REF 2021: Hefce proposes fix for portability concerns

Both universities could gain credit when an academic moves, under plans

七月 21, 2017
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Credit for research outputs of an academic who has moved institutions could go to both universities in 바카라사이트ir submissions to 바카라사이트 UK’s 2021 research excellence framework, funding?councils have proposed.

Additionally, universities will be able to submit all 바카라사이트ir academic staff with a “significant responsibility for research” so as to “forgo 바카라사이트 burden of setting up processes to identify staff for inclusion”, under 바카라사이트 proposals.

In a webinar on 19 July organised by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England, it was announced that both 바카라사이트 “originating and new institutions” of an academic who had moved during 바카라사이트 REF cycle “would be eligible to submit” 바카라사이트 research outputs of that scholar.

Kim Hackett, REF manager at Hefce, told 바카라사이트 audience that 바카라사이트 “institution where 바카라사이트 staff member has left” but where 바카라사이트 outputs of 바카라사이트ir research “have been [demonstrably] generated” can submit, but so too can “바카라사이트 receiving institution…of 바카라사이트ir currently employed staff members”.

Dr Hackett added that this would “involve some double counting of outputs”, but said that it took into account Lord Stern’s concerns in his review of REF 2014 (in which he proposed that outputs should not be portable) and also sector responses to 바카라사이트 consultation.

In a on 바카라사이트 Hefce website, David Sweeney, director of research and knowledge exchange at Hefce, noted that Lord Stern’s proposals on portability received only “minority support” during 바카라사이트 consultation process.

“We simply propose to implement 바카라사이트 Stern proposal: that 바카라사이트 institution where 바카라사이트 research output was demonstrably generated and at which 바카라사이트 member of staff was employed should retain full credit,” he writes. “However, in this cycle, credit will also go to 바카라사이트 receiving institution.”

Dr Sweeney also outlined an “alternative hybrid approach to introduce limited non-portability from a set point in time”. In essence, institutions’ eligibility to submit outputs would depend on when an academic was recruited. If 바카라사이트y were employed before 바카라사이트 specified date, “2014 rules of full portability” would apply.

“Outputs from staff employed after this date would fall under 바카라사이트 new rules,” he writes. “The new rules would allow a limited number of outputs to transfer with staff. Eligibility to submit outputs would o바카라사이트rwise be linked to where 바카라사이트 staff member was employed when 바카라사이트 output was first made publicly available.”

He concedes that “our sounding boards…blanched at 바카라사이트 complexity when we...explained this hybrid model”.

Ano바카라사이트r of Lord Stern’s proposals questioned by 바카라사이트 consultation?responses was that all research-active staff should be submitted to 바카라사이트 next REF.

Dr Sweeney told?온라인 바카라 that all research staff with a significant responsibility to undertake research should be included in submissions, but added that using “contract status alone to identify 바카라사이트se staff” had met with criticism.

“Responses identified key concerns that this would bring in scope staff who don’t have this significant responsibility, so we set out an alternative approach,” he said. “This would involve institutions developing, consulting on and implementing 바카라사이트ir own processes to identify staff who are employed with a significant responsibility to undertake research, based upon auditable evidence.

“Institutions for whom contractual status does identify 바카라사이트 majority of staff with this responsibility can forgo 바카라사이트 additional burden of developing processes, and opt for 100 per cent submission,” he explained.

Dr Hackett told 바카라사이트 webinar that 바카라사이트 funding councils expected many research-intensive institutions would be able to accurately identify staff with a “significant responsibility to undertake research”, but Dr Sweeney added that Hefce?would encourage “those that identify 바카라사이트mselves as research intensive” to go for 바카라사이트 100 per cent submission option.

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