Evaluation of research in the arts: Evidence from Poland

Lewandowska, Kamila; Stano, Paweł Mirosław

doi:10.1093/reseval/rvy021

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“…Jewesbury, 2009;Gielen, 2013) and frictions brought by the introduction of the arts to the university sector (e.g. Hellström, 2010;Lewandowska & Stano, 2018). The potential of collecting and analysing larger bodies of data notwith-standing (e.g.…”

Section: Collecting and Analysing Flemish Discourses On Artistic Researchmentioning

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Discourses on artistic research in Flanders: non-scholarly perspectives on re-search in the arts

Vanlee

2021

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The research presented in this paper collects and analyses a set of documents disseminating discourse on artistic research in Flanders – the Northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. In doing so, it identifies hegemonic constructions structuring the (im)possibility of fostering fruitful interlinkages between the often-dichotomised notions of ‘art’ and ‘science’. Hinged on the officialisation of the first Flemish doctoral degrees in the arts, the study points to earlier, ‘inclusive’ discourses on artistic research that allowed articulating a variety of activities and outcomes as ‘research’. The introduction of the PhD gave way to ‘exclusive’ discourses that restrict artistic research to the higher arts education context. Notably, these ‘exclusive discourses’ – often disseminated by higher art educators – are expressively critical of the research agenda. Highlighting its artificial origins in the Bologna Process, artistic research is normatively constructed as an infringement on the arts’ autonomy. Its potential is not denied altogether, however, but only touched upon in cryptonormative terms that reject current conditions without addressing what it should or could be.

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Section: Collecting and Analysing Flemish Discourses On Artistic Researchmentioning

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Discourses on artistic research in Flanders: non-scholarly perspectives on re-search in the arts

Vanlee

2021

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“…As autonomous institutions, they are not included in university PRFSs-contrasting contemporary evaluation frameworks in some other European contexts (e.g. Lewandowska & Stano, 2018;Jewesbury, 2009)-and will be evaluated with a model tailored specifically to artistic research output in the future. By expanding on the ongoing stakeholder-driven development of this model and a test case undertaken to gauge its performance, the paper shows how a culture of evaluation hinges on the generation of a culture of registration.…”

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“…Suddenly, most institutions offering tertiary artistic education were merged with established universities in Europe. Among other things, this implies that the former inadvertently became subject to the latter's evaluation mechanisms-such as the United Kingdom's REF (Research Excellence Framework) or Po land's CESU (Comprehensive Evaluation of Scientific Units) as "faculties of art"-and the often science-centric approach they operate by (Jewesbury, 2009;Lewandowska & Stano, 2018). Many European institutions for higher arts education were met with the expectation to develop research agendas.…”

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“…Whereas artistic research is now an institutional reality in many national contexts-embedded in funding schemes (Borgdorff, 2012;Jewesbury, 2009) or included in university performance evaluations (e.g. Lewandowska & Stano, 2018)-there is still little clarity on what exactly constitutes artistic research, how it is distinct from professional art practice in general, and which parameters and indicators could guide the quality assessment of its output. Authors like Wissler (1997), Biggs and Karlsson (2011) or Hellström (2010) emphasize that the field would benefit from disciplinary meta-reflection to generate a "new paradigm" by which to conceive of artistic research as an autonomous discipline.…”

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Disclosing and Evaluating Artistic Research

Williams

2019

Journal of Data and Information Science

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Purpose This study expands on the results of a stakeholder-driven research project on quality indicators and output assessment of art and design research in Flanders—the Northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Herein, it emphasizes the value of arts & design output registration as a modality to articulate the disciplinary demarcations of art and design research. Design/methodology/approach The particularity of art and design research in Flanders is first analyzed and compared to international examples. Hereafter, the results of the stakeholder-driven project on the creation of indicators for arts & design research output assessment are discussed. Findings The findings accentuate the importance of allowing an assessment culture to emerge from practitioners themselves, instead of imposing ill-suited methods borrowed from established scientific evaluation models (Biggs & Karlsson, 2011)—notwithstanding the practical difficulties it generates. They point to the potential of stakeholder-driven approaches for artistic research, which benefits from constructing a shared metadiscourse among its practitioners regarding the continuities and discontinuities between “artistic” and “traditional” research, and the communal goals and values that guide its knowledge production (Biggs & Karlsson, 2011; Hellström, 2010; Ysebaert & Martens, 2018). Research limitation The central limitation of the study is that it focuses exclusively on the “Architecture & Design” panel of the project, and does not account for intra-disciplinary complexities in output assessment. Practical implications The goal of the research project is to create a robust assessment system for arts & design research in Flanders, which may later guide similar international projects. Originality/value This study is currently the only one to consider the productive potential of (collaborative) PRFSs for artistic research.

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“…Traditionally, the SSH have been characterized as less focused on discoveries and much less cumulative in knowledge development then science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) fields, leading to fragmented competition within a certain paradigm (Bonaccorsi, 2018). However, the gradual evolution of disciplines such as archaeology ( Jones, 2008) and art studies (Lewandowska and Miroslaw Stano, 2018) into fields where many of the important breakthroughs are possible thanks to interdisciplinary collaboration, and the evolution of fields such as communication studies, economics & business, education, history, linguistics, literature, political science and sociology into fields that work ever more with digital data and techniques, might gradually introduce more of the across the board competition that is characteristic of the STEM journal landscape. Priority in publishing an analysis and results for example becomes more important with digital data sets, especially when they are available as the FAIR data.…”

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Are book publications disappearing from scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities?

Engels

Starčič

Kulczycki

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AJIM

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Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution in terms of shares of scholarly book publications in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in five European countries, i.e. Flanders (Belgium), Finland, Norway, Poland and Slovenia. In addition to aggregate results for the whole of the social sciences and the humanities, the authors focus on two well-established fields, namely, economics & business and history. Design/methodology/approach-Comprehensive coverage databases of SSH scholarly output have been set up in Flanders (VABB-SHW), Finland (VIRTA), Norway (NSI), Poland (PBN) and Slovenia (COBISS). These systems allow to trace the shares of monographs and book chapters among the total volume of scholarly publications in each of these countries. Findings-As expected, the shares of scholarly monographs and book chapters in the humanities and in the social sciences differ considerably between fields of science and between the five countries studied. In economics & business and in history, the results show similar field-based variations as well as country variations. Most year-to-year and overall variation is rather limited. The data presented illustrate that book publishing is not disappearing from an SSH. Research limitations/implications-The results presented in this paper illustrate that the polish scholarly evaluation system has influenced scholarly publication patterns considerably, while in the other countries the variations are manifested only slightly. The authors conclude that generalizations like "performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) are bad for book publishing" are flawed. Research evaluation systems need to take book publishing fully into account because of the crucial epistemic and social roles it serves in an SSH. Originality/value-The authors present data on monographs and book chapters from five comprehensive coverage databases in Europe and analyze the data in view of the debates regarding the perceived

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Evaluation of research in the arts: Evidence from Poland

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Discourses on artistic research in Flanders: non-scholarly perspectives on re-search in the arts

Discourses on artistic research in Flanders: non-scholarly perspectives on re-search in the arts

Disclosing and Evaluating Artistic Research

Are book publications disappearing from scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities?

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