Luci Abrahams
Valuing Scholarship: Metrics and Impact Measurement
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Luci Abrahams begins her talk on valuing scholarship, by reviewing the South African knowledge landscape, looking at metrics around the number of universities, and science councils, head count enrollments and imbalances in terms of race and gender, as well as gross expenditure on research and development as a percentage of GDP in the face of problematically low levels of usage (output) of scholarship. Next Luci asks a key question: Would good values increase the value of scholarly output in facilitating social and economic progress, in the context of an emerging knowledge economy? Through a diagram (download the presentation to view), she posits the idea that there should be a move from ‘values as intellectual virtues’ such as academic freedom and research quality, to ‘value as practical wisdom’ such as cultural contribution and knowledge for productivity. What Luci suggests is that values be translated through this prism for a new national system of innovation. Luci then speaks about how these elements would translate into a larger perspective around valuing scholarship, from thinking differently about metrics in a world of knowledge elitism, to new views on leadership and governance of institutions. Lastly, she speaks about diagrammatic mapping as an alternative technique to enrich impact assessment, and how this may be a way to get universities to think about knowledge areas that they are not engaged in yet. About Luci Abrahams
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