www.software.ac.uk

Use software

Fundamental to results

69%

92%

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.1183562

n=417

A new research role is born

Research

Software

Engineering

~10,000 RSEs worldwide

Image courtesy Ian Cosden

Greater access to skills

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Better research

Not publications

144 kg

Publications

6,000kg

Software - 350 g

Photo by Niilo Isotalo on Unsplash

Is there more to life than publications?

Recognising all research outputs and every role that makes research possible

www.hidden-ref.org

• Training materials and courses
• Grimpact
• Citizen science
• Enabling access to facilities
• Community building
• Standards

New categories

Assessment

• To include everyone and everything and leave nothing behind (visibility)
• To assess contribution across the diversity, richness, and variety of UK research (significance)
• All submissions will be celebrated and will be published on the HiddenREF website to raise awareness of the diversity of the UK research base.
• The best example or examples from each panel (i.e. the submissions located in the top left of the diagram) will be chosen as the winner. The panel also has the discretion to award Highly Commended to submissions as they see fit.

visibility

significance

The Hidden Role

120 submissions in total

"I'm passionate about the value of crowdsourcing in giving ordinary people an excuse to get up close to collections"

Dr Mia Ridge, British Library

Libcrowds

https://www.libcrowds.com/

"We hope that the Hidden REF award will help us get the recognition we need to [continue our support beyond the current funding cycle]"

Andy Nobes, INASP

AuthorAID

https://www.authoraid.info/en/

18 street children and youths provided the research team with weekly narrative accounts of what it was like to grow up on the streets of Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe

Growing up on the sreets

Photo: Janine Hunter / Growing up on the Streets

If we don't recognise the people who are vital to research,

we limit our ability to conduct research

            Simon Hettrick                               James Baker                           Neil Chue Hong                         Gemma Derrick

            Andy Dixon                                Gemma Fletcher                            Jude Fransman                          Patricia Hertrich

             Kirsty Pringle                              Simon Kerridge                           Tony Roche                                    Claire Wyatt

The Festival of Hidden REF

21 September 2023, Bristol, UK

www.hidden-ref.org