The quantified scholar : how research evaluations transformed the British social sciences / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra.

"Since 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation's universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most full-time academics employed in British univer...

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Main Author: Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
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Physical Description:xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Chains of knowledge
  • Measures of austerity
  • Sorted by work
  • Shifting words
  • Hierarchies of quantification
  • Solidarities.