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Applications are invited for up to 23 experienced research professionals to serve on the panel secretariat to support the main and sub-panels. It is intended that the appointments will comprise:Up to ten panel advisers to provide high level procedural guidance to one main panel and a group of sub-panels.Up to thirteen panel secretaries to provide …

Subject associations and other organisations with an interest in the quality, conduct, funding or wider use of research have been invited to nominate candidates for panel membership in the next REF.The deadline for nominations is 20 December 2017.  More information can be found on the REF 2021 website here.

Applications are now being invited for the role of sub-panel chair for the REF 2021 exercise. To apply see Annex B of the initial decisions on the REF document.The deadline for applications is 11 October 2017.

On 1 September 2017 HEFCE published the first set of the funding bodies' initial decisions on the Research Excellence Framework.This document sets out decisions in relation to the following aspects of the REF:Assessment of output quality, in relation to interdisciplinary research, outputs due for publication after the submission date, and assessmen…

The main panels will provide leadership and guidance to the sub-panels that undertake the REF assessment. As chairs designate, the appointees will at first advise the funding bodies on the initial decisions and on the further development of the framework. According to the announcement, they will take up their roles as chairs later in the year, once…

HEFCE has announced today that Professor Dame Athene Donald, Master of Churchill College Cambridge and Professor of Physics, will chair the Research Excellence Framework Interdisciplinary Research Advisory Panel. Professor John Clarkson, Director of the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre will also be a member of the panel. The Interdisciplinary Re…

The funding bodies wish to appoint a Main Panel Chair (Designate) for each of the four REF main panels. Initially the role of the chairs designate will be to provide advice on the initial decisions following the consultation, and on the further planning and development of the framework. They will then take up roles as Main Panel Chairs later in the…

The University’s response to the consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) has been submitted and can be read in full here.A document setting out the proposals of the four UK higher education funding bodies for the second Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the assessment of research in UK higher education institutions…

Deadline: 30 January 2017 at 5pmThe UK higher education funding bodies are consulting on detailed arrangements for research assessment in a second Research Excellence Framework (REF). Further information is available on the HEFCE website: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/refconsultation/.The General Board would welcome comments by 5pm on Monday, 30 Jan…

Further to the Notice published on 17 February 2016 (Reporter, 6415, 2015–16, p. 365), the University’s response to the call for evidence in the Stern Review of the Research Excellence Framework has been submitted and may be viewed at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2015-16/weekly/6422/CambridgeSternReviewResponse2016.pdf.