REF2021

Final chance to attend a ‘Research Impact and the Research Excellence Framework’ session for this REF cycle

Posted . Filed under REF2021, UoA23.

Impact became an integral part of the REF submission in 2014, and is likely to play an increasingly significant part of the exercise in future years. This session will provide a brief introduction to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and explore the impact element of the submission. We will consider how impact is defined for… Read more » about Final chance to attend a ‘Research Impact and the Research Excellence Framework’ session for this REF cycle

Measuring the Impact of your Research with Bibliometrics

Posted . Filed under Events and workshops, Library and Learning Support, REF2021, Research, STEM, UoA23 Impact.

It was recently announced that Clarivate Analytics (who maintain Web of Science) will provide metrics for REF2021. There are several kinds of metrics that measure how often your articles or other outputs have been cited.  Metrics can help researchers from any discipline plan their future approach to research or track the work of others, whether they… Read more » about Measuring the Impact of your Research with Bibliometrics

HE Policy update for the w/e 29th March 2018

Posted . Filed under Creativity, Digital skills, Education, employability, Equality and Diversity, Fair access, Funding Stream, HE Students, Innovation, News, Policy, QAA, REF2021, Student, Widening participation.

Industrial Strategy The Creative Industries Sector Deal has been announced.  You can read the document here.  The press release says: As part of a Creative Industries Sector Deal, to be announced today by the Digital and Culture Secretary Matt Hancock, Business Secretary Greg Clark and Co-Chair of the CIC, Nicola Mendelsohn, more than £150 million is being… Read more » about HE Policy update for the w/e 29th March 2018

HE policy update for the w/e 5th January 2018

Posted . Filed under Equality and Diversity, EU, Fair access, Funding Stream, HE Students, News, Policy, REF2021, Student, Widening participation.

Welcome to the first policy update of 2018!  Parliament is in recess until Monday 8th so there has been less activity this week. Nevertheless, here is your slimline summary of the activity since our last update. Office for Students The Office for Students (OfS) officially came into existence this week. The final 6 members of… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 5th January 2018

HE policy update for the w/e 8th December 2017

Posted . Filed under employability, Equality and Diversity, Fair access, HE Students, News, Policy, Postgraduate student, REF2021, Student, Teaching and Learning, TEF, Widening participation.

Fees and funding – the latest developments The fees and funding discussions continue with some interesting developments this week. Firstly, there was a written response by the Minister  -responding to the Resolution of the House on 13th September 2017 on tuition fees (the non-binding one that was essentially passed unanimously because no Conservative MPs attended). … Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 8th December 2017

REF and TEF: the connections

Posted . Filed under Conference Report, Events and workshops, REF2021, TEF.

REF & TEF: the connections was a one day conference hosted by Bournemouth University on Wednesday 11th October.  The event bought together leading experts in research and education policy in higher education to share their insights into the importance of the connections between teaching and research. The morning session of two keynote speakers, followed by a panel discussion, prompted a great… Read more » about REF and TEF: the connections