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Dear Anita Thanks for your quick response. I am posting this on-list because of its interest and importance to the community. The update on the changed membership and the links provided are useful. 1) What does MeCCSA propose to do differently this time and how is the exec board interpreting the policy you cited from the REF docs for the subject area? 2) How does it propose to encourage more BAME members to apply and therefore address the diversity gap? Best Dr Anita Howarth ________________________________ From: Anita Biressi <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 28 February 2020 13:29 To: Anita Howarth (Staff) <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [BULK] Re: [BULK] Sub-panel 34 Membership call: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Unsubscribe It appears that you have subscribed to commercial messages from this sender. 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I have replied to each query in turn below. With Best Wishes, Anita Anita Biressi PhD Professor of Media and Society Chair MeCCSA: https://www.meccsa.org.uk/ Dept. Media, Culture and Language Southlands College Room QB 026 University of Roehampton | London | SW15 5SL [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | www.roehampton.ac.uk<http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/> Tel: +44 (0) 20 8392 3396 ________________________________ From: Anita Howarth (Staff) <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 28 February 2020 12:49 To: Anita Biressi <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Fw: [BULK] Sub-panel 34 Membership call: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Dear Anita I'd appreciate some clarification in response to your call for nominations for further members and assessors to the REF panel for media. 1) Is the executive board the same panel as decided on the first set of nominations? No, because we underwent an election last month. The new Executive membership is listed below and the website is being updated: Wing-Fai Leung Anita Biressi Karen Boyle Cindy Carter John Downey Gillian Doyle Peter Golding Agnes Gulyas Lawrie Hallett Ben Harbisher Graham Meikle Elizabeth Poole Robert Porter Karen Ross Caroline Ruddell Ruth Sanz Sabido Einar Thorsen Milly Williamson 2) Who on the exec board is also on the REF panel and how will any conflict of interests arising from the determination of further nominations be addressed? Two members of the board are on the REF panel - Karen Ross and Karen Boyle. We anticipated this issue and so they have sought advice already on any conflict of interest from REF and we will be following good practice as advised. 3) Given that the board is overwhelmingly white and its nomination process last time delivered an entirely white REF panel, what provision will be made this time for equality and diversity considerations in the nominating process? You may already be aware that the sub panel is seeking expertise in areas including race and postcolonial studies . Details here:https://www.ref.ac.uk/panels/nominating-panel-members/. . In terms of considerations during the review: we are required as a body to abide by the equality and diversity commitment of the REF.ac.uk ; this includes ensuring that an equality and diversity template is completed by nominating bodies making nominations in this round. In addition to looking at nominations for their expertise fit we will be following this remit as set out here : https://www.ref.ac.uk/panels/nominating-panel-members/ "The funding bodies are seeking nominations of candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds, institution types and geographical region. We particularly welcome nominations of candidates from under-represented groups, including people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. We recognise that diversity of perspective and experience contributes fundamental insight and value to the work of the REF panels, and that this insight and value comes not only from academic achievement but also from other aspects of panel members’ lives." Centrally, REF also notes of its own processes " We have introduced several measures to the recruitment process for panel members, which are aimed at increasing the representativeness of the REF panel membership. This reflects the funding bodies’ wider commitment to supporting equality and diversity in research careers." 4) What proportion of the applications you received last time were from BAME candidates? I wasn't chairing at the time but my recollection was that fewer than 5 % of people who put themselves forward identified as BAME i.e two people. I am not intending to put my name forward for nomination however as a member of MeCCSA I am very concerned about due process and the lack of diversity in the last round. I'm posting these questions on list because the answers are likely to be of interest to others and the nomination process should be driven by a community agenda with transparency and accountability. I look forward to your response. Best Dr Anita Howarth For the community's information, here is a link to the exec committee https://www.meccsa.org.uk/about/committee/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meccsa.org.uk%2Fabout%2Fcommittee%2F&data=02%7C01%7CA.Biressi%40roehampton.ac.uk%7Cdc9fdfa3ccdd4e2cc16808d7bc4ca869%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C637184909746229241&sdata=pm67YvbRATD9ZHyn8pF1G%2Bdbq5xvPxzIQWiObtgL4%2FI%3D&reserved=0> This is the list of members on the website: Executive committee * Chair: Anita Biressi,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> University of Roehampton (2019-2020) * Vice Chair: Milly Williamson,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Goldsmiths, University of London (2019-2020) * Hon Sec: Peter Golding,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Northumbria University (2019-2020) * Treasurer: Karen Ross,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Newcastle University (2018-2019) * Karen Boyle,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> University of Strathclyde (2019-2020) * Raymond Boyle,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> University of Glasgow (2018-2019) * Joanna Callaghan,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> University of Sussex (2019-2020) * Cynthia Carter,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Cardiff University (2018-2019) * John Downey,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Loughborough University (2018-2019) * Agnes Gulyas,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Canterbury Christ Church University (2018-2019) * Jamie Medhurst,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Aberystwyth University (2018-2019) * John Mercer,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Birmingham City University (2018-2019) * Elizabeth Poole,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Keele University (2018-2019) * Robert Porter,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Ulster University (2019-2020) * Caroline Ruddell,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Brunel University London (2018-2019) * Naomi Sakr,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> University of Westminster (2018-2019) * Ruth Sanz Sabido,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Canterbury Christ Church University (2019-2020) * Einar Thorsen,<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Bournemouth University (2018-2019) ________________________________ From: Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Anita Biressi <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 26 February 2020 17:16 To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [BULK] Sub-panel 34 Membership call: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Unsubscribe It appears that you have subscribed to commercial messages from this sender. 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Nominations are invited from any association or organisation with an interest in the conduct, quality, funding or use of research (except individual UK HEIs, groups within or subsidiaries of individual HEIs, and HE mission groups). MeCCSA is an accredited ‘nominating body’. If you consider that you fit the criteria specified in the call, please send me all the required details by no later than 6pm on Monday 23rd March to enable the MeCCSA Executive Committee to consider nominations and submit any for consideration by the funding bodies before their deadline. Please use the REF February 2020 Nominations form [word version of the template at https://www.ref.ac.uk/panels/nominating-panel-members/ ] to summarise your details. 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