[Academic] REF Outputs

[John Jeffers]

Dear Colleagues,

I would be grateful if you could take the following actions at some stage over the next month.

(1) Log on to Pure and propose any new high quality/impact outputs for REF 2021 that you may have recently published, or propose any others that you have published in the REF period (Jan 2014 onwards) that you now think meet this criterion (especially if you are a newer member of staff).

(2) Check the grades that your earlier papers have been given.
We inform our output grading using a formula. Our formula is a accurate, in that it gives us a very good approximation to the distribution of outputs returned by REF (based on a sample of perhaps 500 physics outputs over two previous research assessment exercises), but not precise, in that it is probably only right for an individual paper to plus or minus half a star rating.

If you believe that one of your papers has been incorrectly graded (up or down) I invite you to contact me. As REF coordinator I want to make sure that we have the best outputs in the submission. It is likely that our submission (~120 outputs) will contain almost exclusively 3* and 4* outputs. Not all outputs graded 3* will be included as we have more than we need. I care if you have a 4* output that has been graded 3*, or a 3* that has been graded 2*.

You should be able to justify, on the basis of originality, significance and rigour, that the output definitively meets (i.e. it will be obvious to the REF panel) one of the criteria in the pdf.



I don’t promise that we will change the grade that we give your output, but I do promise to give it proper consideration, in consultation with others.

Best Regards
John

Professor John Jeffers
Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
john.jeffers at strath.ac.uk<mailto:john.jeffers at strath.ac.uk>
0141 552 3457

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phys.strath.ac.uk/pipermail/academic/attachments/20200218/f78af5de/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PastedGraphic-1.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 541531 bytes
Desc: PastedGraphic-1.pdf
URL: <http://phys.strath.ac.uk/pipermail/academic/attachments/20200218/f78af5de/attachment-0001.pdf>