Tjitske Holtrop is Researcher at Centre for Science and Technology Studies
How can local knowledge production help regions to create more sustainable and inclusive societies? This post will delve deeper in how we combined the core concepts of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and smart specialisation and how this developed into the EXPLORE methodology.
Ingeborg Meijer, Tim Willemse, Sonia Mena Jara, Anestis Amanatidis, Tjitske Holtrop and Gaston Heimeriks •
What does responsible research evaluation look like when it comes to societal value? This blog post provides four practical recommendations.
Laurens Hessels, Leonie van Drooge, Tjitske Holtrop and Rodrigo Costas •
Do research evaluations serve the purpose of accountability or of learning? We argue that they can do both and that we might as well use the energy and resources it takes to organize evaluations for both accountability and learning opportunities.
Tjitske Holtrop, Laurens Hessels and Ad Prins •
Critiques on research metrics have produced an unhelpful divide between quantitative and qualitative research methods. In this blogpost, we explain why research evaluation can benefit from the strengths of both.
Tjitske Holtrop, Laurens Hessels and Ad Prins •
We know that academic knowledge production happens in context, yet, when assessing research, we undervalue the influence of stakeholders and organizational contexts on academic output and impact. The second of four blogposts is on evaluating research in context.
Tjitske Holtrop, Laurens Hessels and Ad Prins •
Mainstream evaluation metrics tend to understand academic value as performance while missing other valuable elements of academic value trajectories. This first of four blogposts focuses on the concept of value of the Evaluative Inquiry’s approach to research evaluation.
Tjitske Holtrop, Laurens Hessels and Ad Prins •