Gavin E L Hall is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science & International Studies at the University of Birmingham. His main focus of research NATO’s role in the broadening security environment, especially cyber-security. You can follow him on twitter @GavinELHall. When the new government takes office in May 2015 one of the first tasks … Continue reading “The cyber threat to the United Kingdom”
Month: March 2015
Gender & the Research Excellence Framework: An Analysis of the Politics & International Studies Unit of Assessment (II)
by Fran Amery, Stephen Bates & Steve McKay This is the second of two posts on gender and the Research Excellence Framework (you may also be interested in this post on what titles of outputs submitted to the Politics & International Studies Unit of Assessment tell us about (sub-)disciplinary trends). In our first post, we … Continue reading “Gender & the Research Excellence Framework: An Analysis of the Politics & International Studies Unit of Assessment (II)”
Gender & the Research Excellence Framework: An Analysis of the Politics & International Studies Unit of Assessment (I)
Ever wondered about the gendered dimensions of the REF returns and rankings for the Politics & International Studies Unit of Assessment? Well wonder no longer. by Fran Amery, Stephen Bates & Steve McKay 1320 people were submitted to the Politics & International Studies Unit of Assessment of REF 2014. Of these, 929 were men, 387 … Continue reading “Gender & the Research Excellence Framework: An Analysis of the Politics & International Studies Unit of Assessment (I)”
A Corpus-Based Analysis of REF Output Titles for Politics and International Studies*
Have you ever wondered what the titles of outputs submitted to the REF tell us about disciplinary trends, foci and boundaries? Well, thanks to the wonder of corpus linguistics and Laurence Anthony‘s AntConc, wonder no longer. Table 1 shows us a ranking of the 100 most popular words used in titles of work submitted to the 2014 REF and … Continue reading “A Corpus-Based Analysis of REF Output Titles for Politics and International Studies*”