Simon Hettrick

Research Professional visited the Conservative Party Conference and also gave an overview of the Festival of Hidden REF! Read the full article on Research Professional.

Research methods are a “foundational” output that should have their own dedicated section for submission to the Research Excellence Framework, a conference has heard. Speaking at […]

Hidden REF Festival: Institutions urged to “pull their socks up” and submit more non-traditional outputs University research teams are missing out on a “huge breadth of […]

The future of research assessment programme promised a transformative change to the 2029 REF, which states “This will allow the submission of outputs by any staff […]

Mareike Wehner and Natalie Wallis describe how and why their university is encouraging non-traditional outputs At universities across the UK, researchers are doing brilliant work that […]

Today we released a press release about the next, funded phase of the Hidden REF! Read the press release below. A campaign to recognise the ‘hidden’ […]

Rachel Brazil at Nature investigates how large-scale evaluation permeates the UK university system, but some countries are rejecting harsh judgements and emphasizing strategic development. Read the […]

The Research team at Bath Spa first became aware of the Hidden REF in 2021 when we nominated our impact team and our repository librarians for […]

An output from the campaign so far is a published white paper. Shaping the future of research evaluation. Insights from The Festival of Hidden REF. Authors: Derrick, […]