The REF 2021 results are a great achievement for the School and reflect the incredibly hard work done by colleagues over a number of years. Professor Susana Mourato, Pro Director for Research LSE’s ...

The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) have highlighted the global impact of Cambridge’s research in the field of Physics and Astronomy. 99% of Cambridge’s overall submissions ...

It was the day most UK academics were dreading. On Monday 17 February, funding agencies fired the starting gun on the next Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), the United Kingdom’s system for ...

The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has rated second in REF 2021 – the Government’s evaluation of university research quality – among all higher education institutions in the UK that submitted ...

Oxford, Cambridge and UCL have been the big winners from changes to formula used to allocate quality-related research funding, analysis shows ...

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 ...

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a process of expert review to assess the quality, impact, significance and volume of research in UK higher education institutions. The primary aim of REF is ...

REF 2021 has now been completed and we are currently awaiting full details of the next REF exercise. During this post-2021 REF period we are advising authors submitting journal or conference papers ...

The REF results show research for business and management in the UK continues to be incredibly strong and it's an impressive outcome for LSE to rank so highly. Professor Naufel Vilcassim, Head of ...

Long-standing debates about what ‘research quality’ means make it obvious that the REF can be little more than make-believe, says Martyn Hammersley The extent of research‘s cross-subsidisation by ...

The University has been ranked joint 7th in the UK for the quality of its research 2. Across the University, 92% of Queen Mary’s research was assessed as internationally excellent or world-leading.