The impact of tourism research

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek and Tribe, John (2019) The impact of tourism research Annals of Tourism Research.

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Abstract

The exceedingly competitive climate of academia has increased the emphasis on performance-based research funding. In this paper we evaluate the UK’s government assessment of research impact and critically comment upon the implications for future research conduct. The key findings are as follows; firstly we provide a summary of UK tourism research impact. Secondly, we demonstrate the effect of the resulting significance gap, and comment upon the consequences of the Research Excellence Frameworks' (REF) research impact assessment in terms of a research culture change. Lastly, we proposition that the current assessment structure can have negative long-term consequences in that key issues facing tourism fall outside ‘good’ research impact.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Brauer, Rene r.brauer@surrey.ac.uk Dymitrow, Mirek Tribe, John J.Tribe@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	2019
Copyright Disclaimer :	© 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Uncontrolled Keywords :	Research impact; Performance-based research funding; REF; Tourism; Sociology of science
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Depositing User :	Clive Harris
Date Deposited :	14 Jun 2019 08:10
Last Modified :	14 Jun 2019 08:10
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/851995

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