Webinar: Preparing for Impact in REF2021

Since 2010, Vertigo Ventures (VV) has been working with leading research organisations globally to help them identify, capture and report the impact of their work. Currently, VV are working closely with several universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong to help them best prepare for their national research assessment exercises of REF 2021, EI 2018 and RAE 2020 respectively.VV provides a range of services, such as impact training workshops, consultancy services, and, its proprietary software VV-Impact Tracker. All of them utilise VV's innovative online impact capture and reporting framework, VV-Impact Metrics, developed over the past decade with close industry input. VV's depth of impact expertise enables their clients to put their best foot forward in embedding impact measurement and reporting, and, ultimately to maximise the impact of their work.

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Registration for this webinar will close on Friday 14th of September.  
 
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Background
In July 2018, UK’s four higher education funding bodies published the draft <A HREF="http://www.ref.ac.uk/publications/2018/consultationonthedraftpanelcriteriaandworkingmethods201802.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">panel criteria</A> and <A HREF="http://www.ref.ac.uk/publications/2018/draftguidanceonsubmissions201801.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> submissions guidance</A> for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, for consultation. The newly published guidance builds on the <A HREF="http://www.ref.ac.uk/publications/2017/initialdecisionsontheresearchexcellenceframework2021.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Initial decisions document</A> by HEFCE in 2017 and answers many of the remaining questions. 
 
There are some aspects still open for consultation with some specific questions posed in the documents. The process is open to “any higher education institution, association, organisation or individual with an interest in the conduct, quality, funding or use of research”. Deadline for responses is 15th October 2018. The final guidance will be published in January 2019.
 
 
Webinar details
Vertigo Ventures have invited <A HREF="https://research.kent.ac.uk/researchservices/person/simon-kerridge/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Simon Kerridge</A>, Director of Research Services at University of Kent and Chair of <A HREF="https://casrai.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CASRAI</A>, with over twenty years of experience in research management and administration, to lead this webinar. Simon will be sharing his knowledge about the impact weighting and panel criteria for REF2021, and, discussing the changes from REF2014.
 
The webinar will run for approximately 45 minutes covering:
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The increased weighting for impact in REF2021
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What we know so far about the Impact element of REF2021 from the draft panel criteria
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Key changes from REF2014
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The webinar will also include a Q&A session with Simon.
 
Who should attend?
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REF Managers/Directors of Research Office
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Impact Officers/Research Support Officers
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Academic Impact Leads/Impact Champions
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Directors of Research/Research & Enterprise committee members
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