Mid-term review FASoS 2015

In January 2015 the quality of the research of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will be evaluated by an external committee of peers in a mid-term review. This will be done in line with the Standard Evaluation Protocol 2009-2015 (SEP) for evaluation of scientific research in the Netherlands.

The mid-term review has both a retrospective and prospective nature and is envisaged as a light procedure. The main objective of the mid-term review is to evaluate the follow-up of the recommendations of the last external review committee which visited the faculty in 2011 and to formulate future actions. The evaluation of research will apply at two levels: 1) the research institute as a whole and 2) its research programmes and research centres. The mid-term review is an internal procedure, meaning that its outcomes are confidential and for internal use only.

Mid-term review committee

The mid-term committee which will evaluate the research at FASoS in 2015 will consist of the following members:
• Prof. Desmond Dinan (Chair of the Committee), George Mason University, School of public policy
• Prof. Isa Baud, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
• Prof. Willy Jansen, Radboud University, Institute for Gender Studies
• Prof. Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente, Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies
• Prof. Eric Vanhaute, Ghent University, History Department
• Prof. Ginette Verstraete, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Arts

Study of Visibility

In order to gain a better insight in the overall visibility of our research output for the mid-term review, the faculty’s ‘Overleg Team Onderzoek’ (OTO) has invited specialist Ad Prins, PhD, to perform an analysis of the scientific and the societal visibility of our publications, which will be conducted on the level of the research programmes over the period 2008-2013. The results of the analysis will self-evidently be for internal use only.

As an investigating consultant Prins is actively involved in the development, organisation and evaluation of research. The diverse ways in which research is relevant in society is one of his main concerns. Prins will map the visibility of our research output by drawing on the number and types of citations of a selection of the publications of the research programmes in Google Scholar, rather than in the more generally used Web of Science. This because previous studies show that several of the humanities and social science disciplines are represented better in the previous database. In addition, the visibility of monographs and edited volumes in which our faculty has a strong tradition can be analysed more thoroughly with help of Google Scholar. The first results of the study are expected by the end of June.

Questions about the mid-term review can be directed to Josje Weusten, PhD:
josje.weusten@maastrichtuniversity.nl, 043-3882539

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