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Month: October 2009

  • Proposals for the Research Excellence Framework – a critique

    15 October 2009 by Bahram Bekhradnia

    The UK higher education funding bodies have published their proposals for the design and conduct of the Research Excellence Framework (REF), which will replace the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) as the method by which research will be assessed for the purpose of the allocation of their research funds. This paper…

  • Research Funding and Assessment: The Future

    14 October 2009

    For the past 3 years HEFCE has been considering replacement of the RAE with a new assessment process – the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This consideration is now coming to a conclusion with HEFCE’s publication in September of its definitive proposals. However, the assessment process does not stand in isolation…