08 July 2010
By Hannah Dee
The REF has been postponed for a year - and won't come in until 2014 (er, if at all). I'm not sure what this means for those of us job-hunting, but it's got to provide a bit of breathing space! It seems that the controversy is around measures of "impact".
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Sarah Davies09 July 2010 at 09:02 AM
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Right now I think I'm more concerned about what the CSR is going to result in...with cuts between 25 and 40% I think this could be extremely bad news for research jobs...
Andy Humphrey12 July 2010 at 01:53 PM
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I have to agree with Sarah. On the other hand, if the pressure of the REF is off (for now), it might free up PIs to spend a bit more time writing grant applications, which may just mean a wider spread of researcher job opportunities in the next year or so. That'll be quite timely for me, with a contract rapidly approaching its finish...
Andy Humphrey12 July 2010 at 04:17 PM
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UCU has produced a rather amusing (in the "sad but true" sense) mailout on the subject of scientific breakthroughs that would not have survived the REF's "impact" proposals: http://www.ucu.org.uk/media/pdf/0/s/ucu_notsurvivingtheREF.pdf