This report analyses the representativeness of academic staff holding significant responsibility for research and submitted to REF 2021 compared to the wider UK population, of distribution of output attribution amongst submitted staff, and scoring of outputs by the expert panels.
Assessment of the research environment in REF should focus on the university, instead of discipline level, recommends the panel that has been piloting a new assessment process.
EDAP members Raheela Khan, Fiona Ross and Tessa Parkes consider what the analysis of data from REF 2021 tells us about how people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups have been able to contribute to, and assess, research quality.
Following recent technical issues, we are pleased to announce the impact case study database is now available on the REF website. The database allows detailed searching and filtering of the impact case studies submitted as part of REF 2021. Detailed guidance on using the database and further information about the data it contains are available on our website.
The expert interdisciplinary panel, newly appointed in REF 2021, has published its report on the measures introduced to support equity in REF assessment for interdisciplinary research
