RAE Briefing: Guidance to Panels

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RAE BriefingGuidance to Panels

• Graham Dockray

http//www.rae.ac.uk.pubs/2005/01
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Outline

• Guidance to Panels document, Jan 2005
• Equality briefing document, Jan 2005
• Institutional strategies

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Guidance to Panels document, Jan 2005

• Instructions to Panels Sub-Panels on
  developing assessment criteria and working
  methods
• General information to HEIs on RAE2008
• Main principles underpinning RAE2008

No action is required by higher education
institutions.
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RAE2008 Underpinning principles

• Primacy of expert review, supported by
  quantitative indicators
• Neutral
• Comprehensive (all types of research)
• Sustainability (role of less experienced
  researchers)

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RAE2008 this year
Summer 2005 Guidance on submissions Summer
2005 Draft criteria working methods 31st
Dec 2005 Final criteria working methods
Hard work over summer
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RAE2008 2007-8
31 July 2007 Income/PGR data 31 Oct 2007
Census date 30 Nov 2007 Submission date 31
Dec 2007 Final date for outputs Dec 2008
Results
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RAE2008 submissions

• Essentially the same as 2001
• - RA1 (staff details, category A,B,C,D)
• - RA2 (outputs, up to 4)
• - RA3 (students, degrees studentships)
• - RA4 (external funding)
• - RA5 (environment, esteem,
• staff circumstances)

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RAE2008 submissions

• We will encourage HEIs to submit the work of
  all their excellent researchers.
• Take account of .early career researchers .
• We will not collect . information about staff
  who have not been included
• No category A staff
• Sub-panels will assess role and contribution of
  category C staff

but institutions to make individualised staff
return to HESA
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RAE2008 outputs

• Maximum outputs submitted (up to 4) to be
  determined by sub-panels ( agreed with panels)
• If sub-panels consider volume of output is
  significant . It should say how this will be
  taken into account

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RAE2008 criteria assessment

• .. any variation in criteria between
  sub-panels is in keeping with the extent to which
  research approaches and methods vary between
  disciplines
• Sub-panels may request via the RAE team referral
  of all or parts of submissions to another
  sub-panel or specialist advisors
• ensure that interdisciplinary research is
  assessed by people best placed to assess it

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RAE2008 environment esteem (RA5)

• RA5 for RAE2008 combines RA5 RA6 in 2001
• Panel/sub-panel level guidance on structure
• Up to 13 suggested sections (groups, fit,
  strategy, infrastructure, support, development,
  staff turnover, culture, plans, progress, esteem
  etc)
• RA5b, special staff circumstances

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RAE2008 Main Panels determine

• Relative contribution of
• - research outputs
• - research environment
• - esteem indicators
• PGR and income data assessed as environment or
  esteem

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RAE2008 Quantitative data

• 23 standard analyses
• - Staff returned, fellows, NHS-staff
• - RAs (total per fte)
• - PGRs studentships (total per fte)
• - Income by source (total per fte)
• analyses by submission and by UoA

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Multiples of 5
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RAE2008 grade definitions
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RAE2008 outcomes

• Grading profile (determines QR)
• Feedback on each submission
• Report by main panel
• Factual information on website

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Equality briefing . document, Jan 2005

• Alerts Panels to scope and implications of
  equality legislation
• Panels to develop methods criteria that
  encourage HEIs to submit work of all of their
  excellent researchers including those whose
  volume of research output may have been limited
  for reasons covered by equal opportunities
  legislation

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RAE 2008 Equality issues

• HEIs required to confirm that they have
  developed, adopted and documented an appropriate
  internal code of practice in preparing
  submissions and selecting staff for inclusion
• Further details in Guidance on submissions,
  summer 2005

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Local strategies, 2005 onwards

• Departmental research strategy statements
• - based on RA5 (para headings etc)
• - annual (April/May 2005, 2006,2007)
• - peer-assessment against checklist
• Shadow Panels rolling out spring 2005
• Code of Practice late 2005
• Institutional document roles, responsibilities,
• timetable (mapped to Guidance to Submissions,
  autumn 2005)