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Tag Archives: metrics
A Global Virtual Roundtable on How to Measure, Why to measure, Cities Resilience
Since more than a decade, urban resilience has entered political agendas worldwide, academic debates, and within this blog specific interest, planning debates. The Joint AESOP/ACSP conference titled “Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions” (Dublin, July 2013) already explored and addressed … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability and resilience
Tagged Climate change, metrics, Resilience, sustainability
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‘Measuring’ the impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ideas can… is the website of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, a non-profit charitable organization with a mandate to (from the website): promote the value of research and learning in the humanities and social sciences; support … Continue reading
Why Metrics Cannot Measure Research Quality: A Response to the HEFCE Consultation
Blog The Disorder of Things is sharing a response to the call of the UK Higher Education Funding Concil about the use of metrics in research assessment.Are metrics (i.e. citation counts) useful for assessing “quality” (which is different from impact … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment
Tagged citation counts, Disorder of Things, evaluation, HEFC, Impact, metrics, quality, research, UK
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