HESA Student Record 2013/14 - REF unit of assessment
HESA Student Record 2013/14Fields required from institutions in WalesREF unit of assessment | return to field list | valid entries |
Type | field |
Short name | UOA2014 |
Description |
This field should record the Unit of Assessment (UOA) to which the student's supervisor was returned in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF2014). |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All REFData records |
Valid entries and labels | |
Notes |
Where a student's supervisor has been allocated to a Unit of Assessment for the 2014 REF, then the student should be allocated to the same UOA. Where the supervisor has not been explicitly allocated to a UOA because
then the student should be assigned to the Unit of Assessment which is closest in academic content to their subject of study. (The Unit of Assessment chosen should be from the list of subjects defined by the most recent REF, not any future REF.) Where a student was supervised by more than one member of staff and/or these supervisors are returned in more than one UOA, the student may be returned split either according to the agreed division of responsibility, or in proportion to the number of supervisors. Where one or more if these supervisors is not employed by the reporting institution their contribution should be ignored when determining the proportional split across UoAs. This field occurs as a pair with REFData.UOAPCNT with a maximum of 6 pairs permitted. Valid entry patterns are: 01-36 followed by a letter A, B, C or Z. The first two characters are the UOA assigned to the student's supervisor in the 2014 REF. The final character is the letter denoting the multiple submission the member of staff was associated with or 'Z' where a multiple submission was not made. For example, if the HEI made multiple submissions to sub-panel 17 (Geography, Environmental studies and Archaeology) - one in Geography (17A) and one in Archaeology (17B); the respective letter should be included for the staff member associated with that submission. If the HEI did not make multiple submissions '17Z' should be used. |
Quality rules |
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
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Reason required |
Collection of this information will allow better monitoring of funding allocations by units of assessment. |
Part of | |
Field length | 3 |
Minimum occurrences | 1 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: UOA2014
Data type: UOA2014CodeContentType |
Related fields | |
Owner | HEFCE |
Version | 1.2 |
Date modified | 2014-06-26 |
Change management notes | Guidance updated in order to state the expectation that external supervisors should be ignored in assigning a UoA. |
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