{"id":852,"date":"2022-08-05T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/marketing\/?p=852"},"modified":"2022-08-05T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:31:05","slug":"representing-ref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/2022\/08\/05\/representing-ref\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing REF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 results were released earlier this year, with York in the top 10 of universities across the UK for the quality of our research work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate our success, we wanted to create consistent content for our website, social media channels and communications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Using elements from our new brand, we designed a bold new graphic approach that could be used across platforms, and adapted to promote subject-specific messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-research-2022-08-04-13_00_05.png?resize=660%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-research-2022-08-04-13_00_05.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-research-2022-08-04-13_00_05.png?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-research-2022-08-04-13_00_05.png?resize=768%2C407&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption>Our new research graphic in place on the University&#8217;s research web page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-history-research-2022-08-05-10_22_39-797x1024.png?resize=660%2C848&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-history-research-2022-08-05-10_22_39.png?resize=797%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 797w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-history-research-2022-08-05-10_22_39.png?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-history-research-2022-08-05-10_22_39.png?resize=768%2C987&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/screencapture-york-ac-uk-history-research-2022-08-05-10_22_39.png?w=1188&amp;ssl=1 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a0The new graphic and REF content on our Department of History research page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/1920x1080-digital-screen-REF2021-institutional-message.jpg?resize=600%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-856\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/1920x1080-digital-screen-REF2021-institutional-message.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/1920x1080-digital-screen-REF2021-institutional-message.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Digital screen content displayed across the University campus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Case studies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To promote the case studies that were reviewed by REF, we carried through the York text and bold imagery for consistency, but used a range of other colours from our brand palette to distinguish them from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/Mining-history-UoY-REF2021-22_classic-720x220px44.jpg?resize=660%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/Mining-history-UoY-REF2021-22_classic-720x220px44.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/Mining-history-UoY-REF2021-22_classic-720x220px44.jpg?resize=300%2C92&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/Health-for-heroes-UoY-REF2021-22_classic-720x220px31.jpg?resize=660%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/Capture-2.png?resize=288%2C300&amp;ssl=1 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Social media<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">As well as case study content, we provided do-it-yourself templates for academic departments to share REF results on their social media channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">For the University&#8217;s social media channels we used the same graphics as the website and digital screen content.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" 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