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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. I will first give the summary of results, set alongside those from 2014, against advice, but one role of the REF is to demonstrate more and better research. Four are fitted on to one page.