1. Towards REF 2021 REF Awayday 2016
Imperial War Museums Duxford
26 October 2016

2. One year on: developments since Duxford 2015
Roderick Watkins
October 2016

3. Stern Review HE & Research Bill Brexit
External context
Stern Review
HE & Research Bill
Brexit
Internal developments
REF preparations
Wider developments
‘Green Paper’ & strategic planning

4. External context
Stern Review

5. Stern Review: Key recommendations
External context
Stern Review:
Key recommendations
1 All research active staff should be returned in the REF

6. Stern Review: Key recommendations
External context
Stern Review:
Key recommendations
All research active staff should be returned in the REF
Outputs should be submitted at Unit of Assessment level with a set average number per FTE but with flexibility for some faculty members to submit more and others less than the average

7. Stern Review: Key recommendations
External context
Stern Review:
Key recommendations
All research active staff should be returned in the REF
Outputs should be submitted at Unit of Assessment level with a set average number per FTE but with flexibility for some faculty members to submit more and others less than the average
Outputs should not be portable

8. Stern Review: Key recommendations
External context
Stern Review:
Key recommendations
Institutions should be given more flexibility to showcase their interdisciplinary and collaborative impacts by submitting ‘institutional’ level impact case studies, part of a new institutional level assessment.

9. Stern Review: Key recommendations
External context
Stern Review:
Key recommendations
Institutions should be given more flexibility to showcase their interdisciplinary and collaborative impacts by submitting ‘institutional’ level impact case studies, part of a new institutional level assessment.
Impact must be based on research of demonstrable quality. However, case studies could be linked to a research activity and a body of work as well as to a broad range of research outputs

10. Stern Review: Key recommendations
External context
Stern Review:
Key recommendations
A new, institutional level Environment assessment should include an account of the institution’s future research environment strategy, a statement of how it supports high quality research and research-related activities, including its support for interdisciplinary and cross-institutional initiatives and impact…

11. Stern Review: Key recommendations
External context
Stern Review:
Key recommendations
A new, institutional level Environment assessment should include an account of the institution’s future research environment strategy, a statement of how it supports high quality research and research-related activities, including its support for interdisciplinary and cross-institutional initiatives and impact…
That individual Unit of Assessment environment statements are condensed, made complementary to the institutional level environment statement and include those key metrics on research intensity specific to the Unit of Assessment

12. External context Stern Review Next steps:
HEFCE consultation around “detailed proposals which take forward the recommendations”
NB additional issues including 5* rating and funding formulae (intensity and/or power thresholds?)

13. Internal developments
REF Preparations:
Individual Research Reports
RAND workshops
‘New’ ARRO
External Reviewers
REF stocktake 2016
Symplectic

14. Internal developments
Wider developments:
RIKE strategy
Doctoral School
RIDO
Research Institute reviews

15. Internal developments
Next steps:
‘Green paper’
Strategic Plan
2017 REF audit

16. Towards REF 2021 REF Awayday 2016
Imperial War Museums Duxford
26 October 2016

17. 2016 Stocktake Overview and introduction to the breakout groups
Dr Tim Brooks, Research Policy & REF Manager
REF Awayday, 26 October 2016

18. Comparison with REF 2014 REF 2014 Stocktake 2016 UoAs 14 20
Staff headcount1
196
372
Outputs listed2
602
1484†
Research income3
£9.73m
£6.52m
Doctoral awards4
171
124
Notes
Stocktake 2016 headcount (of eligible academic staff) deduplicated, excludes UoA 34 data
Stocktake 2016 outputs neither deduplicated nor checked for eligibility, excludes UoA 34 data
Stocktake 2016 research income as declared in institutional accounts for and only
Stocktake 2016 doctoral awards manually compiled from ASTRA for , and

19. Staff engagement ALSS FHSCE LAIBS FMS FST Other All IRR only 23 33 208 24
108
IRR & Stocktake 59 52 30 11 99
251
Stocktake only 44 55 1
121
Total ‘engaged’
126
105 50
178
480
Total staff
158
186 91 73
212 14
734
% ‘engaged’
79.7
56.5
54.9
41.1
84.0
7.1
65.4
Refers to eligible academic staff.
UoA totals exclude UoA 34 data
IRR data as at 1/8/16. Total staff as at 17/8/16.

20. Multiple inclusions
44 individuals in two or three UoA stocktake submissions
All but two UoAs have some multiple inclusion
Most common in UoA 3 (17 individuals), UoA 22 (14 individuals) and UoA 23 (13 individuals).
Excludes UoA 34 data.

21. Research outputs
Including ‘multiple-included’ staff, 322 have 1 or more outputs
1484 staff research outputs, but are all eligible?
Open Access – 322 (21.7%) in ARRO in full text format. 40 identified as ‘missing’.
Excludes UoA 34 data

22. Impact and Environment
Seven UoAs have identified more case studies than they need; five UoAs have identified fewer case studies than they need.
Mix of approaches to Environment

23. Breakout discussions Units of Assessment?
Staff engagement and inclusion?
Outputs and open access?
Environment?
Impact of Stern’s proposals?
External assessment?
Process?
Anything else you think is important and relevant …

24. Thank you Any questions?
Dr. Tim Brooks, Research Policy & REF Manager, RIDO