REF 2021: Social sciences on the up as arts and humanities shrink
Main panel C records biggest increase in number of submissions and participating staff
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REF 2021: Quality ratings hit new high in expanded assessment
Four in five outputs judged to be either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’
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REF 2021: Golden triangle looks set to lose funding share
Although major players still dominate on research power, some large – and small – regional institutions have made their mark
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REF 2021: More staff, more excellent research, great impacts
The latest iteration of the UK’s national research audit has fulfilled its aim to identify research quality across the whole system, says David Sweeney
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REF 2021: Increased impact weighting helps push up scores
Greater weighting helps medical institutions in particular improve overall positions
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REF 2021: English language and literature
Newcastle University leads English language and literature subject table based on GPA
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REF 2021: History
Kent, Leicester and University of East Anglia lead the quality rankings in history as Oxford and Cambridge exit top 10
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REF 2021: Classics
King's College London tops rankings alongside the University of Manchester, while Warwick, Durham and Exeter excel
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REF 2021: Philosophy
The University of Birmingham tops the ranking, with the universities of York and Kent climbing several places
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REF 2021: Theology and religious studies
University of Aberdeen tops table when ordered by GPA
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REF 2021: Art and design: history, practice and theory
The University of Oxford came top with Birkbeck also moving up the rankings
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REF 2021: Music, drama, dance, performing arts, film and screen studies
Queen Mary University of London tops ranking, with Royal Holloway and the University of Manchester joint second
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REF 2021: Communication, cultural and media studies, library and information management
LSE finishes on top again as Cardiff and Leicester repeat strong performances
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REF 2021: Outputs scores
Imperial College London on top for key Research Excellence Framework performance metric focused on quality
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REF 2021: Impact scores
Medicine-focused institutions perform strongly on metric given weighting in latest round of Research Excellence Framework