scholarly journals Evaluating the potential effect of the increased importance of the impact component in the Research Excellence Framework of the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Pinar ◽  
Emre Unlu
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
Gabriele Butkute

In an age where huge amounts of data is collected on everything we do – from our Google searches to our GPS coordinates – we like to be able to count, measure and assess things. This includes measuring the impact and quality of research in the UK, through an assessment method known as the Research Excellence Framework (REF).


2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Wayne Mitchell ◽  
William S Harvey

Despite some research-led teaching relying heavily on an individual’s research, we find very few impact cases studies from the United Kingdom’s research excellence framework 2014 which use this mechanism for impact. This article questions this absence, identifies problems and challenges of ignoring it and suggests recognising students as research translators to create change. Using research excellence framework 2014 as a case, we define research-led teaching and use Boyer’s scholarship of application as our pedagogical base arguing that ignoring this impact pathway is unjustifiable, demotivating and a missed opportunity which underrepresents the impact of management research. The article provokes new thinking on research-led teaching impact for faculty, research managers, universities and international impact assessment organisations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 1532-1535
Author(s):  
Andrew Leyshon

This short commentary responds to James et al.’s report on the employment of economic geographers within in departments of business and management in UK universities. An initial ambivalence about the numbers of economic geographers working outside the sub-discipline has been replaced by growing concerns over the supply of early career economic geographers, the immediate pressures of the Research Excellence Framework and the growth and financial significance of business schools within the UK university sector. Collective action and collaboration by the remaining economic geographers is encouraged to stem the tide.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. e0156978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gobinda Chowdhury ◽  
Kushwanth Koya ◽  
Pete Philipson

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