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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
scientific societies, on editorial boards of scholarly journals and given
plenary and keynote lectures. Overall collaboration is excellent.
1.5 Research activity and teaching
The panel has not given any specific comments. (Information added by the
RQ08 Project Office.)
1.6 Future plans
Identifying ‘opportunities’ with future plans, the department considers
that it can offer a research environment and research training program in
the discipline of economic history that is difficult to match elsewhere in
the world. The department therefore hopes to take on a role as a nucleus
for research training generally and for post-docs in specialized fields of
research.
There is also concern that, with a more multi-disciplinary orientation of
research, the character of the discipline will be transformed. Although a
necessary and in some respects beneficial development, the downside may
be an erosion of the core of the discipline of economic history. It is not
clear that the department was aware they were expected to indicate their
future plans.
1.7 Future potential and possibilities
The departmental research would probably benefit form closer links with
Economics and with the South East Asia centre. The department believes
that a stronger presence in the undergraduate Economics program would
improve their graduate recruitment- as well as enhancing undergraduate
economics degrees.
1.8 Gender and equal opportunity issues
The panel has not given any specific comments. (Information added by the
RQ08 Project Office.)
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