RAE 2026

February 2025

Seminar: 25 February 2025, 5-6pm

• Prof. Mark Llewellyn, Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
• Key activities:
  -A seminar aiming to provide valuable insights on research cultures and environments conducive to excellence in research for RAE 2026

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Seminars and consultations: 3 December 2024, 10-11:30am

• Prof. Zhu Hua, Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication, UCL
• Key activities:
  -A Seminar titled “Reflections on RAE and REF: What Worked and What We’ve Learned” and individual consultations

Seminars and consultations:

December 2024

(2 December 2024, 5-6pm and 16 December 2024, 5-6pm for the seminars)

• Dr. Ged Hall, Researcher Development and Culture Team Leader and Academic Development Consultant (Research Impact), University of Leeds
• Key activities:
  -2 online seminars about impact case development, evidence gathering and writing based on a study of the differences between high and low scoring case studies from REF2014
  -One-on-one case online consultations for selected impact case writers^Note1

^Note1 Dr. Ged Hall will review up to 10 impact cases and offer individual consultations to the case writers. ORKTS will coordinate with the Faculties to identify cases that require more assistance.

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Seminar: 21 November 2024, 3-4pm

• Prof. Jeff Kramer, Emeritus Professor of Distributed Computing, Imperial College London
• Key activities:
  -A seminar aiming to provide a framework for discussion on what constitutes research excellence, how this can be encouraged and supported, and the RAE exercise as the current means of assessment

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Seminars and meetings: 7-12 November 2024

• Visit of Prof. Charles Simon Herrington
• Chair of Molecular Cancer Pathology, Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, The University of Edinburgh
• Key activities:
  
  • Conduct a seminar on 11 November 2024, 11am-12nn on assessment of research outputs
  • Meetings with the UoA3 academics

Seminar: 4 November 2024, 5-6pm

• Prof. Matthew Inglis, Professor of Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University
• Key activities:
  - A seminar about what predicts environment scores in national research assessment based on an analysis of 1,888 disciplinary ‘unit-level’ environment statements in REF2021

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Online workshop: 12 September 2024

• Prof. Mark Healey, Professor of Strategic Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
• Key activities:
  - Online workshop on the preparation of Environment Overview Statements 

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Seminars and meetings: 7 – 8 August 2024

• Visit of Prof. Gail Taylor, Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, University College London (UCL) and a Biology Panel Member in UK REF2021
• Key activities:
  - Meetings with UoA panel and faculty members to provide advice on research outputs, impact case studies, and environment statements for RAE2026
  - Conduct a sharing session: “How to prepare a RAE and cultivate a vibrant research environment”

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• Visit of Prof. Carmel Hughes, Professor, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast
  Sharing of REF assessment experience (tentatively an internal meeting)
• Key activities:
  - Public seminar focusing on his research achievement & professional development (topic TBC)

Seminars and meetings: 10-12 July 2024

• Visit of Prof. Kin Leung, Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
• Key activities:
  - host seminars, discussions with impact case authors and environment statement authors