At the Developing and Assessing Impact for the REF event held recently by HEFCE and Bournemouth University, a panel of academics, government advisers and third-sector figures discussed the issues surrounding impact case studies and how research impact will be evaluated.
Summaries can be found on the Bulletin Academic website.
How can academics play a greater role in shaping government policy? And what happens if research findings deliver a raft of inconvenient truths that policymakers would rather ignore?
A key and apparently vexing question that emanated from a lively Q&A: how do we prove the effectiveness of public engagement
A look at some of the uncertainties and ongoing concerns over the new impact element of the REF.
