Understanding Research Quality as Basis of Research Assessment
At the 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library, Dr Michael Ochsner will talk about the results from a decade of research on research quality in the social sciences and humanities and what the sciences can learn from it.
Scientists evaluate research all the time when they read, teach, write, etc. But how can research quality be defined? Using metrics? Using qualitative methods? And what about the societal relevance?
In his presentation, Michael Ochsner draws on his research projects on research quality in the social sciences and humanities and discusses to what extent the results are also relevant for sciences, technology, engineering and medicine disciplines.
He compares how scholars assess quality criteria in different evaluation situations and across disciplines and country contexts. He will show that research quality is a complex construct and that responsible evaluation of research requires a broad set of criteria.
17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Understanding Research Quality as Basis of Research Assessment
Dr Michael Ochsner, FORS, Lausanne
ETH Zurich, 365体育直播_365体育投注-竞猜网投 Zentrum, Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zurich, LEE E 101 or live online.
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Michael Ochsner is Senior Researcher at FORS, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Social Sciences, in Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Centre for Reproducible Research at the University of Zurich.
His work focuses on conceptual frameworks for research evaluation, paying special attention to cross-national differences in research policy and evaluation as well as how to identify research quality. He also specialises in survey methodology and open data.
He is president of the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Science and Humanities (ENRESSH), chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Values Study and a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Research Evaluation and Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
The 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library offers a platform for further education and discussion of topics related to libraries, museums and archives. The formula: a 30-minute lecture + a 30-minute discussion = inspiration for our daily working lives.
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