Professor Karen Fleming, Director of the Art and Design Research Institute, University of UIster

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Art, Design & Architecture Impact Ulster University

Professor Karen Fleming Director Art, Architecture and Design Research Institute

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REF2014 Overall

52K staff in 154 Institutions 191 K outputs 6900 Impact case studies

Art & Design 1604 staff in 84 Institutions 6356 outputs 239 Impact case studies

REF2014 Ulster Proportions of Submitted UOA by FTE

03: Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy Nursing 03: Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy Biomed 04: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

07: Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences

11: Computer Science and Informatics

13: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials 16: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning 19: Business and Management Studies

20: Law

21: Politics and International Studies

22: Social Work and Social Policy

25: Education

26: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism 28: Modern Languages and Linguistics Modern Lang 28: Modern Languages and Linguistics Celtic Studies 29: English Language and Literature

30: History

34: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Ulster. Unit of Assessment 34 Art and Design: History Theory and Practice UoA34 Overall GPA 3.84 79% overall 3*&4* UoA34 Output GPA 3.03 76% of outputs 3*&4* UoA34 Environment 100% 3*&4* Highest 4* outputs of any subject in a Northern Ireland University 24.8 FTE, 30 people 37.17 PhD Completions £4,254,941 research income

REF2014 Outputs

Blue x4* Red 3* Green 2* Purple 1* no Unclassified

REF2014 IMPACT

R E F 2 0 1 4 S e c t o r A v e r a g e

4* 3* 2* 1* uc

Overall 30 46 20 3 1

Outputs 22.4 49.5 23.9 3.6 1

Impact 44 39.9 13 2.4 0.7

Environment 44.6 39.9 13.2 2.2 0.1

RAE2008 SUBJECT Art and Design

RANKINGS - Numerous variations on ranking Impact Elsevier 4* 4/84 Overall Elsevier 4* =3/84 Environment Elsevier 4*+3* =1/84 QI=quality index GPA =grade Point Average

Overall Quality

4* 4*+3* By GPA

By QI Power 4* FTE

4*+3* FTE

Volume Proportion staff submitted

RANK 3/84 17/84 7/84 6/84 15/84 9/84 18/84 16/84 8/84

Top 20

Top 10

Top 20

Top 10

Top 20

What was assessed? Cultural. Social. Economic

NOT impacts on research or the advancementof academic knowledge within the higher education sector (whether in the UK or internationally) Criteria– ‘reach’ and ‘significance’

Impact Case Studies Underpinning Research

• Solo authored outputs • Artworks and exhibitions

Collaboration with National institutions

Doherty: On location in the Huguenot House, Kassel, December, 2011

Reach: 860,000 people visit dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel

• Solo authored outputs • Artworks and exhibitions • Curated Exhibitions

Exhibition Curation

Rethinking Monet Professor Richard Thomson

Significance Beyond the artwork …

Enhance the public understanding of X, through public exhibition and display, exhibition catalogues and monographs, broadcast media, web-based media, and public events developing and refining a methodology for both the production of artworks relating to X The inclusion of the artworks in national collections, contributes to a long term understanding of the nations involvement in X

• Solo authored outputs • Artworks and exhibitions • Curated Exhibitions • Policy

Planning and Policy Impact

• Solo authored outputs • Artworks and exhibitions • Curated Exhibitions • Policy • Public engagement, events, festivals

Vehicles for impact Events, festivals

• Solo or signature authored art works and artifacts • Exhibitions, performances • Curated Exhibitions • Policy • Public engagement, events, festivals • Design

Design

Royal College of Art :Design for Patient Safety: Creating significant professional, cultural and commercial impact through innovative design in a range of health care settings Royal College of Art :Enhancing industrial capability to innovate in vehicle and transport design, nationally and internationally

Design: Cardiff Met University

Observations on art practices and impact

J Cummins Go Home (2010 – 2013)

D. Wylie Outposts Kandahar Province

P Seawright UXB 2008

Art practices potential for impact Documentary film and photography

War and Medicine David Cotterell

Vehicles for impact Film making

Jane Thorburn, Westminster

Vehicles for impact Documentary Film

Emma Davie, Edinburgh College of Art

REF Impact agenda has changed behaviour • Cross disciplinary,

transdisciplinary • Relationships outside the

institution

• Media and documentation

• Cultural institutions

Next REF? Optimising opportunities

• Collaboration across units of assessment and institutions • National art institutions • Panel of peers • User assessors – Nominations

‘Institutions should be permitted to submit impacts that evolve over long time-frames to successive REF exercises, with each REF assessing the specific impacts that have taken place during the assessment period.’

Questions? K.Fleming@ulster.ac.uk