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REF Results - other perspectives! Jeremy Ovenden ADM Jan 2015

The UK’s European university. REF Results - other perspectives! Jeremy Ovenden ADM Jan 2015. Content. Ranking Methodologies How others viewed our performance Facts & Figures Issues for the future Implications for LTs Publicising Success. Ranking methodologies (1). GPA summary

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REF Results - other perspectives! Jeremy Ovenden ADM Jan 2015

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  1. The UK’s European university REF Results - other perspectives! Jeremy Ovenden ADM Jan 2015

  2. Content • Ranking Methodologies • How others viewed our performance • Facts & Figures • Issues for the future • Implications for LTs • Publicising Success REF Results

  3. Ranking methodologies (1) GPA summary • Top 5 • Modern Languages & Linguistics • Social Work & Social Policy • Top 10 • Theology • Top 20 • Law, • Classics, • Music, Drama, Dance & Performing Arts • Top 30 – Another 8 RUAs REF Results

  4. Ranking methodologies (2) • THE criticised for initial simplistic rankings of: • GPA • Research Power • Coerced into 1stJan 2015 Tables of Research Intensity (GPA* % staff submitted) REF Results

  5. How others have viewed our REF performance “Loughborough is among a glut of small research-intensive universities that do much better on intensity-weighted GPA than they do on standard GPA; it shoots up from joint 49th to 14th on the back of submitting 88 per cent of its eligible staff. (Other similar cases include the universities of Kent, Reading, Essex and Leicester, as well as University of London colleges Soas and Birkbeck.)” ……(THE 1st Jan 2015) REF Results

  6. REF: Facts & Figures (1) • KENT, was 13th equal, in the measure of the highest percentage of eligible staff submitted to REF (85%). • 10th= after discounting, Institute of Cancer Research, Staffordshire University andWrittleCollege. REF Results

  7. REF: Facts & Figures (2) - % of staff submitted REF Results

  8. Issues for the Future and Implications for League Tables (1) • ‘Eligible’ REF staff exclude those who do not have a research function in their contract • Out of 1381 academic staff ftes returned to HESA in 2012/13 • 621.5 ftes were ‘teaching only’ contracts or ftes and so are ‘not eligible’ staff for REF • 750 ftes had a research function • Of the 621.5 ftes • 87.4 ftes Academic Teaching and scholarship • 84.5 ftes Graduate Teaching Assistants • 88.1 ftes Sessional Demonstrators • 361.5 ftes Hourly paid lecturers REF Results

  9. Implications for League Tables (2) : Home • Guardian – has never considered research • Times uses HESA staff data to ‘factor in the depth of research quality’ • KENT previous research rank =42nd • 2015 table could see a significant improvement to Research rank ofapprox 20th • CUG used both research quality and research intensity (50% of HEIs supplied the latter data). Quality was more heavily weighted at 2;1 • Rank 29th • Methodology/weighting could change in future. Improvement possible REF Results

  10. Implications for League Tables (3): World REF performance marginal effect. • Little other than reputational improvement • WLTs are about international and national research networks • Academic Schools must maximise achievement on their web landing pages. • University page could do better! REF Results

  11. REF Results

  12. REF Reading The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 confirms the University of Reading's place as a world-leading research-intensive university. 98% of University of Reading research is internationally recognised, and 78% of our research is classed as internationally excellent. 27% of our research is world leading. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a national assessment of research quality co-ordinated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The REF places the University of Reading 19th in the UK by research intensity (a measure of quality adjusted by the proportion of researchers submitted), and 27th in the UK by research power (out of 154 submitted institutions). Research power recognises both the quality and quantity of research submitted into the exercise. REF Results

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  18. Conclusions • Good set of REF results; • Particularly so when volume and intensity are considered • Rubbing shoulders with ex 1994 Group institutions • Above11 Russell Group HEIs on THE intensity • Above 11 ex 1994 Group HEIs on THE intensity • Do not know the funding implications yet but volume has to be reflected in the allocations • Concerns over the numbers of teaching only contracts/ftes • Already count against us in WLT REF Results

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