If the Indicator Game is the Answer, Then What is the Question?

This contribution begins by arguing that indicators in themselves do not have effects, but that it is crucial to understand which questions in the wider culture and governance of academia their use speaks to. Drawing partly on the author’s own experience in university management but also as an STS s...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alan Irwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Social Studies of Science 2017-02-01
Series:Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Subjects:
Online Access:http://estsjournal.org/article/view/110/79