REF Advice Note 1: Understanding Hefce’s definition of Impact

English universities have begun spending millions of pounds and thousands of staff hours on preparing for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. Some of these resources will be devoted to the 5,000 Impact Case Studies that will be used by the funding council (Hefce) to allocate a fifth of government research funding. In a new series the LSE Impacts project team presents free Advice Notes on how to prepare Impact Case Studies from start to finish, focusing on the social sciences and humanities.