CGF members,
a posting made on behalf of a member of the forum. If others have
interesting RAE experiences, I'll post them for you anonymously.
cheers,
Lawrence
quote...
My current 'day job' is providing the admin support to a major London
medical school's preparations for the RAE. While it is not directly related
to geography, my experience in this Russell Group institution is certainly
that active researchers will be excluded from the School's RAE returns
because their research is not considered to be of a high enough standard or
even the 'right' type of research. It looks very likely that the School is
about to go through a redundancy exercise and whilst I have no hard evidence
that RAE performance will be a criteria in decideing who to go, I would be
very surprised if it was not - a number of staff have certainly been
encouraged to take early retirement or move to NHS contracts because their
research was not considered strong enough. Again, I don't no if these
criteria are being applied outside of the clinical disciplines, but (despite
the explicit assurances from HEFCE that bibliometric measures will not be
used in the RAE) my seniuor colleagues seem to be looking at journals'
impact factors when making their decisions as to who to include in the RAE -
hence where you publish seems to be far more important that what you
publish.
Whilst I find all of this disturbing and distasteful, it is the logic of the
RAE....
....unquote
dr. lawrence d. berg
department of geography
okanagan university college
7000 college way
vernon, b.c., V1B 2N5
canada
phone: 250/545-7291 ext. 2264
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