Transcript Presentation by Barisic, Student from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb

An Outlook Of a Young
Researcher On University
Ranking Issues In
Scientific Career Planning
UNICA RECTORS’ SEMINAR 2009:
The Role of Evaluation & Ranking of
Universities in the Quality Culture
Friday, 3 July 2009
Center for Advanced Academic Studies
University of Zagreb
Don Frana Bulića 4, DUBROVNIK
Motivating factors for young
researchers
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Personal motivation, love of
research and interest in the
scientific career
Studying under acclaimed
mentors
“Learn the ropes” of
research as a career
Trailblazers in “hot” topics
Bringing added value and
energy to teaching, spreading
enthusiasm in students
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Opportunity to lead from the
front
Good equipment,
infrastructure and travel fund
Scientific/professional/social
networking
Financial / material gain or
potential to acquire gain
“down the road”
Wanderlust – mobility
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Blind spots in “league”-type ranking
/ placement
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Self-perpetuity – loss of statistical relevance
“Narrow-topic” competitiveness of “less well ranked”
isn’t reflected
Breadth and depth of competitiveness in specific topics
of “well ranked” isn’t reflected
Incentive to mobility isn’t reflected
Career possibilities - staying on as faculty isn’t reflected
Propensity for consortium-building isn’t reflected
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Road forward
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Polyvalent, non-correlated, well spread and
representative sets of benchmarks, rather than a
summary rank
Relative research
output
Relative educational /
professional output
Relative economic /
innovative output
Relative sociallyproactive output
Self-evaluation, polls
and questionnaires
Results of extrenal
evaluations
Narrative testimonials
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Opportunities and hurdles of a
benchmarking approach
Opportunities
 Possibility of data analysis, data mining
 Better decision-making – better productivity
 Formation, execution, monitoring and follow-up on transnational policy (e.g. EU policy, ERA, EHEA)
Hurdles
 “Double the effort”
 Lack of unified methodology or standard to “peg against”
Possibilities offered by modern technology
 Web-oriented front end for interested parties
 Web-oriented back end for contributors & evaluators
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Thank you!
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