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Don’t forget to register for next week’s HEPI conference on the REF and the future of research evaluation

  • 23 March 2015

On Tuesday, 31st March, HEPI will be hosting a big conference in conjunction with Elsevier at the Royal Society in London to look back at the REF and forward to the future of research assessment. It will end with a presentation on higher education, the election and the spending review.

Coming just a day after Parliament prorogues for the election campaign and just a few days after Hefce’s funding allocations for 2015/16, it will provide a timely moment to take stock and debate the future.

Under the title ‘Reflections on REF2014 – Where next? Research Assessment and Funding from 2014 to 2020 and beyond’, we will hear from a series of high-profile speakers, including (in order of appearance):

  • David Willetts (morning Chair)
  • David Sweeney (Hefce)
  • Professor Cara Aitchison, Vice-Chancellor, St Mark & St John University (and REF sub-panel chair)
  • Professor Paul Boyle, Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester
  • Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kent (and future Universities UK President)
  • Professor Julia Black, Pro Director for Research, LSE
  • Professor George Marston, Pro Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Northumbria University
  • Andy Westwood, Vice President, Public Affairs, University of Manchester
  • Dr David Docherty, Chief Executive, National Centre for Universities and Business
  • Bahram Bekhradnia (afternoon Chair)
  • Professor Graeme Reid, Professor of Science and Research Policy, University College London
  • Professor James Wilsdon, Chair of the Independent Review of the role of metrics in research assessment: Presentation on emerging findings
  • Dr Steven Hill, Head of Research Policy, HEFCE: Where next for impact?
  • Dr Nick Fowler, Managing Director, Research Management, Elsevier: How can information inform judgements?
  • Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Further details on how to book a place are here: https://v1.bookwhen.com/hepi/.

Institutions in the HEPI Partner Programme can get a free place.

 

 

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