A law professor has called for funding generated by impact case studies to follow individual researchers rather than their employers in the UK’s next Research Excellence Framework (REF) after her former university submitted a statement based on her work five years after she had left.
Rosa Freedman, professor of law, conflict and global development at the University of Reading, said she is unhappy that the University of Birmingham submitted an impact case study to the 2021 REF based on her efforts to secure reparations for thousands of Haitians affected by a cholera epidemic triggered by the arrival of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers following an earthquake in January 2010, having not been consulted on her work by her old employer since 2016.
