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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
10.3 Research
Quality. 68 publications, including 28 ‘strict scientific publications’,
are recorded in form 1. The publications list records 140, but they date
back to 1987 and include duplications. Many if not most of the publications
are not properly referenced, for instance includes no date at all,
no journal title for articles, or no title of book or publisher for book
chapter. The following is an illustration of a journal reference in the
list ‘Journal article, Quick Search this Journal, 2006, 13, 3, 329 – 348’.
Hence appraising the research output is problematic. However, we do
recognize three journals within the time frame of the present exercise;
Urban Studies, Health Research Policy and Systems and Modern Asian
Studies.
Productivity. The Director of the Centre is clearly very productive.
Relevance. –
Vitality and Organizational Capacity. In 2004, the Centre began publishing
a series entitled Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies.
The Centre apparently scores highly on external recruitments, with 13
appointments holding a doctorate from another university compared
with 3 internally recruited, but it is unclear how this is compatible with
the number of affiliates of the Centre.
The only research theme that obviously fits in the School of Economics
and Management is Asian capitalism. The other three themes are more
appropriate to Humanities and other Social Sciences and perhaps Law.
10.4 Collaboration
The Centre works with colleagues in other departments, who teach and
act as tutors on the program, and also participate in collaborative research
projects and joint publications. The Centre has been instrumental in the
creation of two new European initiatives in the field of East Asian Studies,
as a founding member of EastAsiaNet and as a prime mover behind the
European Chinese Law Studies Association (ECLS). The Centre will be
the host to the 17th Conference of the European Association of Chinese
Studies in August 2008. The activities under this heading seem excellent.
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