The panel members will join the previously announced sub-panel chairs Professor Dominic Wyse (Ioe - Faculty of Education and Society) as Chair of the Education unit of assessment and Professor Nick Gallent (Bartlett School of Planning) as Chair of the Architecture, Built Environment and Planning unit of assessment, who were announced in May.
Covering medicine, health and life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, engineering and mathematics, and arts and humanities, the REF is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK universities. The results demonstrate how this research benefits society both in the UK and around the world.
UCL’s panel members come from across nine UCL faculties: Population Health Sciences, Brain Sciences, Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Institute of Education, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, Laws, Social & Historical Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.
The panel members announced are as follows:
Main Panel A and sub-panels 1 to 6: Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Sub-panel members- Professor Helen Cross - Sub-panel member (Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience)
- Professor Patrick Haggard - Sub-panel member (Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience)
- Professor Gail Taylor - Sub-panel member, assessment phase (Biological Sciences)
Main Panel B and sub-panels 7 to 12: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics
Sub-panel members- Professor Katherine Cashell - Sub-panel member (Engineering)
Main Panel C and sub-panels 13 to 24: Social Sciences
Main panel members- Professor Dominic Wyse - Also sub-panel chair (Architecture, Built Environment and Planning)
- Professor Nick Gallent - Also sub-panel chair (Education)
- Professor Sandra Leaton Gray - Main panel user expert
Sub-panel members
- Professor Penelope Haralambidou - Sub-panel member, assessment phase (Architecture, Built Environment and Planning)
- Professor Andrew Bevan - Sub-panel member (Archaeology)
- Professor Jane Holder - Sub-panel member, assessment phase (Law)
- Professor Katherine Twamley - Sub-panel member, assessment phase (Sociology)
- Dr Yang Hu - Sub-panel member, assessment phase (Sociology)
Main Panel D and sub-panels 25 to 34: Arts and Humanities
Sub-panel members- Dr Jagjeet Lally - Sub-panel member, assessment phase (Area Studies, & History), joint with SP25
- Professor Hua Zhu - Sub-panel member (Modern Languages and Linguistics)
- Professor Brigitta Zics - Sub-panel member (Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory)
- Professor Stella Bruzzi - Sub-panel member, assessment phase (Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies)
For the first time, the panel members were appointed through an open application process, rather than by nomination. The process was designed to attract a more inclusive pool of candidates and reduce barriers to entry.
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