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Evaluation for the allocation of university research project funding: Can rules improve the peer review?
No full textEvaluation for the allocation of project-funding schemes devoted to sustain academic research often undergoes changes of the rules for the ex-ante selection, which are supposed to improve the capability of peer review to select the best proposals. How modifications of the rules realize a more accountable evaluation result? Do the changes suggest an improved alignment with the program's intended objectives? The article addresses these questions investigating Research Project of National Interest, an Italian collaborative project-funding scheme for academic curiosity-driven research through a case study design that provides a description of how the changes of the ex-ante evaluation process were implemented in practice. The results show that when government tries to steer the peer-review process by imposing an increasing number of rules to structure the debate among peers and make it more accountable, the peer-review practices remain largely impervious to the change
La comunicazione tra reale e virtuale
No full textReale e virtuale vivono in un terreno poco cristallino. Cosa significa per la scuola muoversi tra i due poli
Steering heterogeneous sciences in the Dutch and Italian higher education systems
Full text linkThis paper studies how the implementation of New Public Management reforms in Higher Education affects the academic bodies’ steering in different national systems and disciplines. It is assumed that the steering capability depends on the characteristics of each system and discipline. The work includes three case studies (two Italian universities and one Dutch university); two research institutes are selected for each university: one HS institute (either Biomedical Sciences or Physics) and one SoSc institute (Management). Evidence confirms that steering capability improves in some disciplines, while other scientific fields remain hardly steerable because the levers are weak, the interest of society and policy makers in research outcomes is small, and the reputational organisations are very influential.Higher Education, Research, Funding, Evaluation, Steering, Governance, Social Sciences, Hard Sciences, New Public Management
Reale e virtuale di Tomás Maldonado
No full textM. Unali ha partecipato alla sezione “Antologia collettiva” del n. 6 della rivista "Viceversa" (2017), proponendo a p. 269 una brevissima riflessione sul libro di Tomás Maldonado, “Reale e virtuale” (Feltrinelli, Milano 1992)
La formazione della coscienza civile fra "reale" e "virtuale"
No full textLa formazione della coscienza civile fra “reale” e “virtuale
La formazione della coscienza civile fra "reale" e "virtuale"
No full textLa formazione della coscienza civile fra “reale” e “virtuale
Moving, remaining, and returning: international mobility of doctorate holders in the social sciences and humanities
No full textInternational mobility of doctorate holders is one important dimension of the general phenomenon of internationalization and globalization of research systems, which is supposed to have positive effects on economy and society. Although issues of international mobility for doctorate holders have been largely investigated, there is still relatively little information about the factors affecting those with degrees specifically in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). Considering this, the aim of the current paper is twofold: first, to investigate whether the propensity of a doctorate holder in SSH to experience a period of international mobility during the career is influenced by mobility during the educational stage; second, to examine whether the mobility after doctoral degree affects the choice of doctorates to return to their country of origin, as opposed to remaining abroad, controlling for peculiar aspects of the higher education sector of employment. The results show that international mobility during graduate education and at the moment of choosing the first job on attaining the PhD are important factors influencing the future mobility of doctorate holders in the SSH areas. These same factors also influence the individual’s propensity to diverge (continue abroad) or converge (remain, return) with respect to their initial country of employment. The results of this investigation improve our knowledge about the effects generated by the early choices of individuals, which could support decision-makers in designing instruments addressing the international mobility of doctorate holders and, when relevant, creating the conditions for their return
Governance and evaluation as steering instruments: University implementation and expectations
No full textThe perspective of the introduction of compulsory evaluation in the Italian HE system is fostering the
possibility to change deeply the governance asset of the single universities that are facing the
question about how to cope with the incoming presence of evaluation in allocation of resources and
performance assessment. At the same time the governance led by strong collegial patterns cannot be
overcome easily, nor it could be done without risks for the community cohesion. We believe that the
governance of a HEI although formally shaped in the same way, can be transformed in terms of
effective power according to the university structural patterns (first of all their dimension), and to
perceived external threats and opportunities. With this paper upon two empirical cases of universities
– a large one and a medium size university – we are focusing on how the HEIs are changing their
governance in order to let enter the evaluation as a steering tool whose vision varies between
different cases. The main topics are about: a) how, why, and to what extent the evaluation is entering
an university b) how and by whom the steer in terms of governance ought to be pursued; c) which
new balances are emerging from the change of governance among the levels, especially in terms of
power (winners and losers)
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