[Academic] FW: Action Required: Research Quality Review 2025

[Catherine Cheshire]

Message sent on behalf of Michael Strain

Dear colleagues,

Thank you to those of you who have already proposed Outputs for this year's Research Quality Review process as requested.  There are a number of colleagues still to propose their outputs and I would be grateful if you could complete this short action by the 23rd  of April.  Details of how to propose outputs in the online system are provided in my previous email below, and should only take a few minutes to complete.  If you do not have outputs to propose at this stage, please send me an email by the deadline stating that is the case.

The Department reports on the Research Quality Review annually and it is important that all colleagues provide evidence to allow us to present an accurate representation of the excellent work that is going on in the department and to prepare for the mandatory REF submission that will follow.  Timely proposal of outputs also gives our colleagues who are acting as reviewers the time needed to undertake this task.

Thank you again for your support with the RQR process.

Best regards,
Michael




Dear colleagues,

As mentioned at the Department Committee meeting, the University has launched this year's Research Quality Review and in line with the REF criteria, the department will be reporting on our outputs, impacts, and people, culture and environment focussed activities at the end of the summer.

The department will carry out an internal review of outputs (mainly published papers) over the period April-August 2025.  Many thanks to those colleagues who have agreed to contribute to the reviewing process.

To enable this review I would ask all colleagues to carry out the following action:

All colleagues to propose eligible outputs in the Output Review Tool<https://spider.science.strath.ac.uk/ref/login.php> as soon as they are available on the system to give reviewers ample time to review them.  The deadline for proposing outputs is the 31st March 2025.
Colleagues are asked only to propose up to a maximum of 3 outputs at this stage.  Outputs proposed should be self-assessed as a minimum of a
3* rating following the definitions from REF2021:

"4*: Quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
3*: Quality that is internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour but which falls short of the highest standards of excellence.
2*: Quality that is recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour."

The process for proposing an output is:

  1.  Logon to the Output Review Tool using your DS credentials (https://spider.science.strath.ac.uk/ref/login.php)
  2.  Under the 'Propose' heading, select 'Physics' and you should be directed to the list of eligible outputs that can be proposed
  3.  Select an output to propose by clicking on the 'Propose' button on the right hand side of the screen in-line with the relevant output
  4.  Add a short description in the 'Reason for Proposing' that may reference relevant details of the output's originality and significance

Thank you all for your support with the RQR process.

Best regards,
Michael




Prof. Michael Strain
Fraunhofer UK / RAEng Chair in Chipscale Photonics
Director of Research, Dept. of Physics

Institute of Photonics, Dept. of Physics
Technology and Innovation Centre
University of Strathclyde
99 George Street
Glasgow G1 1RD


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