Demonstrating the value of research professionals

For UHR REF, Research Assessment & Research Culture Network

The role of Hidden Roles

The growth of RSE has created a more sustainable world for people who want to help advance research with software. It’s been so hugely successful that I couldn’t stop thinking about why it didn’t happen earlier. The answer, I believe, lies in our restrictive research culture that clings to a model of research that no longer applies in the modern world. Changing that culture relies on rethinking how we measure what success means in research and, to do that, we launched a new campaign called the Hidden REF. I’ll talk through the history of this campaign and how we’re trying to create a research culture that recognises all research outputs and everyone involved in their creation.

Demonstrating the value of research professionals

Technician Conference at Harper Adams

Talk 3: NTO workshop Exeter November 2025

NTO assessment for Kings

Talk 2: NTO workshop Exeter November 2025

Talk 2: NTO assessment for Liverpool

Talk 1: NTO workshop Exeter November 2025

NTO workshop intro for Exeter

The effect of research culture on research software

Presentation on research software for Capetown-based Research Software Symposium

CoSeC Community Forum 2025

Hidden REF intro - STI-ENID

Presentation for STI-ENID

Training recruitment 2025

Intro for trainer recruitment talk

RSE Con 25

Making research more equitable and more effective: the Hidden REF

Talk on Hidden REF for the Open Research Interest Group at Taylor & Francis

Hidden REF - LIRG CILIP

Presentation for Library and Information Research Group, online.

How should the work of technicians be recognised by universities and by the REF?

HETS 2025 workshop on technician recognition

deck

Introd to the RSG for the Faculty of Medicine

Talk 3: NTO workshop Liverpool June 2025

NTO assessment for Liverpool

Talk 2: NTO workshop Liverpool June 2025

Talk 2: NTO assessment for Liverpool

Talk 1: NTO workshop Liverpool June 2025

NTO workshop intro for Liverpool

Talk 3: NTO workshop Kings June 2025

NTO assessment for Kings

Talk 2: NTO workshop Kings June 2025

NTO assessment for Kings

Talk 1: NTO workshop Kings June 2025

NTO workshop intro for Kings

Driving Research Excellence - Technicians' event

Presentation for Driving Research Excellence through institutional support for technical and specialist capability in Nottingham.

Research Enablers talk at Bath

Presentation for Research Enablers Network at the Uni of Bath

Festival of Open Research 2025

Presentation for Festival of Open Research 2025

KE Professionals meeting

Presentation on the KE Professionals meeting on RSEs and the Hidden REF

Hidden REF for PRISM

Presentation on the PRISM network

Hidden REF, Impact and KEE

Presentation on the Hidden REF for Impact talk at University of Southampton

Hidden REF shared slides from website

Hidden REF for Ulster University

Presentation on the Hidden REF for Ulster University

What links careers in software and software sustainability?

Presentation on careers and software sustainability for Belgian RSE conference

Non-traditional outputs in research

Presentation on NTOs and Hidden REF for UCL

Computational Research Skills: Data Management and Analysis

An intro to our training for the SoCoBio CDT

Hidden REF panel

Understanding the KEE community

A presentation on the work done to understand the KEE community and instructions for a break out on recommendations for improvement

Careers in research

Presentation on careers and Hidden REF for Bioimaging

Research leaders for Southampton

Research leaders: the importance of non-traditional REF outputs

RSE: where it started and where it's going

Presentation on Hidden REF for the Capturing Creativity workshop.

Research is about more than publications

Presentation on Hidden REF for the Capturing Creativity workshop.

Talk about SSI, RSEs and Hidden REF for WAIS group talks

Hidden REF for ModelShare

Presentation on Hidden REF for the ModelShare workshop.

Hidden REF and technicians

Presentation on Hidden REF for the MiTalent Springfest.

EPSRC Infrastructure visit to Southampton

Open Research Conversations 2024

Presentation on the Hidden REF for Open Research Conversation at the University of Sheffield.

TSN conference 2024

The Hidden REF: librarians and other hidden roles

A talk for the Science Council policy group on the ways in which team research is changing academia, and the ways in which research assessment need to change to catch up.

Skills, assessment and the Hidden REF

A talk for the Research14 on the ways in which team research is changing academia, and the ways in which research assessment need to change to catch up.

Changing how institutions value software

A presentation on how we change the assessment of software for the International RSE Research meeting on 16 January 2024.

Skills, assessment and the Hidden REF

A talk for the Science Council policy group on the ways in which team research is changing academia, and the ways in which research assessment need to change to catch up.

The growth of Research Software Engineering and its vital role in research

Presentation for the ETH forum on the importance of RSE and how supporting RSE advances research