
Ep2. What the REF should we call these outputs?!
May 28, 2025In this episode, we kick off with a few updates and then hear about the incredible agenda planned for the Festival of Hidden REF (7-8 October in Birmingham). We are hugely excited to welcome our first guest: Marcus Munafò, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at the University of Bath and Director of the UK Reproducibility Network. He talks about his experience of the REF and its role in incentivising research behaviour, how we can improve research quality by focussing on the entire research process and not just it’s final output, and the changes that will be needed if universities are to keep pace with the team-based nature of modern research.
The next episode of What the REF will be a big one! We’re going to take a look at the guidance for the Contribution to Knowledge and Understanding and some of the questions that it has generated.