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Dear All,<br>
<br>
It is the time of year when you should be proposing new outputs for
the Research Audit. As usual you do this via the tab on your Pure
page. Some guidance.<br>
<br>
Last year too many people just submitted stuff that they though
might possibly get rated 3*. This created a lot of wasted work for
your colleagues and most of these outputs were not rated highly.
With the likely changes to the REF in 2020 resulting in a reduction
of the number of submitted outputs it is probable that in the final
submission we will not even submit some of our 3* work. Therefore
can I ask you all to propose only any unproposed outputs published
since January 2014 that you are <i>certain</i> are at least 3*. We
can deal with others that might be 3* or above nearer the REF
deadline when the picture will be clearer. Please try to get this
done before the holiday period to give us time to review the outputs
in time for the audit.<br>
<br>
Feel free to contact me, particularly newer members of staff, if you
do not have a reasonably clear picture of what to do, or of what a
2*/3*/4* output looks like.<br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
John<br>
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Prof. John Jeffers
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