The research funding debate: why size doesn’t matter
…REF2014. Our report; Funding Research Excellence, published today provides compelling evidence that research should continue to be funded on the basis of excellence alone. There are many examples of small research units in Alliance institutions that undertake world-leading research and are recognised as such; they have no need to grow in order to prove themselves. Indeed our research shows that quality is a driver of scale and not vice-versa. We c…