“…With the latter in mind we include valuable articles about REF and impact 7 and about evidence-based healthcare. 8 For the use of research in teaching, there is a "Guest Editorial about OPTIMAX 9 and associated with this are four research articles, 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 to illustrate how students can engage in research to learn about the research process and produce outcomes. There is an interesting article outlining how crowd sourcing can help inform curriculum design 14 and a pan-European article offers a perspective on radiographer research into radiation protection and its implementation.…”