Impact for Postgraduates: In Search of the Holy Grail?

Authors

  • Jennifer Turner Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences Aberystwyth University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v13i1.1194

Abstract

As has already been highlighted in the introduction to this themed issue on ‘impact’ (see Rogers et al., this issue), the recent ‘impact agenda’ has been engaged with in a variety of critical ways through the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). As a doctoral student, the word ‘impact’ is a constant demand on everyday academic life, owing to the pressure to consider it in terms of funding, publishing and future career. In the following I offer a consideration of the ways early-career geographers understand and engage with the institutional demands upon their research, in order for them to compete with their more experienced counterparts in an environment that is expecting ever more.

 

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Published

2015-08-13

How to Cite

Turner, J. (2015). Impact for Postgraduates: In Search of the Holy Grail?. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(1), 52–55. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v13i1.1194

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2014): Themed Sections: (1) The Impact Agenda and Human Geography in UK Higher Education (2) Enforced Disappearances

Section

Special Thematic Intervention

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