John
Thanks for organising this
Maggie
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:10:12 GMT0BST John Veit Wilson
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> This message is for members of the Social Policy Association and is about
> the criteria and methods which are to be used by the 2001 Research
> Assessment Exercise panel for unit of assessment 40 Social Policy and
> Administration [and similarly UoA 41 Social Work].
>
> Professor Susanne MacGregor will chair the joint panel of 40/41,
> and she addressed the recent annual conference of the SPA and outlined the
> draft criteria and methods to be used, to open a discussion before final
> decisions are taken. A discussion paper on these issues is to be issued
> and will be available on the HEFCE RAE website, as will the composition of
> the panel when it is finalised. It requries responses to be received
> before October 1999.
>
> The SPA encourages all members and others to read the discussion papers
> and take part in the debate, so that the process of assessment and
> the criteria to be used reflect the views of the social policy community
> as a whole. It is particularly important to make our views known to HEFCE,
> since the dominant paradigm often tends to be that of natural science
> whose criteria of excellence differ in significant respects from those of
> social science in general and social policy in particular.
>
> Anyone is naturally free to make their response direct to HEFCE [or their
> national funding council], but if anyone wishes to have theirs taken into
> account by and added to the response which the SPA Executive Committee
> will be making, then please send the response or other comments to me by
> the end of August.
>
> John Veit Wilson.
>
>
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> >From Professor J. H. Veit-Wilson
> Department of Social Policy
> University of Newcastle upon Tyne
> NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE1 7RU, England.
> Telephones: +44-191-222-7498 or +44-191-266-2428
> Fax: +44-191-222-7497.
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Maggie May
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