From Eminent Men to Excellent Universities: University Rankings as Calculative Devices [0.03%]
从杰出人才到优秀大学——大学排名作为计算工具
Björn Hammarfelt,Sarah de Rijcke,Paul Wouters
Björn Hammarfelt
Global university rankings have become increasingly important 'calculative devices' for assessing the 'quality' of higher education and research. Their ability to make characteristics of universities 'calculable' is here exemplified by the ...
The Aviation Paradox: Why We Can 'Know' Jetliners But Not Reactors [0.03%]
航空悖论：为何我们能“了解”喷气式客机但不了解反应堆
John Downer
John Downer
Publics and policymakers increasingly have to contend with the risks of complex, safety-critical technologies, such as airframes and reactors. As such, 'technological risk' has become an important object of modern governance, with state reg...
Who is the Scientist-Subject? A Critique of the Neo-Kantian Scientist-Subject in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's Objectivity [0.03%]
谁是科学主体？论洛林·丹斯特和彼得·加利森《客观性》一书中的新康德主义科学主体形象
Esha Shah
Esha Shah
The main focus of this essay is to closely engage with the role of scientist-subjectivity in the making of objectivity in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's book Objectivity, and Daston's later and earlier works On Scientific Observation a...
Reiner Grundmann
Reiner Grundmann
This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect ...
Jamie Lewis,Andrew Bartlett,Paul Atkinson
Jamie Lewis
Bioinformatics - the so-called shotgun marriage between biology and computer science - is an interdiscipline. Despite interdisciplinarity being seen as a virtue, for having the capacity to solve complex problems and foster innovation, it ha...
Modelling and the Nation: Institutionalising Climate Prediction in the UK, 1988-92 [0.03%]
气候模塑与国家：英国的气候预测制度化（1988—1992）
Martin Mahony,Mike Hulme
Martin Mahony
How climate models came to gain and exercise epistemic authority has been a key concern of recent climate change historiography. Using newly released archival materials and recently conducted interviews with key actors, we reconstruct negot...
'Excellence' and Exclusion: The Individual Costs of Institutional Competitiveness [0.03%]
«卓越»与排斥：机构竞争力的个人代价
Richard Watermeyer,Mark Olssen
Richard Watermeyer
A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdom's 'Research Excellence Framework' (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public Management technologies. The REF is als...
Unsustainable Growth, Hyper-Competition, and Worth in Life Science Research: Narrowing Evaluative Repertoires in Doctoral and Postdoctoral Scientists' Work and Lives [0.03%]
生命科学领域的不可持续增长、过度竞争及人生价值：博士和博士后评价体系的收窄及其工作与生活的影响
Maximilian Fochler,Ulrike Felt,Ruth Müller
Maximilian Fochler
There is a crisis of valuation practices in the current academic life sciences, triggered by unsustainable growth and "hyper-competition." Quantitative metrics in evaluating researchers are seen as replacing deeper considerations of the qua...
The EPSRC's Policy of Responsible Innovation from a Trading Zones Perspective [0.03%]
从贸易区的角度看英国工程和物理科学研究委员会的责任创新政策
Joseph Murphy,Sarah Parry,John Walls
Joseph Murphy
Responsible innovation (RI) is gathering momentum as an academic and policy debate linking science and society. Advocates of RI in research policy argue that scientific research should be opened up at an early stage so that many actors and ...
The Evaluation Scale: Exploring Decisions About Societal Impact in Peer Review Panels [0.03%]
评审尺度：探索同行评议小组中关于社会影响力决定的评价标准
Gemma E Derrick,Gabrielle N Samuel
Gemma E Derrick
Realising the societal gains from publicly funded health and medical research requires a model for a reflexive evaluation precedent for the societal impact of research. This research explores UK Research Excellence Framework evaluators' val...