Research England have sent a letter to all universities announcing that the Research Excellence Framework for 2021 will be delayed until further notice, and that the original submission deadline of 27 November 2020 will no longer apply. A new deadline for submissions…
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Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish articles in in more than 1,850 of Springer’s journals at no further charge to the author. This covers original papers, review papers, brief communications and continuing education (usually medical). To be…
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The Scholarly Communications Team provides support to enable our researchers and doctoral researchers to publish and share their outputs. This includes: Advice relating to Open Access including funding and REF2021 Management of the Repository section of the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and Westminster Research, the University’s open access repository of…
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Important Update: due to the huge popularity of this open access offer, funds for 2020 have run out. Articles accepted for publication after 11 October 2020 will no longer be eligible, unless they are funded by either COAF / UKRI / Wellcome…
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All members of the Research Office including the Corporate Partnerships team and Scholarly Communications team are now working remotely. Please contact colleagues as normal, by email or via Microsoft Teams. If you’re not sure who to speak to email research-office@westminster.ac.uk…
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The University has this week become a signatory of the updated Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers. The revised Concordat is the result of an independent review into the effectiveness of the previous agreement and delineates the standards…
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Activity resulting from our inaugural round of community funding is now well underway, and we wanted to keep you abreast of what has happened so far. The four research communities were launched collectively on the 17th September last year, swiftly…
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In January, UKRI surprised the research community with an announcement that it would be dropping the Pathways to Impact attachment and the Impact Summary, which became mandatory for all Research Council proposals back in 2009. The line is that these…
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The University has a limited Article Processing Charge (APC) Application Fund to pay Open Access costs for journal articles. All applications are subject to the approval of the College Research Director and budget constraints, as the fund is very limited. The…
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In 2016, University of Westminster were given the Human Resources Excellence in Research Award in recognition of our vigorous and transparent implementation of a tailored strategy for improving the career development and management of researchers within the university in line…
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