Links

​Links to relevant websites with information about the REF2021 exercise as well as key documents from previous REF assessments will appear below.  Click on the links to go to the web page.

REF2029

December 2023 update on decisions for REF2029

Initial decisions on REF2028

Summary of early decisions on REF2028

Report of the International Advisory Group

REF2021
Guidance on submissions

Panel criteria and working methods

Submissions to REF2021  

Results 

REF2014
Results and submissions

UKRI
Overview of the Research Excellence Framework

Future Research Assessment programme

Real time REF review

Evaluation report steers away from "automated" research assessment

Data analysis of REF2021 Impact Case Studies

Research assessment - topical issues
Metrics and their role in research assessment

Perceptions of the REF among UK researchers

REF outputs analysis:  Technopolis and Science Metric report

Press articles

Times Higher REF results ratings

REF2028 and research culture

Times Higher - All you need to know about REF2028

Times Higher - downgrading of outputs

REF2028 - institutions not individuals

REF delayed until 2029