www.jacquelinedrost.comI am an organisation scholar who is particularly interested in multidisciplinary research, combining the academic fields of philosophy and business administration, to study the performativity of organisational practices.In my PhD research, I aimed to gain a better understanding of the role rankings play in (public) organisations: the becoming and enactment of rankings in daily organisational practices and the unfolding performative consequences for the rankings, the daily organisational practices, and the organisation at large. Studying the becoming, enactment and performative consequences of rankings has enabled me to theorise about the Quantum-effect of rankings: the inability of rankings to represent what they intend to; their inability to create transparency. My study shows that although rankings measure, value, and visualise performances - like the quality of a researcher - the particular ranking practices of measuring, valuing, and visualising, change these performances at the same time. The rankings can thus hardly provide a representation of the performances they intend to represent. Rankings intend to create transparency, but since they will not be able to, they are thus the opposite of what they are meant to be or meant to create. This is the irony of rankings.As an academic ranking expert, I fully support the ambitions of the Dutch Recognition and Rewards programme and as the new programme manager I am ready to take the next steps in translating Radboud’s vision of Recognition and Rewards into practice. The ambitions of Radboud’s Recognition and Rewards programme become much more vibrant when we collaborate. We need to work together, reflect, and share our thoughts and experiences to further translate and refine these ambitions into our daily work practices. Only together can we make this transition a reality.