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Editorials: ERA and the Future of Women's/Gender Studies
Australian Feminist Studies, Vol.26(67), pp.1-1
01/03/2011
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Abstract
In January 2011 the results of the first round of research assessment undertaken by the Australian Research Council (ARC) will be announced. While this is an anxious time for all academics in Australia, it will be a particularly worrying time for those of us who work in the field of Women's/Gender Studies. Experience with the RAE in England has shown that because of its multidisciplinary nature, Women's/Gender Studies sometimes falls off the radar in such exercises, or becomes subsumed into another discipline such as sociology or philosophy. It is entirely possible that this will happen in Australia, too, given that many of the publications in the field fall into the amorphous ‘1699’ ‘Other Studies in Human Society’ category. As I have reported in earlier issues, the ranking of journals in this category has been fairly anomalous, with no interdisciplinary Women's/Gender Studies journal being ranked A* and many of the more prestigious journals being ranked B. This will necessarily impinge on the results for this round, and we have to ensure that this changes for the 2012 assessment round.
Details
- Title
- Editorials: ERA and the Future of Women's/Gender Studies
- Creators
- Mary Spongberg - Macquarie University
- Publication Details
- Australian Feminist Studies, Vol.26(67), pp.1-1
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991012979169802368
- Copyright
- © 2011 Taylor & Francis
- Academic Unit
- Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article