive Accountability in Academic Life goes behind the scenes of the 'impact' policy agenda for higher education research and interrogates the effects of the new framework on academic research. Richard Watermeyer dissects how a new requirement to evidence the economic and societal impact of research has created a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839104481
• ISBN13: 9781839104480
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages