Research in the 21st Century: legacy forms, ‘new’ media and ERA

Description

A discussion on the valuation discrepancy between large-scale creative arts research outputs (NTROs) and large scale traditional research outputs (TROs) such as books, within the ERA exercise.

Subject

As Australian universities prepare their submissions for the 2023 round of Excellence in Research Australia (ERA), the national research evaluation framework, it is a good moment to reflect and review this thing we call ‘research’.

This article is a reflection on the valuation discrepancy between large-scale creative arts research outputs (NTROs) and large scale traditional research outputs (TROs) such as books, within the ERA exercise.