Academic Diversity, Academic Pluralism, economics, Featured, Heterodox Economics, REF 2014, REF 2021, REF2014, REF2021
The REF’s singular focus on excellence limits academic diversity
Research assessment exercises, such as the REF ostensibly serve to evaluate research, but they also shape and manage it. Based on a study of REF submissions in the fields of economics, history, business and politics, Engelbert Stockhammer, argues that the REF promotes a narrow vision of economics determined largely by work published in particular journals … Continued