Working Group: Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research globally

1. Identify distinct and shared methods/principles used in SSH assessment through a mapping of approaches across disciplines, countries, and language communities
2.  Identify consensus around best practice in responsible SSH research evaluation and explore how these can be upscaled across fields and disciplines
3. Identify the appropriate mixed assessment methods: for qualitative and quantitative
   approaches
4. Understand how Open science practices influence research assessment
5. Create community consensus around principles to underpin the framework for research
   assessment.

The WG is still in preparation phase and will begin activities in the first half of 2024. 

However, we had a first hybrid conference organized by EASSH in Brussels in February on Research Evaluation in the SSH (and beyond) entitled “Cross-disciplinary Research Evaluation in the 21st Century – What Next?”. Besides the topic linked to the future WG, we also had a meeting with many of the involved partners to get to know each other and discuss important issues to address. The conference and the meeting was a success high-level stakeholders in policy, research funding, evaluation and SSH scholars themselves could meet and discuss research evaluation. 

The report can be found here.

On 23rd and 24th May, the Fourth International Conference on Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH) is held in Galway, Ireland. The (preliminary) program is now online and consists of over 50 presentations and posters by scholars in the field of responsible research evaluation from three continents on highly relevant topics, not only to SSH, such as Evaluation and Open Research, Societal Impact Evaluation, Research Policy and Evaluation etc.

Registration is now open.

Contact: Gabi Lombardo, European Alliance of SSH, gabi.lombardo[at]eassh[dot]eu