Affective Auditing: The Emotional Weight of the Research Excellence Framework

Autor/inn/en	Watermeyer, Richard; Derrick, Gemma Elizabeth; Borras Batalla, Mar
Titel	Affective Auditing: The Emotional Weight of the Research Excellence Framework
Quelle	In: Research Evaluation, 31 (2022) 4, S.498-506 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-2029
DOI	10.1093/reseval/rvac041
Schlagwörter	Research Universities; Foreign Countries; Educational Quality; Educational Research; Educational Assessment; Neoliberalism; Psychological Patterns; Middle Management; Evaluation Methods; Audits (Verification); United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungseinrichtung; Ausland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Mittlere Führungskraft; Großbritannien
Abstract	In aggressively neo-liberalized higher education systems and in 'high-performing' research units--typically academic schools in high-ranking research universities--research assessment has come to dominate the daily organization and enactment of research and research culture. So much so in fact that academics' research praxis, their employability, career trajectories and very lexicon are in synthesis with the manufacture and mediation of performance values, often to the detriment of collegiality, critical citizenship, and self-efficacy. Research assessment as a technology of governance is thus also a 'disruptive technology' epidemic to the (re)making of academic lives. Notwithstanding, studies of the "affective" aspects of research assessment and its emotional manipulation of academic lives are at best thin. Further, less is known of what we call 'affective auditing' from the perspective of academic middle-managers with institutional responsibility for implementing assessment procedures and with direct experience of the disruptiveness of research assessment at meso and micro levels. By way of response, this article reports on findings from interviews with academic middle or quasi-managers responsible for overseeing research assessment in research elite universities in the high-performance and highly pressurized research context of the UK. These accounts elucidate the weight of 'affective auditing' on academic researchers and academic quasi-managers and the extent to which research assessment shapes the emotional contours of research lives. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01