#ref2029 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ref2029, aggregated by home.social.
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What the REF is happening with books?! 📚
We joined the Hidden REF team to unpack the challenges of:
🔓️ defining openness
💰️ funding models beyond BPCs
🪢 the tension between flexibility and REF policy!Listen (and watch!) Ep. 18 now! 🎧️
Plus find out more about Hidden REF over on their website 👉 https://hidden-ref.org/
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This "full spectrum" session from @[email protected] about managing data for the REF is going to be really good. Run by Shane Jackson, one of our product specialists, who has spent several years in academic data management too. #REF2029 #AcademicSky peeps - save your place!
REF 2029: From scattered evide... -
🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟
▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link
#socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations
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🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟
▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link
#socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations
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🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟
▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link
#socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations
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🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟
▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link
#socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations
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🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟
▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link
#socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations
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Introductory course on responsible research assessment, just published by #SFDORA
https://sfdora.org/courses/introductory-course-to-responsible-research-assessment/The free and self-paced course "aims to empower anyone to challenge existing assumptions around research quality and impact, by introducing them to the concept of responsible research assessment, its foundational principles, and how RRA aims to improve evaluation practices."
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Introductory course on responsible research assessment, just published by #SFDORA
https://sfdora.org/courses/introductory-course-to-responsible-research-assessment/The free and self-paced course "aims to empower anyone to challenge existing assumptions around research quality and impact, by introducing them to the concept of responsible research assessment, its foundational principles, and how RRA aims to improve evaluation practices."
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Introductory course on responsible research assessment, just published by #SFDORA
https://sfdora.org/courses/introductory-course-to-responsible-research-assessment/The free and self-paced course "aims to empower anyone to challenge existing assumptions around research quality and impact, by introducing them to the concept of responsible research assessment, its foundational principles, and how RRA aims to improve evaluation practices."
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Introductory course on responsible research assessment, just published by #SFDORA
https://sfdora.org/courses/introductory-course-to-responsible-research-assessment/The free and self-paced course "aims to empower anyone to challenge existing assumptions around research quality and impact, by introducing them to the concept of responsible research assessment, its foundational principles, and how RRA aims to improve evaluation practices."
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Bogota Manifesto:
Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://sfdora.org/2025/12/19/bogota-manifesto/Three strategic pillars 👇
One of 11 guiding principles:
Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices
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Bogota Manifesto:
Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://sfdora.org/2025/12/19/bogota-manifesto/Three strategic pillars 👇
One of 11 guiding principles:
Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices
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Bogota Manifesto:
Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://sfdora.org/2025/12/19/bogota-manifesto/Three strategic pillars 👇
One of 11 guiding principles:
Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices
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Bogota Manifesto:
Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://sfdora.org/2025/12/19/bogota-manifesto/Three strategic pillars 👇
One of 11 guiding principles:
Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices
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Bogota Manifesto:
Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://sfdora.org/2025/12/19/bogota-manifesto/Three strategic pillars 👇
One of 11 guiding principles:
Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices
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It’s 55 outcomes, 25 impact, 20 SPRE (which is replacement for PCE) (Strategy, People and Research Environment)
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Now he’s into the balance between excellence and environment (the crucial issue), but he’s short on detail. Now there’s a panel which I hope will enlighten us.
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Currently watching Patrick Vallance trying to reassure us in the continued importance of (and support for) basic research (bucket one). Wondering what is coming next.
#REF2029 #research #HigherEducation #UKResearchandInnovation #BucketOne
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Currently watching Patrick Vallance trying to reassure us in the continued importance of (and support for) basic research (bucket one). Wondering what is coming next.
#REF2029 #research #HigherEducation #UKResearchandInnovation #BucketOne
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Currently watching Patrick Vallance trying to reassure us in the continued importance of (and support for) basic research (bucket one). Wondering what is coming next.
#REF2029 #research #HigherEducation #UKResearchandInnovation #BucketOne
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Currently watching Patrick Vallance trying to reassure us in the continued importance of (and support for) basic research (bucket one). Wondering what is coming next.
#REF2029 #research #HigherEducation #UKResearchandInnovation #BucketOne
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Currently watching Patrick Vallance trying to reassure us in the continued importance of (and support for) basic research (bucket one). Wondering what is coming next.
#REF2029 #research #HigherEducation #UKResearchandInnovation #BucketOne
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Registration has now closed but if you were lucky enough to get a ticket to join Kevin from @openbookcollect & Tom Grady from Opening the Future at the ALN webinar next week, expect an incendiary session 🧨
📆 12 June @ 10 AM
Supporting and encouraging authors to publish #OpenAccess with no #REF2029 mandate
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News from the @DORAssessment page:
Brief report about a project aimed to test the effectiveness of multimedia formats for educating researchers about scholarly metrics
https://sfdora.org/2025/04/07/introducing-two-educational-videos-on-the-h-index-the-pedagogical-potential-of-multimedia-for-teaching-about-scholarly-metrics/The team used multiple strategies to develop content and format of the videos. I found it an interesting brief read for the planning of educational resources.
If you have not heard about problems with the #hIndex: Another reason to watch. #AcademicChatter
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We have published our #ref2029 checklist for digital outputs assessment document https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15147897
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It fascinated me during my time in #REF2021 how little attention this receives:
"England allocates about £2bn each year to [REF-based] funding – you may wish to compare this to £44bn of sector income (from all sources, public and private) each year, or to the £21bn higher education providers spend on employing staff. "
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/do-you-really-have-to-sign-up-to-a-political-agenda-to-get-research-funding/Sure, it is about accountability.
It is about the ranking.
And everything else.But in the current crisis, this seems sobering to me.
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It fascinated me during my time in #REF2021 how little attention this receives:
"England allocates about £2bn each year to [REF-based] funding – you may wish to compare this to £44bn of sector income (from all sources, public and private) each year, or to the £21bn higher education providers spend on employing staff. "
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/do-you-really-have-to-sign-up-to-a-political-agenda-to-get-research-funding/Sure, it is about accountability.
It is about the ranking.
And everything else.But in the current crisis, this seems sobering to me.
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It fascinated me during my time in #REF2021 how little attention this receives:
"England allocates about £2bn each year to [REF-based] funding – you may wish to compare this to £44bn of sector income (from all sources, public and private) each year, or to the £21bn higher education providers spend on employing staff. "
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/do-you-really-have-to-sign-up-to-a-political-agenda-to-get-research-funding/Sure, it is about accountability.
It is about the ranking.
And everything else.But in the current crisis, this seems sobering to me.
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It fascinated me during my time in #REF2021 how little attention this receives:
"England allocates about £2bn each year to [REF-based] funding – you may wish to compare this to £44bn of sector income (from all sources, public and private) each year, or to the £21bn higher education providers spend on employing staff. "
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/do-you-really-have-to-sign-up-to-a-political-agenda-to-get-research-funding/Sure, it is about accountability.
It is about the ranking.
And everything else.But in the current crisis, this seems sobering to me.
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It fascinated me during my time in #REF2021 how little attention this receives:
"England allocates about £2bn each year to [REF-based] funding – you may wish to compare this to £44bn of sector income (from all sources, public and private) each year, or to the £21bn higher education providers spend on employing staff. "
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/do-you-really-have-to-sign-up-to-a-political-agenda-to-get-research-funding/Sure, it is about accountability.
It is about the ranking.
And everything else.But in the current crisis, this seems sobering to me.
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CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE has been announced as the #REF2029 Chair of Main Panel C: #SocialSciences.
"I look forward to working with colleagues to deliver a fair, transparent, and robust assessment for all disciplines within Panel C."
Full story: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?action=story&id=810
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A niche skeet with some essential reading for UK #STEM academics considering an outreach-related #REF2029 impact case🧪⚛️👩🔬🔭 A review of REF2021 highlights the importance of evidenced engagement & long-term strategic approaches to collecting this data. ℹ️: www.publicengagement.ac.uk/resources/re...
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My #OA book (from 2022) has now passed 10,000 downloads and has already been cited in a wide variety of contexts (many of them far outside my core discipline).
Clear evidence of the benefits of #openaccess to humanities publishing - and yet I've just learned that #REF2029 has backed away from imposing an #openaccess mandate on books and other long-form research outputs. Until next time, they say.
https://www.ref.ac.uk/news/early-decisions-made-on-ref-2029-open-access-policy/
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Michael Upshall critiques the commentary “Open excess: remove open access burden from REF”: https://www.consultmu.co.uk/is-open-access-open-excess/
This jumped out at me:
"The Oxford team claim it costs their university £20M to check 15,000 articles and other outputs [for OA status] – a cost of £1,333 to process each article."If that's true, I never again want to hear research managers complain about high publishing costs. Journals are massively efficient by comparison!
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#OpenAccess isn’t mainly about compliance; it enhances research quality & impact. The #REF2029 OA policy can enable the greater open research @UniofOxford desires, says @sallyrumsey.
✍ Critique on a HEPI blog by Patrick Grant, Tanita Casci & Stephen Conway
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/critique-of-open-excess-remove-open-access-burden-from-ref
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"Is it so outrageous, when awarding over a billion pounds of public funding, to insist that a mere 1.7% of it is spent to ensure the public can see the results? "
"...the REF awards public money. Denying any section of the public access to the outputs of that work is asking for funding without accountability."
wow, this is a superb essay from Stephen Curry, Dorothy Bishop and Martin Paul Eve
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/06/20/open-access-a-benefit-not-a-burden-that-is-worth-the-cost/
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cOAlition S urges for a stronger #OpenAccess policy for #REF2029, with:
🔓 No embargoes on journal articles & proceedings
📘 Open licenses & deposits in repositories
✅ Recognizing peer-reviewed preprints
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Whatever form #REF2029 OA policy takes, we hope it becomes a prompt for institutions to creatively explore local approaches to delivering a fairer, more #sustainable future for scholarly publishing 💡
Read and share 👀
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-reflections-on-ref2029-open-access-consultation/release/2
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TL:DR a summary of our initial thoughts on #REF2029 #OA policy 🤔🧵
We welcome the principle of #OpenAccess by default that the policy proposes 👍
It's an opportunity for the #HE sector to embrace more ethical, community-led forms of publishing in research & teaching
But action needs to be taken to encourage #OpenResearch cultures✊
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Hot off the press 🔥
Read our initial reflections on the REF 2029 #OpenAccess policy for longform outputs 📚
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-reflections-on-ref2029-open-access-consultation/release/2
But now we need you 🫵
Share your comments and feedback via the blog ahead of the consultation deadline on 17 June ⏰
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Whatever form #REF2029 OA policy takes, we hope it becomes a prompt for institutions to creatively explore local approaches to delivering a fairer, more #sustainable future for scholarly publishing 💡
Read and share 👀
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-reflections-on-ref2029-open-access-consultation/release/2
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TL:DR a summary of Copim's initial thoughts on #REF2029 #OA policy 🤔🧵
We welcome the principle of #OpenAccess by default that the policy proposes 👍
It's an opportunity for the #HE sector to embrace more ethical, community-led forms of publishing in research & teaching
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