Enhancing Research Impact in Heritage Conservation

Katrakazis, Theocharis; Dillon, Cath; Juvan, Petra; Golfomitsou, Stavroula

doi:10.1080/00393630.2018.1491719

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“…However, investigations into the way in which communication works within heritage science collaborations, which could lead to insights and remedies, have been rare. The exceptions are the papers we discuss below (Bell et al 2014;Dillon et al 2014;Katrakazis et al 2018). An investigation of this topic is of increasing utility as the number and complexity of collaborations within heritage science are increasing (Katrakazis et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…It also identified barriers and problems, including the lower likelihood of satisfaction when it came to achieving practice-related goals, and the increased challenge of working within projects consisting of partners from many disciplines. More recently, Katrakazis et al (2018) explored how the impact of heritage science research on professional practice can be enhanced through diverse knowledge exchange approaches, open science, and training for researchers in planning for impact.…”

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The Dynamics of Collaboration in Heritage Science

Curran¹,

Zimmermann²

2021

Studies in Conservation

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Heritage science is an interdisciplinary field and successful heritage science research by necessity involves interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds and professional experience. Successful interdisciplinary research is challenging, and many issues have been identified both within and outside heritage science. However, within heritage science there has never been an attempt to do an in-depth study of how communication in interdisciplinary research works in practice. This paper aims to address this gap by providing an in-depth exploration of a case study. We present the analysis of the transcribed recording of a five-hour workshop and follow-up interviews with the workshop participants that took place within the framework of a collaborative heritage science research project. The analysis looks in detail at the dynamics of communication in the context of this meeting, identifying the main topics of conversation and the nature of the transitions between them. We discuss the way in which researchers use different physical scales when thinking about heritage material degradation. We identify key features of interdisciplinary research such as the sense of community and the use of language. Recommendations and insights for future practice are presented.

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confidence: 99%

The Dynamics of Collaboration in Heritage Science

Curran¹,

Zimmermann²

2021

Studies in Conservation

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“…Resistance to the impact assessment agenda also references the neoliberal turn in higher education (Thomas, 2018) and a general fear of academic researchers becoming too embroiled in public relations strategies about their work at the expense of their independence and integrity (Chubb & Watermeyer, 2017). Katrakazis et al (2018) argue that "existing indicators primarily based on publication citations provide a rather incomplete picture of impact", since for example, citation metrics may indicate awareness of new knowledge by other scholars but do not measure its uptake outside academic communities or indeed influence on practice" (p. 451).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(p. 99). Katrakazis et al (2018) adds another dimension, namely that "researchers are trained in how to do research, but not in how to achieve impact" (p. 450). Despite the reservations concerning the impact agenda, Belfiore argues that attacks from within the academy on this policy development may indeed arise from self-interest.…”

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“…Impact narratives are a relatively new form of analyzing and assessing the input-output relationships of research processes providing an alternative to existing and long-standing quantitative measures. Katrakazis et al (2018) draw on the OECD's (2002) distinctions between outputs, outcomes and impact in research evaluation as follows:…”

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Narrating arts education research impact in and through research policy: affordances and constraints for professional transformation

Westerlund

Barrett

2020

Arts Education Policy Review

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Governments and funding agencies increasingly expect researchers to demonstrate the impact of their work not only within the academy but also for a range of stakeholders beyond academia. Whilst arts researchers have tended to resist impact measurement, in this article, we will describe one form of demonstrating impact, namely through writing impact narratives in order to argue that such writing can be effective in promoting learning and reflection on the researcher's work in the society. We provide collaborative autoethnographic narrative accounts of our experiences as arts education researchers, located in Australia and Finland, of developing research impact narratives and consider the ways in which the development of impact narratives can shape researcher identities, research processes and epistemic cultures of disciplines. We suggest that impact narratives are inevitably retrospective but may also be future-oriented in the ways in which they structure ongoing research processes and future projects and their activities providing a space for 'narrative learning' and professional transformation. We also suggest that arts educators experiment with and explore the potential for narrative impact statements to inform and engage society beyond academia with research findings and outcomes.

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