ESRC have recently written to us to let us know about changes to their final reporting requirements which affect any holders of ESRC grants. Here’s the email in full:
From 1st November 2009, the Council’s current requirement for a 5000 word End of Award Report three months after the end date of its award will [...]
Posts Tagged ‘impact’
Changes to ESRC Final Reporting
HEPI Criticises Impact in REF Consultation
The Higher Education Policy Institute, an independent think-tank on HE and university-related policy issues, has released a critique of HEFCE’s REF consultation. The main criticism is aimed at the “experimental” use of economic and social impact to judge research quality. HEPI is particularly concerned at the large proposed role of impact assessment – 25% of [...]
HEFCE Launches REF Consultation
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has published its recommendations on the nature and structure of the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework, the successor to the RAE:
Consultation on the development of the REF
The consultation runs until the 16th December.
We’ll publish more when we’ve had a chance to digest the document, but at first glance it [...]
EPSRC Issues Impact Plan Advice
The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council has published a list of tips for researchers who are preparing an impact plan in a research bid as part of the new research council requirements on demonstrating impact. The advice appears in the latest August issue of EPSRC’s Connect newsletter and supplements the existing material on the [...]
The Impact of Research on Public Policy: RCUK Report
Research Councils UK today published a report which gives an overview of the impacts of RCUK-funded research on UK public policy:
Impacts: Success in Shaping Public Policy and Services (PDF)
The document includes a number of case studies which highlight how publicly-funded research has significant impact outside of academia. It’s interesting to read about research which crosses [...]
ARMA 09: Post-Conference Thoughts
The 2009 Association of Research Managers and Administrators conference took place in Southampton from 1st to 3rd June. I attended the full three day event which was a great opportunity to find out about good practice in research administration at other institutions, as well as the latest news in HE funding. Since returning I’ve had [...]
Research Excellence Framework: “RAE with numbers”?
The Times Higher has just published a very interesting and informative analysis of the REF (Research Excellence Framework), the replacement for the RAE:
Structural Adjustments – The REF Unscrambled
This detailed article is effectively the “story so far” of the REF, the next generation of one half of the dual support system. It’s important because the REF [...]
What Will The Budget Mean For Research and HE?
There has been quite a lot of speculation recently on the implications of last week’s budget for the UK Higher Education sector in general, and research funding in particular. ResearchResearch.com reports on two responses to this question:
Universities fearful of £400m cut to DIUS (accessible on campus or if you have an account)
Both express reservation at [...]
