{"id":8105,"date":"2022-05-12T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2022-05-12T07:51:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T07:51:55","slug":"ref-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/05\/12\/ref-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Two cheers for REF 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that the outcomes of the latest universities <a href=\"https:\/\/results2021.ref.ac.uk\">research assessment exercise<\/a>\u00a0[ie, the REF: research excellence framework] have been published today. \u00a0Thank goodness not to be involved in this. \u00a0It's a major plus of retirement; indeed the thought of having to do it all again was a driver of early retirement in 2010. \u00a0I found it such a dispiriting experience over many years especially thinking how many zillions of hours went into it \u2013 hours that might have been better spent on research and publishing. \u00a0What do I mean \"might\".<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I devoted 15 minutes to seeing how various education departments fared across the UK. \u00a0In the end, I rather thought 15 minutes was enough \u2013 plus the 5 minutes I've spent writing this.<\/p>\n<p>So, here's to the next one when I confidently expect to spend even less time on it; now, that's a good plan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that the outcomes of the latest universities research assessment exercise\u00a0[ie, the REF: research excellence framework] have been published today. \u00a0Thank goodness not to be involved in this. \u00a0It's a major plus of retirement; indeed the thought of having...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}