Research Assessment in the Humanities
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Michael Ochsner
Michael Ochsner finished his doctoral studies at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zurich in 2012 and received his PhD in 2014. Since 2009, he has been a research associate in the CRUS-organized projects ‘Developing and Testing Research Quality Criteria in the Humanities, with an emphasis on Literature Studies and Art History’ and ‘Application of Bottom-up Criteria in the Assessment of Grant Proposals of Junior Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities’. Since 2013, he has also worked at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS) at the University of Lausanne as a senior researcher in the team ‘international surveys’. He is vice-president of the EvalHum initiative, a European association for research evaluation in the SSH.
Sven E. Hug
Sven E. Hug studied German language and literature as well as psychology at the University of Zurich and worked in various companies as a market research analyst. He is currently working as a project manager at the evaluation office of the University of Zurich and furthermore acts as a research associate in the CRUS-organized project ‘Application of Bottom-up Criteria in the Assessment of Grant Proposals of Junior Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities’ at the professorship for social psychology and research on higher education (ETH Zurich).
Hans-Dieter DanielHans-Dieter Daniel holds a dual professorship at ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich. Since 2001, he has been the director of the evaluation office of the University of Zurich and since 2002, professor for social psychology and research on higher education at ETH Zurich. Dr. Daniel is a psychologist by training. Since 2011, he has been a member of the evaluation committee of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat). His scholarly interests include research on peer review and evaluative bibliometrics. He is a highly cited researcher and co- author of several highly cited journal articles in Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters as well as author of the book Guardians of Science—Fairness and Reliability of Peer Review.