{"id":3473,"date":"2018-11-30T05:53:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2018-11-30T05:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:53:39","slug":"resource-of-the-week-a-new-conceptual-framework-for-the-social-value-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2018\/11\/30\/resource-of-the-week-a-new-conceptual-framework-for-the-social-value-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: A (new) Conceptual Framework for the Social Value of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quoting from the abstract: \u201cThere is widespread interest in evaluating the social impacts of research and other scholarly activities. Conventional metrics for social impacts focus on economics or wealth creation, such as patents or technology transfer. These kinds of metrics are less appropriate for many scholarly fields, and miss the specific social concerns or needs that researchers aim to address. In this paper, drawing on ideas from ethics and\u00a0development economics, we develop a conceptual\u00a0framework for characterizing the social goals of research.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n

The paper provides the following contributions:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cDistinguish resources\u00a0\u2014such as wealth and intellectual credit\u2014from the goals of scholarship, and further distinguish inward- and outward-facing goals. Outward-facing goals refer to the intended social impacts of research. \u201c<\/li>\n
  2. Introduce the Capabilities Approach, a conceptual framework for human well-being developed by ethicists and economists over the last 40 years.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The authors \u201cpropose that\u00a0the items on this list provide a useful\u00a0starting point for articulating the specific social aims of\u00a0research.\u201d Indeed, they \u201cargue that the Capabilities Approach can\u00a0facilitate research communication and improve the\u00a0recognition of public engagement in academic and funding\u00a0institutions. Familiar bibliographic data and text mining\u00a0methods can be used in a capabilities-inspired portfolio\u00a0analysis, and modest changes to existing data collection\u00a0systems\u2014for tenure and promotion, or research funding\u00a0applications\u2014could support the development of even\u00a0richer capabilities-inspired metrics and incentive systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Read full paper here. Quoting from the abstract: \u201cThere is widespread interest in evaluating the social impacts of research and other scholarly activities. Conventional metrics for social impacts focus on economics or wealth creation, such as patents or technology transfer. These kinds of metrics are less appropriate for many scholarly fields, and miss the specific social concerns or needs that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16],"tags":[43,53,81,87,113,114,115,127,146,148],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","tag-advancing-science-communication","tag-blog-post","tag-handy-links","tag-inspiration","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-science-of-scicomm","tag-tenure-promotion","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}