Title:
Shake up reward and recognition of academic researchers
Author:
Nic Mitchell
Published:
University World News, 26 April 2021
From this article:
A radical shake-up in how academic researchers are recognised and rewarded is urgently required to remove roadblocks preventing a more diverse range of early career researchers from advancing into academia.
The current methods of research assessment overvalue outputs and ignore how the research is done and thereby threaten research integrity, according to findings presented to a session of the 2021 annual conference of the European University Association (EUA) on 22 April.