Annex B: UoA descriptors and taxonomies – Main Panel D

Descriptor

Taking an inclusive view of Area Studies as a dynamic field, the ub-panel understands it broadly to encompass the study of all regions of the world, across any period of time (ancient, medieval, modern and future) however defined, and the diverse communities associated with them. As well as in terms of national territories, regions may be delineated in various ways, for example by traditional geographical designations, for example African Studies; American and Anglophone Studies (including Canada and the United States); Asian Studies including Central Asian Studies, Northeast Asian Studies (China, Japan and Korea), South Asian Studies and Southeast Asian Studies; Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies; British Studies; Celtic Studies; European Studies (including Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies); Latin American Studies (for example, Brazilian, Central American and Caribbean Studies); Middle Eastern Studies (along with North African, Gulf, Persian, Israeli Studies, Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies) and so on; by ecological (for example, Circumpolar Studies), geopolitical (for example, Post-Soviet Studies) or institutional criteria (for example, European Union Studies); or in terms of themes, processes or networks (for example, Deaf Studies, Sign Language Studies, Diaspora Studies, Disaster Studies, War Studies, Migration Studies, Refugee Studies, Humanitarian Studies, Caste Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Indigenous Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Intercultural Studies, and Creative Industries and so on).

The sub-panel has expertise across the arts and humanities, and social sciences and welcomes work in any language including sign languages, from any single-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, empirical or theoretical perspectives. It will assess submissions covering all, but not limited to, aspects of anthropology, archaeology, law and legal studies, history, heritage and tourism, languages and linguistics, arts and cultures, literature and literary cultures, library and museology studies, religions, philosophy, media, society, economics, human geography, sociology, politics and international relations, and translation and interpreting, as well as inter-regional and globalisation studies. Being inclusive methodologically Sub-panel 25 appreciates submission of ground-breaking and novel approaches, and rewards innovation and excellence in traditional and non-traditional formats, including applied, practice-based and pedagogical research. The sub-panel welcomes approaches which demonstrate responsible research practices crossing the arts and humanities/social sciences boundary.

The sub-panel has expertise to assess a wide range of work and takes an inclusive view of the subject areas within its scope. Given the broad range of its descriptor, it recognises that submissions may be made in this UoA that include work in languages, literatures, cultures and societies falling wholly or partially outside its members’ expertise.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. African studies 
2. American and Canadian studies  
3. Asian studies  
4. Australian, New Zealand and Pacific studies 
5. British studies  
6. Celtic studies  
7. European studies  
8. Latin American, central American and Caribbean studies 
9. Middle Eastern studies  
10. Other (please specify)
11. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. African Studies
2. American and Canadian Studies
3. Australian, New Zealand and Pacific studies
4. Breton studies, Cornish studies, Wales studies  
5. British studies
6. Caste studies  
7. Central Asian studies  
8. Circumpolar, Arctic and Antarctic studies  
9. Colonial, Post-Colonial and Decolonial studies  
10. Commonwealth studies  
11. Comparative and world literatures  
12. Comparative regional studies/Regionalism  
13. Creative writing  
14. Cultural studies  
15. Deaf studies  
16. Death studies
17. Diaspora, refugee and migration studies  
18. Digital humanities  
19. Disability studies
20. Disaster and intervention studies  
21. Ecological (human, animal, plant) and environmental studies  
22. European studies  
23. Film and screen studies
24. Folklore, narratives and storytelling
25. Gender, sexuality and queer studies  
26. Geopolitics  
27. Global governance and international relations  
28. Global studies  
29. Globalisation studies  
30. History of science, technology, engineering, arts and medicine 
31. Humanitarian studies  
32. Indigenous studies  
33. Irish studies, Irish language studies, Manx studies, northern Irish studies, Scottish Gaelic studies, Scots studies, Ulster Scots studies 
34. Islamic studies  
35. Jewish studies
36. Latin American (including Brazilian, Central American and Caribbean studies)
37. Languages and linguistics  
38. Library, museum and archive studies  
39. Life, ageing, health and wellbeing
40. Local studies  
41. Media, new media and AI studies
42. Medical and health humanities
43. Memory studies  
44. Middle Eastern studies
45. Multicultural, intercultural and transcultural studies  
46. Northeast Asian studies (including China, Japan and Korea)  
47. Ocean, sea, and land studies
48. Political studies
49. Popular culture studies 
50. Religious studies 
51. Russian, East European and Eurasian studies (including Soviet and post-Soviet studies)  
52. Sign language studies  
53. South Asian and southeast Asian studies  
54. Space studies
55. Temporality studies
56. Textual scholarship
57. Translation and interpreting studies  
58. Visual cultures
59. War and peace studies  
60. Water studies  
61. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

The sub-panel recognises the many overlapping boundaries in the UoA descriptors, and that aspects of research are naturally either single disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary or may span boundaries between UoAs. Institutions are encouraged to submit their strongest work, irrespective of the form of the outputs, or the size of the unit (small or large). The sub-panel therefore welcomes the submission of research that may be submitted to many other sub-panels across all main panels, including but not limited to those across Main Panels C and D. 

Where judged necessary by the panels, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or work will be jointly referred by or cross-referred to relevant panels.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The UoA welcomes all research, including creative practice, both in and on the languages (including sign languages), literatures, cultures, histories and societies of all regions, countries and communities where Celtic, Germanic, Romance or Slavonic languages or other languages of Europe and Latin America are, or were, used. This includes all areas where European languages have interacted with other cultures, histories, and languages. Research in all periods from the medieval to the contemporary is expected and welcomed. The sub-panel recognises that in some institutions the remit of modern languages and linguistics may extend beyond these language areas and welcomes submissions which reflect this breadth – it expects overlaps with UoA 25 (Area Studies) with which it will work closely for output assessment. The sub-panel also recognises that in some institutions, research across the remit of this UoA may be organisationally and academically situated across a range of thematic and/or disciplinary units.

The UoA includes research in linguistics on any region of the world, including but not limited to all areas of general, historical, theoretical, descriptive, applied and clinical linguistics, phonetics and speech science, across modalities, regardless of the methodology used or the language to which the studies are applied.

The sub-panel will take a capacious view of what constitutes research in modern language studies. This will include, but not be limited to: literature and thought; cultural studies; theatre studies; film, television and screen studies; digital and media studies; visual and multimodal cultures; language studies; translation and interpreting studies; translation and translation studies; political, social and historical studies; editorial scholarship, bibliography, textual criticism and theory, and history of the book; philosophy and critical theory; world literatures; transnational, and comparative literary and cultural studies; literatures in relation to the other arts; and applied, practice-based and pedagogical research.

The sub-panel welcomes the submission of interdisciplinary research, including work on language, literatures, and linguistics in relation to science, medicine and technology, digital humanities, AI, and corpus and computational approaches to language and culture, visual cultures; and creative technologies, and will ensure that such work is assessed with appropriate expertise.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures
2. Comparative literatures and cultures
3. French and francophone languages, literatures, and cultures
4. German, Dutch and Scandinavian languages, literatures, and cultures
5. Italian languages, literatures, and cultures
6. Iberian and Latin American languages, literatures, and cultures
7. Linguistics: general, historical, theoretical, descriptive, applied
8. Russian, Slavonic and east European languages, literatures, and cultures
9. Other (please specify)
10. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. Applied linguistics
2. Assessment and testing
3. Clinical linguistics
4. Cognitive linguistics
5. Corpus linguistics
6. Computational linguistics
7. AI and linguistics
8. Historical linguistics
9. Language acquisition
10. Language and intercultural communication
11. Language policy and planning
12. Language teaching and learning
13. Morphology and syntax
14. Multilingualism
15. Pedagogical linguistics
16. Phonetics and phonology
17. Practice-based research
18. Pragmatics/discourse/stylistics
19. Psycholinguistics/neurolinguistics
20. Second language acquisition
21. Semantics/formal pragmatics
22. Sign language studies
23. Sociolinguistics
24. Translation and interpreting studies
25. Translation and translation studies
26. Translation as creative practice
27. Creative writing and practice (all genres, media, and performance)
28. Creative criticism
29. Life writing and biography studies 
30. Comparative literatures
31. Literatures and cultures: medieval
32. Literatures and cultures: early modern
33. Literatures and cultures: eighteenth-century
34. Literatures and cultures: nineteenth-century
35. Literatures and cultures: 1900-present
36. Literatures: poetry and poetics
37. Colonial/postcolonial/decolonial literatures, cultures and thought
38. Critical and cultural studies/cultural theory
39. Popular cultures
40. AI cultures and creativity
41. Animal studies
42. Digital humanities/creative technologies/creative media
43. Disability studies
44. Editorial scholarship, textual editing, bibliography, manuscript studies and palaeography
45. Environmental humanities
46. Epistolary studies
47. Film and screen studies
48. Media studies
49. Oral literatures, folklore studies, folkloristics
50. Gender and sexuality studies
51. Germanic, Romance and Slavonic philology
52. Historical studies
53. History of the book
54. Languages and literatures in relation to science, technology and medicine
55. Material cultures
56. Medical and health humanities
57. Memory studies
58. Museum and heritage studies
59. Philosophy and critical theory
60. Political and social studies
61. Posthumanism
62. Sports studies
63. Theatre and performance studies
64. Transnational/global cultural/literary studies
65. Visual cultures
66. World literatures
67. Queer studies
68. Sound studies
69. Machine, digital agent, robot-human interaction
70. Race, ethnicity, diaspora studies
71. Reading and literacy studies
72. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

The sub-panel has expertise to assess a wide range of work and takes a holistic and inclusive view of the subject areas within its scope. The sub-panel welcomes research written and/or produced in languages other than English which fall within its remit. Given the broad range of its descriptor, the sub-panel recognises that submissions may be made in this UoA that include work on languages, literatures, cultures, histories, and societies falling wholly or partially outside its members’ expertise. The sub-panel consequently expects some degree of overlap with many UoAs, including but not limited to: UoA 3 (Allied Health), UoA 4 (Psychology), UoA 11 (Computing Science and Informatics), UoA 23 (Education), and all sub-panels of Main Panel D. The sub-panel recognises the overlapping boundaries in the sub-panel descriptors, and that aspects of research are naturally interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary or span the boundaries between individual UoAs. The sub-panel welcomes the submission of research that may equally be submitted to other UoAs, including, but not limited to research in Main Panel D. Where judged necessary by the sub-panel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The UoA is fully inclusive of (i) all forms of creative writing and practice; (ii) all aspects of language studies, including all areas of general, historical, theoretical, descriptive and applied linguistics with primary reference to any variety of English or Scots; the history of English or Scots; corpus and computational approaches to language and culture; (iii) all areas and historical periods of English literature, from Old English to the present day, including applied, practice-based and pedagogical research in English; Irish literature in English; Scottish literature in English or Scots; Welsh literature in English;  global Anglophone literatures; comparative literature; colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial literatures and languages; all literatures translated into English; all analytical, critical, and historical approaches to the study of literature and culture; book history, bibliography, editorial scholarship, history of publishing, manuscript studies, textual criticism and theory; language and literature in relation to age, disability, gender and sexuality, race; theatre, film, television, sound, screen, and digital media studies.The sub-panel takes an inclusive view of what constitutes English language and literature.  It also recognises the UoA’s contributions to interdisciplinary humanities.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. All areas, topics and methods of linguistics and applied linguistics, with primary reference to any variety of English or Scots
2. Analytical, critical, and historical approaches to the study of literature, including critical and cultural theory, and philosophy
3. Anglo-Norman, Old English, Old Norse/Icelandic (language and literature, and linguistic studies)
4. Applied, practice based and pedagogical research in English
5. Book history/bibliography/history of publishing/manuscript studies/textual criticism/scholarly editing
6. Colonial/postcolonial/decolonial literatures and languages  
7. Creative technologies/creative media/digital media/film/print/radio/television/screen studies
8. Creative writing and practice in English
9. English Literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day  
10. Global Anglophone literatures (for example, African, Australasian, Canadian, Caribbean, South Asian, United States)
11. Irish literature in English; Scottish literature in English or Scots; Welsh literature in English
12. Literatures translated into English
13. Theatre and performance studies
14. Other
15. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

Creative writing and practice

1. Creative non-fiction/creative-critical writing
2. Creative writing and practice: film, radio, television 
3. Creative writing and practice: performance 
4. Creative writing and practice: poetry
5. Creative writing and practice: prose   
6. Life writing

Language and Linguistics

7. Cognitive linguistics
8. Computational linguistics
9. Corpus linguistics
10. Forensic linguistics
11. Historical linguistics 
12. Language acquisition
13. Language teaching and learning
14. Linguistics: assessment and testing
15. Linguistics: translation and interpreting studies
16. Phonetics and phonology
17. Pragmatics/discourse/stylistics
18. Psycholinguistics/neurolinguistics 
19. Morphology and syntax
20. Semantics
21. Sign language 
22. Sociolinguistics/multilingualism

Language and Literature

23. Anglo-Norman, Old English, Old Norse/Icelandic (language and literature, and linguistic studies)
24. Applied, practice-based and pedagogical research in English 
25. Book history/bibliography/history of publishing/manuscript studies/textual criticism/scholarly editing
26. Children’s literature
27. Colonial/postcolonial/decolonial literatures and languages
28. Comparative literature
29. Creative technologies/creative media/digital media/film/print/radio/television/screen studies
30. Cultural studies and critical theory
31. English literature: Medieval (post Conquest)
32. English literature: Renaissance
33. English literature: 1642-1800
34. English literature: 1800-1900
35. English literature: 1900-1960
36. English literature: post-1960 
37. Environmental writing and eco-criticism
38. Global Anglophone literatures (for example, African, Australasian, Canadian, Caribbean, South Asian, United States)
39. Indigenous literatures in English
40. Interdisciplinary humanities (including, but not limited to): animal-human studies/blue humanities/diasporic studies/digital humanities/environmental humanities/history of emotions/medical and health humanities/memory studies/sound studies
41. Irish literature in English
42. Language and literature in relation to age, class, disability, gender and sexuality, race
43. Language and literature in relation to other domains including history, law, medicine, philosophy, politics, religion, science, technology
44. Literature and translation studies; literatures translated into English
45. Literature and visual culture
46. Literature in relation to other arts
47. Neo-Latin literature
48. Reading and reception studies
49. Rhetoric: history, practice and theory
50. Scottish literature in English or Scots
51. Theatre and performance
52. Welsh literature in English
53. Women’s writing
54. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

The sub-panel recognises the overlapping boundaries in the sub-panel descriptors, and that aspects of research are naturally interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary or span the boundaries between individual UoAs (for example, environmental humanities). The sub-panel welcomes the submission of research that may equally be submitted to other UoAs, including, but not limited to research in Main Panel D. The sub-panel has the expertise to assess a wide range of work, including multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations in all areas of English as defined above, with researchers in the sciences, medicine, and social sciences as well as the humanities. Where judged necessary by the sub-panel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The UoA includes all aspects of the study of the past. The sub-panel expects submissions in this UoA from all areas of history. 

Units should utilise the broad research area descriptors to explain the representativeness of their submission in whatever way best suits the structures of the UoA. Statements of Submission Intentions and eventually individual CKUs should be tagged with taxons from the Research Specialism list. If possible, these should combine indications of scope (place, period) along with focus (subject and approach). This will facilitate the recruitment of appropriate additional sub-panel members and assessors as well as the eventual allocation of outputs to assessors.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. Social history; Cultural history; Political history; Economic history; Intellectual history; Digital history; Public history and heritage
2. British and Irish history; Asian history; African history; European history; North American history; Latin American and Caribbean history; Australian, New Zealand and Pacific history; Global history
3. Medieval history; Early modern history; Modern and contemporary history  
4. Classical and Byzantine studies
5. Other
6. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. Studies of the Greek and Roman worlds (for cross-referral to Sub-panel 29) 
2. Ancient histories (excluding studies of the Greek and Roman worlds) 
3. Medieval histories 
4. Early Modern histories 
5. Modern histories 
6. Contemporary histories  
7. Histories of Africa  
8. Histories of Asia  
9. Histories of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands 
10. Histories of Britain and Ireland  
11. Histories of Continental Europe  
12. Global and world histories  
13. Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean  
14. Histories of the Middle East and North Africa  
15. Histories of North America  
16. Histories of Russia  
17. Agricultural histories 
18. Architectural histories and histories of buildings  
19. Biographical histories  
20. Histories of the book and manuscript studies  
21. Business histories  
22. Histories of childhood and youth  
23. Histories of conflict, peace and violence  
24. Cultural histories  
25. Demographic histories  
26. Digital histories  
27. Diplomatic histories  
28. Histories of disability  
29. Ecclesiastical histories  
30. Economic histories  
31. Histories of education  
32. Histories of emotion  
33. Environmental, ecological and more-than-human histories  
34. Food histories  
35. Histories of folklore and oral culture  
36. Gender histories 
37. Heritage and conservation  
38. Historiography  
39. Histories of humanitarianism, development and human rights  
40. History and memory  
41. Histories of ideas/intellectual histories  
42. Imperial/colonial/postcolonial/decolonial histories  
43. Indigenous histories  
44. Interdisciplinary histories  
45. International and transnational histories  
46. Labour histories  
47. Histories of law, crime and punishment 
48. Local and regional histories  
49. Maritime histories 
50. Material histories  
51. Media histories  
52. Histories of migration and diasporas  
53. Military histories  
54. Oral histories  
55. Planetary histories  
56. Political histories  
57. Public histories  
58. Histories of race and ethnicity 
59. Histories of religion   
60. Rural histories  
61. Histories of science, technology and medicine  
62. Histories of sexuality  
63. Social histories  
64. Theories of history  
65. Urban histories  
66. Histories of visual culture and sound  
67. Women’s histories  
68. Other histories or forms of historical studies 
69. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

All outputs that fall within the parameters of the UoA 29 descriptor will be automatically cross-referred to Sub-panel 29 (Classics). Byzantine studies outputs will also be cross-referred where it seems more appropriate for Sub-panel 29 to consider the output.

The sub-panel recognises the overlapping boundaries in the sub-panel descriptors, and that aspects of research are naturally interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary or span the boundaries between individual UoAs. The sub-panel welcomes the submission of research that may equally be submitted to other sub-panels, in particular those in Main Panels C and D. Where judged necessary by the subpanel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The UoA is fully inclusive of all areas of Classics, including but not limited to the languages, literatures, histories, documents, cultures, art, archaeology and thought (including ancient science and philosophy) of the Greek and Roman worlds from the earliest times to late antiquity; Latin and Greek language and literature of the Middle Ages and later periods; neighbouring societies in Europe, Africa and Asia including but not restricted to Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East; Late Antique and Byzantine studies; Greek lands, including the Diaspora, from the medieval period to the present; medieval to modern Greek language, literature, history and culture; the classical tradition; and the reception of these periods and subjects.

It embraces any and all methods and approaches within the field of Classics, as given in the previous paragraph, including but not restricted to: archaeological analysis; art-historical analysis; commentary-writing; heritage and museum studies; historical analysis; literary criticism; performance, theatre and film studies; philology and linguistics, including of neighbouring and related languages; philosophical analysis; reception studies; textual editing; translation. It embraces approaches grounded in and contributing to comparative literature; computational, digital and cognitive humanities; disability studies; environmental humanities; material culture studies; media studies; performance studies; postcolonial theory and critical race studies; practice-based and community participatory research. It also includes research on the history, sociology and pedagogy of learning and teaching in Classics.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. Literature of ancient Mediterranean and neighbouring or related societies
2. History of ancient Mediterranean and neighbouring or related societies
3. Reception of the ancient world from antiquity to the present day
4. Ancient and medieval philosophy, theology and religion
5. Archaeology of the Greek and Roman worlds, Egypt, Near East and neighbouring or related societies
6. Ancient science, medicine and technology
7. Epigraphy, Numismatics and Papyrology
8. Philology and linguistics of Greek, Latin, ancient Egyptian and ancient Near Eastern languages and of neighbouring and related languages
9. Textual criticism, editing and transmission; manuscript studies; history of ancient and modern classical scholarship
10. Ancient art and architecture
11. Ancient law and political thought
12. Heritage and museum studies
13. The history, sociology and pedagogy of learning and teaching in Classics
14. Late Antique and Byzantine studies
15. Medieval to modern Greek studies
16. Comparative literary studies
17. Cognitive, computational and digital Classics
18. Other critical theoretical and methodological approaches to Classics
19. Creative, practice-based and participatory research
20. Other (please specify) 
21. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. Ancient Greek literature
2. Latin literature
3. All other literature of ancient Mediterranean and neighbouring or related societies
4. Reception or comparative literature studies (of any period and in any language) engaging with ancient literature
5. History and culture of the prehistoric Mediterranean
6. History of the Greek world
7. History of the Roman world
8. History and culture of Ancient Egypt, ancient Near East and neighbouring or related societies
9. Ancient Greek and Roman religion
10. Other ancient religions including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and early Islam
11. Archaic and classical Greek philosophy
12. Hellenistic and Roman philosophy
13. Other philosophy
14. Political theory and philosophy engaging with the ancient world
15. Ancient science and technology
16. Archaeology of the ancient Greek world
17. Archaeology of the Roman world
18. Archaeology of ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East
19. Archaeology of other neighbouring or related ancient societies
20. Greek and Roman epigraphy
21. Other ancient inscribed texts
22. Papyrology
23. Numismatics
24. Greek philology and linguistics
25. Latin philology and linguistics
26. Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern philology and linguistics
27. Philology and linguistics of other ancient languages
28. Editing and manuscript studies of Greek and Latin texts of any period
29. Editing and manuscript studies of texts in ancient languages other than Greek and Latin
30. Studies of the transmission of ancient texts and the history of classical scholarship
31. Translations of ancient texts
32. Greek and Roman art and architecture
33. Egyptian art and architecture
34. Other ancient art and architecture
35. Reception of the art, architecture and visual culture of the ancient world, including in creative practice
36. Greek and Roman law
37. Greek and Roman political thought
38. Other ancient law and political thought
39. Heritage studies, including conservation and environment
40. Museum studies, including the display of ancient material in museums and galleries
41. History, sociology and pedagogy of learning and teaching in Classics
42. Late Antique and Byzantine studies
43. Medieval to modern Greek studies
44. Cognitive, computational and digital classics
45. Reception of the ancient world in games, film, television and other interactive media
46. Performance and all other forms of creative practice engaging with the ancient world
47. Practice-based and community participatory research
48. Other critical theoretical and methodological approaches to Classics
49. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

The sub-panel recognises that Classics is an inherently interdisciplinary subject and that it includes many emerging and established areas of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research that may span the boundaries between UoAs. We welcome the submission of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research, including research which contributes to the development of methods, approaches, and understanding in fields related to other UoAs. Submitting units are encouraged to submit their strongest work irrespective of the form of output or the extent of its interdisciplinary nature. There could be overlaps with any other UoA in Main Panel D or across the four main panels, particularly UoA 14 (Geography and Environmental Studies), UoA 15 (Archaeology), UoA 18 (Politics), UoA 23 (Education) in Main Panel C. The sub-panel expects to receive by cross-referral, or be involved in joint assessment of, classical research that has been submitted to other subpanels because of its interdisciplinary character or as part of multi-subject or multi-disciplinary submissions grouped so as to attain critical mass. Where judged necessary by the subpanel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The UoA includes all areas and styles of, and approaches to, philosophy. The sub-panel expects to receive submissions from all areas of philosophy, and considers the following subjects (listed alphabetically), among others, to be within the remit of the UoA: 20th to 21st century European philosophy including phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction; aesthetics; applied philosophy; environmental philosophy; epistemology; ethics, including applied ethics and meta-ethics; feminist philosophy; history of philosophy including ancient, medieval, modern and recent; logic; metaphysics; philosophy and history of mathematics; philosophy and history of science, technology and medicine; philosophy of artificial intelligence; philosophy of education; philosophy of language; philosophy of law; philosophy of mind; philosophy of religion; philosophy of sex, gender and race; social and political philosophy; World philosophies. The areas mentioned are illustrative rather than exhaustive, and do not reflect any judgement about the relative significance of the subject areas.

In accord with the Philosophy sub-panel’s aim to be inclusive, it covers all types of applied philosophy relating to practical issues both within and outside academia. The remit also covers work concerned with philosophical questions raised by other disciplines, for example work concerned with the foundations, methods, epistemic status, or interpretation of findings or theories in the other disciplines. The sub-panel may consider that work that merely references philosophical ideas without engaging with them philosophically will have its excellence best assessed by another sub-panel and will consider cross-referral accordingly.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. 20th to 21st Century European philosophy
2. Aesthetics and philosophy of art
3. Applied philosophy
4. Epistemology
5. Ethics
6. Feminist philosophy
7. History of philosophy: ancient and medieval
8. History of philosophy: early modern to 20th Century
9. Logic and philosophy of mathematics
10. Metaphysics
11. Philosophy and history of science
12. Philosophy of language, mind, and action
13. Philosophy of religion
14. Social and political philosophy
15. World philosophies
16. Other
17. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. 20th to 21st century European philosophy, including phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. 
2. Aesthetics and philosophy of art
3. Applied philosophy
4. Environmental philosophy
5. Epistemology
6. Ethics: applied
7. Ethics: meta-ethics
8. Ethics: normative
9. Experimental philosophy
10. Feminist philosophy
11. Formal epistemology and decision theory
12. History of philosophy: ancient
13. History of philosophy: medieval
14. History of philosophy: early modern
15. History of philosophy: 19th century
16. History of philosophy: 20th century
17. Logic
18. Metaphysics
19. Philosophical logic
20. Philosophy and history of the behavioural and social sciences
21. Philosophy and history of the biological and life sciences
22. Philosophy and history of the physical sciences
23. Philosophy and history of psychology and cognitive science
24. Philosophy of computation and artificial intelligence
25. Philosophy of education
26. Philosophy of language
27. Philosophy of law
28. Philosophy of mathematics
29. Philosophy of medicine
30. Philosophy of mind and action
31. Philosophy of race
32. Philosophy of religion
33. Philosophy of science
34. Philosophy of sex and gender
35. Philosophy of sport
36. Philosophy of technology
37. Practical and theoretical rationality and normativity
38. Social and political philosophy
39. Value theory and axiology
40. World philosophies: African and Africana philosophy
41. World philosophies: Chinese philosophy
42. World philosophies: Indian philosophy
43. World philosophies: other
44. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

Because philosophy engages with conceptual and foundational issues raised by other disciplines, it spans boundaries with a number of other UoAs, including but not limited to all the other UoAs within Main Panel D and the following UoAs within other main panels: UoA 1 (Clinical Medicine), for example philosophy of biological sciences; UoA 2 (Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care) and UoA 3 (Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Midwifery, Nursing and Pharmacy), for example medical ethics; UoA 4 (Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience), for example cognitive science; UoA 5 (Biological Sciences), for example philosophy of biological sciences; UoA 7 (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences), for example environmental philosophy; UoA 8 (Chemistry), for example philosophy of chemistry; UoA 9 (Physics), for example philosophy of physics; UoA 10 (Mathematical Sciences), for example mathematical logic; UoA 11 (Computer Science), for example foundations of artificial intelligence; UoA 16 (Economics and Econometrics), for example social choice theory and game theory; UoA 17 (Business and Management Studies), for example business ethics; UoA 18 (Law), for example jurisprudence; UoA 19 (Politics and International Studies), for example political theory; UoA 21 (Sociology), for example social theory.  The sub-panel recognises the overlapping boundaries in the sub-panel descriptors, and that aspects of some research are naturally interdisciplinary, or span the boundaries between individual UoAs.  It welcomes the submission of interdisciplinary research that may equally be submitted to other sub-panels. Where judged necessary by the sub-panel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The UoA encompasses all research in theology and religion, broadly conceived. It is inclusive of all disciplinary approaches adopted in the field, including philosophical, theological, historical, philological, political, cultural, literary, phenomenological, psychological, sociological and anthropological methodologies. It is also inclusive of research into the nature of theology and/or religious studies as disciplines, and of the methodologies they employ.

It encompasses the study and interpretation of religious institutions, movements, texts, laws, practices, ethics, beliefs, symbols, media, social relations, inter-religious relations, material objects, spaces and flows, both historical and contemporary in local and/or global contexts. It includes all religious traditions, spiritualities and sacralised forms of commitment and their expression in different cultural media – for example film, art, music and literature, in whatever genre or medium. The study of varieties of secularism, secularity and non-belief which reference religion explicitly or implicitly is also included, as are cultural manifestations of religious ideas, identities, practices, and traditions. It also covers work concerned with theological and religious questions raised by other disciplines, including being able to review work relating to the context, assumptions and content of religious education in different settings. 

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. History of religion/religious history
2. Theology and philosophy  
3. Ethics and moral enquiry 
4. Religion and society 
5. Religion and science 
6. Religion, media and digital culture
7. Religion, literature and arts 
8. Religion and culture
9. Religious studies and critical approaches  
10. Religious/spiritual practice, ritual and lived religion  
11. Interreligious and comparative studies 
12. Religion and education/pedagogy 
13. Theory and method  
14. Study of texts and their interpretation  
15. Religion and language
16. Other 
17. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. Alternative spiritualities/new religious movements
2. Ancient religions
3. Anthropology of religion
4. Buddhist studies – philosophy or theology
5. Buddhist studies – ethnographic/social-scientific
6. Buddhist studies – texts/translations/history
7. Christian studies – philosophy or theology
8. Christian studies – ethnographic/social scientific
9. Christian studies – texts/translations/history
10. Christian theology – contextual, political, practical and public
11. Christian theology – historical, constructive, philosophical and systematic
12. Digital religion
13. Early Christianity
14. East Asian religions – ethnographic/social-scientific
15. East Asian religions – texts/translations/history
16. Ethics
17. Ethnology and folklore studies
18. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
19. Hindu studies – philosophy or theology
20. Hindu Studies – ethnographic/social-scientific
21. Hindu Studies – texts/translations/history
22. Indigenous religions
23. Inter-religious relations
24. Islamic Law/Shariah
25. Islamic Studies – philosophy or theology
26. Islamic Studies – contemporary Islam
27. Islamic Studies – religion and politics in the Islamic world
28. Islamic Studies – texts/translations/history
29. Jewish Studies – philosophy or theology
30. Jewish Studies – languages and linguistics
31. Jewish Studies – politics, culture, society
32. Jewish Studies – practices, laws, liturgy and institutions
33. Jewish Studies – texts/translations/history
34. Liturgy
35. Media, space or material/visual culture
36. New Testament and Christian origins
37. Non-religion, atheism and secularity
38. Patristics
39. Philosophy of religion
40. Psychology of religion
41. Religion and education
42. Religion and environment/Eco-theology
43. Religion, conflict and peace-building
44. Religion, literature and the arts
45. Religion, nationalism and politics
46. Religion, rights and social justice
47. Religious history (after 1500 CE)
48. Religious history (from 800 CE to 1500 CE)
49. Religious history (up to 800 CE)
50. Ritual Studies
51. Science and Religion
52. Sikh Studies – ethnographic/social-scientific
53. Sikh Studies – philosophy or theology
54. Sikh Studies – texts/translations/history
55. Sociology of religion
56. Spirituality
57. Theory and method in the study of religion
58. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

Theology and Religious Studies is inherently pluralistic and shares extensive boundaries across both the humanities and social sciences. The sub-panel explicitly encourages units to submit their strongest work, including research situated at the disciplinary margins. The sub-panel welcomes the submission of research that may equally be submitted to other UoAs, including, but not limited to research in Main Panel D.

Frequent intersections and overlaps are anticipated with adjacent sub-panels across all main panels, particularly: Philosophy (UoA 30); History (UoA 28); Classics (UoA 29); Archaeology (UoA 15); Sociology (UoA 21); Anthropology and Development Studies (UoA 22); Area Studies (UoA 25); Modern Languages and Linguistics (UoA 26); and English Language and Literature (UoA 27).

Where judged necessary by the sub-panel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The sub-panel welcomes and will assess research from all disciplines and approaches relevant to the histories, theories and practices of art and design and all combinations thereof. The sub-panel invites research contributions in all forms and formats, whatever their genre or medium, that meet the REF 2029 definition of research.

The sub-panel invites the broadest range and combinations of methods and practices of research and adopts an inclusive definition of its remit. It is anticipated that contributions to knowledge and understanding will extend across the widest range of texts, edited publications, and creative practices in all forms and media.

The sub-panel anticipates assessing research that encompasses analytical, applied, ethnographic, speculative, experimental, historical, methodological, pedagogical, scientific, technological, theoretical and philosophical approaches to the domains of art and design history, practice and theory; and that reflect an expanded understanding of the disciplines and subjects within any cultural, geographical or historical context. The sub-panel also welcomes different and shifting definitions as they relate to cultural formations, geographies and historical periodization.

The sub-panel is committed to applying criteria and working methods consistently to assessing all submissions irrespective of their size or structure, and without privileging any form of research contribution to knowledge and understanding.  

The sub-panel acknowledges the overlap across the UoA descriptors and that research submissions may be inter, trans or multi-disciplinary and transcend the boundaries between UoAs. The sub-panel will assess the submission of research that overlaps with any UoA across all four main panels and is cognisant of and respects differing disciplinary interpretations and aggregations across submitting UoAs. 

Where required, the sub-panel’s expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, through joint assessment or cross-referral to sub-panels with the relevant expertise.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. Histories of Art and Design
2. Theories of Art and Design
3. Heritage and conservation
4. Fine art and performance
5. Crafts and applied arts 
6. Fashion and textiles 
7. Product, system and service design
8. Graphic art and design
9. Photography and lens-based practices
10. Computational, immersive and digital practices 
11. Architecture, landscape and interiors 
12. Museology and curation 
13. Art and design education
14. Creative and cultural industries 
15. Other
16. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. AI-mediated practices
2. Ancient and prehistoric histories
3. Architecture, landscape and interiors
4. Archives and collections
5. Art and design education
6. Autonomous and smart technologies
7. Computational, immersive and digital practices
8. Crafts and applied arts
9. Cultural and transnational histories
10. Decolonial and post-colonial studies
11. Digital humanities
12. Ecology, environment and sustainability
13. Entrepreneurship and business development
14. Fashion design, cultures and communication
15. Feminism and feminist studies
16. Film, screen and animation
17. Fine art (including painting, sculpture and drawing practices)
18. Games design and development
19. Gender and queer studies
20. Health and wellbeing
21. Heritage, conservation, preservation and renovation
22. Historical studies in art and design
23. Information and spatial visualisation
24. Interaction design and immersive experiences
25. Making and manufacture
26. Materials science
27. Media and communication
28. Medieval and early modern histories
29. Modern and contemporary histories
30. Museology and curation
31. Music, sound arts and sonic practices
32. Narrative, storytelling and writing practices
33. Performance practices 
34. Philosophy and critical theory
35. Photography and lens-based practices
36. Planning, engineering and built environment
37. Policy, creative industries and creative economy
38. Post-internet and post digital art and aesthetics and digital materiality
39. Product innovation and engineering
40. Product, system and service design
41. Public and civic practices
42. Social and cultural studies
43. Socially engaged and participatory practices
44. Tangible, intangible and contested heritage
45. Textiles practices (woven, non-woven, knitted, printed and smart textiles)
46. Theories of art and design
47. Universal design and ergonomics
48. Urban and cultural geographies
49. Visual and graphic communication
50. Visual and material cultures
51. World histories of art and design
52. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

The sub-panel welcomes the submission of research that may equally be submitted to other sub-panels, including, but not limited to research in Main Panel D. It also anticipates there may be outputs which could be submitted to the following sub-panels: UoA 8 (Chemistry); UoA 11 (Computing), UoA 12 (Engineering); UoA 13 (Architecture and the Built Environment); UoA 17 (Business) and UoA 23 (Education). Where judged necessary by the sub-panel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for cross-referral and/or joint assessment to other relevant UoAs.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The sub-panel will assess research from all areas of dance, digital arts, drama, film, intermedial practices, music, live art, performance, production arts, screen, sonic art, television and theatre. The sub-panel welcomes the broadest range of diverse research practices, output formats and impact types and formats. It anticipates that outputs will span a range of artefacts, creative practices, curatorial outputs, recordings and written outputs, amongst others. The sub-panel expects to evaluate research that encompasses analytical, applied, critical, ethnographical, historical, interdisciplinary, pedagogical, practice-based, scientific, artistic, technological and theoretical approaches to all of the subject areas indicated above. It covers the broadest understanding of the subject disciplines within, between and across any cultural, geographical or historical contexts.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. Dance
2. Digital arts
3. Drama, theatre and performance
4. Film, television and screen
5. Intermedial practices
6. Music
7. Live art
8. Performance
9. Production arts
10. Other
11. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

The sub-panel underlines that this taxonomy is not an exhaustive list of sub-areas within the UoA. The sub-panel also recognises that many outputs sit across these categories, and/or fit them incompletely. As stated in the UoA descriptor, the sub-panel will accept any submissions that meet the broad UoA definition, whatever form they may take. The taxonomy is listed alphabetically within each major disciplinary grouping.

Dance

1. Applied dance practices (including but not limited to, dance activism, community dance, dance therapy, education, pedagogy and dance training, somatic practices)
2. Critical dance studies (including but not limited to, aesthetics, anthropologies, black dance studies, climate justice, cultural studies, dance and critical caste studies, dance and critical race theory, dance and disability studies, dance and nation, decolonial studies, embodiments, ethnographies, gender studies, interculturalism, methodologies, philosophies, political economies, postcolonial studies, queer dance, trans studies)
3. Cultural and artistic policy and industry practices (including but not limited to dance production, programming, promotion, funding, creative economies, touring, entrepreneurship and commercialisation)
4. Dance and technology, digital dance, screen dance
5. Dance histories and practices (including but not limited to black dance, ceremonial dance, competition dance, concert forms, dance sport, folk dance, popular, social, and south Asian dance)
6. Dance practice research (including but not limited to, choreography, digital, improvisation, screen dance, interdisciplinary and cross-arts practice, performance)
7. Dance science, health and wellbeing, dance and creative health, dance movement therapy
8. Site and place-based dance (including but not limited to dance geographies and situated practices, eco-somatics and environmental movement practice, outdoor arts and gallery/museum practice)

Drama, Theatre and Performance

9. Applied, social, and political performance (including but not limited to, work on community, climate, education and health)
10. Critical approaches (including but not limited to, black studies, class studies, critical caste studies, critical ethnographies, critical race theory, cultural studies, decolonial and postcolonial studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, interculturalism, performance philosophies, political economies, queer theories, trans studies, feminisms, new materialisms, ecocriticism)
11. Cultural and artistic policy and industry practices (including but not limited to access to the arts, arts and cultural funding, performer training)
12. Drama, theatre and performance practice research
13. Live art
14. Music theatre
15. Performance technologies and the digital (including means of transmitting, broadcasting, curating, documenting and disseminating performance)
16. Radio drama/audio drama/sonic dramaturgies
17. Scenography and production arts
18. Space, place and performance
19. Theatre and performance histories and historiographies (including but not limited to, anthologies, critical editions, and studies of artforms, buildings, companies, individuals)
20. Theatre and performance practices (including but not limited to, acting and performing, curation, devising, directing, dramaturgy, production, puppetry, object theatre, and playwriting)
21. Transmedial performance

Film, Television and Screen

22. Animation
23. Avant-garde/experimental film and screen installation (including but not limited to, aesthetics and practices)
24. Critical approaches (including but not limited to, critical race theory, cultural and postcolonial studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory)
25. Documentary and non-fiction film, television and screen (including but not limited to, histories, aesthetics and practices)
26. Film philosophy
27. Film, television and screen histories
28. Film, television and screen practice research
29. Film theory and criticism
30. National/transnational film, television and screen
31. Performance and stardom
32. Screen industries studies
33. Screenwriting
34. Television studies
35. World cinema/global cinemas

Music

36. Community music
37. Critical approaches (including but not limited to, critical race theory, cultural and postcolonial studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory)
38. Critical editions
39. Ethnomusicology
40. Music and education
41. Music and health
42. Music and science (including but not limited to work with physics and engineering)
43. Music/audio software and technological application
44. Music cognition
45. Music composition (including but not limited to acoustic, electroacoustic, electronic music, sonic and audiovisual art, installation, immersive work, online work, soundscape, work for film and screen, sound design, sound and music for games, work for other media)
46. Music for film and screen
47. Music industry
48. Music performance (including but not limited to performance of notated scores, improvisation-based performance, other non-notated performance practices, live coding and other technology-oriented performance practices)
49. Music performance studies
50. Music practice research
51. Music production
52. Music psychology
53. Music sociology
54. Music technology
55. Musical palaeography and source studies
56. Musicology
57. Music therapy
58. Music theory and analysis
59. Organology
60. Popular music studies
61. Social impact of music
62. Sound recording studies

Cross-discipline

63. Archives and archival practices
64. Arts and the environment
65. Audiences, fan studies and participatory culture
66. Creative arts and AI
67. Cultural and creative industries
68. Digital and online practice research
69. Festival studies
70. Games and gaming
71. Genre studies
72. Immersive and extended reality (XR, VR, AR, MR)
73. Intermedial practice
74. Sound art
75. Sound studies
76. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

The sub-panel recognises the overlapping boundaries in the sub-panel descriptors, and that aspects of research are naturally interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary or span the boundaries between individual UoAs. The sub-panel welcomes the submission of research that may equally be submitted to other sub-panels, including but not limited to research in Main Panel D. Where judged necessary by the sub-panel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

 It is recognised that much work in UoA 33 (including work in film, television and screen studies) will sit at the intersection of multiple units in Main Panel D and we will work closely with those UoAs to ensure robust and consistent assessment, including through the use of joint assessment and cross-referral. Units are encouraged to submit their strongest work irrespective of the form of output or the extent of its multi- or interdisciplinary nature, even if the research is at the boundaries of the UoA.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.

Descriptor

The sub-panel recognises the rich diversity and inherent interdisciplinarity of research across communication, cultural and media studies, library and information management. It welcomes all outputs arising from this research, in whatever genre, medium or practice, using any methodological approach, that can be demonstrated to meet the definition of research for the REF.

The UoA includes research that addresses or deploys theory, history, institutional, policy, textual, critical and/or empirical analysis (including computational approaches and practice-based research) within communication, culture, media, journalism, film, television, screen, and platform studies. The panel expects to see research on screen-based media (including film, television and other digital forms); games; radio and audio; print media; digital media and platform studies; diverse and emerging media, information and communication technologies; media and cultural policy; the cultural and creative industries; galleries, libraries, archives and museums; popular culture; language and social interaction; publishing; human-computer interaction. It is recognised that this will include work which explores questions of power, social inequalities and identities that sit at disciplinary intersections, including gender and sexuality studies, race and postcolonial studies, and disability studies.

The UoA also includes research on the management of information and knowledge in all formats, namely librarianship and information science, digital humanities, archives and records management, and information systems. The panel expects to see research on the generation, organisation, dissemination, exploitation, protection and evaluation of information and knowledge, and the impacts of such activities. It may include research that focuses on digital participation; information behaviour and use; information ethics; information policy; information security; knowledge management systems; preservation and conservation; systems thinking; systems development and the cultural, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical and societal aspects of the disciplines and their associated professions.

Broad research areas for determining representativeness of submissions

1. Communication, cultural and media studies
2. Film, television and screen studies
3. Digital media and platform studies
4. Journalism studies
5. Creative and cultural industries
6. Library and information management
7. Digital humanities
8. Other
9. Other for the purpose of aggregation

Research specialism to inform allocation of outputs to assessors

1. Advertising, marketing communication, and consumer culture
2. AI, automated communication and algorithmic culture
3. Archives and records management
4. Audiences, fan studies and participatory culture
5. Class inequalities
6. Computer-mediated communication
7. Cultural and creative industries
8. Cultural history and heritage
9. Cultural studies
10. Data analytics and computational methods
11. Digital and media literacies, access and inequalities
12. Distribution and exhibition
13. Film theory and criticism
14. Film, television and screen studies
15. Galleries, libraries, archives and museums
16. Games studies
17. Gender and sexuality studies
18. Histories of communication, culture, media, film, television, radio, and technology
19. Human-computer interaction
20. Immersive and extended reality
21. Information behaviour and practices
22. Information and knowledge management
23. Information organisation, metadata
24. Information philosophy, ethics, history
25. Information science, information theory
26. Information systems, information retrieval, digital libraries
27. Journalism
28. Language and social interaction
29. Librarianship
30. Local, community and alternative media
31. Media and cultural policy, regulation, governance and law
32. Media ethics
33. Media sociology
34. Media and cultural/social theory
35. Memory and heritage studies
36. National film, television and media texts, practices and industries
37. Platform studies
38. Political communication
39. Political economy of media and communication
40. Popular culture
41. Popular music studies
42. Public relations, public diplomacy and strategic communication
43. Publishing
44. Practice-based research
45. Radio studies
46. Race, ethnicity, diaspora and postcolonial studies
47. Reading, literacies and learning
48. Science, health, risk, crisis and environmental communication
49. Social media
50. Sound studies
51. Transnational film, television and media texts, practices and industries
52. Visual communication
53. Other (please specify)

Boundaries

UoA 34 is an inherently multi-disciplinary panel and it is anticipated that we will continue to see submissions from units that are variously constituted across units or departments that span Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences fields and disciplines as well as Computer Science and Informatics. Units are encouraged to submit their strongest work irrespective of the form of output or the extent of its multi- or interdisciplinary nature, even if the research is at the boundaries of the UoA. Where judged necessary by the sub-panel for the assessment of outputs, expertise will be augmented by additional assessors, or requests for joint assessment with and/or cross-referral to other relevant UoAs.

It is recognised that much work in UoA 34 (and work in film, television and screen studies in particular) will sit at the intersection of multiple units in Main Panel D and we will work closely with those UoAs to ensure robust and consistent assessment, including through the use of joint assessment and cross-referral. For work in Library and Information Management, we recognise that close working with UoA 17 (Business and Management Studies) and UoA 11 (Computer Science and Informatics) will be equally important.

The sub-panel welcomes submissions of any size, including those grouped to create critical mass.