Rejection of Impact Criteria for REF Research Funding
We are a group of early career academics and postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences writing to express our profound concern with the proposed use of impact as part of the Research... continue reading »
"Whatever happened to academic freedom? This is again an example of how universities and research institutions are being put to service short-term financial gain, sacrificing exactly the kind of quality that Hefce claims to protect. Institutional Affiliati"
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"PhD Student, Linguistics Institutional Affiliation University of Cambridge"
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"Not allowing research for research's sake may mean that 'chance' discoveries are missed, and it is often the 'chance' discoveries which make the biggest impact on society, e.g. penicillin, microwave ovens and radar to name but three. Institutional Affilia"
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