Next Tues at 10:05 AM, James Parry will be speaking on 'Protecting Research Integrity and the Impact of the REF' at The 2nd Annual Developing Research Excellence Conference, an online event hosted by the Institute of Government & Public Policy.

Other speakers include George Freeman MP, Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, and Dr Steven Hill, Director of Research, Research England.
https://igpp.org.uk/event/Developing-Research-Excellence-2023/agenda

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture #ResearchExcellence #IGPP #REF2028

University of Sheffield: Our response to the consultation on 'people, culture and environment'

https://staff.sheffield.ac.uk/rpi/ref/news

"We broadly welcome the proposed focus on people, culture and environment (PCE). A healthy, positive and sustainable environment is the foundation of good research, and as such has been at the heart of our University research excellence strategy for several years. "

- click for caveats

#ref2028 #ukhe #ResearchCulture

Good piece from @lizziegadd from June about how #REF2028 might assess research culture (as thresholds to meet, set by institution, rather than as a ranking, with all the perverse side-effects of competition)

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/my-research-culture-is-better-than-yours/

Our Research Integrity Manager, Nicola Sainsbury has written this discussion piece about the increased emphasis on the research environment and culture of the REF 2028.

#ResearchCulture #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchEnvironment #REF2028

https://zurl.co/U72n

#REF2028 - the emerging rules and Law UoAs - a post for the Socio-Legal Studies Association blog

https://slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/ref2028-the-emerging-rules-and-law-

#REF2028

"...in REF 2028 there will be no maximum or minimum number of research outputs attached to any individual researcher, provided an average is met across a subject area....universities will still probably return to being hyper-selective, focusing on members of staff who produce the most ‘REF-able’ research, thereby marginalizing others."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02469-w

An interesting suggestion regarding diversity of types of research output https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/07/05/submissions-to-ref-2028-should-comprise-at-least-5-non-traditional-outputs/

#UKHE #REF2028

"The risk of pitting us all against each other in some unholy research culture competition is that hyper-competition was always at the heart of so many of our unhelpful research cultures." - @lizziegadd in #WonkHE, on the increased weight given to #ResearchCulture in the UK's #REF28.

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/my-research-culture-is-better-than-yours/

#ReformingRA #ResearchAssessment #REF2028 #HigherEd #HigherEducation #UKuniversities