

The Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Network aims to encourage and broker the sharing of good learning and teaching practice across our subject areas of UK higher education.

Our Associate Director, Prof David Botterill, has recently reviewed the responses of Subject Associations in the HLST subjects grouping to the consultation on the REF (Research Excellence Framework) and considered the possible impact of the REF on research in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism, the teaching/research nexus, and the "visibility" of research in our subject areas.
The position paper can be downloaded below.
Update: 16th September 2010
An ammended and final version of the REF Position Paper has now been published and can be downloaded below.