Research Evaluation

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 and its function in governing
• The science system organisationally, nationally and internationally
• The type of evaluations that exist on different levels (project, program, institutional evaluations and rankings) as well as the tools used in evaluations (peer review and metrics)
• The social and organisational impacts of evaluation on the science system
• The ways in which evaluation can be studied scientifically
• Various approaches to evaluation research. More...