by rtlloyd | Sep 24, 2009 | Research News
David Sweeney, Director of Research & Innovation at HEFCE, was quoted in The Australian newspaper yesterday as saying that research funds in the UK are being stretched too much to cover the volume of research in academia. “Our strategy is to improve the...
by rtlloyd | Sep 23, 2009 | Research Impact
For those interested in the idea of evaluating the impact of research and the issues this raises, a recent article by Claire Donovan (ANU & Chair of the Technical Working Group on Research Impact for the RQF) published in 2008 in New Directions for Evaluation, is...
by rtlloyd | Sep 23, 2009 | Research News
An article in the TIMES claims that HEFCE’s new proposals (now out to consultation) will put an end to “days of university researchers developing formulas for the perfect cheese sandwich” and other such “irrelevent research”. This is how...
by rtlloyd | Sep 23, 2009 | Research News
HEFCE have published the proposals for the Research Excellence Framework. The document is now out to consultation. It includes proposals for the use of bibliometrics (citation information) & for the assessment of the impact of research. HEFCE is also conducting a...
by rtlloyd | Sep 15, 2009 | Research News
The Higher Education Minister, in a speech to Universities UK Conference last week, said that he wanted the REF to send “a strong signal and give a strong financial incentive” for university departments to “find ways of helping turn that [research]...
