Date: Thursday 1 February 2024
Time: 9:30am - 4pm
Venue: University of Liverpool Management School
Navigating a changing research assessment exercise
Facilitated by members of the Chartered ABS Research Committee and with input from expert guest speakers including panel members of the Business & Management REF 2021 Sub-Panel, representatives of Research England and other stakeholder bodies; the Symposium is the opportunity for detailed and candid discussion about how the exercise is evolving from the last assessment, and what business schools need to do in 2024/25 to ensure that they are well placed for the submission phase in 2027.
By the end of the Symposium participants will have:
- Greater clarity about the key aspects, and weightings, of the new elements of ‘People and culture’; ‘Contribution to knowledge and understanding’; and ‘Engagement and impact’.
- More detailed information of how changes to the three assessment elements are intended to make REF 2028 more effective in recognising and rewarding a broad range of research outputs, activities and impacts.
- Insights into how other business schools are planning to resource their REF 2028 submission, and dedicate staff/resource to the REF submission at a time of significant resource constraint.
- A deeper understanding of how the developments in the ‘People and culture’ element of the REF is intended to reward institutions that strive to create a positive research culture and nurture their research and research-enabling staff; in particular those ECRs, and those from underrepresented and disadvantaged groups.
- Insights into the potential challenges, including around the definition of research active staff and the proposal to remove the limit on the number of outputs per research active staff.
- New ideas about how interdisciplinary research activity will be assessed in the REF and what is being done to incentivise interdisciplinary outputs.
Speakers
Current list of speakers can be found here.
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