This is to alert you to the fact that the draft guidelines for the social
policy, social work and health studies panel for the revision of the ESRC
postgraduate training guidelines are very shortly to be posted on the ESRC
website. These have been prepared by a panel chaired by myself and
including Jane Lewis (Oxford), Joan Orme(Glasgow), Fran
Wasoff(Edinburgh), Geraldine Macdonald(Bristol) and Meg Huby(York).
We are asked to send a final version in light of comments received, to the
ESRC on December 5. I appreciate this is a very tight timetable but it is
not of our making. If anyone - individual or group - has comments, please
send them to me very soon and by November 28 at the latest. Comments
on social work constituency issues can be sent to Joan Orme (email at head
of this note) but should be copied to me: please send any comments to my
work email below, not to the address at the top of this page which is my
home email and is being used only because I have been marooned by the
York floods on and off for the last few days. It would help if any
comments could be in the form of specific revisions to the text which I can
share with the panel, rather than in the form of general comments.
We have taken the view that some repetition of comments made in the
generic guidance produced by the ESRC is necessary to protect the
interests of our constituencies; but that it was not necessary to have
separate statements for each of the three areas represented with this panel.
Any HEI wishing to seek recognition in future exercises, we felt, would
draw on these guidelines as a general framework but could also make
specific reference to particular sections where that seemed appropriate to
their interests.We have also taken account of the fact that the generic
guidance produced by the ESRC remains the subject of contestation; a
letter sent by one panel chair to the Chair of the ESRC Postgraduate
Training Board has suggested that the generic guidance is confused,
incoherent and overly-prescriptive and has called for the generic guidance
to be rewritten. Our guidance therefore attempts to ensure that any issues
which are felt to be particularly significant for our constituencies remain
within the specific area guidance even where this may result in some
repetition.
Again, it has been difficult to identify the precise boundaries of our
constituencies so I would be grateful if colleagues can copy this note into
any other mailbases they feel may be relevant. Joan Orme is taking
responsibility for notifying social work colleagues.
Gary Craig
NB Again, please send any correspondence to me at my work email or
postal address below and not to my home email. Thanks.
Professor Gary Craig
Professor of Social Justice
University of Hull
Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
email (work) [log in to unmask]
phone (work) +44 (0) 1482 465780
fax (work) +44 (0) 1482 466088
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