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  1. Science Policy in Action: Policy and the Researcher. [REVIEW]Norma Morris - 2000 - Minerva 38 (4):425-451.
    Government policies for science, usually incorporatingeconomic and social aims, are increasingly influencing the contentand management of university research. This essay discusses theinfluence of selected science policies on individual researchersand group leaders. Within the limitations of a case study, itargues that policies that steer the content of research have agreater influence on research behaviour, than do policies relatedto overall research management. Increasing pressures for compliancewith mission-objectives point to the need for closer discussionbetween those who make policy decisions, and the wider researchcommunity.
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  • The ‘Negotiated Space’ of University Researchers’ Pursuit of a Research Agenda.Terttu Luukkonen & Duncan A. Thomas - 2016 - Minerva 54 (1):99-127.
    The paper introduces a concept of a ‘negotiated space’ to describe university researchers’ attempts to balance pragmatically, continually and dynamically over time, their own agency and autonomy in the selection of research topics and pursuit of scientific research to filter out the explicit steering and tacit signals of external research funding agencies and university strategies and policies. We develop this concept to explore the degree of autonomy researchers in fact have in this process and draw on semi-structured interview material with (...)
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  • Science in the modern world polity: institutionalization and globalization.Gili S. Drori (ed.) - 2003 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the world, over the past century. Using quantitative cross-national data, it shows the impact of this scientized world polity on national societies. It examines how this world scientific system and national reflections of it have influenced a wide variety of institutional spheres—the economy, political systems, human rights, environmentalism, and organizational reforms. The authors argue that the triumph of science across social domains and around (...)
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  • Tools of the Trade: UK Research Intermediaries and the Politics of Impacts. [REVIEW]Matthew Kearnes & Matthias Wienroth - 2011 - Minerva 49 (2):153-174.
    In recent years questions concerning the impact of public research funding have become the preeminent site at which struggles over the meanings and value of science are played out. In this paper we explore the ‘politics of impact’ in contemporary UK science and research policy and, in particular, detail the ways in which UK research councils have responded to and reframed recent calls for the quantitative measurement of research impacts. Operating as ‘boundary organisations’ research councils are embroiled in what might (...)
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  • ‘New Public Management’ and the Academic Profession: Reflections on the German Situation.Uwe Schimank - 2005 - Minerva 43 (4):361-376.
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  • Protected spaces of science: their emergence and further evolution in a changing world.Arie Rip - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 197--220.
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  • Changing Governance and Authority Relations in the Public Sciences.Richard Whitley - 2011 - Minerva 49 (4):359-385.
    Major changes in the governance of higher education and the public sciences have taken place over the past 40 or so years in many OECD countries. These have affected the nature of authority relationships governing research priorities and the evaluation of results. In particular, the increasing exogeneity, formalisation and substantive nature of governance mechanisms, as well as the strength and extent of their enforcement, have altered the relative authority of different groups and organisations over research priorities and evaluations, as well (...)
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