UCU have been successful in severing ties between performance management and the local Research Excellence Framework (REF) Code of Practice.

In negotiations surrounding the REF Code 2021 the University accepted the purpose of REF as an assessment on the quality of the academic discipline and not individual staff performance.  This follows the UCU’s recent success in halting detrimental changes to their workload model which included proposals to reduce Research and Scholarly activity time.

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