Elizabeth Gadd
@lizziegadd.bsky.social
Research Culture & Assessment Loughborough University; Chair INORMS Research Evaluation Group; Vice-Chair CoARA; ARMA Res Eval SIG; Founder LIS-Bibliometrics; She/her;
A new Under Review podcast episode is out exploring academia's good, bad and ugly as we turn our attention to the REF. In this episode I am joined by @lizziegadd.bsky.social Listen and watch: Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseO... 1/3
Under Review with Dr Lizzie Gadd - Metrics, morals, and the next REF
Podcast Episode · Under Review · May 18 · 1h 4m
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As we look to the year ahead, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to former Vice Chair @lizziegadd.bsky.social for her dedication, vision, and leadership over the past 3 years! Learn more about Dr. Lizzie Gadd's contributions to CoARA and next steps for reform here: www.coara.org/news/project...
From Principles to Practice: An Interview with former Vice-Chair, Dr. Elizabeth Gadd, on the evolution of CoARA and next steps for reform – CoARA
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It’s been a real career highlight to act as one of the inaugural Vice Chairs of the @coarassessment.bsky.social Steering Board. In this interview I enjoyed reflecting on my three year term on the Board. 👇🏻
CoARA@coarassessment.bsky.social · 6mo agoAs we look to the year ahead, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to former Vice Chair @lizziegadd.bsky.social for her dedication, vision, and leadership over the past 3 years! Learn more about Dr. Lizzie Gadd's contributions to CoARA and next steps for reform here: www.coara.org/news/project...
European friends, I love you, but can you please stop adding chocolate to your muesli? Chocolate cereals are for children and muesli is for grown-ups. Thank you.
Highly recommend this piece from @lizziegadd.bsky.social and @bedforms.bsky.social on the new report on #GenerativeAI and #REF2029 wonkhe.com/blogs/before... "The challenge, now, is to ensure that its integration reflects sector values, not just technological possibility."
Before we automate REF there are three issues we need to talk about
Lizzie Gadd and Dan Parsons argue that if AI is to be embedded into REF it should reflect sector values not just technological possibility
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Currently at an absolute loss as to how Research England can demand equality impact assessments from the HEIs they fund through REF and then recruit an all-male team (3 senior and white) to investigate the use of AI in REF. chet.bristol.ac.uk/research/ref...
Research: REF-AI project | Centre for Higher Education Transformations
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'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies' @lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
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"Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies." New article by @lizziegadd.bsky.social. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
nature.com
👀ICYMI: "the design of an approach to assess the societal impact of research requires more than an expert understanding of bibliometrics" #ResearchManagement #ResearchImpact #Bibliometrics @lizziegadd.bsky.social @tanjastrom.bsky.social
How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? - Impact of Social Sciences
How responsible is Clarivate’s Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research according to the INORMS SCOPE framework?
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“The term “responsible” in research assessment cannot be co-opted and marketed, it must be earned—through transparency, context sensitivity, authentic engagement, mixed-methods evidence, & ongoing evaluation & reform." Using @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE we test Clarivate’s responsibility claim.👇🏻
LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 9mo ago💥New: How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? ✍️ @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Erica Conte, Reingis Hauck Giovanna Lima, Racquel Salviati, Esther De Smet, & @tanjastrom.bsky.social #ResearchImpact #Metrics #AcademicSky @inorms-reg.bsky.social
💥New: How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? ✍️ @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Erica Conte, Reingis Hauck Giovanna Lima, Racquel Salviati, Esther De Smet, & @tanjastrom.bsky.social #ResearchImpact #Metrics #AcademicSky @inorms-reg.bsky.social
How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? - Impact of Social Sciences
How responsible is Clarivate’s Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research according to the INORMS SCOPE framework?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
If you wish to study the effect of #opendata in #researchevaluation, please consider this postdoc position in London #openscience ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126965-...
Post Doctoral Research Associate, “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganising Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” | King's College London
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Well said. Good to have informed comment on this vital issue, rather than the misdirection of someone from a murkily-funded lobby group (not a ‘think tank’).
Elizabeth Gadd@lizziegadd.bsky.social · 10mo agoAdding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...
“In the recent DSIT survey of the UK Research & Development workforce, only 52 per cent of higher education respondents said the culture of their organisation enabled them to perform their best work, compared to 85 per cent in the private sector.”
Elizabeth Gadd@lizziegadd.bsky.social · 10mo agoAdding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...
Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...
The battle for people, culture and environment
Lizzie Gadd makes the case for embracing People, Culture and Environment and sets out why reverting to REF 2021 would be a mistake
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Where now for the Research Excellence Framework? Five different views are presented in @timeshighered.bsky.social, including from @catdavies.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social @ProfAThompson @milespadgett.bsky.social buff.ly/WpUNmoX #education #educationnews
Where now for the REF?
The Research Excellence Framework has been postponed for three months ‘to take stock and ensure alignment with the UK government’s priorities and vision for higher education’. But how radical should…
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"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
According to the Shanghai Ranking we come in 22nd this year. Based on a limited set of criteria, rankings can never really measure the true value of an institution. Tell us what you value most.
"but the impact on children is worse. The developmental damage is irreversible" "The process of development stops, the process of building a brain, of creating neurons that will establish cognitive ability, will stop" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
'No longer able to cry': Inside Gaza's scarily silent clinics
Doctors and aid workers say the world's concern over the aid blockade in Gaza has come too late. Many of the children you've read about probably can't be saved.
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The beauty of a menopausal brain is that you learn new things every day, many of which aren’t actually new. 😂
Thrilled to have been invited as a Fellow of the @berlinualliance.bsky.social in 2025/26 alongside Thed van Leeuwen! If you work in or around the Berlin area, do let me know if you would like to collaborate! www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/items/202...
Berlin University Alliance promotes sustainable research practices: Dr. Elizabeth Gadd and Prof. Dr. Thed van Leeuwen receive fellowships for commitment to research quality and open science
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🎓 Our colleague Thed van Leeuwen has been invited for the “Research Quality and Open Science” fellowship programme by @berlinualliance.bsky.social, together with @lizziegadd.bsky.social from @lborouniversity.bsky.social. 🥂 Congratulations! www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/items/202...
Berlin University Alliance promotes sustainable research practices: Dr. Elizabeth Gadd and Prof. Dr. Thed van Leeuwen receive fellowships for commitment to research quality and open science
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If all these new Head of Talent posts aren’t organising lunchtime variety shows then I think that’s a massive wasted opportunity.
Thrilled to welcome University of Bremen & the University of Oldenburg as new German #MoreThanOurRank signatories! Celebrate diverse excellence―learn more: inorms.net/more-than-ou... 🌍🙌 and shorturl.at/W6jja
More Than Our Rank | INORMS
The More Than Our Rank Initiative provides an opportunity for academic institutions to highlight the many and various ways they serve the world that are not reflected in their ranking position.
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For those of you, like me, who can never tell the difference between a swift and a swallow, please have the word swillow with my compliments.
a flock of birds flying in a blue sky with clouds
Alt: a flock of birds flying in a blue sky with clouds
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I’m feeling quietly confident about my entry into this year’s family heart-shaped-stone-finding competition.
Is there a place for #AI in research #assessment? Elizabeth Gadd ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social) & Nick Jennings (VC & President @lborouniversity.bsky.social) ⬇️
Is there a place for AI in research assessment? - Impact of Social Sciences
AI is reshaping research, from drafting proposals and academic CVs to automating parts of peer review and assessment. With efforts to reform research assessment in motion, Elizabeth Gadd and Nick…
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Is there a place for #AI in research #assessment? Elizabeth Gadd (@lizziegadd.bsky.social) & Nick Jennings (VC & President @lborouniversity.bsky.social) write @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇
Is there a place for AI in research assessment? - Impact of Social Sciences
AI is reshaping research, from drafting proposals and academic CVs to automating parts of peer review and assessment. With efforts to reform research assessment in motion, Elizabeth Gadd and Nick Jenn...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
I’m not normally one to post my Wordle results, but this has got to be a first! Wordle 1,482 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩