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Dear colleagues, you'll find a call for papers/comments about audit cultures in the academic context. We would like to have a world wide debate on an issue that is concerning most universities. ENGLISH VERSION [Call for papers/comments] Audit cultures and the university: Between old hierarchy and new orthodoxy. Dear colleagues, The EspacesTemps.net (www.espacestemps.net) editorial team is currently engaging in a reflexion on education reform and audit cultures in research and would like to invite your contributions to that debate. Those taking part in the discussion during the Autumnale workshop (Oct. 1-2) were united in their concern that the audit systems currently being introduced in Europe will result in an undesirable standardization and constrain the freedom of research. But there was no agreement on the desirability of some form of audit or on whether French resistance to academic reform is a good thing, highlighting how national research structures represent differing points of departure. The journal has therefore decided to follow the debate up with a question that we would like to put to academics around the world: Do you think research "output" should be formally evaluated, and if so, how? We invite you to respond as briefly or lengthily as you would like. It can just be a few lines in an email. References, links and so on to good or bad examples are welcome. If you think the question itself is flawed, you are naturally welcome not to limit yourself to it. Finally, feel free to disseminate this question further, as we would like to hear from more people, including those in the natural sciences. The replies in English or French (translations in other languages are welcome) are to be submitted to the editorial committee until January 4, 2010, and will be published in a special issue of the journal. Mélanie Pitteloud Editorial manager [log in to unmask] http://EspacesTemps.net EspacesTemps.net EPFL - ENAC - Inter BP 2 145 - Station 16 CH-1015 Lausanne +41 21 693 93 53 -- Beatrice Ferrari Geography and urban research lab. Chôros EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology BP2130, Station 16, 1015 Lausanne - Switzerland 城市规划和城市研究 瑞士联邦理工大学