News Article: The human costs of the research-assessment culture
Some European countries are moving away from the type of competitive process exemplified by the REF. “For the Netherlands, we hope to move from evaluation to development” of careers and departmental strategies, says Kim Huijpen, programme manager for Recognition and Reward for the Universities of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, and a former chair of the working group of the Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP), the research evaluation process for Dutch universities. In the SEP, institutions organize subject-based research-unit evaluations every six years, but the outcome is not linked to government funding.
