Issues to be explored
The ARC is interested in stakeholders’ views on the rating scales and descriptors for engagement, impact and approach to impact. The key areas of interest are the number of points on each rating scale and the description of those points of the rating scale.
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The engagement rating scale is suitable for assessing research engagement. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree or disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. The descriptors for the engagement rating scale are suitable. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree or disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. The impact rating scale is suitable for assessing impact. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree or disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. The descriptors for the impact rating scale are suitable. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree or disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. The approach to impact rating scale is suitable for assessing approach to impact. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree or disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. The descriptions for the approach to impact rating scale are suitable. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree or disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer.
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EI interdisciplinary research
In EI 2018, interdisciplinary research was specifically accommodated in two ways:
1. for each broad discipline impact study the university could indicate where the impact related to other disciplines by assigning up to two other broad disciplines that described the impact
2. universities could choose to submit an interdisciplinary impact study.
The purpose of the interdisciplinary impact study was to enable the submission of an impact study where the impact was so broad it could not reasonably fit within one broad discipline. Feedback from universities and assessors post-EI 2018 was mixed, with some considering the interdisciplinary impact study to be an important inclusion while others considering it was not needed, as the interdisciplinarity often occurred within a single broad discipline or was accounted for with the additional two broad disciplines that could be assigned to the impact.
Issues to be explored
Q4.44
Should EI continue to include an interdisciplinary impact study in addition to the two-digit Fields of Research impact studies? Yes/No. Please explain your answer.
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