Making an Impact
Impact will form a key element in the REF submission criteria.
Impact can be having an effect on, benefiting, or making a change to the economy, public policy or services society, culture, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia.
Impact Overview
The REF impact review reports provide an overview of impact activity by Unit of Assessment for the REF 2021 exercise. The reports provide a breakdown of impact type by UoA as well as a detailed review of the sources used to corroborate impact.
These sources used to corroborate impact vary across each Unit of Assessment and may include for example such corroborating sources as testimonials, factual statements, sales, clinical trials, reports, licences, guides, presentations, and documents etc.
The reports also provide a review of the research topics featured in each Unit of Assessment for the highest scoring institutions. Each report includes:
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Impact type breakdown by UoA
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List of funders cited in case studies
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Summary statistics of sources used to corroborate impact
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Detailed analysis of sources used to corroborate impact for highest scoring institutions
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Research areas/topics in each UoA for highest scoring institutions
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Number of case studies by UoA
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Comparison of case study numbers across all units
Examples of REF Impact Review report sections
The example pages provided above are for representation purposes only, and do not reflect any particular institution or real data, figures used are for illustrative purposes only.
Data sources for above data include: http://results.ref.ac.uk, http://results.ref.ac.uk/Results/SelectUoa, http://impact.ref.ac.uk/CaseStudies/Results.aspx?val=Show%20All, http://www.hefce.ac.uk/funding/annallocns/1516/research/ qr1516 spreadsheet. https://www.ref.ac.uk/2014/
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