Communications timeline

Further detail of the REF 2014 exercise and the funding impact will be published in 2015.

January 2015

• HEI heads receive confidential feedback.
• Institutions receive feedback on individual staff circumstances, at institutional level.

February 2015

• 2 February 2015 – subject to the timely receipt of the BIS grant letter, the HEFCE Board meets to decide the high level allocation of funding across all budgets.

March 2015

• 19 March 2015 – subject to the timely receipt of the BIS grant letter, the HEFCE Board meets to consider and approve institutional level funding allocations.
• 31 March HEFCE confirms institutions’ funding for 2015-16 (subject to meeting on 19 March).
• Impact case studies published as a searchable database.

Early 2015 

• Submissions published on REF website.
• Panel overview reports published.
• REF Equalities and Diversity Panel report published.

Spring

• Minutes of panel meetings published.
• REF manager’s report explains how the process was conducted and proposes future improvements to implementation procedures.

More detail about REF 2014 is available at: http://www.ref.ac.uk/pubs/arrangementsforthepublicationofresults/