Additional nominations to the REF sub-panel by the Women’s Classical Committee UK
by lizgloyn
We note that the the Research Excellence Framework 2021 has invited nominating bodies to make further nominations to REF sub-panels. We ask candidates who seek nomination to the REF Classics sub-panel by the Women’s Classical Committee UK to provide answers to the questions below (in brief bullet points) by Friday 27th March 2020, and to send them to the WCC UK’s Administrator, Liz Gloyn, at womensclassicalcommittee at gmail.com. The questions mirror those asked in the HEFCE nomination form, with the addition of Q6 which is specific to the WCC UK.
The sub-panel seek nominations in the following areas:
- Subpanel member (practicing researcher) with expertise in ancient philosophy
- Subpanel member (practicing researcher) with expertise in Language, Linguistics and Literature (with particular expertise in the early Aegean)
- Impact assessor from the heritage sector with a focus on classical antiquity
- Impact assessor from the museums sector with a focus on classical antiquity
- A specialist advisor in the Ancient Near East: language & textual sources
- A specialist advisor in Ancient (Pharaonic) Egypt: language & textual sources –
- A specialist advisor in Modern Greek: history and culture
Candidates may familiarize themselves with the role and duties of sub-panel members, including the workload and provisional timetable, available at https://www.ref.ac.uk/panels/nominating-panel-members/ and https://www.ref.ac.uk/publications/roles-and-recruitment-of-the-expert-panels-ref-201703/.
We will be making nomination decisions based on the published HEFCE criteria (captured in these questions), with the additional criterion that your nomination should further the WCC UK’s aims (for which see question 6). We will evaluate candidates of all genders according to the same criteria. We note that at present, of the 14 current members of sub-panel 29, 10 are women; we will be taking this gender imbalance and its implications for unequal distribution of the service workload into consideration in our nominations. The WCC UK will avoid nominating from institutions already represented on the sub-panel wherever possible.
Forms will be circulated to our Steering Committee for comment, before a final nomination decision is made by a small sub-committee formed from current SC members. A full list of SC members and liaisons can be found on our website. We do not intend to publish the list of those nominated by WCC UK.