Project
Characteristics of high-performing research units in UK higher education institutions (HEIs)
Nov 17, 2015
A Preliminary Analysis
Published in: King's College London research portal [Epub November 2015]
Posted on RAND.org on May 10, 2017
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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) commissioned the Policy Institute at King's and RAND Europe to conduct a preliminary analysis of the characteristics of high-performing research units within UK higher education institutions (HEIs). In particular, the report looks at characteristics shared between research units whose submissions in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 scored highly in the areas of research and impact, and identifies aspects of characterisation that merit further investigation
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