Letters by Govert Valkenburg
Papers by Govert Valkenburg
Politics and Governance
Marketization and quantification have become ingrained in academia over the past few decades. The... more Marketization and quantification have become ingrained in academia over the past few decades. The trust in numbers and incentives has led to a proliferation of devices that individualize, induce, benchmark, and rank academic performance. As an instantiation of that trend, this article focuses on the establishment and contestation of ‘algorithmic allocation’ at a Dutch university medical centre. Algorithmic allocation is a form of data-driven automated reasoning that enables university administrators to calculate the overall research budget of a department without engaging in a detailed qualitative assessment of the current content and future potential of its research activities. It consists of a range of quantitative performance indicators covering scientific publications, peer recognition, PhD supervision, and grant acquisition. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and document analysis, we contrast the attempt to build a rationale for algorithmic allocation—citing ...
Science, Technology and Society
Science, Technology and Society
Governance of innovation needs to cater in a democratic way for heterogeneity of knowledges. Many... more Governance of innovation needs to cater in a democratic way for heterogeneity of knowledges. Many initiatives in the democratisation of innovation aspire to some sort of consensus among relevant actors. However, consensus tends to silence dissenting voices, typically those of marginalised groups. In situations of high epistemic and epistemological diversity, this problem can be expected to aggravate. Against consensus-seeking theories of deliberative democracy, Chantal Mouffe has proposed the aspiration to grant the possibility of contestation. While one central principle in many theories of democracy is that it should never silence dissenting or minority positions, Mouffe elevates contestation, rather than the pursuit of consensus, to be the linchpin of democracy. I will explore what a contestation-oriented view of democratisation could mean in the case of governing innovation, specifically in the case of biogasification of rice straw. The latter is commonly presented as a potentia...
Background Research codes of conduct offer guidance to researchers with respect to which values s... more Background Research codes of conduct offer guidance to researchers with respect to which values should be realized in research practices, how these values are to be realized, and what the respective responsibilities of the individual and the institution are in this. However, the question how the division between individual and institutional responsibilities is to be made, has hitherto received little attention. Therefore, we conduct an analysis of research codes of conduct, and investigate how responsibilities are positioned as individual or institutional ones and how the boundary between those two is shaped.Method We selected 12 codes of conduct that apply to medical research in the Netherlands, and performed a close-reading content analysis of these codes of conduct. We first identify dominant themes, and then investigate how responsibility is attributed to individuals and institutions.Results We observe that in many cases, the attribution of the responsibility to either the indiv...
Journal of Responsible Innovation
fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation Issue 48/July 2019 - Proceedings of the Conference "Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research"
Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2016
This thesis addresses the question how to train a Parsimonious Learn-ing Feed-Forward Controller ... more This thesis addresses the question how to train a Parsimonious Learn-ing Feed-Forward Controller (PLFFC). In Learning Feed-Forward control (LFFC) generally a well-conditioned feedback control signal is used to train a feed-forward controller, which mainly performs a function ...
In Rembrandt's age, man had gained the insight that a study of the human anatomy was the mai... more In Rembrandt's age, man had gained the insight that a study of the human anatomy was the main source of medical knowledge. With EBM we learn, that this study may actually yield incorrect knowledge, and that a statistical analysis of large numbers of cases is needed to confirm it.
Samenstelling promotiecommissie Rector Magnificus, voorzitter prof. dr. ir. WE Bijker prof. dr. T... more Samenstelling promotiecommissie Rector Magnificus, voorzitter prof. dr. ir. WE Bijker prof. dr. T. de Cock Buning dr. JA Harbers prof. dr. J. Hoogland prof. dr. ir. PPCC Verbeek ... This thesis will be available digitally on http://www.govertvalkenburg.nl/ac. Second thoughts, ...
Law, Governance and Technology Series, 2014
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