Ben Martin and Richard Whitley
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199590193
- eISBN:
- 9780191723445
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590193.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Public Management, Knowledge Management
The UK was one of the first countries both to institutionalize university research assessment and to link it to financial allocations. Consequently, the effects on authority relations there are ...
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The UK was one of the first countries both to institutionalize university research assessment and to link it to financial allocations. Consequently, the effects on authority relations there are likely to be more profound than in many other European states. This chapter first looks at the historical background to the introduction of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and then examines the evolution of the RAE as carried out on successive occasions. It analyses its impact on authority relations — in particular those relating to the Funding Councils and the government, to users, disciplinary elites, universities and university departments, and individual researchers. The final section summarizes the conclusions emerging from this analysis.Less
The UK was one of the first countries both to institutionalize university research assessment and to link it to financial allocations. Consequently, the effects on authority relations there are likely to be more profound than in many other European states. This chapter first looks at the historical background to the introduction of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and then examines the evolution of the RAE as carried out on successive occasions. It analyses its impact on authority relations — in particular those relating to the Funding Councils and the government, to users, disciplinary elites, universities and university departments, and individual researchers. The final section summarizes the conclusions emerging from this analysis.
