Announcing the Hidden REF Competition 2026!
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🎙️ Podcast Ep16. What the REF is the Hidden REF Competition?!
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📢 Join us for the first Hidden REF Community Call
Shaping a Healthy Research Culture: Your Experiences, Our Future
Tuesday 27th January 2026, 11:00-12:00 GMT
📅 Add it directly to your calendar: evt.to/ehoudogmw
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Breaking News! The Pause is Over! What the REF is happening now?!
Simon and Ola are live at the 2025 Research & Innovation Conference, hearing Professor Dame Jessica Corner outline how REF2029 is moving forward - and we’ve got immediate reactions.
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During the Festival of Hidden REF, we spoke to some of our attendees to find out how they think research culture in UK higher education can be improved.
Take a look and let us know what you would like to change!
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We are delighted to be media partners for this year's Hidden REF Festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social)!
First report from Birmingham👇
Great day 1 at the Hidden REF Festival 2025.
Really friendly vibe, and really interesting discussions about non-traditional research outputs. @hiddenref.bsky.social
Write-up: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
@hiddenref.bsky.social get ready for the Lightning Talks…
@hiddenref.bsky.social Arianna Ciula, Kings College London, on how to assess Digital Outputs in the Digital Humanities…
@hiddenref.bsky.social A workplace needs to be somewhere where you don’t need to choose between authenticity and success…
@hiddenref.bsky.social Why Technicians Belong at the Design Table…
@hiddenref.bsky.social Methods are a foundational - but oft unappreciated - research output…
@hiddenref.bsky.social #FestivalHiddenREF today - lightning talks already proving quite impactful
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@hiddenref.bsky.social Understanding the diverse forms of research output at University of Sheffield…
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@hiddenref.bsky.social Can the established culture of the academy and usual disciplinary approaches enable new ways of knowing? Championing different methods of creating knowledge in HE….
@hiddenref.bsky.social Developing Evidence-informed Output Narratives using INORMS’ SCOPE Framework…
@hiddenref.bsky.social celebrating Hidden Ref 2024 Winners: Laura Henderson, Hidden Role Winner
@hiddenref.bsky.social Closing Panel session chaired by James Baker: Rewarding research excellence, recognising research careers, perspectives on evaluating diverse outputs
@hiddenref.bsky.social James Baker and Simon Hettrick with reflections and what’s next following a fantastic two days here in Birmingham
Here’s a write-up that includes my lightning talk and reflections on why technicians must be recognised in the REF:
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Hope to work with others to get methods formally recognised as reportable research outputs in a category of their own.
Interesting ? about how best to get buy-in from the university about investing in DOTs or NTOs. Natalie says a key factor has been that Research England has supported the Hidden REF and is committed to promoting recognition and supporting assessment of NTOs. Unsurprisingly, funders have influence!
Risk-averse universities “hindering REF performance” by ignoring non-traditional research.
Institutions should “pull their socks up”, @nataliejessic10.bsky.social tells the 2025 Hidden REF Festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social).
Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Exciting to see @nataliejessic10.bsky.social discussing the University of Liverpool's approach to Diverse Research Outputs at the #HiddenREFfestival 🍎🍊
Excellent address by the Uni of Liverpool's Natalie Wallis at #HiddenREF festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social). Report to follow.
In the meantime, here's something Wallis wrote for @resprofnews.bsky.social recently on non-traditional research outputs:
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Ola Thomson introduces the workshop activities on finding Heuristics
Ola Thomson introduces the workshop strategy for finding good Heuristics to assess NTO/NTSO/DOTs
It was wonderful opening up the 2025 Hidden REF Festival this morning, talking about the work we are doing at Liverpool to support diverse research outputs💡. Thank you to the Hidden REF team for the invitation #REF
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Intro slide for the Heuristics talk showing Gemma Derrick with the microphone.
Next, Gemma Derrick on how Heuristics can be used to judge what is a quality research output
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Slide about the DOT competition at UoLiverpool
Liverpool are "pulling up their socks and getting on with it"! They ran their own Diverse Research Output Competition and had many more submissions than they expected.
