Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Director of Strategy at the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
Skills, assessment and the Hidden REF
Simon Hettrick
8 February 2024 - Research14, online - @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
If we don't recognise the people who are vital to research,
we limit our ability to conduct research
Take... software, for example
www.software.ac.uk
Use software
Fundamental to results
69%
92%
n=417
Who's writing all this software?
Research
Software
Engineering
Research
Software
Engineer
~10,000 RSEs worldwide
Image courtesy Ian Cosden
Greater access to skills
=
Better research
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
The Hidden Role
| CC-BY William Murphy |
Data stewards and managers, Librarians, Technicians, Lived Experience Contributors (including patients), Research Software Engineers, PRISMS (Professional Research Investment and Strategy Managers), Professional Services Personnel, Public Engagement Professionals (PEPs), RMAs (Research Managers and Administrators) and Clinical Trials Managers.
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
It wasn't all good
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People were nominated for the wrong reasons
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It's difficult persuading people that they're in
What's changed?
What's next?
Timeline
Competition: October 2024, 2026 & 2028
Festival: October 2025 & 2027
Updates and news
https://hidden-ref.org/
https://twitter.com/HiddenRef
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Ask your line manager about your/your group's role in the next REF
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Find out who in your school/faculty/university is dealing with the REF submission and ask them the same
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Raise the change to the REF with as many vital-but-unrecognised people as you know
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Take part in next year's Hidden REF competition so we can trial how to submit your work
Call to arms
Thank you!
@sjh5000
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195, EPSRC Grant no: EP/S021779/1
Licence
© Simon Hettrick. These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Access these slides: https://bit.ly/42toSoJ
Skills, assessment and the Hidden REF
By Simon Hettrick
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.
