WG Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research globally
WG Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research globally
WG Objectives
- Identify distinct and shared methods/principles used in SSH assessment through a mapping of approaches across disciplines, countries, and language communities
- Identify consensus around best practice in responsible SSH research evaluation and explore how these can be upscaled across fields and disciplines
- Identify the appropriate mixed assessment methods: for qualitative and quantitative
approaches - Understand how Open science practices influence research assessment
- Create community consensus around principles to underpin the framework for research
assessment.
Recent Events
Updated 27 May 2026
From 22-24 April 2026, the RESSH2026 conference took place in Florence, Italy. The theme of RESSH 2026 was “Scientific Autonomy Under Pressure: Rethinking Research Evaluation in the Context of Global Power Shifts, Security Concerns, and Artificial Intelligence Challenges”. It gathered scholars, policymakers, research managers and practitioners from 30 countries. The breadth of representation underscores the global importance of the questions under discussion.
The conference is the regular event of the international association ENRESSH – European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities. It brings together specialists in research evaluation and policy, with a particular focus on the social sciences, humanities, and the arts.
The proceedings contain many short papers on relevant issues in research assessment reform, from conceptual, to empirical, to implementation perspectives.
Affiliated Organisations
- European Alliance for SSH (EASSH), WG lead by European Network for Research Evaluation in
the SSH (ENRESSH) - Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV), Finland
- Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (ANVUR),
Italy - Coimbra Group, Europe
- Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), Hungary
- Initiative for Science in Europe
- CNRS
- Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU)
- University of Antwerp Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM)
- CNR Dipartimento di Scienze umane e patrimonio culturale
- CERCA
- OPERAS
- Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences
- CSIC – INGENIO
- CEU San Pablo University
- DARIAH (also included in EASSH membership)
Activities
SSH held its first hybrid conference organised 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?”
In addition, 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.
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Contact
Gabi Lombardo
European Alliance of SSH