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Roughly 1,100 academics and industry specialists from around the world sit on 67 subject panels.
In this uniquely British exercise, all active academic researchers in the UK will have their work assessed in 2008 by 900 fellow academics, sitting in 67 subject panels, with 15 coordinating panels to ensure consistency.
Panels of academics will still "peer review" research, but with two tiers of panels - 67 subject panels and 15 overarching panels - to ensure judgments are consistent throughout the whole exercise.
The elaborate research assessment exercise (RAE), in which the work of every active researcher in British universities is assessed by 67 different subject panels ranging from astrophysics to art history, will be carried out for the last time in 2008.
He explains: "The problem is where someone has to be a judge of work in an area where there is no representative of the area to temper any negative judgement," adding that "the size of REF subject panels make this likely to be the case".
Now the five professors who headed the subject panels that prioritized all the projects have written an open letter to science minister Paul Drayson registering their "dismay" at the outcome.
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The Alcab subject panel has not provided any evidence that moving to a linear structure will impact on take up.
Explicit criteria in each subject panel should mean applied, practice-based and interdisciplinary research is properly assessed, which has been problematic in the past.
Following criticism of the 2001 RAE, the funding bodies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland decided to abandon a one-size-fits-all approach and allow each subject panel to decide (within limits) how it was going to assess the work submitted.
18 right-handed participants (10 females) aged between 18 and 40 were recruited from the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit subject panel.
Thirteen right-handed participants, 7 females, aged between 18 and 37 (mean = 25 years) were recruited from the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) subject panel.
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