REvaluation Special #7: What skills does the next generation of evaluators need?

REvaluation Podcast

There is a generation shift in the community going on and in the dynamic landscape of research and innovation, the perspectives of the next generation are crucial for shaping future policies and practices. In this panel we tried to bring together younger researchers and evaluators and senior counterparts to discuss the challenge, demands and future directions of innovation research and policy evaluation.

Panellists

• Florian Bayer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna
• Luyu Du, Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD), Arizona State University, United States
• Nino Gogadze, CWTS, Leiden University
• Jakob Kofler, Austrian Institute for SME Research

Moderators

Philippe Larédo & Julia Melkers

Music: Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) (ft. Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza) by spinningmerkaba http://ccmixter.org/people/jlbrock44; SouljaUnit Remix of DeadRobot Music’s Surfy via https://freesound.org/people/SouljaUnit/sounds/640175/
Photo: Martin Jordan

Thanks to our partners and co-organisers that helped realising the REvaluation Conference 2024: Ministry of Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure, Ministry of Women, Science and Research, Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Vienna Science and Technology Fund, COST Action PROFEEDBACK (CA ), Meeting Destination Vienna, FH Campus Vienna, Austrian Science Fund, Austrian Research Promotion Agency, ZSI - Centre for Social Innovation, Fraunhofer ISI, Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation et Société, Joanneum Research, the whole fteval Community.

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Kapitel

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Introduction of the panel, the moderator and the panellits (00:01:42)

3. Impulse by Luyu Du (00:04:27)

4. Impulse by Florian Bayer (00:05:26)

5. Impulse by Nino Gogadze (00:06:01)

6. What skills do we need? Jakob Kofler about Evaluation as a meta-field (00:07:06)

7. Nino Gogadze about extra-university post-PhD plans (00:08:15)

8. Florian Bayer: Quality is often reduced to productivity (00:10:48)

9. Luyu Du: Interdisciplinarity, team skills and the use of advanced technology is expected (00:13:17)

10. What are important research questions? (00:16:21)

11. Jakob Kofler about a culture of accountability (00:17:13)

12. Nino Gogadze: Different countries might have different challenges (00:18:31)

13. Florian Bayer challenges what we account for (00:19:31)

14. Luyu Du about the social impact of research (00:23:42)

15. Discussion start: What more can we do to make your voices being heard? (00:27:11)

16. We have local evaluation, but global challenges. How to deal with that? (00:32:50)

17. What are the jobs of tomorrow? (00:40:08)

18. Outro (00:48:45)