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Daniel Neyland; Sveta Milyaeva – Learning, Media and Technology, 2025
In this paper, we engage with the Research Excellence Framework (REF) -- the UK government's national policy tool for competitive allocation of scarce research funding. Success on the terms of the REF provides guaranteed income for UK Universities for a 6- or 7-year period -- and as a result, we suggest that the REF operates as an asset-like…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Public Policy