The EvalHum
Initiative is pleased to open the call for papers for its first
international conference on Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences
and the Humanities (RESSH), to be held in Rennes, France, from the 4th
to 6th June 2015.
This major conference follows a highly successful international
workshop on Quality in Humanities Research held in Rennes in June 2014,
as part of the QualiSHS project, supported by the French network of
Maisons des Sciences de l'Homme, as well as a series of meetings held
within the context of the EvalHum Initiative (
www.evalum.eu). The aim
of this event is to bring together a wide range of researchers and
stakeholders interested in questions of research evaluation and the
societal impact of the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH).
Keynote speakers will include:
- Johannes ANGERMULLER, University of Warwick and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - EHESS, Paris
- Philippe KERAUDREN, Acting head of unit, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
- Catherine PARADEISE, Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société - IFRIS, Paris
EvalHum is an open initiative, aiming at promoting the
study of SSH research and increasing its visibility among scholars of
other fields and disciplines, the lay public and stakeholders and
decision makers. Evaluation appears as an interesting tool to achieve
this.
Evalhum seeks to break both locked-in and locked-out syndromes
affecting the SSH, through bringing together all actors, with an
emphasis on research evaluators, but also on the shop floor of the SSH
researchers.
