Preparations for the Research Excellence Framework

The Research Committee agreed to establish both an REF Working Party, to advise on strategy and oversee the actual submission to the REF, and an REF Support Group, to oversee College preparations for data provision and other administrative support for the REF, at its meeting in April 2009.

The Working Party and Support Group have now been constituted with the following membership:

REF Working Party
Professor Stephen Frosh [Chair]
Professor Joanna Bourke [School of Social Science, History and Philosophy]
Professor Martin Eimer [School of Science]
Professor John Kelly [School of Business, Economics and Informatics]
Dr John Kraniauskas [School of Arts]
Professor Esther Leslie [School of Arts]
Professor Fiona Macmillan [School of Law] (note: Professor Patricia Tuitt will serve on the Working Party while Professor Macmillan is on sabbatical leave in 2009/10)
Trevor Pearce [Registry]
Professor Sasha Roseneil [School of Social Science, History and Philosophy]

REF Support Group
Keith Harrison [Chair]
Robert Atkinson [Deputy Librarian]
Liz Francis [Head, Research Grants and Contracts]
Annette Groark [Human Resources Manager]
Dean Pateman [Academic Registrar]
Philip Payne [Librarian]
Trevor Pearce [Deputy Academic Registrar (Academic Services)]