REF 2028 reforms set to end requirement to submit all researchers

Many good developments but shame this wasn't tightened up. "Staff employed on at least a 0.2 FTE basis for at least six months in this two-year REF assessment period would be eligible to submit outputs “where a link to the institution can be demonstrated”.

The cost of distributing £2 billion is £471 million? How can that be correct? You could build a large football stadium for that. How can that sum of money be spent on a bureaucratic excercise? That could fund 9420 annual salaries of £50,000. Why not just share out the whole two billion using a much simpler method?

Yes - a truly team-based approach would be to end the farce once and for all by simply sharing out the research funding in each discipline equally per researcher.