CGHE Webinar

What is research culture? Interpreting and governing research culture in the UK Higher Education

Date: Tuesday, 5 November 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: All times BST. Hybrid (seminar E) and Teams, registration required

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The emphasis on research culture is emerging as a significant trend in research assessment both in the UK and internationally. Yet, the meaning of research culture is often undetermined and strategically ambiguous. This presentation will unpack these ambiguities by mobilising insights from frame theory in social and political sciences in order to identify the key meanings of research culture across governance levels and disciplinary communities. The presentation will pay particular attention to competing and contradictory frames around research culture and their underpinning assumptions about the nature of research and academic institutions. Drawing on a rich dataset of focus groups, interviews, and document analysis of key policy documents at the UK and EU levels, this presentation will unpack the process of ‘meaning-making in action’ around research culture. By doing so, this presentation will provide insights into the operationalisation of research culture as an auditable object and its institutionalisation across the higher education system. Thus, this project will contribute to the ongoing debates in global higher education by exploring the emergence and consolidation of collective frames around new policy concepts and their performative effects.

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