New dashboards give universities an even more accurate picture of how their engagement with communities, businesses and other institutions compares to similar institutions.

Research England has released an updated version of its Knowledge Exchange Framework dashboards, which was developed in partnership with the Jisc data analytics team.

The Knowledge Exchange Framework aims to showcase the value of knowledge exchange activities between higher education providers (HEP) in England and their diversity of partners.

By quantifying the performance of institutions and grouping those with similar profiles, the framework helps them to evaluate their own performance in new ways. It also improves the status of knowledge exchange across higher education, drives strategic and evolved approaches, and enhances sector data.

KEF2 builds on the first iteration of the framework, launched in March 2021, after feedback from HEPs to improve its performance. It uses updated data and an evolved methodology to examine the performance of English HEPs from a variety of new perspectives.

The Jisc data analytics team, in partnership with Research England, have created the new dashboards to deliver methodological and user-focussed improvements, along with updated data on the knowledge exchange activities of the sector.

It incorporates new data from the last two years, ensuring HEPs have an up-to-date representation of their performance.

The new improvements in KEF2 include:

• New dashboard landing page to give users more flexibility
• Evolved methodology and updates to the current metrics
• Enhanced presentation of the results with more detailed descriptions

The interactive and simple-to-use dashboards allow HEPs to explore the scores of all participating institutions across England and compare them to others quickly and easily. 

Take a look at the new KEF2 site, and read more about the new features of the dashboards in this blog post by our data analytics team.