Artifice or integrity in the marketization of research impact? Investigating the moral economy of (pathways to) impact statements within research funding proposals in the UK and Australia

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 2360-2372

  Chubb, Jennifer ^a   Watermeyer, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic practice; marketization; neoliberalism; research impact; research integrity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959059295     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1144182     Document Type: Article

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