1. Anglia Ruskin REF Awayday 2017
Towards REF 2021
Anglia Ruskin REF Awayday 2017

2. Reflections and introduction to the breakout groups
Research Environment
Reflections and introduction to the breakout groups
Dr Tim Brooks, Head of Research Excellence & Enhancement, RIDO
REF Awayday, 29 November 2017

3. What’s staying the same (ish)
Weighting of environment at 15%
REF 2014 environment templates as the ‘starting point’:
Overview
Research Strategy
People
Income, infrastructure and facilities
Collaboration and contribution to the discipline
‘Appropriate indicators’ to back up narrative content.

4. What we know is new (ish)
More structured template with specific sections on unit support for
Collaboration beyond HE
Interdisciplinary research
Impact
Role of Category C staff
Open Research
More quantitative data
Provision of institutional-level information within UoA template

5. What we think might feature
Unit circumstances
Distribution of outputs
Use of ORCID

6. What we know we don’t know
Definition of ‘research degrees’
Assessment period for the narrative element
Formatting requirements
Likely page limit

7. Good practice from REF 2014 (1)
Significant growth in research income as a result of a strategic intention to do so.
Investing in state of the art technologies to address specific infrastructural challenges
Ensuring appropriate support to address the unit’s cparticular staff profile
Leading and supporting shared research facilities in a consortium with other institutions

8. Good practice from REF 2014 (2)
Developing new organisational structures to invest in new areas of activity
Interdisciplinary research studentships; appointing staff with other disciplinary backgrounds to enable the introduction of interdisciplinary perspectives
Detailing the research activity of research students in the unit – grants, conferences, publications.

9. Identifying comparators
UoA Convenor nominations
Overall / Environment GPA better than ours
Environment GPA better than Outputs GPA

10. Breakout discussions
Are there any features that explain the comparator unit’s performance?
What good practice can you identify?
What research themes emerge and how does your unit support them?
What challenges can you identify, and what can we do about them?

11. Thank you Any questions?
Dr. Tim Brooks, Head of Research Excellence & Enhancement, RIDO