Kent Business School is proud to have launched the first in its academic debate series ‘Kent Debates’. The first event featured lively discussions around the future of research assessment.\n<\/p>\n
Professor of Operational Research and Systems at Kent Business School, John Mingers<\/a>, explains: ‘The debate was about a very important topic, how university research is evaluated (leading to the creation of league tables) – by peer review\u00a0(the great and the good subjectively judging) or by bibliometrics – the number of citations that academic’s research attracts.’<\/p>\n A number of high-profile speakers participated in the event including:<\/p>\n Professor Paul Edwards<\/strong> –\u00a0View presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor Eleonora Belfiore<\/strong> –\u00a0View presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor Liz Allen<\/strong> –\u00a0View presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor Anne-Wil Harzing<\/strong> – View presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor Loet\u00a0Leydesdorff<\/strong> –\u00a0View presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor Thed\u00a0van Leeuwen<\/strong> –\u00a0View presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor John Mingers<\/strong> –\u00a0View presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n All are world-leading figures in the field of bibliometrics.<\/p>\n David Pride from the Open University attended the debate: ‘I attended the session and found it both an enlightening and informative day all round. I am a fairly new\u00a0PhD\u00a0research student at the\u00a0Knowledge Media Institute (Open University), my thesis topic is identifying new ways of measuring research impact so the event was extremely pertinent.’<\/p>\n The event took place in The Sibson Building<\/a>, the new state-of-the-art academic home for Kent Business School on the Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n Congratulations to everyone involved from all at Kent Business School.<\/p>\n Find out more about research at Kent Business School<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"