International Expert Meeting 9 November 2007
65 experts on the social impact of research gathered in Amsterdam for ERiC’s international Expert meeting “Evaluation of productive interactions between science and society” on 9 November 2007. The meeting presented an overview of existing evaluation methods for the social impact of research, and called for establishing a minimum set of requirements for the methodological quality of measuring this impact.
Meeting report
Expected soon
Presentations
Morning session I: Setting the stage
Welcome, introduction: Today's goal and focus (Stefan Kuhlman, University of Twente) (pdf, 43kb)
STS-perspec tive: Innovative evaluation methods in the MIT complex (Julie Thompson-Klein, Wayne State University, USA) (pdf, 49kb)
Policy Perspective: The Politics of Evaluating Science Impact (Claire Donovan, ANU, Australia) (pdf, 156kb)
ERiC: the next step (Jack Spaapen, KNAW, The Netherlands) (pdf, 116kb)
Morning session II: Best practices
CERES-evaluation method (Ton Dietz, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) (pdf, 17kb)
The Payback Framework (Stephen Hanney, Brunel University, UK) (pdf, 33kb)
sci_Quest method (Frank Wamelink QANU, the Netherlands) (pdf, 34kb)
ESRC socio-economic impact analysis (Ian Sanderson, ESRU, UK) (pdf, 365kb)
Societal impact in medical sciences (Lex Burdorf, Erasmus MC, the Netherlands) (pdf, 94kb)
New methodologies in the area of impact assessment of the humanities (Lisa Hill, AMRC, UK) (pdf, 31kb)
Impact of traffic safety research (Torbjörn Winqvist, VINNOVA, Sweden) (pdf, 47kb)
Afternoon session: The way forward (workshops)
In three different breakout groups, discussion took place on the future of evaluation of productive interactions. The break out groups focused on different levels: the research group, the discipline and the (supra) national level.
New Horizons
In the final session, it was concluded that there is a lot of experience to build upon. The next step should be to establish commonly accepted minimum requirements of methodological quality for the measurement of social impact, just as there is for the measurement of scientific quality.
List of participants (pdf, 7kb).