ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses notions of longitudinal impact and how this intersects with the specificities and requirements of the research excellence framework, the UK’s national audit on research in terms of both the research outputs submitted and the impact of those outputs. She speculates that the interdisciplinary clusters are more open to diverse methodologies because of the nature of interdisciplinary research itself. It is interesting to ask whether ‘pracademic’ researchers, whose work is also likely to take place in the public domain, face the same level of difficulty in accessing postdoctoral opportunities. The author focuses on how people are enabled to see and experience things quite differently as a co-product of new technologies, how this functions at the intersections of art and literature, and how this affects exhibitionary experience. She presents three separate case studies that relate to the progress of her research career since completion of her PhD in early 2013.
