Research Evaluation (MGMT90183)

This subject provides an overview of research evaluation and its place in science policy, and gives participants knowledge and insight in areas such as:

• the function of evaluation in science and the ways in which scientists, scientific processes and results are subject to evaluation;
• the institutional context of research evaluation in science policy, its function in governing the science system, organizationally, nationally and internationally;
• the type of evaluations that exist on different levels, for instance project, program, institutional evaluations and rankings, as well as the tools used in evaluations, such as peer review and metrics;
• the social and organizational impacts of evaluation on the science system;
• the ways in which evaluation can be studied scientifically;
• various approaches to evaluation research.