As indicated by the rich body of research on the influence on HEIs of the previous rounds of the RAE, the newly-introduced impact assessment for resource allocation purposes via the REF is likely to affect strategic decisions in HEIs at institutional and departmental level, as well as the individual behaviour of researchers and research teams [ 41- 45].
Allan and Curtis (2005) identified seven unspoken 'imperatives' that propel the behaviour of both research and management.
Given the behaviour-shaping effects of research evaluation, the paper demonstrates how the proposed changes could help embed impact considerations among the routine reflexive tools of university researchers and enhance rather than restrict academic autonomy at the level of research units.
Teaching children about the environment can affect the knowledge and behaviour of parents, says research by Imperial scientists in the Seychelles.
This study has shown that completion of a questionnaire related to physical health does not influence the consulting behaviour of participants in research studies.
In their 1960 paper about bats using echolocation to find and track flying insects, Donald R. Griffin, Fredric A. Webster and Charles R. Michael (Animal Behaviour, 8, 141 154) changed the face of research on this behaviour.
To learn how academic research can influence policy, researchers need to know more about commissioning, commissioners' information seeking behaviour and the role of research in their decisions.
Contrary to other areas of behaviour change research where control group improvements have been observed [ 7- 9], in behavioural weight loss interventions control groups mostly showed negligible changes in weight status.
Among health behaviour theories that identify similar constructs as important determinants of health behaviour, current research provides no clear indication of the superiority of any single approach [ 17].
Moreover, the IMB model has been shown to provide a good basis for understanding and predicting HIV-relevant health behaviour and health behaviour change in almost two decades of research [ 24].
