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Equality and the REF 2021 consultation
Does the potential for the use of headcounts in determining REF2021 submissions run the risk of breaching equalities law? James Hand highlights the potential issues.
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REF just got real: mist now clearing on the road to 2021
Changes to the research impact and environment sections of REF2021 highlight the way the wider policy landscape is changing. James Wilsdon makes sense of the latest decisions.
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REF2021: much still to be decided
Another REF consultation exercise? David Kernohan surveys what still needs to be decided as we move ever closer to the end of the cycle.
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A beginner’s guide to Open Access
Access to research publications is one of the key issues faced by researchers and scholarly publishers. For those new to the area, Graham Steel and David Kernohan explain.
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Significant responsibility – an update on the consultation for REF 2021
HEFCE's David Sweeney provides an update on how ‘research-active’ status will be determined for the purposes of submission to REF 2021.
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Nine brains or megabrain: who’s making UKRI?
UKRI is starting to take shape behind the scenes. James Wilsdon has spoken to dozens of key players to lift the curtain on what promises to be a transformation in the UK research and innovation landscape.
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The post-Brexit lessons from Switzerland for UK HE and science
After years of turbulence in Switzerland, the country's relationship with EU research and mobility programmes outside the EU might point the way for the UK post-Brexit.
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Making staff selection work in REF 2021
Institutional 'significance tests' for REF staff selection may be the solution the thorny issues presented by the Stern Review. Tom Frostick explains how it could work.
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Lacking creativity: Industrial strategy and the arts
Andrew McRae argues that our national obsession with STEM research and skills neglects the importance of creative industries, and the subjects which teach them, to our economy.
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How do you solve a problem like REF 2021?
'Whole staff submission' to the next REF is reputedly a red line for the universities minister. How is this to be reconciled with a sector that believes it is unworkable and undesirable? Martin McQuillan investigates.
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