The RAE
SLS Response to RAE Consultation
The SLS reponse to the latest RAE 2008 Consultation may be read here. (PDF)
RAE Presentation
To access the presentation on the RAE given by Professors Wells and Bell at the recent SLS Conference please click here. (Flash). PDF.
RAE Sub Panel for Law
The Sub Panel membership can be read here:
http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/sls-news/story.cfm?no=18
Preparations for the next RAE and Law panel membership
The funding councils have just issued Circular RAE 01/2004 (see http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/) which sets out some initial decisions and the provisional timetable for the next RAE. For example, we now know that the census date will be 31 October 2007 and the closing date for submissions will be 30 November 2007. In order to be eligible for submission, publications must appear between 1 January 2001 and 31 July 2007. We are also told that submissions may list no more than four ëoutputsí for each named researcher; a lower maximum may be set by some panels. In the short term we await a consultation paper, due in March 2004, about the panel structure and methods of recruiting panel members. There remain several important but as yet unresolved issues about the assessment methodology for the next RAE (not to mention its funding consequences) on which the Society will be making representations. The Society has already expressed its firm view that Law should remain a separate unit of assessment with its own panel. Please see http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/text/position-papers/index.cfm
In the course of the next few months the Society will be drawing up a list of nominations for panel membership. In due course members of the Societyís Council and Subject Section convenors will be invited to suggest names for nomination. These will be considered in confidence by the Societyís Research Sub-Committee and Executive Committee before the final list is submitted to the funding councils. We will also be liaising with colleagues in CHULS, SLSA and ALT with a view to achieving as much consensus as is possible. The Societyís initial thinking is that the final panel needs to reflect a balance between various considerations. These include proper coverage of core areas of legal scholarship and adequate coverage of other major areas (e.g. public international law); a geographical spread across the UK with representatives of both ëoldí and ënewí law schools; a good female/male balance; representation of doctrinal, theoretical and socio-legal research; some continuity from the 2001 RAE Law panel etc). According to the timetable set out in RAE 01/2004, the main panel and sub-panel members will be announced in November 2004.
Prof Nick Wikeley
Hon Secretary
27.02.04