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Mareike Wehner and Natalie Wallis describe how and why their university is encouraging non-traditional outputs
At universities across the UK, researchers are doing brilliant work that doesn’t obviously lead to a journal article or book, be it the creation of webpages around a database or an exhibition evolving from a piece of art.
Yet despite being created daily, the assessment of such non-traditional outputs (NTOs), as they are known, often falls outside the comfort zone for many researchers and evaluators. Academics generally know what a good journal article looks like, but how do we apply the same structures of assessment to, say, a performance, a design protocol or a piece of software?
