A new study led by City, University of London suggests that the introduction of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) to measure the research performance of UK universities has led to significant ...

Adam Vasco, Director of Student Success at the University of Wolverhampton, has been appointed to the People and Diversity Advisory Panel for REF 2029. This panel plays a vital role in embedding ...

The excellence of research at UCL and its positive real-world impact has improved since 2014, according to the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF) assessment results announced today. UCL has come ...

Researchers tasked with examining whether artificial intelligence (AI) technology could assist in the peer review of journal articles submitted to the United Kingdom’s Research Excellence Framework ...

Richard Watermeyer is professor of higher education and co-director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations at the University of Bristol, UK. The past few weeks have generated a flurry of ...

The UK’s “world-leading” research isn’t just limited to a select few elite universities, but rather is distributed across the country, according to the latest UK government analysis of the country’s ...

image: The University of Leicester has made one of the biggest climbs of any UK university in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, published on Thursday. view more The University of Leicester ...

A new national report has shown for the first time how generative AI (GenAI) is already being used by some universities to assess the quality of their research—and it could be scaled up to help all ...