Forget book deals if REF open access rules proceed, warn scholars
Researchers say precariously employed academics will lose out if universities are required to stump up fees for open access
Researchers say precariously employed academics will lose out if universities are required to stump up fees for open access
The 2028 exercise’s measurement of the quality of research environments will account for a quarter of overall marks. But what exactly does quality look like? Can it really be measured? And are there...
The REF may no longer be the only game in town, but it remains a dominant force in UK research. So as the REF 2021 results are released, is it still fit for purpose?
Were new research stars born? Who was helped or hurt by impact? Times Higher Education dissects the results by discipline
Kent, Leicester and University of East Anglia lead the quality rankings in history as Oxford and Cambridge exit top 10
Block grants need to be divided up, but UK research quality does not depend on a regular national audit
How do rankings shift when institutions are compared on research intensity, which takes into account percentage of staff submitted, rather than on standard GPA alone?
As a vague policy commitment moves towards reality, Jack Grove assesses the potential ways and means
Download the podcastThe results of the 2014 research excellence framework are out, and they will shape universities’ profiles for years to come.This issue review podcast for the 18-31 December 2014...
Does research assessment discriminate against female academics? asks Barbara Graziosi
As the 2014 REF census date approaches, Paul Jump talks to the architects of previous rounds of assessment about how it all began and their views on the research excellence framework
Research heads and other university staff on the burdens of submitting to the inaugural research excellence framework
The flawed research excellence framework is not a process of peer review in any meaningful sense, argues Derek Sayer, who appealed against his inclusion in the exercise
The merger of seven subpanels into a single one for modern languages and linguistics has skewed results, claim scholars
Scholar hopes his ‘surreal’ action will show that excluded colleagues were ‘discriminated’ against