RAE 2026 Briefing Session: Impact Cases Preparation
Detailed information on the RAE process, eligibility criteria, important dates, and proposed timeline for preparing impact cases in higher education institutions. The content covers staff eligibility, assessment elements, submission dates, and the proposed timeline for the upcoming RAE.
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RAE 2026 Briefing Session: Preparation of Impact Cases Professor Mai Har Sham Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) 12 December 2022
RAE 2020 Assessment Element Research outputs Impact Environment Weighting 70% 15% 15% (a) (b) (c)
RAE 2020 (cont) Staff meeting the following criteria is RAE-eligible: 1 2 . 1 2
RAE 2020 (cont) RAE-eligible staff of universities are mapped into 41 Units of Assessment under 13 Subject Panels List of Units of Assessment (1/4)
RAE 2020(cont) List of Units of Assessment (2/4)
RAE 2020 (cont) List of Units of Assessment (3/4)
RAE 2020 (cont) List of Units of Assessment (4/4)
RESTRICTED Wholly funded by university proper falling within staff grade A to I; holding a FT paid appointment for a continuous period of at least 36 months covering the census date, provided that the employment start date was no later than 1 September 2017 Important Dates RAE 2020 (actual dates) RAE 2026 (estimated dates) Staff eligibility On assumption that the other criteria remain no change, employment start date of RAE-eligible staff would be no later than 1 September 2023 Census date 30 September 2019 30 September 2025 Assessment period Six years: 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2019 Assessment elements: Research Output; Impact; Environment 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2025 Submission dates Request for exemption for individual staff (if any): 31 July 2019 List of RAE eligible staff: 2 December 2019 Submission of all materials & data: 16 December 2019 December 2025
Preparation of Impact Cases for the upcoming RAE
Preparation of Impact cases ~How many impact cases are required? RAE 2026 RAE 2020 ?
Preparation of Impact cases R-portion: RAE component Quality level 4 star 3 star 2 star 1 star unclassified Weighting 9 4 1 0 0
Research Committee: New Initiatives To ensure Faculties are supported in their preparation of impact cases for RAE assessment, two initiatives will be introduced: 1) Allocation of Initial Funding to Faculties for impact cases 2) Strategic Impact Enhancement Fund
Initial Funding to Faculties for Impact Cases 1
Initial Funding to Faculties for Impact Cases Objectives: To support project-based activities directly related to enhancement of demonstrable impacts To ensure sufficient number of impact cases brought to maturity for the RAE assessment within the lead time
Initial Funding to Faculties for Impact Cases (cont) No. of impact cases to be prepared* *Faculties could round up or down to the nearest integer or identify even more cases
Initial Funding to Faculties for Impact Cases (cont) Faculties at their discretion to make sub-allocation to individual impact projects The fund to be used exclusively to support impact-related activities of individual impact cases: collection of evidence, e.g. through surveys, interviews, websites, exhibits and public forums to engage specific target non-academic research users provision of training and expertise to benefit practitioners in the field strategic engagement with industry for conducting trials and/or practical application of research deliverables research assistants to support impact activities equipment and consumables are allowable only if these are essential part in creating impact DOS
Initial Funding to Faculties for Impact Cases (cont) The fund is not intended to cover costs of the following items: X X Salary/teaching relief of individual project PIs X X Blue sky research projects X X Academic research outputs X X Patent filing X X Projects/activities already funded by other sources X X External consultancy/review at this stage DON TS
Strategic Impact Enhancement Fund (SIEF) 2
SIEF (cont) Objectives: To provide additional and strategic support to high-quality impact cases for realizing potential impact in fullest extent within a two-year timeframe or less To grow more 4* impact cases in the next RAE
SIEF (cont) To provide financial support to a broad range of strategic impact- related activities, including: to further extend and deepen the engagement and collaborations with beneficiaries to boost additional impacts to maximize emerging opportunities DOS to drive swiftly progress to meet the planned milestones to collect corroborating and verifiable evidence to demonstrate sufficiently the significance and reach of impacts claimed to procure professional services to assist with the writing of impact case studies To provide in-kind support, such as professional services from ORKTS, if needed
SIEF (cont) The fund is not intended to support projects at exploratory and initial stages, nor duplicate with other existing knowledge-/technology-transfer related internal funding schemes Faculty s assessment and prioritisation is needed to ensure the maturity and potentiality of the proposed impact cases justifiable for the SIEF strategic support
RESTRICTED Faculty Workflow Research Committee To form Faculty-based RAE panel To nominate cases to compete for additional & strategic support To identify the required no. of impact cases To form a central RAE panel To assess SIEF applications for allocation of strategic support (funding & in-kind) To make sub- allocation to the identified cases To set up mechanism for screening, mentoring, & monitoring To assess & prioritise the shortlisted cases for individual PIs SIEF applications To report to RC the sub-allocation by March 2023 SIEF allocation SIEF application Funding allocation Faculty-based and central RAE Panels to work closely in monitoring the development of cases to ensure that our RAE submissions can appropriately represent CUHK research excellence
