Jessica Corner

Apr 5, 2024 | researchprofessionalnews.com | Jessica Corner

Image: UK Research and Innovation Research England seeks improved measures of research commercialisation and knowledge exchange, says Jessica CornerTwo events yesterday gave an opportunity for better understanding how higher education contributes to the UK’s agenda for economic growth. First, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) released the 2022-23 data from its Higher Education Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey.

Mar 21, 2024 | hepi.ac.uk | Jessica Corner

This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Dame Professor Jessica Corner, Executive Chair of Research England. In the Summer of 2023, we launched the Initial Decisions for the Research Excellence Framework.  In December 2023, in response to input to our Initial Decisions consultation, we published a series of conclusions and importantly included an extension of the assessment period until 2029 to allow more time for institutions to prepare for changes.

Dec 11, 2023 | wonkhe.com | Jo Fox |David Kernohan |James Coe |Jessica Corner

What research infrastructure do we need? Where should we build it? What do we even mean by research infrastructure? These questions have been at the heart of recent reports by Jisc, UKRI, and The Royal Society, among others, and the Nurse Review of the research, development and innovation (RDI) organisational landscape. And this term has seen the long-awaited Government response to the Nurse Review, and the beginnings of a national plan for RDI infrastructure.

Nov 12, 2023 | wonkhe.com | James Coe |Jessica Corner |David Kernohan |James Wilsdon

In REF 2029 a provider’s return will be based on an average number of staff with significant responsibility for research rather than a headcount of staff. The current proposal is that institutions will be required to “submit 2.5 outputs per FTE of volume-contributing staff in each disciplinary area where they have activity.” In REF 2021 institutions had to submit 2.5 outputs per 1 full-time equivalent staff member. However, each individual had to submit at least one and no more than five outputs.

Sep 21, 2023 | wonkhe.com | James Coe |Mark Leach |Jessica Corner |Martin Smith

There is no objectively right weighting for the people, culture and environment, element of REF 2028. One of the difficulties in alighting on the right weighting is that measuring people, culture and environment, is different to measuring impacts and outputs. People, culture and environment is an input. It is possible, albeit statistically unlikely, to be a great place to work and produce less than stellar research. Equally, poor workplaces can produce good research.