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Hello folks! I am just looking at a person spec for the kind of post I will be applying for soon and it got me wondering what exactly is returnable for the REF. I know books, monographs and journal articles are, but are conference papers too and other stuff like organising events and so on? Would really appreciate any info you have - I am in humanities.

Thank you in advance.

http://www.ref.ac.uk/media/ref/content/pub/assessmentframeworkandguidanceonsubmissions/02_11.pdf
pp.22-23 *may* help ... but no guarantees!

Thank you Pootle, that's fabulous. A very useful document all round... Have a sprout(sprout)

While this is dependent on field, monographs, peer reviewed articles and possibly book chapters tend to be all that's allowed. In addition, if you are picked as an impact case study (v unlikely if not impossible now as a new hire), more pactice-orientated reports etc might be used. Many institutions will also not count anything deemed to be less than 3 star (although this s always a guessing game). Sorry conference papers and other research-related activity don't count except as used as filler for the section on departmental research culture.

Thank you also Bewildered, I was wondering about conference papers and activities with 'impact' so your response was very useful. Have a sprout too...(sprout)