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Ensuring integrity and rigour in UK research: best practice, open data and the impact of the REF

July 2016


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Format: DOWNLOADABLE PDF


In the context of discussion about the effects of increasing competition and the growing use of metrics on research practice in higher education institutions, delegates at this seminar considered strategies for supporting research integrity and rigour in higher education.
It was also scheduled ahead of the publication of Lord Stern’s review into university research funding, which considered approaches to the evaluation of UK higher education research performance and options for future iterations of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Further sessions focused on the effects of the REF - in particular the inclusion of the institution’s research environment as a criteria, the implications of the inclusion of Open Access requirements in the next REF and opportunities presented by the expansion of Open Data.


This pack includes

  • Dropbox video recording of the conference
  • PDF transcript of the discussion, including all speaker remarks and Q&A
  • PDFs of speakers' slide material (subject to permission)
  • PDFs of the delegate pack, including speaker biographies and attendee list
  • PDFs of delegate articles