Episode 14 - Research Infrastructures as a Life Commitment

REvaluation Podcast

In this episode, we look at the question of how to evaluate large research infrastructures – from the Large Hadron Collider to the European Social Survey. We conducted a very exciting online interview with our colleagues Neil Brown and Peter Kolarz from Technopolis Group | UK. We learnt that a new research infrastructure is like a life commitment and that you have to immerse yourself in order to understand the effects on all dimensions.

• Neil Brown
• Peter Kolarz
• Impact page of the European Social Survey (ESS)
• Impact study of the ESS
• CERN
• Evaluation of the Benefits that the UK has derived from CERN

This episode was made possible with the kind support of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). It is part of the initiative of the BMBWF for strengthening trust in sciecne and democracy in Austria (#TruSD). Thank you very much!
Music: Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345 Ft: Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza

Photo in Artwork by CERN, CC-BY-SA

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Introduction: Peter Kolarz & Neil Brown (00:01:19)

3. What are research infrastructures (RI)? (00:03:25)

4. Concrete examples for RI (00:06:08)

5. How can a survey be a RI? (00:09:36)

6. What is a good approach for evaluating RI? (00:11:45)

7. What are typical indicators for RI? (00:21:46)

8. What are your reflexions about RI and resilience? (00:30:38)

9. What are your policy recommendations for RI? (00:35:13)

10. What can we learn from large RI in the US? (00:39:49)

11. How to decide for starting such a "life commitment" like a RI? (00:45:56)

12. General trends in RI funding (00:49:09)

13. Recommendations for novice evaluators of RI (00:55:11)

14. Outro (00:56:21)