Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

What is the Research Excellence Framework?

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK’s system for assessing the excellence of research in higher education institutions. The REF provides evidence of the quality and impact of research undertaken by UK universities and informs the allocation of around £2 billion a year in public funding for research. It also provides insights into the health and sustainability of the UK research base.
The next assessment exercise, REF 2029, will build on the previous exercises while introducing a number of significant changes. REF 2029 places greater emphasis on the research environment and the people and strategies that support excellent research, and moves further towards assessing research at the level of institutions and disciplinary communities rather than individual researchers.
Research will be assessed through three elements:

• Strategy, People and Research Environment (SPRE) – 20%: assessing the strategies, people, support, structures and cultures that enable excellent research;
• Contribution to Knowledge and Understanding (CKU) – 55%: assessing the quality of research outputs and their contribution to knowledge and understanding;
• Engagement and Impact (E&I) – 25%: assessing the reach and significance of the impact of research beyond academia.

REF 2029 also aims to recognise the full range of research activity that contributes to research excellence, including applied, practice-based, interdisciplinary and collaborative research. It places increased emphasis on creating inclusive, supportive and collaborative research cultures that enable researchers and research-enabling staff to undertake excellent research.
Full details can be found on the REF 2029 web-site 

Growing our research repository

Do you have all of your publications on the Marjon research repository?

Just a reminder for all staff that if you have submitted anything for publication, or you are awaiting publication or have had anything published (either recently or historically), please send through the details to repository@marjon.ac.uk so we can upload your research to Marjon's Research Repository. 

We require the following details: 

• Author Name(s)*
• Type of Publication: i.e. Journal article/ book chapter/ conference proceedings
• Title of Article/Chapter/Conference*
• Title of Publication deposit appears in*
• Date of Acceptance*
• Date of Publication 
• DOI (if available)
• Author's Accepted Version of Manuscript - this is the version of a manuscript post-editing and peer-review, but before the article is officially published.

*This information is essential for your deposit to be processed

If you need more details on REF2021 compliant deposits, or you'd like some more information on using or depositing in the Repository, then get in touch using the details above.