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The Production of Research Elites: Research Performance Assessment in the United Kingdom

Author(s) -

Julian Hamann

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

palgrave studies in global higher education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

eISSN - 2662-4222

pISSN - 2662-4214

DOI - 10.1007/978-3-319-53970-6_8

Subject(s) - excellence , elite , distribution (mathematics) , social capital , symbolic capital , sociological research , production (economics) , political science , unintended consequences , sociology , social science , economics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , politics , law , macroeconomics

The production of research elites has unintended stratification effects. This chapter explores these effects by drawing on the Research Assessment Exercise/Research Excellence Framework. Building on data from the three most recent assessments (RAE 2001, RAE 2008, and REF 2014), the unequal distribution of symbolic, social, and economic resources through panel membership, research staff, and research funding is examined in a field and capital theoretical framework. The distribution of these resources is correlated to RAE/REF rank groups. The contribution concludes that the elite (re-)produced by research performance assessments in the United Kingdom is not (solely) based on “research excellence,” but on previous allocations of symbolic, social, and economic resources.

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