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The four UK higher education funding bodies 1 asked RAND Europe to review the assessment process for the impact element of the Research Excellence Framework 2014 in the UK, in order to assess the process and understand how it could be further improved.This report provides headlines from our study (overarching summary) and is supported by an in-depth analysis of the data gathered relating to each part of the assessment process. It is intended for those responsible for the REF and, more broadly, for those in the higher education sector. It may also be of interest to others working in the evaluation of research impact. RAND Europe is an independent not-for-profit policy research organisation that aims to improve policy and decisionmaking in the public interest, through research and analysis. RAND Europe's clients include European governments, institutions, non-governmental organisations and firms with a need for rigorous, independent, multidisciplinary analysis. This report has been peer-reviewed in accordance with RAND's quality assurance standards.

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