On Friday 11th July 1-2pm, the Library and Information Research Group will be hosting a session on Assessing and Recognising Research Excellence, followed by a short Annual General Meeting (AGM).

The session will include:

What is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and where do libraries come in?

Dr Martin Brooks, Research Excellence and Research Strategy, Liverpool John Moores University

Martin will speak about the REF at LJMU, including what it is, why we do it, what's involved, and our timeline for taking part. As Martin will discuss in detail, the library is integral to LJMU’s REF preparation, both preparing parts of our submission and enhancing our overall research ecosystem

Recognising all research outputs and everyone involved in their creation

Professor Simon Hettrick, Director of Strategy, The Software Sustainability Institute and Director, The Southampton Research Software Group

If we don't recognise everyone who is vital to research, then we limit our ability to conduct research. Current practices around research assessment focus on publications as the key metric of research success, but there are significant problems with this approach. It incentives amassing publications rather than some of the practices that we would like to see researchers following to produce reliable, reproducible and transparent research. But possibly more importantly, many of the people who are vital to the conduct of research are not typically named in publications and so miss out on the credit that they deserve for research success.

The Hidden REF works to raise recognition for everyone involved in research. It started as a one-off competition but has since transformed into a long-running campaign that works alongside research communities to help their contribution be recognised. The campaign was recently funded by Research England to help raise awareness, increase trust in all research outputs and to help universities implement a research environment that will make research more equitable and, importantly, more effective.

To register visit the CILIP events page.