The impacts agenda is an autonomous push for opening up and democratizing academia, not part of a neo-liberal hegemony

Dunleavy, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-2650-6398 and Tinkler, Jane (2020) The impacts agenda is an autonomous push for opening up and democratizing academia, not part of a neo-liberal hegemony. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (20 Nov 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Improving academic impact has been given a bad name in some academic circles, who link it to a near-conspiracy theory view of the powers of ‘neo-liberalism’. But Patrick Dunleavy and Jane Tinkler argue that (despite one or two bureaucratic distortions, like the REF), the impacts agenda is centrally about enhancing the efficacy of scientific and academic work, democratizing access to knowledge and culture, and fostering rational thinking.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2021 14:27
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:48
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107698

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