[PDF] Top 20 Measuring the impact of research: lessons from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework 2014

... academic research plays a stellar role in society, pressing to ask the question of how one measures the impact created by different areas of academic ...research. Measuring the societal, ... See full document

... monetising research impacts) is also widely used, though typically at high levels, for example, aggregating research benefit nationally or in specific programmes over decades ...to measuring economic ... See full document

... as impact indicators by HEFCE and thus were not included in the 2010 impact ...[146]. Measuring the extent of such health services, both in terms of their monetary value and percentage in the overall ... See full document

... of research impact assessment (RIA) has been rapidly ...assessing research impact and developing evidence-based science policy is not new [19–25], early analyses mainly exam- ined innovation ... See full document

... The impact assessment framework selected to guide the review of CRE-Stroke is the Framework to Assess the Impact from Translational health research (FAIT), developed by a team of ... See full document

... non-academic impact? In Dragon’s Den the investors are driven by the aim of profit ...Hence impact is seen as something which should be guaranteed in ...national impact agenda – which is based on a ... See full document

... Data from pilot inter- views were included in the final dataset for ...extracted from verified interview notes using a stand- ard data extraction form and entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for data ... See full document

... REF 2014, or in having returns linking outputs to particular investigators? Would there be advantages in reporting on some dimensions of the REF ...(e.g. impact and/or environment) at a more aggregate or ... See full document

... the UK resulting in the emergence of the ‘funding councils’ regime in the late 1980s (Tapper and Salter ...the UK received a research grant through the UGC that was linked to student numbers and ... See full document

... stakeholders from across different levels of the health system (clinical, policy, service coordination and support) to share and exchange their experiences, knowledge, skills, ideas and resources to accelerate and ... See full document

... on research or the advancement of academic knowledge within the higher education sector (whether in the UK or internationally) are ...academic research and knowledge is assessed within the ‘outputs’ ... See full document

... the impact case studies submit- ted to a single sub-panel in REF2014 showed that the underpinning research for cases submitted to this sub- panel was overwhelmingly university-led and consisted mainly of ... See full document

... of research ranked as ...of research is reduced – and their subsequent funding will ...staff, from 1,030 in the 2008 RAE to only 738 in the 2014 REF, according to analysis by Times Higher ... See full document

... As various studies have concluded, reported instances of both fraud and error (as measured through retractions) are on the rise (Claxton, 2005; Dobbs, 2006; Steen, 2011; Fang et al., 2012; Grieneisen and Zhang, 2012; ... See full document

... of Research need to work together to more systematically address research space ...about research space needs for now and secondly, we need to think about how differently we might do things in the ... See full document

... mean impact factor of publishing journals increased ...future research with 21 respondents (23%) reporting career advancement, and 110 higher degrees obtained or expected (including 84 ...future ... See full document

... The economic and social impact of research, as well as impact upon public policy, will also contribute to the overall assessment of quality.’... Excellence in Research for Australia.[r] ... See full document

... Given the diverse interests involved, it was felt inappropriate to develop an approach based on data collection from representative samples of all the major constituencies (eg funders, researchers, policy-makers, ... See full document

... translational research; the quality of the research pro- grams of PI’s and if they are regularly evaluated; presti- gious awards, discoveries and memberships attributed to specific individuals from ... See full document

... any research is to add value to the accumulated knowledge through the means of identifying, investigating and producing solutions to an unsolved problem (Remenyi, ...the research problem is “not a clear cut ... See full document