Roger,
In reply to your concern over the UoA for your business education research,
I am in a similar position to you. I find that in the most recent RAE
assessment panel criteria, our particular disciplinary research output is
considered more favourably in UoA 68 which is Education. This point is
reinforced quite simply in its descriptors (on page 301 of the handbook)-
the area b. Cross Sectional Issues - highlights Assessment, curriculum,
teaching, pedagogy, learning and ICT in education as areas concerned with
research, and that is what I do!
For my own submission I have chosen to place it with UoA 68 for 2001. I
shall keep you appraised of developments.
Regards
Bob McClelland
Reader in Educational Technology
Liverpool Business School
Liverpool John Moores University
Mount Pleasant
Liverpool
L3 5UZ
England
UK
Tel: 0151 231 3420
Fax: 0151 707 0423
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Roger OTTEWILL(SBF) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 13 November 2000 07:54
>To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: HEFCE's review of research
>
>
>Dear Colleagues
>
>In response to the request for comments I should like to raise
>the vexed issue
>of whether pedagogic research outputs, specifically those
>relating to aspects
>of higher education, should be classified under the unit of
>assessment that
>most closely equates to the researcher's primary discipline or
>under Education.
>In my own case, for example, should my outputs relating to
>business education
>be treated as Business and Management (B&M) or Education? In
>my view neither is
>ideal. If they are allocated to B&M they are unlikely to
>receive adequate
>recognition because the emphasis is on disciplinary based
>research (although
>the position may be different in other subject areas).
>Education, however, is
>very much concerned with research relating to the primary and
>secondary levels
>of the education system.
>
>Perhaps one way forward would be to propose a new unit of
>assessment focusing
>on pedagogic research in (further?) and higher education.
>Although in paragraph
>11 of the excutive summary it is recommended 'that there
>should be no more ...
>than the presebnt number of subject areas (units of
>assessment) in the RAE.'
>Elsewhere, in paragraph 18, it is indicated that the creation
>of new units of
>assessment should be considered, albeit 'where combinations of
>disciplines are
>judged to have given rise to a new discipline'. Arguably,
>higher education
>research has reached a point where it can justifiably claim to
>be sufficiently
>distinctive to constitute a unit of asssessment for RAE
>purposes. If this is
>not acceptable, then it is very important to ensure
>consistency of treatment
>across units and institutions.
>
>Due to shortage of time, I have only be able to read the
>executive summary
>where this issue is not mentioned. It may, of course, be
>addressed elsewhere.
>Whatever the position, however, I do feel this is something on
>which the ILT
>should express a view given the importance which it attaches
>to research and
>scholarly teaching in the context of stimulating reflective
>practice and
>personal development.
>
>I hope this is helpful. Please let me know if there is
>anything on which you
>would like me to elaborate.
>
>Roger
>
>Centre for Business Education Research
>Sheffield Hallam University
>
>
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>>Dear Colleagues
>>
>>As you may know, the know HEFCE's Review of Research, which includes
>>proposals for the continuation of the RAE, is currently out for
>>consultation. The ILT plans to make a response to this paper
>and welcomes
>>comments from ILT members. These will inform the drafting
>of the response
>>by the ILT CEO Paul Clark.There are important implications
>for teaching and
>>the support of learning in the report. Among the issues are
>the role and
>>responsibility for
>>undertaking scholarship, the relationship between teaching
>and research,
>>theposition of pedagogic research, and the effects of the RAE
>on the status
>>of teaching in UK Higher Education. The
>>deadline for responses is 8 Decemberand we would welcome your
>comments prior
>>to Friday 24th November which can be posted on this mailbase
>or e mailed
>>directly to [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>All the documents are available on the HEFCE Web site:
>>(http://www.hefce.ac.uk/Research/default.htm
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