Reform of Higher Education Research Assessment and Funding

1 We are pleased to respond to the Department for Education and Skills’ consultation on the Reform of higher education research assessment and funding (DfES 2006)1 on behalf of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC). The UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), an Expert Panel of the British Computer Society, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing, was formed in November 2000 as a policy committee for computing research in the UK. Its members are leading computing researchers from UK academia and industry. While our response is from the perspective of Computer Science and Informatics we believe that many of the issues we highlight are reflected across the UK research community as a whole.