Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: applications

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label applications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label applications. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Two one-day events in September: BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON AI

BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BCS-SGAI)
 
There are two one-day SGAI events arranged for September, both at the British Computer Society London office (near Moorgate underground station).
 
Trustworthiness and Safety in Generative AI - Friday September 11th 2026
 
Real AI 2026 - Friday September 25th 2026
 
There are online registration forms available from the event websites.
 
Trustworthiness and Safety in Generative AI - Friday September 11th 2026
Despite impressive breakthroughs in capabilities across text, vision, audio, and multimodal reasoning, current generative models remain prone to unpredictable failures and exhibit unresolved challenges in alignment, grounding, and robustness techniques, including hallucinations, instability under distribution shift, hidden internal representations, and limited theoretical understanding of how large‑scale models encode and propagate knowledge. This colloquium aims to create a forum for discussing cutting edge advances and emerging challenges in the trustworthiness and safety of generative AI.
 
The talks will include:

  • Beyond the Pixel: Trustworthy and Safe Generative AI for Medical Image Quality Transfer
  • Spoofing Deep Leakage Attacks in Federated Learning
  • Can We Trust the Voice on the Line? Robust Audio Deepfake Detection from Real-World Calls to the First “Hi”
  • The Scenic Route to Deception: Dark Patterns and Explainability Pitfalls in Conversational Navigation
  • Differential Adjusted Parity for Learning Fair Representations
  • Decision-theoretic uncertainty quantification in generative deep learning
  • Zero Trust Architectures for Secure Multi-Agent AI Systems: From Identity to Collaboration Integrity
Registration fee: £50 (plus VAT) for BCS and SGAI members and £90 (plus VAT) for others. This includes attendance at the event, lunch and refreshments.
Students and unwaged: £35 (plus VAT).  Group discounts are also available.
 
Real AI 2026 - Friday September 25th 2026
This event is aimed less at deep AI specialists and more at those who may be interested in understanding what AI can offer, and what it is doing right now. The event will feature talks from leading exponents and case studies outlining practical applications of AI from a wide range of application domains. Plenty of time has been allowed in the programme for discussion.
 
The talks will include:

  • Evolving the SDLC: Our Journey Towards Agentic Software Engineering
  • Robotics in the Age of AI: Adoption, Illusion and Direction of Travel
  • Is Judgement Uniquely Human?
  • Agent Trust and Coordination in Autonomous Multi-Agent Cyber Defence Systems
  • Agentic AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Three Real-World Use Cases
Registration fee: £90 (plus VAT) for BCS and SGAI members and £110 (plus VAT) for others. This includes attendance at the event, lunch and refreshments.
Students and unwaged: £50 (plus VAT).  Group discounts are also available.
 
Max Bramer, Chair, BCS-SGAI 
bcs-sgai.org

[And my source.]

Monday, July 13, 2026

2nd International Conference on Health Medical Systems and Services (HMSS 2026)

Dear Colleague,

🚨 Last Chance to Submit – Deadline: August 05, 2026

Are you shaping the future of smart, secure healthcare? Join global pioneers at the

The 2nd International Conference on

Health Medical Systems and Services (HMSS 2026)

📍 When & Where? 17–20 November 2026 | Barcelona, Spain

🌐 Explore More: https://hmss-conference.org

📝 Submission Portal: https://hmss-conference.org/authors.php

💡 From AI to cybersecurity, health and medical informatics, and digital health breakthroughs—HMSS 2026 is where innovation meets real-world impact.

🎓 IEEE-indexed (https://conferences.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/71742)

🚀 Submit your paper today and take part in redefining healthcare technology!
📧 Questions? Reach us at: info AT hmss-conference.org

Warm regards,
HMSS 2026 Organizing Committee


My source: SOCIOTECH List at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Leapspace iii - References ii

Regards the two other references listed by Leapspace in the previous post:

Jones, P. (2009) Socio-technical structures, 4Ps and hodges' model. Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch011 

Jones, P. (2011) Socio-technical structures, 4Ps and hodges' model. Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-561-2.ch215 

The doi links above lead to a page where to read the 'View Full Text HTML', or 'PDF' you need a login. This suggests a paywall(?), but the paper can be found here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1842543&rec=1&srcabs=886584&alg=7&pos=3

These are not the original reference or title:

Jones, P. (2009) Socio-Technical Structures, the Scope of Informatics and Hodges’ model, IN, Staudinger, R., Ostermann, H., Bettina Staudinger, B. (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Nursing Informatics and Socio-Technical Structures, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 11, pp. 160-174.

I am unable to check fully, but it appears in 2011, the paper was republished in another collection. It is nice to have a 'bovine' experience, with a lesson about copyright, open access, and predatory publishing. Alteration of titles is bound to result in repetition, confounding the accuracy of publication metrics and indices?

I am not going to add the second reference to the blog's bibliography.

Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Tricotyledons, systems and social problems

'If scientists and engineers are to be able to attack social problems with the same validity and effectiveness with which physical problems have been attacked, then a much more sophisticated and rigorous system design methodology is needed.

Such methodology, called the tricotyledon theory of system design, has been developed as a synthesis of: empirical and speculative approaches to system design [2], the methodology of operations research [10], classical optimization techniques [18], results in specialized branches of mathematical system theory [1,4,6,7], and the constructs of general mathematical system theory [12,13,14].

Experimental applications of the tricotyledon theory of system design to several problems in widely differing contexts [3,4,8,9,16,17] indicate that the methodology holds great promise for validity and effectiveness in attacking any large-scale, complex, man/machine system design problem with precision and rigor. There are no theoretical limitations (such as differentiability, linearity, finiteness, or discreteness) for the problems that can be attacked within the tricotyledon theory of system design.

In this short abstract the theory is only described in terms of set and system theoretic concepts as presented in Reference [12), [13], or [14]; no exploitation of the theory, either theoretical or practical is attempted here.' ..' p.224-225.

'The task of defining a large-scale, complex, man/machine system design problem P=(S,T,α,β,γ,D) often requires an interdisciplinary team in practice. An interdisciplinary team requires, in turn, that the above definitions be translated into non-mathematical methodology. This has been done in Reference [15].' p.229.
15. Wymore, A.W., Systems Engineering Methodology for Interdisciplinary Teams, unpublished manuscript. (Another loss?)


Wymore, A.W. (1975) The Tricotyledon Theory of  System Design. In. Category Theory Applied to Computation and Control: Proceedings of the First International Symposium, San Francisco, February 25-26, 1974 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 25) by E.G. Manes (Editor).

See also: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Wayne_Wymore

http://sysengr.engr.arizona.edu/wymore/bookreview.html 

https://lockywolf.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/a-mathematical-theory-of-systems-engineering-the-elements-by-a-wayne-wymore/ 

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Final Call December AI-2026: Cambridge, UK :: June: Virtual seminar on 'A Future with AI Agents'

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

The proceedings of the AI-20xx conference series are now published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), a sub-series of the distinguished Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of conference proceedings.

AI-2026: Cambridge, UK, December 15th-17th 2026

Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society).The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

AI-2026 is the forty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2026 reviews recent technical advances in AI technologies and shows how these advances have been applied to solve business problems. Key features are:
  • Papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) subseries of the popular Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (
  • Papers are invited in two streams. The Technical Stream presents the best of recent developments in AI, covering a wide range of technical areas. The Application Stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology.
  • It is expected that the best papers will be reprinted in expanded form in an international journal.
  • A mixture of full papers (maximum 14 A4 pages) presented orally and short papers (maximum 6 A4 pages) presented as posters. Papers of both kinds will be included in the proceedings.
  • Prizes for best paper and best student paper in each stream and best presented short/poster paper.
  • Invited keynote lectures.
  • The first day comprises tutorials and workshops to provide greater depth in selected topics. (Separate one-day registration for this day is also available.
  • A panel session or a debate on a topical subject.
  • An 'AI Open Mic' session to allow delegates to have their say about any aspect of AI.
  • In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner.
AI-2026 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI systems.

:::: PLUS :::::

-------- Virtual Meeting seminar on A Future with AI Agents --------

The next in our series of free evening virtual seminars will be on Wednesday June 10th from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. (UK time). The topic will be A Future with AI Agents.
 
Humans are becoming the minority online with bots generating almost 50% of all internet traffic. The World Economic Forum recognised that the advancement of agentic AI is obvious and the agent-driven economy is here. The global AI agents market is growing from a $5.4 billion market in 2024 to $236 billion by 2034. Come along and find out about some technical foundations of agentic systems and how to build a minimal AI agent from scratch.
 
The speakers will be

Anirban Lahiri (Arndit Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom) on Agentic AI: A Friend or Foe'
Dr Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro (SGAI) on 'AI Agents 101'

The virtual seminar series is free and open to all. For further details and for the zoom link to use go to https://bcs-sgai.org/seminars/2026-06-10/.
 
Details of future SGAI events will be placed on the website at https://bcs-sgai.org as they become available. To register to be sent information about future SGAI events by email go to https://www.bcs-sgai.org/register/.
 
Max Bramer
Chair, BCS SGAI
----------------------------------------------------
Chair, British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
Emeritus Professor, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.maxbramer.org
 
My source: AI-SGES list

Monday, April 13, 2026

AI-2026 46th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, DECEMBER

THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

The proceedings of the AI-20xx conference series are now published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), a sub-series of the distinguished Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of conference proceedings.
AI-2026: Cambridge, UK, December 15th-17th 2026
Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society).
The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
AI-2026 is the forty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2026 reviews recent technical advances in AI technologies and shows how these advances have been applied to solve business problems. Key features are:
  • Papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) subseries of the popular Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (www.springer.com/lncs).
  • Papers are invited in two streams. The Technical Stream presents the best of recent developments in AI, covering a wide range of technical areas. The Application Stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology.
  • It is expected that the best papers will be reprinted in expanded form in a special issue of an international journal.
  • A mixture of full papers (maximum 14 A4 pages) presented orally and short papers (maximum 6 A4 pages) presented as posters. Papers of both kinds will be included in the proceedings.
  • Prizes for best paper and best student paper in each stream and best presented short/poster paper.
  • Invited keynote lectures.
  • The first day comprises tutorials and workshops to provide greater depth in selected topics. (Separate one-day registration for this day is also available.)
  • A panel session on a topical subject.
  • An 'AI Open Mic' session to allow delegates to have their say about any aspect of AI.
  • In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner.
AI-2026 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI systems.
FAIRS '26, the eighteenth annual forum for AI research students will immediately precede the AI-2026 conference at Peterhouse College on Monday December 14th, 2026. The aim of FAIRS is to support student members of the AI community providing advice and feedback on their research plans and work. This event is free of charge for research students except for a contribution towards the cost of refreshments and lunch in the College and no conference registration is required.
IMPORTANT DATES
  • Paper/Poster Submission: Friday 26th June 2026
This deadline is considerably later than for previous conferences in this series and will not be extended.
  • Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday September 1st 2026
  • Camera Ready Paper: Monday 14th September 2026
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions presenting original work in AI are invited for both the technical and the application stream. Contributions may be submitted either as full papers of up to fourteen A4 pages for oral presentation or as short papers of up to six A4 pages for poster presentation.
  • Technical Stream
Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): knowledge engineering; semantic web; constraint satisfaction; intelligent agents; machine learning; model based reasoning; verification and validation of AI systems; natural language understanding; speech-enabled systems; case based reasoning; neural networks; genetic algorithms; data mining and knowledge discovery in databases; knowledge representation, inference and reasoning; robotics and pervasive computing; qualitative and temporal reasoning; knowledge management; AI languages and environments; robotics and pervasive computing; large language models.
  • Application Stream
Case studies are welcomed describing the application of AI to real-world problems. Papers in recent years have covered all application domains, including commerce, manufacturing and government, and every major AI technique. In addition to case studies and specific applications of AI, we would welcome papers that discuss issues such as managing the transfer from research to production of AI-based products. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear.
  • Short Papers for Poster Presentation
Short papers are intended for the presentation of work which meets the high standards of the conference, but which is more topical and preliminary than the work presented in full papers. They provide an excellent forum for disseminating new developments and latest work in progress, especially suited to PhD students. Work submitted in the form of full-length papers that fall short of the standard for oral presentation will automatically be considered as candidates for reworking as short papers for poster presentation.
  • Submission of Papers
Final versions of accepted papers must be prepared in either Microsoft Word or Latex together with a copy in PDF format. Initial versions of papers should be submitted in PDF format only and uploaded to the conference website by the deadline given above. Instructions for authors and templates for both Word and Latex are given at
In order for an accepted paper to be published at least one author must register for the conference and undertake to attend and present the paper in person. Presenting authors will be asked to register for the conference at the discounted speakers' rate when they return the final camera-ready versions of their papers.
  • Tutorials & workshops
The Conference Committee invites proposals for tutorials and workshops to be presented on the first day of the conference. These should be directed in the first instance to the Tutorial/Workshop Organiser.
  • Prizes
There are prizes for the best paper and best student paper submitted in each stream, chosen by the relevant program committee, and also a prize for the best presented short/poster paper, awarded on the basis of delegate voting.
All further information including details of the conference committee, program committees, paper format and uploading instructions is given on the conference website.
ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT BY EMAIL TO THE CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:
sgai-conference AT bcs.org.uk

My source: BCS-SGAI

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering - CDVE2026 Call for Papers

The 23rd International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2026) will be held at the Leuphana University, Lunenburg, Germany on September 21-23, 2026 in their amazing architecture landmark main building. Please check the Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YrWvqdu6_E.

Important dates:

Long paper (10 pages): April 10, 2026
Short papers (6 pages): April 20, 2026

Topics: The conference focus is "cooperative". Papers about cooperative design, cooperative visualization, cooperative engineering and all other cooperative applications are welcome. Papers about multiple users, locations, sensors, multimodal applications and integration are all within our focus. Topics also cover social networks, IoT, sensor networks, e-health care, e-education etc. Check our web page

www.cdve.org for more information.

Proceedings publication: by Springer Nature in their LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

All accepted papers will be indexed individually by Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM, Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH etc. 

Selected papers will be considered in a couple SCI journal special issues.

In addition, according to the publisher, the CDVE conference proceedings books have very high number of access among the LNCS proceedings books which can definitely raise the impact of your paper.

The submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2026

Contact of the conference: cdve2026 AT easychair.org

You are welcome to forward this call.
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The 23rd International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering
Sept. 21-23, 2026, Lüneburg, Germany
www.cdve.org

Sunday, February 22, 2026

BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Virtual seminar 'Generative AI'

BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (SGAI)

The next in our series of free evening virtual seminars will be on Wednesday March 11th from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. (UK time). The topic will be Generative AI.

Synopsis
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping the landscape of intelligent systems. This virtual seminar covers cutting-edge research and visionary perspectives on the design, deployment, and governance of generative models. It explores how generative models are enabling adaptive control, task planning, and embodied intelligence in dynamic environments. It also addresses GenAI robustness, interpretability, and alignment which are critical pillars for deploying generative systems in high-stakes domains.

The speakers will be Dr Mark Post (University of York) on 'Safety, Trust, and Perception of Generative AI: Is it deceiving us, or are we deceiving ourselves?' and Dr Erfu Yang (University of Strathclyde) on 'Generative AI in Robotics and Automation: Applications, Advancements and Challenges'.
The virtual seminar series is free and open to all. For further details and for the zoom link to use go to http://https://bcs-sgai.org/seminars/2026-03-11/.

Details of future SGAI events will be placed on the website at https://bcs-sgai.org as they become available. To register to be sent information about future SGAI events by email go to https://www.bcs-sgai.org/register/.

Max Bramer
Chair, BCS SGAI
----------------------------------------------------
Chair, British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
Emeritus Professor, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.maxbramer.org

My source: BCS-AI mail list.

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Nursing a dinosaur: Or, "Computer on your face? Still not cool" c/o Chen, NYT

A gifted copy of the NYT has already paid a dividend providing a post. There's another reporting the launch of Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro. 

Through Chen's tech report we learn, or are reminded that "Google, Meta, Snap, Samsung and Sony" and other companies, have been trying to create VR headsets as an experience for over the past 12 years. Familiar barriers to entry (for all) still make themselves known: physical - weight, energy - battery, purpose - getting tasks done, the graphics - 'tech', hence the market key - of cost. It is integrating these that might also be termed 'maturity' - the time is, finally right. The term has always been somewhat unfortunate but where is the killer-app?

Jurassic World: Aftermath. Credit: Coatsink

Chen's trials of VR headsets old and new includes what seems the ubiquitous dinosaur app.

I can relate to the 'dinosaur' moniker, given the veritable dinosaur represented by models of care and nursing theory; and yes that one, the dinosaur riding the bike to a new (health) career in 1977.

Apple bills this launch as the start of:

"'spatial computing,' which blends data with the physical world to make our lives better."

In a way, this oft-repeated situation can be summed up as socio-technical reality, travelling through various iterations until capability and maturity of technology come of age. 

Now it's not just hi-res graphics, it is video quality imagery. Recalling an interface in my first HTML editor, I wonder if there is an opportunity being missed?

Unpicking Apples' 'spatial computing' which in short = data + physical world + lives better (purposes) tech is persistently predictable in going for the commercial jugular. Perhaps there is an intermediate step which software developers have sought to leverage over many years. 

'Data' here, means care concepts, or as the context dictates. Hodges' model as a data, information, knowledge, educational (e.g., case study) portal. 

Given a specific context what concepts might we 'find' at a,b,c and d below; and elsewhere in the model? How do we characterise the 'individual', the group? While in a virtual (and conceptual / threshold space: Hodges' model!) this might, encountered as text be a less virtiginous and tiring  experience*? Hodges' model is an ideal fit in fact - well a candidate space at least.

Consider how far, since the early 2000s and 2012 (not to mention 1991) technology (hard and soft)  has come in terms of language understanding and AI - ChatGPT. Hodges' model can leverage this in the first instance. As a template Hodges' model is a proverbial virtual lab - a potential situated corpus - also awaiting its dinosaur.

Individual
   |
      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               
HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      
 SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 
|
Group
a)

user (sector) purposes

concepts

critical thinking

reflection

model, modelling

b)

space

3D - graphics

representation

health / nurse theory

models  of care

patient/carer engagement

metric for: self care

integrated care

person-centred care

integrated care

c)
open source/commercial apps

outcomes

prevention

sustainable health care

determinants of health

d)


Brian X. Chen, Computer on your face? Still not cool. Tech, The New York Times International Edition, January 30, 2024, p.14.
https://nytimes-en.com/2024/01/25/why-making-face-computers-cool-isnt-easy/

*https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-vision-pros-scary-side-effect/ar-BB1i6Hln
(The tech giants will battle it out.)

Images: 
Jurassic World: Aftermath - https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/jurassic-world-aftermath-brings-vr-horror-to-the-oculus-quest-this-week-2840584

Fossilized evidence of the dinosaur - as expected from the archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091205090804/http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/Introvrn.htm

The above is included in the fourth row of the SCIENCES collection of links at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100327172004/http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksTwo.htm

Sunday, July 16, 2023

UK Higher Education Research Excellence Framework - Disciplines

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a national assessment of the quality of UK higher education research in all disciplines.

34 subject-based Units of Assessment (UOAs)


INDIVIDUAL
|
     INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               
HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      
SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 
|
GROUP

Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Archaeology

Theology and Religious Studies

Philosophy

[Mathematics & Logic]

^Communication 
as Intra- Interpersonal (Skills) Neurodiversity
hence an individual's
sense-making

Clinical Medicine (Neuroscience)
Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care
Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy
Biological sciences 
Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences

Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
Chemistry
Physics
Mathematical Sciences
Computer Science and Informatics
Engineering
Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Geography and Environmental Studies
Archaeology
Area Studies
Sport and Exercise Sciences, 
Archaeology
Social Work and Social Policy
Sociology
Anthropology and Development Studies
area studies
Education
Modern Languages and Linguistics
English Language and Literature
History
Classics
Communication^, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
Leisure and Tourism





Archaeology

Economics and Econometrics

Business and Management Studies

Law

area studies

Politics and International Studies


As ever, you see the idealised nature of conceptual (and other) models. I have repeated archaeology, and area studies, added mathematics and logic to the intra- interpersonal (our reasoning, imaginative ability) which increasingly is being challenged and debated as computer-based proofs 'take-over'. I'm not sure where future studies might sit (or pace anxiously!)?

The REF was mentioned at the Improving University Teaching Conference [IUT] in the past week. I'd been meaning to look at the scope of the framework which is often raised across the media, hence this post. IUT, was well worth the effort of a presentation and attending. A global event spanning Australia-Asia, Europe, and North America - one to follow in the future.