“The issue of ‘impact’ appears here to stay in UK research. There has been much written about it, including by fellow OT blogger Stephen Curry here. With the draft guidelines for the REF about to be published, in which impact will also feature (in the form of case studies covering research already done whose impact is to be described in some detail, and ideally if impossibly quantified), it isn’t going to go away any time soon …” (more)
[Athene Donald’s Blog, 8 July]