Professor David Otley to chair RAE panel
Published 1 October 2004
David Otley, Professor of Accounting and Management at Lancaster University Management School, has been appointed chair of one of the main RAE panels, responsible for the assessment of UK research quality in Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Finance and Library and Information Studies.
There will be 15 main panels in the next RAE, which will take place in 2008. The panel chairs will oversee and advise on the detailed assessment done by individual subject panels. The chairs are all professors who are considered to be leading lights in their particular disciplines. The news is reported in detail in the Guardian on 28 September (Research funding council announces subject chiefs)Times Higher Education Supplement (1 October 2004). For more details about the composition of the RAE main panels, see the HEFCE press release.
The RAE, or Research Assessment Exercise, assesses the quality of research at universities in the UK. It is the only government-sponsored ranking of research quality in UK universities. LUMS has achieved the maximum rating in each RAE: in 1992, 1996 and 2001.
Professor Otley's distinguished academic career began with his PhD in Budgetary Control and Managerial Behaviour at Manchester Business School in 1976. He joined Lancaster's Department of Accounting & Finance in 1972. Among his many contributions to the University, David Otley has served as Acting Dean of the Management School twice, and has been a member of the University Finance Committee.
His recent research has been in the field of performance management and the relative role of financial and non-financial measures of organisational performance. He has published in many international journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, and Auditing, Accounting and Accountability Journal. He was the founding General Editor of the British Journal of Management for ten years until 1999, and is an editorial board member of several major journals. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. More recently he chaired the Research Assessment panel for Accounting and Finance for the UK government’s funding Council for Higher Education, and received the Distinguished Academic award for 2002/3 from the British Accounting Association.
