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Handbook of Meta-Research
A collective project arising from a dynamic configuration of research concerned with systematic, critical and reflexive inquiry into the normative frames, institutional workings and lived realities of research, this dexterously-crafted Handbook acts as a working guide to the rapidly-evolving interdisciplinary field of meta-research. Bringing together cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it expertly outlines key domains including the public value, policy and governance of research, knowledge dynamics, and research cultures and careers.
This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
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A collective project arising from a dynamic configuration of research concerned with systematic, critical and reflexive inquiry into the normative frames, institutional workings and lived realities of research, this dexterously-crafted Handbook acts as a working guide to the rapidly-evolving interdisciplinary field of meta-research.
Bringing together cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, the Handbook expertly outlines key domains including the public value, policy and governance of research, knowledge dynamics, and research cultures and careers. Engaging with diverse philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, it examines global dynamics in research and explores equality, diversity and inclusion across sectors, career stages and geographical regions. Taking on board multi-layered perspectives from beyond traditional and exclusionary epistemic boundaries, the Handbook offers unique insight into this broad landscape of knowledge.
The Handbook of Meta-Research will appeal to researchers and students in a broad range of fields from the social sciences, arts and humanities and STEM who are concerned with the environments, institutions, policies, practices and evaluations that impact their work, and will be a useful starting point for researchers wanting to initiate meta-research studies to examine their own environments, actions and behaviours. Regulators, users and beneficiaries of research will similarly benefit from this authoritative reference work.
Bringing together cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, the Handbook expertly outlines key domains including the public value, policy and governance of research, knowledge dynamics, and research cultures and careers. Engaging with diverse philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, it examines global dynamics in research and explores equality, diversity and inclusion across sectors, career stages and geographical regions. Taking on board multi-layered perspectives from beyond traditional and exclusionary epistemic boundaries, the Handbook offers unique insight into this broad landscape of knowledge.
The Handbook of Meta-Research will appeal to researchers and students in a broad range of fields from the social sciences, arts and humanities and STEM who are concerned with the environments, institutions, policies, practices and evaluations that impact their work, and will be a useful starting point for researchers wanting to initiate meta-research studies to examine their own environments, actions and behaviours. Regulators, users and beneficiaries of research will similarly benefit from this authoritative reference work.
Critical Acclaim
‘This is a book populated by many of my favorite colleagues in the field of research on research. Here, they position key facets of our joint scholarly and real-world project of examining, and being part of, contemporary academia. The book is exemplary for doing multidisciplinary meta-research across the globe with professionalism and care. It provokes self-reflexivity because its authors are deeply engaged, rather than disinterested. The Handbook of Meta-Research is a book to cherish!’
– Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, the Netherlands
‘This Handbook’s thoughtful focus on the “why and how we [focus on the practice of research], who is involved and on what terms” throws (gently!) a gauntlet to advance the study of the research enterprise. Through this comprehensive volume, we are both informed and challenged to consider the breadth, importance and impacts of how our interdisciplinary study of the practice of research matters. This extraordinary set of chapters charges and inspires us to advance the field, and the data on which we base our work. This is absolutely an essential book for newer and more advanced scholars alike.’
– Julia Melkers, Arizona State University in Phoenix, US
– Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, the Netherlands
‘This Handbook’s thoughtful focus on the “why and how we [focus on the practice of research], who is involved and on what terms” throws (gently!) a gauntlet to advance the study of the research enterprise. Through this comprehensive volume, we are both informed and challenged to consider the breadth, importance and impacts of how our interdisciplinary study of the practice of research matters. This extraordinary set of chapters charges and inspires us to advance the field, and the data on which we base our work. This is absolutely an essential book for newer and more advanced scholars alike.’
– Julia Melkers, Arizona State University in Phoenix, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Euan Adie, Gerlese Åkerlind, Jens Peter Andersen, Julie Bayley, Paul Benneworth, Annette Boaz, Frédérique Bone, Nelius Boshoff, Zoe Hope Bulaitis, Carolina Cañibano, Eliel Cohen, Carmen Corona-Sobrino, Rodrigo Costas, Gemma Derrick, Fereshteh Didegah, Kieran Fenby-Hulse, Steven Hill, J. Britt Holbrook, Kelsey Inouye, Eric J. Iversen, Simon Marginson, Lynn McAlpine, David Mills, Irene Monsonís-Payá, Reetta Muhonen, Similo Ngwenya, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea, Kathryn Oliver, Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Paula Otero-Hermida, Andrew Plume, Nicolás Robinson-García, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Beverley Sherbon, Silje Maria Tellmann, James Thomas, Thed van Leeuwen, Richard Watermeyer, Magdalena Wicher, Richard Woolley, Xin Xu
