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Philip Esler, the Chief Executive of the AHRC, has responded to our letter seeking clarification on the AHRC’s position regarding the European Reference Index for the Humanities. You can read the original letter here, and the AHRC’s response here.

Meanwhile, the Australian Research Council has announced its intention to use a similar ranking to rate research quality in Australian universities. Click on the links below to read some opinion pieces in The Australian Higher Education:

Helen Beebee, ‘Little joy for rank outsiders’, 23 July 08
John Byron (Executive Director, Australian Academy of the Humanities), ‘The measure of the humanities’, 16 July 08
Steve Buckle, ‘Rankings sullied by bias’, 9 July 08
Douglas Kirsner, ‘Journals losing their edge’, 9 July 08
Andrew Brennan & Jeff Malpas, ‘Borderless art made tongue-tied by authority’, 2 July 08

The following people have been elected to the Executive Committee:

Michael Brady (Glasgow)
Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)
Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)
Adrian Moore (Oxford, re-elected)

Michael, Jeremy and Gordon replace Dudley Knowles, David Archard and Duncan Pritchard. Dan Hutto has finished his term as Treasurer and is no longer a supernumerary member of the Committee.

If you are a BPA member, you should receive email notification of the election for positions on the Executive Committee by Thursday 19 June. If you don’t, please contact us on admin@bpa.ac.uk to check your membership status. The election will close on 7 July. The candidates for the 4 vacant positions are:

Michael Brady, Stephen Burwood, Jeremy Butterfield, Gordon Finlayson, Adrian Moore, Garrath Williams.

Click here for the candidates’ election statements.

Click here to see the letter sent by the BPA to the AHRC concerning the European Reference Index for the Humanities.

1. The following three members of the Executive Committee are coming to the end of their term: Adrian Moore (Oxford), Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh) and Dudley Knowles (Glasgow). (The BPA Constitution prevents Dudley Knowles from standing for election again.) In addition, David Archard (Lancaster) has resigned from the Committee for personal reasons. Nominations are invited for candidates to fill these four positions.

2. Any full member, individual or corporate (philosophy departments or equivalent units, learned societies, and schools which teach philosophy), can nominate any full individual member to be a candidate for the positions. However, cannot vote in the election. If you wish to nominate someone who is not a full individual member then please urge them to apply for membership as soon as possible so that they can qualify as a nominee before the date for the close of nominations.

3. If more than four candidates are nominated, an election will be held.

4. If an election is held, all candidates will be invited to provide a short statement, which will be placed on the BPA web site to aid members in deciding how to cast their votes.

5. Nominations by full individual members require a proposer and seconder (who must also be a full member) and, of course, the consent of the individual nominated.

6. Nominations by corporate members do not require a seconder (being regarded as a nomination by a number of people) but do require the consent of the nominee.

7. The proposer and seconder – or the person nominating on behalf of a corporate member – should send their nominations to Hanne De Jaegher, at admin@bpa.ac.uk, to arrive no later than Friday 6 June 2008. Emails must come from the email address that we have on record as your contact email address.

8. The current members of the Executive Committee are listed here.

9. After 6 June, members will be informed that an election will be held (and the procedures for the election) or that the nominated individuals have been appointed unopposed to the Executive Committee.

10. In the event of an election, information will be sent by email to all those members for whom the Association has an email address and posted to all others. NB. Each member eligible to vote will be able to cast a maximum of four votes; i.e. they will be able to express a preference for each of the vacancies. The closing date for the receipt of votes will be advised but will be prior to the AGM (Aberdeen, Sunday 13 July). The election result will be announced to successful and unsuccessful candidates prior to the AGM, and to all other members at the AGM.

11. If you are unsure whether you are currently a member of the BPA, please email Hanne De Jaegher at admin@bpa.ac.uk and ask her to check our records.

1. The following three members of the Executive Committee are coming to the end of their term: Adrian Moore (Oxford), Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh) and Dudley Knowles (Glasgow). (The BPA Constitution prevents Dudley Knowles from standing for election again.) In addition, David Archard (Lancaster) has resigned from the Committee for personal reasons. Nominations are invited for candidates to fill these four positions.

2. Any full member, individual or corporate (philosophy departments or equivalent units, learned societies, and schools which teach philosophy), can nominate any full individual member to be a candidate for the positions. However, cannot vote in the election. If you wish to nominate someone who is not a full individual member then please urge them to apply for membership as soon as possible so that they can qualify as a nominee before the date for the close of nominations.

3. If more than four candidates are nominated, an election will be held.

4. If an election is held, all candidates will be invited to provide a short statement, which will be placed on the BPA web site to aid members in deciding how to cast their votes.

5. Nominations by full individual members require a proposer and seconder (who must also be a full member) and, of course, the consent of the individual nominated.

6. Nominations by corporate members do not require a seconder (being regarded as a nomination by a number of people) but do require the consent of the nominee.

7. The proposer and seconder – or the person nominating on behalf of a corporate member – should send their nominations to Hanne De Jaegher, at admin@bpa.ac.uk, to arrive no later than Friday 6 June 2008. Emails must come from the email address that we have on record as your contact email address.

8. The current members of the Executive Committee are listed here.

9. After 6 June, members will be informed that an election will be held (and the procedures for the election) or that the nominated individuals have been appointed unopposed to the Executive Committee.

10. In the event of an election, information will be sent by email to all those members for whom the Association has an email address and posted to all others. NB. Each member eligible to vote will be able to cast a maximum of four votes; i.e. they will be able to express a preference for each of the vacancies. The closing date for the receipt of votes will be advised but will be prior to the AGM (Aberdeen, Sunday 13 July). The election result will be announced to successful and unsuccessful candidates prior to the AGM, and to all other members at the AGM.

11. If you are unsure whether you are currently a member of the BPA, please email Hanne De Jaegher at admin@bpa.ac.uk and ask her to check our records.

Submissions are invited for the 2008 Lloyd Davies Philosophy Prize, awarded by Oriel College Oxford, for a philosophical essay written by a year 12/lower 6th student. Closing date 10 September 2008. Click here for more information.

Following the consultation on the REF, Hefce have announced that “for all subjects the assessment will include some combination of metrics-based indicators, including bibliometrics where appropriate, as well as input from expert panels”. For more information, click here.

Following the consultation on the REF, Hefce have announced that “for all subjects the assessment will include some combination of metrics-based indicators, including bibliometrics where appropriate, as well as input from expert panels”. For more information, click here.

Following the consultation on the REF, Hefce have announced that “for all subjects the assessment will include some combination of metrics-based indicators, including bibliometrics where appropriate, as well as input from expert panels”. For more information, click here.