Richard Watermeyer is professor of higher education and co-director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations at the University of Bristol, UK. The past few weeks have generated a flurry of ...

It was the day most UK academics were dreading. On Monday 17 February, funding agencies fired the starting gun on the next Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), the United Kingdom’s system for ...

The UK’s “world-leading” research isn’t just limited to a select few elite universities, but rather is distributed across the country, according to the latest UK government analysis of the country’s ...

Loughborough University is developing its Research Excellence Framework (REF) Code of Practice, which all UK Higher Education Institutions participating in the REF are required to produce. The Code of ...