[MCASIlaris] Please join us for the June 26 LARIS Research Seminar! Haddow - Early career academics and evaluative metrics: Ambivalence, resistance and strategies

[Leisa Gibbons]

Hello,

In June, we welcome Associate Professor Gaby Haddow<https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/G.Haddow/> to present on her research.

  *   Day: Wednesday, June 26 2019
  *   Time: Commences 4pm AWST
  *   Location: Humanities Boardroom, 209.214.
  *   Online access to the seminar is available via Google Hangouts: https://bit.ly/2JDOskz
Seminar overview:
This seminar will focus on the research I carried out on the influence of metrics and research evaluation for researchers in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The focus is on early career academics (ECA) who were explored in a sub-study by my Swedish collaborator, Bjorn Hammarfelt. Several questions might be useful to explore, such as:

·             how can ECAs create the most effective balance in their working lives in relation to meeting institutional research expectations and pursuing their specific disciplinary interests?

·             what are the reputational/recognition factors that are likely to have most impact on ECAs?

·             what can institutions do to support ECAs in their efforts to achieve

A copy of the pre-print chapter is available from the Google drive<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r-2gGujcCTHIe_pOx5lT76H5QvSWJa-a>.

Abstract: Measures of research productivity and quality are key components of academic life, and a successful academic career is heavily dependent on meeting quantified performance standards. For many years citation-based measures like the Impact Factor dominated the metrics landscape, but in the last two decades a swathe of new evaluation tools have emerged, including the h-index, ranked journal lists, and altmetrics. While the effectiveness of these metrics is debatable across many disciplines, their use in the social sciences and humanities has attracted most criticism. This presentation is concerned with how early career academics are using and responding to the use of evaluative metrics; their strategies and ambitions for the future, and their perceptions of how evaluative metrics influence their work. In-depth interviews with Australian academics in the social sciences and humanities provided the data to explore these questions and we are particularly interested in how competing 'orders of worth' (Boltanski & Thévenot, 2006) come to the fore in these accounts, and how researchers negotiate rivalling demands and expectations. Drawing on the concept of 'evaluative landscapes' (Brandtner, 2017) we suggest that metrics and indicators can be seen as signposts which are used to assess achievement and to navigate a pathway to an 'idealised sense of self'.

The Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Science (LARIS) Research Seminar Series is a staff-driven event designed to communicate and discuss our research and work-in-progress. We welcome staff, students, alumni, and professionals who are interested in research to participate in the event. For more information about the LARIS Research Seminar Series please read the information sheet (a Google doc): https://bit.ly/2HlcWfD

We hope to see you there!


Dr. Leisa Gibbons and Dr. Hollie White

LARIS Research Seminar Series Co-Chairs



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