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‘Environment’ submissions in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework 2014
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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:48 authored by A Thorpe, R Craig, Dennis TourishDennis Tourish, G Hadikin, S BatisticThere has been much debate about university research assessment exercises. In the UK, a major element of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) has been the research ‘Environment’. Here we analyse 98 REF2014 ‘Environment’ submissions in Business and Management Studies. We explore whether there are distinctive language-related differences between submissions of high and low ranked universities, and conclude that submission writers have a strong incentive to exaggerate strengths and conceal problems. In addition, innate biases such as the ‘halo’ and ‘velcro’ effects may distract the attention of assessors from a submission’s strengths and weaknesses, since they are likely to influence their pre-existing impressions. We propose several changes to improve how ‘Environment’ is evaluated. We also argue that the research ‘Environment’ would be more likely to be enhanced if the number of outputs submitted in future were an average of two and a maximum of four per academic, rather than the maximum of six currently being considered.
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British Journal of ManagementISSN
1045-3172Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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3Volume
29Page range
571-587Department affiliated with
- Management Publications
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2017-06-19First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-12-11First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-06-19Usage metrics
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