RAE 2026

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 activity:
  -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

Seminars: 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

Meetings: 20-23 June 2024

• Visit of Prof. Edwin Chilvers, Professor of Medicine and Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
• Key activities:
  - Evaluation of Mock RAE 2023–24

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Seminar and meetings: 13-14 June 2024

• Visit of Prof. Simon MacKay, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science, the University of Strathclyde Glasgow
• Key activities:
  - Sharing of REF assessment experience
  - Public seminar focusing on his research achievement & professional development

Online workshop: 12 June 2024

• Prof. Mark Healey, Professor of Strategic Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
• Key activities:
  - Online workshop about understanding, evidencing and crafting impact cases

Seminar and meetings: 29-30 April 2024

• Visit of Prof. Mark Hayter, Head of School of Nursing and Public Health, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Key activities:
  - Seminar for the preparation for the RAE
  - RAE individual consultation sessions for professional staff

Meetings: 22-26 April 2024

• Visit of Prof. Stefano Moretti, University of Southampton NExT Institute
• Key activities:
  - Meetings with faculty members to provide advice on research outputs, impact case studies, and environment statements

Seminar: 10-11 April 2024

• Visit of Prof. Jayne Lawrence, Professor, Pharmacy, The University of Manchester
• Key activities:
  - A 2-hr experience sharing seminar to share about the REF UK experiences and pathways to impact.

Seminar & meetings: 18-22 March 2024

• Visit of Prof. Steve Strand, Professor of Education, University of Oxford
• Key activities:
  - Seminar on Research Outputs Submissions for RAE
  - Meetings with ICS writers
  - Individual consultations

Faculty of Education - UoA 40, 41

Meetings: 26-28 March 2024

• Visit of Prof. Kyoko Ohno-Matsui, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)
• Key activities:
  - Provide comments on the research outputs of individual faculty members

Meetings: 4-8 March 2024

• Visit of Prof. Douglas Hartley, Professor of Otology & Consultant ENT Surgeon, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
• Key activities:
  - Provide comments/advice on research outputs and impact case studies

Visit: 7-12 March 2024

• Faculty visits to the University of Manchester and the University of Warwick for RAE 2026 preparation

Visit: 7-11 March 2024

• CUHK delegation visits to the University of Manchester and UCL for RAE 2026 preparation

Webinar: Planning for Impact Case Studies and Environment Overview Statements by Dr Trevor Lane

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