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The 1996 Research Assessment Exercise in British universities: views from the judging and the judged

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Barry Cunliffe ,
Anthony Harding  and
David Austin
Barry Cunliffe
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG, England
Anthony Harding
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, 46 Saddler Street, Durham DH1 3NU, England E-mail: a.f.harding@durham.ac.uk
David Austin
Affiliation:
Saint David's University College, University of Wales, Lampeter, Dyfed SA48 7ED, Wales
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Abstract

ANTIQUITY invited a member of the Research Assessment panel for archaeology in British universities to write about the exercise. He declined; as the matter was sub judice, he must be silent. Perhaps that phrase defines the colleague as judge, rather than as peer-reviewer.

Fortunately, Barry Cunliffe, chairman of the archaeology review panel (and of ANTIQUITY'S trustees), made public his views in his Presidential Anniversary Address to the Society of Antiquaries of April 1995 —before the current assessment got under way. We reprint it with permission. Professor Cunliffe starts with a brisk reminder—overlooked by our coverage in the March ANTIQUITY—of the real benefits of asking just what researchers do for their money in the supposedly tranquil and desirable échelons of our universities.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 268 , June 1996 , pp. 250 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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