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Research Funding and Assessment: The Future

Research Funding and Assessment: The Future. Professor David Eastwood Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Research Assessment: A History of Success. 1986, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2008 Focus Impact Selectivity Investment Secured Funding. QR : The Prize.

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Research Funding and Assessment: The Future

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  1. Research Funding and Assessment: The Future Professor David Eastwood Vice-Chancellor and Principal

  2. Research Assessment: A History of Success 1986, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2008 • Focus • Impact • Selectivity • Investment • Secured Funding

  3. QR : The Prize • QR has delivered (but we’ve not told the story) • QR gives us the means to compete (it’s what you have if you don’t have endowments) • It underpins the autonomy of research-led universities • It empowers academics working in appropriately-managed research environments • If we lost it, we would never recover it

  4. Changing Landscapes: Trends in HEFCE QR and RCUK Funding to HEI for Research Source: HEFCE; HESA

  5. For too long, it’s been the only performance management tool in the sector • It’s blamed for things it’s not responsible for • It’s over-engineered (but whose fault is that?) • It happens too often or too infrequently • We ask it to do things it’s not well adapted for • In 2008 there was uniquely no new money What’s wrong with the RAE?

  6. A Mixed Economy of Funding: HEFCE Business and Community Funding by Stream 2000/01 – 2010/11 Block funding under HEIF rounds 1, 2 and 3 and KTCF have been distributed equally across their allocation period as no year on year profile is available Source: HEFCE

  7. HEIF Block funding under HEIF rounds 1, 2 and 3 and KTCF have been distributed equally across their allocation period as no year on year profile is available Source: HEFCE

  8. Indicators from the HE-BCI Survey (all UK)

  9. Resources currently available to TSB • For the Comprehensive Spending review period to March 2011, TSB has been allocated: • £711.4 million of Technology Strategy Board funding; • aligned with £120 million from the Research Councils; • and £180 million from the Regional Development Agencies/Devolved Administrations; • this gives a total set of aligned spending of £1,011.4 million to be spent between 2008/09 and 2010/11. • TSB budget (excluding RDA and RC contributions) will rise from £197 million in 2007/08 to £267 million by 2010/11

  10. Some Known Unknowns • What will QR be in 2014? • What will the balance of dual support be? • What will happen to research volumes? • Will policy parameters change (STEM vs non STEM)? • Will cuts have rebalanced RAE 2008 funding outcomes? • If funding and policy parameters have shifted substantially, how long can RAE 2008 outcomes remain a credible driver? • Remember the 5** fix – gerrymandering today, some jam tomorrow, and destabilization the day after

  11. Realism about REF • Peer review matters • Metrics help • Grant capture tells you something important • Government, as investor, has a legitimate interest in its return • Impact can be evaluated • QR is distributed to institutions • RAE is cheap, REF can be cheaper • Fewer panels • More normalization • Get on with it!

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