UCARIS: Developing a research information system for a specialist arts institution

In response to the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) research quality assurance assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework in 2014 (REF), the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) identified a need to establish a centralised information system to gather, manage and maintain relevant data relating to its research and researchers in order to effectively prepare for the university’s REF submission.