What is the Research Assessment Exercise and what does the grading the Department of Theology received in the RAE mean?
The RAE is a government-funded official evaluation of the research of all the British and Northern Irish universities. Each discipline has a panel of distinguished scholars (the Theology one consisted of Prof Duncan Forrester (Chair), Dr Loveday Alexander, Professor John Barton, Professor Richard Bauckham, Professor Brian Bocking, Professor John Hinnells, Professor William Horbury, Dr Kim Knott, Prof. Hugh McLeod, Professor George Newlands and Professor Graham Stanton) who read the chief publications of each Theology Department staff member over the past 6 years and grade them according to their quality. There are 7 grades ranging from 1 (bottom) to 5*. In Theology there were only 4 departments in all of Britain and Ireland who received the top grade, 5*, which designates departments of international research standing. Of those four two did not submit all their staff for the assessment; Nottingham was therefore one of only two theology Departments who submitted all its staff and was ra
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