The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Fellowship scheme is now open for applications. Enterprise Fellowships provide funding and support to entrepreneurial engineering researchers, working at a UK University, to enable them to develop the commercial potential of their research. The…
HEFCE Launches REF Consultation
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has published its recommendations on the nature and structure of the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework, the successor to the RAE: Consultation on the development of the REF The consultation runs until the 16th…
Research Excellence Framework: “RAE with numbers”?
The Times Higher has just published a very interesting and informative analysis of the REF (Research Excellence Framework), the replacement for the RAE: Structural Adjustments – The REF Unscrambled This detailed article is effectively the “story so far” of the…
RAE Funding Revealed: Lincoln to get £1.9M
HEFCE today revealed to the public the funding allocations based on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Thanks to a significantly improved result in the recent RAE, as well as an expansion of its research base since 2001, University of Lincoln…
RAE Roadshows at Lincoln
From the staff message list (and also blogged at The Winch): Following the University’s recent success in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Professor Andrew Hunter and I are holding three RAE Roadshows. All academic and support staff are invited…
HEFCE Announces RAE Funding Formula
After over a month of speculation in the HE sector, HEFCE have announced the formula they will use to determine how QR (Quality Related) research funding is distributed. QR is around £1.1bn per year and is allocated to universities on…