Evaluating the performance-based research fund : framing the debate / edited by Leon Bakker [and others]. - xxv, 500 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Purpose of the performance-based research fund and its evaluation -- Rationale for the performance-based research fund : personal reflections / Evaluation of the British research assessment exercise / A perspective on the proposed Australian research quality framework / Performance-based research fund intervention logic : informing the evaluation / Exploring the performance-based research fund database -- Performance-based research fund : what the data are telling us / Performance-based research fund : analysis of the incentives for research degree completion / Mapping the social sciences by exploring performance-based research fund data : characteristics of New Zealand academic social sciences research outputs / Jonathan Boston -- Jonathan Adams, David Smith -- Peter Sheehan -- Leon Bakker, Lesley Campbell, David Eng -- Warren Smart, Roger Smyth -- Warren Smart -- Charles Crothers -- Pt. One : 1 2 3 4 Pt. Two : 5 6 7 Knowledge, productivity and the performance-based research fund -- The performance-based research fund and the production and commodification of knowledge / The performance-based research fund and the benefits of competition between universities / Impact and implications of the 2003 performance-based research fund research quality assessment exercise / Impact of the performance-based research fund on research management and funding -- Impact of the performance-based research fund on research management at Victoria University of Wellington / Performance-based research fund funding flows : initial indications / Impact of the performance-based research fund on staffing and research students -- Impact of the performance-based research fund on staffing in tertiary education institutions / Impact of the performance-based research fund on research degree programmes and postgraduate students / John A. Codd -- Lewis Evans, Neil Quigley -- Tim Hazledine, Cliff Kurniawan -- Katy Miller, Philip Roderick, Theresa Sawicka -- Leon Bakker, Brenden Mischewski -- K. Geoffrey White -- Gregor Coster -- Pt. Three : 8 9 10 Pt. Four : 11 12 Pt. Five : 13 14 Impact of the performance-based research fund on Māori and women -- Impact of the performance-based research fund on Māori research and researchers / Body politics within the academy : gender and the performance-based research fund / Bruce Curtis, Suzanne Phibbs -- Impact of the performance-based research fund on teaching education -- Impact of the performance-based research fund on teaching and the research-teaching balance : survey of a New Zealand university / Researching identities : impact of the performance-base research fund on the subject(s) of education / Ailsa Smith, Pip Bruce Ferguson -- Cedric Hall, Kay Morris Matthews -- Sue Middleton. Pt. Six : 15 16 Pt. Seven : 17 18

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Education, Higher--Research--Government policy--New Zealand.
Research--Government policy--New Zealand
Government aid to higher education--Evaluation--New Zealand

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