For Partners
Benchmarking: compare against systems like yours, not against leaders
Benchmarking against much larger institutions produces a number and no action. Comparable peers produce something usable.
#retention
For Partners
Vision
Training: the output that matters is people who can train others
A training system that produces researchers but not supervisors has a horizon of one generation.
Data & Metrics
Measurement design: what you measure becomes what people do
Choosing indicators is not a technical decision. It determines behaviour, whether or not that was intended.
Vision
Building capacity: the constraint is usually supervisors, not students
A research system can expand student numbers quickly. It cannot expand the number of people able to supervise them quickly.
Research Landscape
Reading a research system: growth figures describe less than they seem to
Output figures for a growing research system are among the most cited and least interpretable numbers in the field.