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REF 2021: World-leading research and exceptional environments for researchers at the UK’s smaller and specialist universities
95% of GuildHE institutions submitted world-leading research to the REF, a remarkable achievement and testimony to the excellence of the sector in key research areas. GuildHE congratulates our member institutions on their success in REF 2021. The results demonstrate...
Response to the consultation on the design of the UK’s future research assessment system
GuildHE and GuildHE Research have welcomed the opportunity to contribute to this consultation. The future design of research assessment is incredibly important for our members. Amongst these institutions there are those which have submitted to the current exercise...
Elsevier Deal for Open Access
We welcome the news that UK universities and research institutions have reached an open access agreement with Elsevier following the sector’s acceptance of the latest proposal. The agreement, which offers unlimited open access publishing and maintains read access,...
GuildHE response to the Research, Development, and Innovation Organisational Landscape Review
Sir Paul Nurse has been tasked to undertake a review of the landscape of organisations that operate in research, development and innovation in the UK. The review is focussed on the relationships between organisations, as well as their scale, geographical location, and...
A desire to belong – new peer-led research shines a light on ethnic minority students’ lived experience of postgraduate research
Dayo Eseonu, Principal Researcher at The Young Foundation’s Institute for Community Studies and Haleema Masud, Policy Support Officer, GuildHE Today GuildHE and the Institute of Community Studies publish new research into the access and participation challenges for...
Understanding the lived experience of ethnic minority students in postgraduate research
This report presents the findings from the first qualitative research on the experiences of ethnic minority postgraduate research students accessing and studying at GuildHE member institutions. It captures, through interviews, students' perceptions and experiences of...
GuildHE publishes new research into the lived experience of ethnic minority postgraduate research students
GuildHE’s new research ‘Understanding the lived experience of ethnic minority students in postgraduate research’ captures for the first time students' perceptions and experiences of studying a postgraduate research degree at smaller and specialist higher education...
A tale of two bids – Shifting the ground in postgraduate research for ethnic minority students
With hopeful spirit in a rather bleak midwinter last year colleagues up and down the country were working on bids to the Office for Students and Research England competition for improving access and participation in postgraduate research for students from ethnic...
GuildHE partners with UKRI and Cancer Research UK in project to explore research integrity indicators
We are pleased to announce a new collaboration between UKRI, Cancer Research UK and GuildHE, to explore what indicators of research integrity exist, or could be proposed, that are valid, reliable, ethical and practical, and to open a national and international...
Elsevier negotiations statement
Our universities are fully committed to the approach being taken by the UK’s Elsevier Negotiation Team and support the recommendation to reject the most recent proposal from Elsevier on the basis it does not yet meet the two core objectives of the negotiations: to...
The Local and Regional Impact of Small and Specialist Universities
A quick analysis of results and narratives from the first iteration of Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) fortifies the notion that smaller and specialist Higher Education Providers are a gateway to achieve the Government’s Levelling Up and Place Agenda. The...
Amplify the voices and experiences of ethnic minority students through peer research
We are delighted to share with you an opportunity for ethnic minority post-graduate students to become peer researchers - helping to amplify the voices and experiences of ethnic minority students. The Young Foundation's Institute for Community Studies (ICS) are...
Reflections of a Research Co-ordinator at a Specialist University
This blog was written by Peter Kettlewell: For nine years of the previous decade, my own research took a back-seat whilst I devoted most of my working time to helping develop research at a small, specialist university. At that time, we were a University...
GuildHE response to: BEIS R & D Roadmap Survey
In our response to the BEIS R & D Roadmap Survey, we argue that currently research funding is concentrated mostly in a handful of institutions, within select regions. We point out that investing in R & D would help to lessen the social and economic impact of...
The GuildHE Research Doctoral Summer School 2020
SAVE THE DATE: The GuildHE Research Summer School will take place in Mary Ward House, London on 7- 8 September 2020 Why attend The GuildHE Research Summer School is a great opportunity for doctoral researchers to: Focus on your own professional development as a...