Generating impact in the absence of government: Northern Ireland's unlevel playing field

  • Vanessa Gstrein
  • Maria Prince

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Description

Impact assessment regimes are largely a-spatial, in that assume that the academics they assess have equal access and opportunities to influence at different scales, local, regional, national and international etc, regardless of where they are located. Taking the example of Northern Ireland, Dr Vanessa Gstrein and Maria Prince explore how the lack of functioning government has limited the role research focused on Northern Ireland can play in developing public policy in the province, and the implications this has for universities in Northern Ireland, who have to compete for research funding with other universities in the UK.

Subject

Research impact in Northern Ireland and REF 2021.

Period19 Feb 2020

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleGenerating impact in the absence of government: Northern Ireland's unlevel playing field
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletLSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date19/02/20
    DescriptionThis article explores how the lack of a functioning government in Northern Ireland has limited the role that research focused on Northern Ireland can play in developing public policy, which has implications for local universities which have to compete for research funding with other universities in the UK.
    URLhttps://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/02/19/generating-impact-in-the-absence-of-government-northern-irelands-unlevel-playing-field/
    PersonsVanessa Gstrein, Maria Prince

Keywords

  • research impact
  • Northern Ireland
  • REF 2021