The Missenden Centre has released a list of its specialist seminars taking place in 2010 to support researchers, supervisors and senior academic staff. The full list is as follows:
1. Effective supervision | 6/7 May 11.00 start
2. Making a successful research grant proposal | 20/21 May 11.00 start
3. Research Strategy and the REF | 10/11 June 4.30pm start
4. Examining doctoral candidates | 17/18 June [...]
Posts Tagged ‘REF’
New Missenden Centre Seminars to Support Research
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 [...]
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 [...]
New University Faculty on the Repository
Paul Stainthorp has just blogged about the addition of the newest faculty to the University of Lincoln’s online repository:
FAFAS are on the Institutional Repository
The faculty of Agriculture, Food and Animal Sciences amalgamates expertise at both the Riseholme and Holbeach campuses and is being officially launched today at this year’s Lincolnshire Show. As Paul mentions, a presence [...]
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 [...]
HEFCE Announces Further Delays to REF
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is unlikely to be fully implemented until 2013 for all disciplines according to a HEFCE circular letter distributed recently to all VCs of HEIs based in England:
HEFCE Update on the Research Excellence Framework
Previously it had been thought that the controversial bibliometrics elements of the REF could be ready to inform [...]
