Imperfect, boring, headed for change? 10 ways to improve academic CV assessments

Academic CVs play a major role in research assessment and in shaping academic fields by sorting and selecting promising researchers. Their role in structuring and prioritizing information is therefore significant and has recently been criticised for facilitating judgements based predominantly on narrow quantitative measures. In the blogpost, Josh Brown, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Michaela Strinzel, Sarah de Rijcke and Michael Hill assess the changing landscape of research CVs and give ten recommendations for how they can be used more effectively in research assessment.