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This table summarises all the actions we are aware of our Community of Practice members have taken in each of the domains. Our thanks to everyone who has contributed.

If you would like to suggest an action, or contribute to an existing action, please contact Evangeline at **e.gowie@reading.ac.uk**.

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<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;">
  <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/guide-01-commitment.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">
    Institutional Commitment
  </a>
</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th colspan="3" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;"> (1) Does your institution make public commitments to the principles and aims of open research and responsible research assessment?</th>
      <th colspan="2" valign="top"> (2) Are these commitments supported by action?</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td scope="col" valign="top" style="background-color: #F1B9D8;">Produce an open Research Statement:</td>
      <td scope="col" valign="top" style="background-color: #B0D8D4;">Produce a statement clarifying expectations around research assessment:</td>
      <td scope="col" valign="top" style="background-color: #F1B9D8; border-right: 1.5px solid black;">
        Sign the <a href="https://inorms.net/more-than-our-rank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">More Than Our Rank</a> initiative:
      </td>
      <td scope="col" valign="top" style="background-color: #B0D8D4;">Appoint a working group on 
        <a href="https://sfdora.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">DoRA</a> compliance:
      </td>
      <td scope="col" valign="top" style="background-color: #F1B9D8;">
        Sign and develop an action plan based on
        <a href="https://coara.eu/agreement/action-plan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">CoARA</a>:
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/research/-/media/discover/files/pdfs/a0cd20a0f1864bf5bfa523be98e09b9f.pdf">Reading</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.surrey.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-03/open-research-university-of-surrey-position-statement.pdf">Surrey</a><br>
          Leeds<br>
          <a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f381d99a-e117-42b8-a134-4cdbfb82a3f9/files/rsf268620n">Oxford</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/open-research/open-sussex/statement">Sussex</a><br>
          <a href="https://library.ed.ac.uk/research-support/open-research/about">Edinburgh</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.wlv.ac.uk/media/departments/research/documents/Open-Research-Statement-2023.pdf">Wolverhampton</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.openresearch.cam.ac.uk/cambridge/policies-frameworks/open-research-position-statement">Cambridge</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/images/external-websites/www/research/research-ethics/Open-Research-Statement.pdf">Sunderland</a>
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Leeds<br>
          <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/environment/responsible-research-assessment/">Bristol</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/documents/2522792-cardiff-university-statement-on-responsible-research-assessment">Cardiff</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.keele.ac.uk/research/raise/responsibleuseofresearchmetrics/#keele-university-policy-statement-on-responsible-use-of-research-metrics">Keele</a><br>
          <a href="https://edwebcontent.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/atoms/files/responsible_research_metrics_statement.pdf">Edinburgh</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.brookes.ac.uk/getmedia/c496694b-b2af-468f-b18e-327d9c22e62b/responsible-metrics-position-statement-revised-4th-may-2022.pdf">Oxford Brookes</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.surrey.ac.uk/library/open-research/research-metrics">Surrey</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/research-cultures/home/responsible-research-assessment">Edinburgh</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/research/-/media/discover/files/pdfs/8a75584ea8e84c63a0d4c21a34958811.pdf">Reading</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/images/external-websites/www/research/research-ethics/Responsible-metrics-statement.pdf">Sunderland</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/ethics--governance/responsible-use-of-metrics-statement/#:~:text=We%20recognise%20the%20potentially%20important,publish%20in%20high%20quality%20journals.">Durham</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/legal-information/principles-of-research-assessment-and-management/">Bath</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-integrity/responsible-metrics">Manchester</a><br>
          <a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/research-support/responsible-metrics/evaluation-of-research">Warwick</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-integrity/responsible-metrics">Manchester Metropolitan</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/research/pdf/kings-commitment-to-fair-and-responsible-assessment.pdf">KCL</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/research/research-governance/research-metrics/">Newcastle</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.research-strategy.admin.cam.ac.uk/research-policy/DORA/guidance-responsible-use-metrics-research-assessment">Cambridge</a><br>
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <a href="https://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/more-than-rank/">Loughborough</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.derby.ac.uk/research/how-research-is-managed/more-than-our-rank/">Derby</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/university-information/more-than-our-rank">East Anglia</a><br>
        </div>
      </td>
     <td valign="top">
                <div style="font-size: 0.75em;"></div>
            </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/14501207">Reading</a><br>
          <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/13142971">Warwick</a><br>
          <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/12734220">Swansea</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-05/CoARA%20Action%20Plan%20May%202025.pdf">Edinburgh</a><br>
          <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/10911057">Lancashire</a><br>
        </div>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;">
    <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/guide-02-leadership.html"
        style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">
        Leadership
    </a>
</h1>
<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th colspan="3" valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;"> (1) Does your institution provide
                leadership at a senior level for strategic action on open research and responsible research assessment?
            </th>
            <th colspan="2" valign="top"> (2) Is open research leadership fostered at all levels in the institution?
            </th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td scope="col" style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Explicitly assign a senior leader responsibility for
                open research:</td>
            <td scope="col" style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Introduce a standing item on senior leadership meeting
                agendas for RRA:</td>
            <td scope="col" style="background-color: #F1B9D8; border-right: 1.5px solid black;" valign="top">
                Appoint a <a href="https://www.ukrn.org/institutional-leads/" target="_blank"
                    style="color: inherit; text-decoration: underline;" rel="noopener noreferrer">UKRN institutional lead.</a>
            </td>
            <td scope="col" style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Include leading open research efforts as a criterion of
                job descriptions, or development reviews for management. This may include leading by example:</td>
            <td scope="col" style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Where work is done regarding researcher assessment,
                include representatives from varied levels:</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td valign="top">
                <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
                    <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/osf/z52cn_v1">Report of 60 Uk institutions</a>: “In most cases”
                    committees are chaired by a senior individual such as a PVC for Research or Dean with responsibility
                    for
                    research culture or excellence.<br><br>
                    York: Open Research Strategy Group chaired by the Associate Dean for Research.<br><br>
                    Manchester Metropolitan: University Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee, chaired by PVC for
                    Research. Membership includes Directors of Research from each of our four faculties and Professional
                    Services.<br><br>
                    University of London: Open Scholarship Working Group chaired by Head of Research and Research
                    Partnerships
                </div>
            </td>
            <td valign="top">
                <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
                    Suffolk
                </div>
            </td>
            <td valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;"></td>
            <td valign="top">
                <div style="font-size: 0.75em;"></div>
            </td>
            <td valign="top">
                <div style="font-size: 0.75em;"><a
                        href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-reading.html">Reading</a>: The
                    Research
                    Assessment working group includes representation from the academic community at different levels (a
                    Head
                    of School, a Research Division Lead, a senior academic, and an early career researcher) and
                    professional
                    services. <br><br>
                    Leeds: Responsible Metrics Group with representatives across all schools and relevant professional
                    services.
                </div>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>



<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;">
  <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/guide-03-strategy.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">
    Strategy and Planning
  </a>
</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
     <th colspan="4"> (1) Do you have a strategic plan for recognition and reward for open research, or is the topic addressed within a wider open research plan?</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
<tr>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Include RRA in relevant action plans:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Collate related action plans to avoid duplication or oversight:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Where research assessment reform work is undertaken by an existing group, formally nominate an open research representative in this group:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Produce a dedicated responsible Research Metrics Action Plan:</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td scope="col" valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Bath: <a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/open-research-action-plan/">Open Research Action Plan</a> - “Working with the Academic Staff Committee to introduce Open Research criteria into recruitment and promotion.” <br><br>
          <a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/open-research-action-plan/">Research Culture Action Plan</a> - “Review responsible research assessment (RRA) policies and practices and reward a broader definition of research excellence (to include diverse output types and behaviours), and learning from peer institutions.<br><br>
Consider the value of becoming a member/signatory to an internationally recognised research assessment standard.”<br><br>
          <a href="https://www.keele.ac.uk/research/raise/governanceintegrityandethics/researchintegrity/openresearch/openresearchactionplan/Open%20Research%20Action%20Plan%20(Approved%20Nov%2021).pdf">Keele</a>: “Implementation of embedding Open Research criteria into recruitment, reward, promotion, and performance assessment.”<br><br>
          <a href="https://www.surrey.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-02/open-research-strategic-goals-and-action-plan-2019-2024.pdf">Surrey</a>: “Launch responsible metrics and research assessment implementation plan.”<br><br>
          <a href="https://static.reading.ac.uk/content/PDFs/files/Research/Open-Research-Action-Plan-2024-29.pdf">Reading</a>: “Publish Research Assessment Policy setting out expectations and requirements in alignment with principles of responsible research assessment and recognition and rewards for Open Research. Implement changes to recruitment, promotion, probation and other assessment-based processes to align with Research Assessment Policy.”
        </div>
      </td>
      <td scope="col" valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Reading: ‘Enhancing Research Culture' funding from Research England was used to hire a PhD student to compare relevant action plans across the university for areas of overlap/duplication/complimentary actions, areas of conflict/tension/misalignment, and approaches taken to evaluating the success of actions.
        </div>
      </td>
      <td scope="col" valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
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      </td>
      <td scope="col" valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Newcastle
        </div>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>





<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;">
  <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/guide-04-communication.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">
   Communication and Engagement 
  </a>
</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
     <th vertical-align: "top"; style= "border-right: 1.5px solid black;"> (1) Are you undertaking strategic communication to:</th>
     <th valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;"> (2) engage key stakeholders required to implement recognition and reward for open research, </th>
     <th colspan="3" valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;"> (3) inform members of the research community of changes to policies,  procedures and institutional  values, and </th>
     <th colspan="3" valign="top"> (4) seek researchers’ perspectives and experiences?</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
     <tr>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8; border-right: 1.5px solid black;" valign="top">Develop an open research communication and engagement plan, which includes communications around recognition and reward for open research:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4; border-right: 1.5px solid black;"> </td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Introduce open research awards:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Create a 'Changes at a Glance' summary of any new or updated policies:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8; border-right: 1.5px solid black;" valign="top">Disseminate via blog posts:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Present the self-assessment findings and seek feedback at meetings accessing a range of staff:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Consult staff on proposals for inclusion of open research recognition and reward in research assessment reform:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">When implementing changes, conduct an initial trial to collect feedback from candidates and assessors:</td>
</tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;"></td>
      <td style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;"></td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/academics-and-researchers/lrs/open-research/awards/">Newcastle</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/research-and-impact/open-research/open-research-awards">Nottingham Trent</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/nominations-open-research-award-2025/">Manchester</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.surrey.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-11/open-research-award-guidelines.pdf">Surrey</a><br>
          Reading<br>
          <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/researchers/open-research/previous-events/gw4-open-research-week-2025/">Bristol, Bath, Cardiff and Exeter</a>: Joint awards through GW4 Open Research Week<br>
          <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-keele.html">Keele</a><br></div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
      <div style="font-size: 0.75em;"> 
      <a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/responsible-research-assessment/">Bath</a></div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;">
      <div style="font-size: 0.75em;"> 
      <a href="https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/pvc-research/">Bath</a>: PVC Blog<br><br>
      <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh_open_research/2022/12/07/the-university-of-edinburgh-has-signed-up-to-coara/">Edinburgh</a>: OR Blog<br><br></div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Suffolk: Research Inst meetings and the early career network<br><br>
           <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gHqxdOYo0">Reading</a>: An event at the university wide open research week.
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Lancashire: Formally consulted staff attitudes to the new Responsible Research Metrics statement.<br><br>
          Bath: Held town hall events and a task-and-finish group.
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Cambridge: Narrative CV for post-doc trial<br><br>
          <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-loughborough.html">Loughborough</a>: Evidence Informed Output Narrative trial with 10 academics from a range of disciplines, and one former promotion panel member.
        </div>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>



<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;">
  <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/guide-05-policy.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">
   Policy and procedure
  </a>
</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th colspan="6"> (1) Is recognition and reward for open research included in all relevant policies and procedures?</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Include varied categories in promotion materials for researchers to show their achievements:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Explicitly include open research as a promotion criterion:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Include OR as an objective in annual appraisals:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Introduce narrative CVs for internal promotions:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Include a narrative section alongside traditional CVs:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Write policy clarifying expectations around use of metrics:</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/hr/policies/promotion/">Bristol</a>: Research, education, engagement and impact, leadership and citizenship<br><br>
          Leeds Beckett: Organises its promotion criteria in accordance with the narrative CV.
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/hr/policies/promotion/">Bristol</a>: ‘Producing open research outputs as appropriate by adopting good practice in, for example, sharing data and code, sharing materials, sharing digital outputs, publishing preprints and pre-registering study protocols.’ <br><br>
          <a href="https://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/4.-Research-Pathway-Criteria.pdf">Swansea</a>: ‘Adopting open research practices in support of research reproducibility and in line with disciplinary norms.’<br><br>
          Suffolk: ‘Leading Open Research Practices and Collaborative Initiatives: Lead efforts on open research including open access, citizen science and data sharing and reuse, collaborative open project, open source and share research data in open repositories. This includes mentoring researchers and effectively engaging with open research communities.’<br><br>
          Loughborough: Reach or Visibility category listing open access availability, data sharing, and code repositories as valid forms of evidence
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Nottingham Trent
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Manchester Metropolitan<br>
          <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-loughborough.html">Loughborough</a><br>
           <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-swansea.html">Swansea</a>
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          Bristol: Including a narrative CV alongside a traditional CV is now the standard for all academic promotions<br><br>
          Edinburgh<br><br>
          East Anglia: Narrative CVs are included in the recruitment process and for each application for academic promotion
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <a href="https://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/corporate-information/wlv-policies/research-indicators-metrics-policy/">Wolverhampton</a><br>
          <a href="https://www.lancashire.ac.uk/assets/research/rrm-policy-2022.pdf">Lancashire</a>
        </div>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>




<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;">
  <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/guide-06-support.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">
   Support, systems and processes
  </a>
</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
     <th style= "border-right: 1.5px solid black;"> (1) Is there sufficient support for recognising and rewarding open research from  support staff?</th>
     <th colspan="3" valign="top"> (2) Are the relevant administrative systems and processes adapted to support responsible researcher assessment?</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
     <tr>
     <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4; border-right: 1.5px solid black;" valign="top">Develop indicators to recognise the contribution of research support staff:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Produce standard texts for responsible research assessment and open research expectations for use in job advertisements:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Update application/promotion forms to include guidance on referencing non-traditional outputs:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Develop an open research tracker for reporting open research outputs:</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;" valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <!-- Add supporting-staff examples here if available -->
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <!-- Examples of standard texts for job adverts could be listed here -->
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">
          <!-- Notes about updated application/promotion forms -->
        </div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top" style="font-size: 0.75em;">
        <a href="https://www.openresearch.manchester.ac.uk/research-systems/">Manchester</a>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>




<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;">
  <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/guide-07-training.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">
   Guidance and Training
  </a>
</h1>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
     <th colspan="4" style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;">(1) Do you provide guidance and training on recognition and reward for open research to colleagues involved in activities that require the assessment of researchers?</th>
     <th colspan="4" valign="top">(2) Do you provide guidance and training to researchers subject to assessment?</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
     <tr>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Provide training for assessment panels on R&R for Open Research:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Provide responsible Metrics training:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Provide written guidance:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4; border-right: 1.5px solid black;" valign="top">Provide promotion panels with information:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Provide training on narrative CVs:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Provide promotions workshops:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Provide candidates with example narratives for different outputs:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Introduce a mentoring scheme:</td>
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      <td valign="top"><div style="font-size: 0.75em;">NTU (Confirmed but not yet implemented)<br><br>
      Bath: Mandatory for frequent assessors (Heads of Department, Deans and the Academic Staff Committee), but open to everyone.</div></td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">In-person:<br>
        Reading<br>
        <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/researchers/metrics/training/live-training/">Bristol</a><br><br>
        Libguide:<br>
        <a href="https://plymouth.libguides.com/research/responsiblemetrics">Plymouth</a><br>
        <a href="https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/research-skills/metrics">Cambridge</a><br>
        <a href="https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1406/researcher-support/17/research-analytics">Leeds</a><br>
        <a href="https://libguides.durham.ac.uk/research_support/evaluate_responsiblemetrics">Durham</a><br><br>
        Static Webpage:<br>
        <a href="https://manchester-uk.libanswers.com/OOR/faq/279172">Manchester</a><br>
        <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/researchers/metrics/">Bristol</a><br><br>
        Self-Study Module:<br>
        <a href="https://oercommons.org/courses/responsible-research-metrics-self-study-module-responsible-research-metrics-self-study-module?__hub_id=179">Southampton</a><br><br>
        Designated Contact for Queries:<br>
        <a href="https://www.openresearch.manchester.ac.uk/research-services/research-indicators/">Manchester</a>
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      <td valign="top"><div style="font-size: 0.75em;"><a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-loughborough.html">Loughborough</a>: Assessing narrative CVs<br><br>
      <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/18163834">Bath</a></div></td>
      <td style="border-right: 1.5px solid black;" valign="top"><div style="font-size: 0.75em;">A statement on the appropriate use of metrics:<br>
        Manchester Metropolitan<br><br>
        Responsibilities as DORA signatories:<br>
        Bristol
        </div>
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      <td valign="top"><div style="font-size: 0.75em;"><a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-bristol.html">Bristol</a>: Narrative CV Writing Workshops and a 'Developing your Narrative Promotion Case' training (both remote and in-person sessions). Anecdotally, the quality of narratives has been reported to have improved, and assessors feel more confident in reviewing them<br><br>
        <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-loughborough.html">Loughborough</a></div>
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      <td valign="top"><div style="font-size: 0.75em;" <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-swansea.html">Swansea</a>: Provided a series of central workshops and faculty-specific training sessions following the promotion framework update.</div></td>
      <td valign="top"><div style="font-size: 0.75em;"><a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-loughborough.html">Loughborough</a></div></td>
      <td valign="top"><div style="font-size: 0.75em;"> <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-swansea.html">Swansea</a>: Matched applying staff to mentors who have been recently successful in the application process<br><br>
      UEA: Matched more experienced researchers with ECRs to support incorporating OR into applications.</div></td>
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   Monitoring and evaluation
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      <th colspan="2"> (1) Have processes to monitor and report on compliance with implemented processes been established?</th>
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      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Commission researchers to review metrics use across the university:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #B0D8D4;" valign="top">Conduct a formal study on the effects of reforms:</td>
      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Collect feedback from applicants and assessors on an ongoing basis:</td>
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        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;">Reading: Analysed a sample of Personal Title Submissions and academic post applications for evidence of Open Research criteria being used.</div>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <div style="font-size: 0.75em;"> <a href="https://recognition.ukrn-openresearch.ac.uk/case-study-swansea.html">Swansea</a>: Used CoARA funding to formally evaluate reforms<br><br>
        KCL: Used Equality Impact Assessments to identify a need for change, and to measure progress following interventions.<br><br>
        <a href="https://www.arrc.group.cam.ac.uk/narrative-cv">Cambridge</a>: Conducting a research project on the effects of narrative CVs</div>
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   Research Planning
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     <th> (1) Are institutional research planning policies and procedures effectively aligned with open research criteria in research assessment?</th>
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      <td style="background-color: #F1B9D8;" valign="top">Develop some open research objectives for use in research planning activities:</td>
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