[Academic] FW: Potential impact and engagement case studies for REF2028

[Catherine Cheshire]

Message sent on behalf of Alan Kemp

Dear All,

I hope you are well and are having a good summer.

Michael and Stefan have asked me to coordinate the collation of impact case studies for the next REF (in 2028). The requirements are likely to be broadly similar to last time: as a department we will probably require 4 case studies. Combined, the four case studies will be count towards 20% of the overall assessment, with each case study having a weight equivalent to 10-15 outputs. Hence, they will be significant in determining the overall outcome for the department.

I appreciate that 2028 is still some time off, but I would like to start compiling a 'long list' of potential case studies now.

All I am looking for at this stage is a working title and a contact person. If you are aware of work that might support a case study, please let me know.

For the purposes of an REF, impact is some form of societal or economic benefit that can be linked back to Strathclyde research. This could be sales or jobs created, but could also be a policy influenced, a harm reduced, an improvement in quality of life, or aspects of public engagement. The key points are that the benefits need to have occurred before the case studies are submitted in 2028 (the potential for impact after 2028 doesn't count), and we need to be able to provided evidence of impact. We need to be able to link the impact back to Strathclyde research but that link can be indirect and we don't necessarily need to be involved with generating the impact - if someone picks up on your work independently of you and uses it to the benefit of society or the economy, then that impact can still count.

For the avoidance of doubt, academic impact and esteem markers do not count for impact case studies - REF would argue that academic impact is assessed via the outputs (journal papers etc).

If you have any question on what does and what does not count, please let me know, but at this stage I suggest erring on the side of suggesting areas as having the potential for case studies even if you are unsure whether the impact is appropriate for REF or if you are unsure how much impact will occur between now and 2028 (which is often impossible to gauge at this stage anyway).

Many thanks for your time.

Best regards,
Alan


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Alan Kemp (Alan, he/him)
Institute of Photonics,
Dept. of Physics, University of Strathclyde
Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George St.,
Glasgow, G1 1RD
Scotland

www: www.photonics.ac.uk<http://www.photonics.ac.uk/>

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