In view of comments on the RAE panel which reviewed Communication, Cultural
and Media Studies submissions, people might be interested in the membership
(below, from the RAE website). This doesn't strike me as a panel hostile to
cultural studies in general.
FD
Professor Philip Schlesinger University of Stirling
Professor John Corner Liverpool University
Professor John Ellis Bournemouth University
Professor Peter Golding Loughborough University
Dr Annette Kuhn Lancaster University
Professor Sonia M Livingstone London School of Economics and Political
Science
Professor Angela McRobbie Goldsmith's College
Professor Paddy Scannell University of Westminster
Professor Lola Young Middlesex University
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> From: Valentine, Jeremy
> Reply To: Valentine, Jeremy
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 17:28 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Closure of Birmingham cult studies/sociology
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> i think webster and colleagues response is exemplary but i doubt if many
> others would have the guts. in which case further heroism would be
> unlikely.
> but development of strategy and tactics is important.
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> my own thought is that the closure is a consequence of incredibly
> incompetent accounting and management in UKHEIs. closure is a quick and
> easy
> solution to the problem of books not balancing without having to address
> the
> source of the problem. to do that would require greater intelligence than
> HE
> managers possess. what gets closed is whatever is politically weakest
> irrespective of income generating capacity. this mirrors activity in the
> corporate world.
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> i think it is also interesting that the UK Media and Cultural Studies
> Association has been virtually silent on the issue. in fact, the
> controlling
> interests in that organisation composed the greater part of the media and
> cultural studies panel for the RAE. the panel's report contained some
> implicit and thinly disguised criticisms of cultural studies as an
> activity
> and the grades awarded to departments suggested that work that did not fit
> a
> rather narrow media studies agenda was penalised.
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> so one strategy seems to be a politicisation of the RAE and of the
> professional organisations that run it.
>
> Dr Jeremy Valentine
> Department of Media and Communication
> Queen Margaret University College
> Clerwood Terrace
> Edinburgh
> E12 8TS
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