REF winners had big shift to ‘teaching’ roles

REF 2021: Did game-playing shift from researchers to outputs?

Increased use of ‘team science’ may have been a major factor in latest REF scores, say experts, but this may be no bad thing

By Simon Baker

25 May

REF 2021 submission rules help push quality to new high

REF 2021: Quality ratings hit new high in expanded assessment

Four in five outputs judged to be either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’

By Jack Grove

12 May

Filmmaker D. W. Griffith reviews the contract of Mary Pickford, accompanied by (l-r) her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, and their two attorneys. Illustrating jump in teaching contracts under REF

Some UK universities saw teaching contract jump as REF loomed

In year before REF census, at a handful of institutions more than two-thirds of staff were reclassified

By Simon Baker

26 April

Teaching-only contracts: 20,000 moved on to terms in five years

Growth of academics on such terms precedes pandemic and REF census

By Simon Baker

19 January

Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by acerpacer on June 8, 2022 - 8:49am

If you think moving staff to teaching contracts is the only game in town you are more than naive!

#2 Submitted by langtonian on June 8, 2022 - 12:35pm

My institution, meanwhile, just...didn't bother submitting all staff with significant responsibility for research. Didn't do them any good, though, as they slipped even further down the rankings from an already low position.

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