More about the Hidden REF
NTO workshops
Our NTO workshops help university staff share their experience of working with NTOs (not traditionally submitted outputs) and practice assessing them.
Visit our NTO workshops page to learn more and request a workshop.
What the REF?!
Our podcast, What the REF?!, investigates issues around research culture, recognition for success in research and all things and everything to do with the REF.
Community Calls
Every two months, we bring together people from across the research ecosystem to talk about research culture, recognition, and what needs to change.
Expert Groups
Our Expert Groups use their expertise with different types of NTOs to help us write guidance for NTO assessment. The guidance will be tested during the Hidden REF competition and shared with the community via our NTO workshops.
If you would like to join an Expert Group, please get in touch.
Mailing list
To receive (infrequent) updates about the Hidden REF and our activities, you can sign up to our mailing list.
Hidden REF short videos
We’re creating short explainer videos to help demystify the REF. Take a look at YouTube and let us know which subjects you would like us to focus on next.
Introduction to Hidden REF slides
You can use these CC-BY licensed slides to raise awareness of the Hidden REF and our work.
- The slides are available on Google slides.
The Hidden REF Whitepaper
The White Paper on Shaping the Future of Research Evaluation is based on two aspects of the Hidden REF: Experiences and processes underpinning the first Hidden REF exercise in 2021, and discussions held at the inaugural Festival of Hidden REF in Bristol on 21 September 2023.
Past Hidden REF Competition entries
Competition entries have been published on zenodo