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Research trends on digital school leadership over time: Science mapping and content analysis
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to map trends in literature about digital school leadership over the last decades. Combining bibliometric and automatic content analyses, we map and analyze a sample of 350 documents, retrieved in Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) including titles and abstracts. The software VosViewer and Leximancer are used for analyses. Our sample is divided reflecting an early phase of digitalization in school (1992–2009), a phase of an increasing digitalization in school (2010–2020) and a phase of digitalization related to the Covid-19 pandemic (2021–2023). In general, the research literature on digital school leadership can be characterized as an emerging, fragmented, and inter-disciplinary field. Most literature is published after 2010 with an increase in publications after 2019, resulting in a peak in 2021. The literature is characterized by some influential highly connected authors revealing some changing thematic patterns over time. Further, findings highlight that when research on digital school leadership draws from various disciplines, this also indicates a need for a holistic and multifaceted approach. Scholars from different disciplines contribute to an updated understanding of digital school leadership. This interdisciplinary collaboration thus enriches the discourse, as it demonstrates how various perspectives may add new insights into the conceptualization of digital school leadership.publishedVersio
NIFU Årsrapport 2023
No full textNIFUs årsrapport for 2023. Innehoilder blant annet årsregnskap og årsberetning, redegjørelse for åpenhetsloven, aktivitets- og redegjørelsesplikten samt klima- og miljørapport
Scalar orientation of policies and technology legitimacy: The case of decarbonization in Norway
Full text linkThis paper suggest that we need to better understand the relationship between policy rationales and their scalar orientation. The former refers to the underlying motivations for proposing policies. The latter refers to two dimensions: the geography of challenges that policy seek to address, and the geography of effects that policy seek to instigate. Such variations in the scalar orientation of national level climate and energy policy, may lead to differing rationales for (not) supporting technologies that can contribute to decarbonization, depending also on their alignment with broader context structures. In this way, scalar orientation of policy rationales may have significant implications for technology legitimacy. We develop a conceptual framework that distinguishes four types of scalar orientation in local/global challenges and effects. Empirically, we analyse how shifting scalar orientation of policy rationales in Norway has influenced legitimacy for LNG in shipping, offshore wind in the energy sector, and CCS for various user sectors.Scalar orientation of policies and technology legitimacy: The case of decarbonization in NorwaypublishedVersio
Needs led research: ensuring relevant research in two PhD projects within maternity care
Full text linkThere has been a growing concern regarding research waste and the mismatch between conducted research and the research needs of knowledge users. The Needs Led Research (NLR) approach is proposed as an effective method to ensure that research address actual evidence gaps that are relevant to the users of the knowledge. By search and reviewing literature and involving knowledge users, NLR aims to identify, verify, and prioritize research needs. This paper describes and compares the implementation of the NLR approach in two separate PhD projects within maternity care, and addresses the challenges encountered throughout the processes, aiming to offer valuable insights for future NLR initiatives.publishedVersio
The plurality and contexts of research quality notions
Full text linkWhereas research quality is a key concern in research policy, it is often handled as unitary and rarely interrogated. This paper explores variations in what researchers perceive to characterize the research they value the highest and aims to understand the different sites where research quality notions are formed. Based on a large researcher survey, we find both commonalities and differences across disciplines. Notions appear to vary systematically by researcher’s organizational type, their interaction with clients and practitioners, and their reliance on outside infrastructure and multidisciplinary research. For example, those affiliated with research institutes are more prone than those at universities to value societal impact as a characteristic of the best research. In conclusion, quality notions appear to reflect a multitude of organizational sites, and disciplines account for only part of the variation. Hence, a more nuanced understanding of the plurality and origins of research quality notions is needed.publishedVersio
The Role of Leisure Practices and Local Identity in Migrants’ Inclusion in Two Rural Norwegian Municipalities
Full text linkThis article discusses the role of local identity and local leisure practices in migrants’ inclusion processes in two rural Norwegian localities. The discussed study was conducted in municipalities that had experienced increased international migration following the EU expansion in 2004 and had a long history of internal in‐migration. In the study, individuals’ social inclusion and belonging processes are treated as inseparable from a locality’s dominant local narratives, practices, and norms—drawing on theories on inclusion/exclusion processes in places. Based on findings from semi‐structured interviews with local natives, internal migrants, and international migrants, the study found that different leisure practices were central to local identity in the two localities, which had implications for what was expected of migrants in order for them to be accepted locally. These findings align with what is commonly conceived as outdated community study research findings. The findings indicate the continued relevance of the local for people’s identification and migrants’ inclusion processes and support a need for closer theoretical and methodological integration of internal and international migration research. Another central finding was that in one of the localities, national narratives about civic engagement were evoked by some majority Norwegians as additional arguments for the importance of migrants’ involvement in local leisure activities. These interviewees’ main concern appeared to be ensuring local—rather than national—cultural continuity and cohesion. Finally, the different inclusion grammars in the two localities illustrate that inclusion processes in one locality should not by default be seen as representative of what is transpiring in a nation‐state.publishedVersio
Implikasjoner av skjevheter i Kandidatundersøkelsen
Full text linkI dette notatet undersøker vi graden av målefeil i Kandidatundersøkelsen (KU) og betydningen av henholdsvis seleksjon og feilrapportering for den totale målefeilen. Høy kvalitet i KU-dataene er avgjørende, ettersom KU utgjør et viktig bidrag til kunnskaps-grunnlaget som informerer utdanningspolitikken i Norge. Som datagrunnlag for analysene bruker vi KUs tidsseriedata i perioden 2015-2023, registerdata for samme populasjon og tidsperiode, samt kobling mellom besvarelsene i 2021-undersøkelsen og registerdata i samme år. Analysene viser at feilrapportering utgjør en betydelig større feilkilde enn feil som skyldes seleksjon
The consequences of paying to publish
Full text linkOpen Access publishing has been the most prolific aspect of the transition towards open science. In this transition, increasingly national governments, national and international funding agencies and institutional leadership have initiated policies to promote and stimulate the development to open access as the norm in scholarly publishing. However, this has not always led to the best outcomes
Statsbudsjettet 2025. Forskning og høyere utdanning i budsjettproposisjonen for 2025
No full textRealnedgang i 2025 for forskning og høyere utdanning. Støre-regjeringen la fram sitt forslag til statsbudsjett for 2025 den 7. oktober 2024. NIFUs analyse gir en nærmere framstilling av budsjettforslagets betydning for forskning og høyere utdanning
Hvordan påvirker ekstern finansiering forskningens vitenskapelige innflytelse?
Full text linkVitenskapelige publikasjoner med finansiering fra Norges forskningsråd og EU er mer sitert i senere forskning enn hva tilfellet er for norske publikasjoner uten ekstern finansiering. Forskning basert på ekstern finansiering synes derfor å oppnå høyere vitenskapelig innflytelse, og gevinsten er spesielt stor ved deltakelse i EU-finansierte prosjekter. Det er også betydelige forskjeller mellom Norges forskningsråd og EU med tanke på hva slags forskningstemaer som blir finansiert. Slik sett synes de to finansieringskildene å komplettere hverandre