Background Statements: An

OverviewProfessor Alan Lawson

Chair, ERA Steering Committee

UQ Org Chart (Schools, Institutes, Centres)◦ UQ artifact

Clusters ◦ ERA artifact

Field of Research Codes (FoRs)◦ ABS and Stats NZ artifact for OECD reporting◦ 2-digit (2FoR); 4-digit (4FoR); 6-digit (6FoR)

Ranked Journal List FoR allocations◦ ARC ERA advisory committees artifacts (consultation)

UQ-intERAct FoR allocations+apportionments

What is a Discipline?

Why aren’t we in Criminology? Why does it look like we publish nothing in Journalism, Aerospace or Computer Software?

Why does all the Sociology come from outside The School of Sociology?

Note the strength of Sport in Education, History, & Sociology

Where can you find the rest of our work in Sociology?

Explain what’s Not There

UTT 4FoRs & OTT 2FoRs08 Information & Computing Sciences   OTT

0801 Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing   OTT

0802 Computation Theory & Mathematics    UTT  

0803 Computer Software    UTT  

0804 Data Format    UTT  

0805 Distributed Computing    UTT  

0806 Information Systems   OTT

0807 Library & Information Studies    UTT  

0899 Other Information & Computing Sciences    UTT  

10 Technology   OTT

1005 Communications Technologies    UTT  

1006 Computer Hardware    UTT  

1007 Nanotechnology   OTT

1099 Other Technology    UTT