Bella Reichard
Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Bella’s thesis is entitled ‘REF2014 Impact Case Studies - Description or Persuasion?’
Research project title
REF2014 Impact Case Studies - Description or Persuasion?
Supervisors
Dr Adam Mearns, Prof Mark Reed (SNES) and Prof Andrea Whittle (NUBS)
Contact details
Email: b.reichard2@ncl.ac.uk
Research interests
- corpus linguistics
- research impact
A brief outline of the research project
My work is focused on REF2014 Impact Case Studies. I am investigating whether there are linguistic differences between case studies that received the highest score (4*) and those that received low scores (1*/2*). To this end, I have built a corpus of all known 4* Impact Case Studies from REF2014 across different Units of Assessment and another corpus of the known 1*/2* case studies in those Units of Assessment where high-scoring case studies are identifiable. I am comparing different language features across high- and low-scoring case studies. So far, I have compared keywords and lexical bundles, as well as conducted a readability analysis using Coh-Metrix.
- Reichard, B., Reed, M.S., Chubb, J., Hall, G., Jowett, L., Peart, A., Whittle, A. (2020) Writing impact case studies: a comparative study of high-scoring and low-scoring case studies from REF2014. Palgrave Communications 6, 31
- 2019: Language in REF2014 Impact Case Studies – What additional knowledge can we use for 2021? Part of the panel Understanding, finding and demonstrating additionality for REF2021 with Sumi David (University of Exeter) and Juergen Wastl (Digital Science) at ARMA conference, Belfast, 18 June
- 2018: Comparing high-scoring and low-scoring REF2014 Impact Case Studies. Presentation at CCR Birmingham Corpus Linguistics Summer School, Birmingham, 27 June
- 2017: Academic Writing across Genres: Language Choices in Research Articles and Impact Case Studies. Paper presented at CLAVIER conference, Bari, Italy, 1 December
- 2019: Invited workshop with the Office of National Statistics communications team about writing impact case studies
- consultancy for university impact offices and academics in preparing impact case studies for REF2021 based on my doctoral research