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Position: Research Fellow

Dr Claire Donovan has been a Research Fellow in REPP since June 2003.

Claire has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Southampton, and an MA and DPhil in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex. She was previously a Research Fellow in social studies of science at The Open University, and a Leverhulme Postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology Group at Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Claire's role in REPP is to investigate approaches to measuring research 'impact' or the social, economic, environmental and cultural benefits of publicly funded research (in all fields); and to critically assess measures of research quality and impact applied to the humanities, arts and social sciences. She also pursues novel research on the governance of social science. Her research spans sociology, political theory, science and technology studies, and scientometrics.

She has published on the governance of social science; evaluation, metrics and technologies of governance; comparative science, higher education and innovation policy (Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, UK); technocracy and democracy; and social and political aspects of 'positivism' and post-positivism.

News

NEW! 2009: October - December, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
2008: Appointed member of European Research Council's Support Actions Panel
2008: Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex
2008: Visiting Fellow, Science, Technology and Society Cluster, National University of Singapore
2007: Guest editor, special edition of Science and Public Policy 34(8) 'Future Pathways for Science Policy and Research Assessment: Metrics vs. Peer Review, Quality vs. Impact'
2007: Visiting Fellow, Science, Technology and Society Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2006: Chair, government Technical Working Group on Research Impact
2005: Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, London School of Economics
2003-05: Elected Associate Member, Sociology Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University