Developing a queer perspective on researcher assessment in academia: a social media approach to transdisciplinary knowledge exchange

In this chapter I argue for a more cultural approach to transdisciplinary exchange between scholars with different backgrounds and respond to the question how such approach can produce consistency in the development of an assessment framework. What sort of qualities should a good scholar have in order to contribute to universities role in society and how can these qualities potentially be strengthened in an assessment framework? The outcome of an intellectual exchange between a group of female scholars enabled me to recast the future of scholarly assessment in the light of the multifaceted and multidimensional academic careers that scholars are building for themselves. In doing so, I accept the concept "queer" as the best possible option to rethink assessment criteria for the next generation of research ers. It offers a positionality vis-à-vis the standard assessment norms and an opportunity to trouble traditional conceptions of research assessment criteria, methods, and praxis. It may also help understand the ongoing shift in focus on research assessment criteria from purely quantitative measurement to a more biographically oriented appreciative logic. In sum, it removes the necessity to think from within disciplines and opens a perspective beyond ex isting canons related to researcher assessment.