Following the SHERPA/REF Stakeholder Consultation exercise which took place in January 2015, Research Consulting and the Centre for Research Communications produced a report which was subsequently presented to HEFCE, together with the Service Specifications Report, user stories and other outputs. The CRC has always intended to make the report available under a CC-BY licence, with the permission of HEFCE, and the public version of the report is now available for download at: Research Consulting – SHERPA REF Consultation Report.
Final REF 2029 guidance arrives
If research offices were still printing copies of REF guidance documents, yesterday would be a bumper day for the toner cartridges. The final Guidance on
November 12, 2026
