I guess these questions will need discussion with the subject panels,
which are being appointed now. The panel leaders have been announced:
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/panels/chairs.pdf
But does anyone know which panel covers creative writing?
Matthew Francis wrote:
>
> Like many other university creative writers, we at Aberystwyth are
> currently trying to work out how best to structure our submission for
> the 2014 REF. The message we have been getting is that 2* submissions
> are not going to be good enough and that we should be aiming for 3*
> and 4*. But we are far from clear what sort of submissions would
> receive these classifications. Here are some of the questions we have
> been asking:
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> Is a single-authored novel or collection of poems with a major
> publisher the gold standard for creative submissions and most likely
> to receive 4*? What factors would be taken into account in deciding
> what rating to give it?
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> What about smaller presses? Would these automatically receive lower
> ratings? What about those which are considered prestigious in their
> field, like Carcanet or Bloodaxe in poetry?
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> Is a cluster of poems in magazines likely to receive one of the lower
> ratings? What magazines would be more likely to influence a rating
> positively? Is, say, /TLS/ better than /PN Review/?
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> Is it better to submit a book of short stories, which might have a lot
> of work in it but be published by a small press with a limited
> circulation, or a scholarly article which might have less work but be
> published in an academically reputable magazine?
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> Is creative work likely to be higher-rated if it shows evidence of
> being based on research (eg, a historical novel)? If it /is/
> research-based will it do badly in comparison with a scholarly work
> based on similar material? (Especially given the fact that the
> creative work will probably not be as rigorous in its use of the
> material, eg no footnotes).
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> Dr Matthew Francis
>
> Reader in Creative Writing
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> Department of English and Creative Writing
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> Aberystwyth University
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> Aberystwyth
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> Phone: 01970 622469
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