October 2, 2025Open Access

On the ownership, portability and accreditation of research

Key Points

The non-portability of research outputs presents significant challenges in academic hiring practices.
Without clear guidelines, the status of ECR and Ph.D. student outputs during institutional transitions remains ambiguous.
Stern's review does not address potential outcomes for early-career researchers moving to new roles.
This situation complicates the ability of institutions to utilize research contributions when assessing performance.

Abstract

One of the aspects of the Stern review that has attracted the most attention from my Twitter stream is the non-portability of research outputs. What this means is that institutions cannot poach staff from elsewhere and use their outputs to return to REF. Now, there's a problem with Stern at the moment in that he doesn't say what will happen with ECR/Ph.D. student outputs when they move to their first post with a research element.

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Martin Paul Eve (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a232b4 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/p1mfg-2fy70

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