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Achieving research impact in tourism: Modelling and evaluating outcomes from the UKs Research Excellence Framework

Phillips, Paul A., Page, Stephen J., Sebu, Joshua (2020) Achieving research impact in tourism: Modelling and evaluating outcomes from the UKs Research Excellence Framework. Tourism Management, 78 . Article Number 104702. ISSN 0261-5177. (doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104072) (KAR id:79883)

Abstract

The marketisation of higher education has emerged as a global trend with a focus on using metrics to assess performance. This has led to the closer scrutiny by government in assessing value for money and effectiveness of research outcomes in national allocations of research funding. This paper focuses on one controversial strand of assessing research outcomes - the area of research impact. The paper examines the experiences of the UKs Research Assessment Exercise in 2014 and the tourism impact case studies developed as part of institutional submissions on research impact. The paper examines the case studies using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), which is a set-theoretic method, to identify what a high quality impact case study looks like from a range of criteria. The paper derives a wider range of implications for tourism scholars that has wider application across other areas in which Tourism is located.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104072
Uncontrolled keywords: qualitative comparative analysis; QCA; research impact; research excellent; framework
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Leadership and Management
Depositing User: Paul Phillips
Date Deposited: 30 Jan 2020 09:20 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 12:44 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/79883 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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