Reforms and Innovations for Non-Academic Impact Assessment of the Research Excellence Framework in the UK
The UK implemented the first round of the Research Excellence Framework(REF)in 2014,which was the first nationwide attempt to evaluate the non-academic impact of scientific research.The REF team revised and improved the details of REF2021 non-academic impact evaluation based on the results of REF2014 non-academic impact evaluation and the feed-back meta-evaluation report:expanding the scope of Non-Academic Impact to address the issue of lagging impact;reducing the number of evaluation units and setting up a cross-disciplinary re-search and advisory group;and adjusting the mechanism of expert selection to increase the repre-sentativeness and diversity of the appointed experts;Developing an evidence set and using an evi-dence-based evaluation methodology based on objective evidence.REF2021 Non-academic im-pact evaluation demonstrates the reform characteristics and value concepts of scientific research impact assessment in UK universities:emphasize the non-academic impact evaluation of interdis-ciplinary research to guide scientific research to serve national needs;improve the expert selec-tion mechanism to enhance the scientific nature of expert deliberations;adhere to the evidence-based principle and play a supporting role of quantitative data for expert deliberations;carry out systematic and multi-dimensional meta-evaluation to further improve the Evaluation quality.
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