Quality in research is a highly prioritized, but also a much debated issue in research policy. The Centre for Research Quality and Policy Impact Studies (R-Quest) constitutes an 8-year commitment to explore the nature and mechanisms of research quality. The centre will address three closely related questions:
- What is research quality? How are notions of research quality negotiated, established and practiced, and what are the mechanisms through which these notions affect policy?
- What are the drivers of high quality research, and what is the role of policy in developing outstanding research?
- What are the effects of high quality research on the society?
Six research institutions contribute to establishing R-Quest with NIFU as host:
- Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
- Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA), University of Aarhus
- Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
- Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH- Royal Institute of Technology
- Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), The University of Manchester
- Nordic Institute for Studies of Innovation, Research and Education, NIFU
