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Seasonal Lists (and the REF)
The end of the year is, by custom, the time for lists. Lists of best (or worst) photos, opening book sentences, or celebrity fashion faux pas; lists of those who died or those who made their film/book/TV/sporting debuts. Think of … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture
Tagged New Year, REF, Twitter
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Why I Can’t Write Anything Funny about the REF
It’s the silly season, a time of year when many people are on holiday and usually big news tends to be in short supply other than the the annual excitement over A level grades. (Mind you, not so this year, when … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Funding, Uncategorized
Tagged environment template, impact case studies, REF
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Muddled Mess or Merely Work in Progress?
What do our surroundings say about us? If we choose to work in an office strewn with bits of paper, open files, journals and other debris, is this a testament to the fact our minds are on higher things and … Continue reading
Once Absence of Impact used to be the Fashionable Thing to Claim
Up and down the land, academics from Vice Chancellors down are sweating over 3 letters: REF. This dread acronym, standing for the Research Excellence Framework, must be absorbing a fantastic number of hours of time for many people and it … Continue reading
Levelling the Playing Field
This article has been published in the November issue of Physics World. The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE),which has been used to measure the quality of UK research for more than 20 years, has now morphed into the equally clunky sounding … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Research, Women in Science
Tagged consultation, HEFCE, maternity leave, outputs, REF
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