REF 2029 RoadmapREF 2029 Roadmap

This page gives an overview of the items that we're currently working, as well as the items that we're planning on starting next. All planning is done in collaboration with the REF working group.

Watch this page, as it will be updated regularly

Now

FTE of volume contributing staff

We are introducing a new field to the Unit of Assessment (UOA) and implementing a feature for bulk uploading Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) via a spreadsheet. Additionally, this functionality will be incorporated into our reporting features.

Contribution to knowledge and understanding

We have started adding the contribution to knowledge and understanding, REF2, model to REF2029. This is an initial version, that only will contain some information, as we will add more once the requirements are known. We're going to add:

• Title
• UOA
• Review information, if reviews have been used we're going to show a summary of the finalized review
• Open access, the logic in going to be copied from REF2021
• Narrative statement
• DOI/PDF/Physical copy tracking, the logic will be copied from REF2021
• Output type, the logic will be copied from REF2021
• Total number of authors
• Workflow
• Roles, similar roles as for REF2021
  • editor
  • administrator
  • global-reporter

This information should enable institutions to start creating the pool of available outputs and start to group them into UOA.

Next

• Creation flow of Contribution to knowledge and understanding (CKU)
• Research groups to UOA and CKU
• Bulk operations on Reviews

Later

• Researcher proposal flow, i.e. enable researcher to propose outputs for Review/REF
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