As anyone who has attended my trainings will know, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021). I see...

View an updated version of this blog In 2014, the UK became the first country to comprehensively assess the impact of its research as...

The REF rules are clear: impacts remain with the institution in which the original research was conducted. If you move institutions, you...

No one will disagree that research is supposed to benefit society, and that research and researchers should be evaluated for their...

This blog has now been updated. To see the original version, download the poster below presented at the INORMS 2018 conference. For the...

What would you do if you were asked to organise an internal review of REF impact case studies for your whole university? Run away? Hide?...

The role and shape of impact in the next REF just got a lot clearer with the publication of HEFCE’s consultation on the second Research...