Professor Judie Newman, University of Nottingham has been appointed chair of RAE Panel L convering American Studies and Anglophone Area Studies, Middle Eastern and African Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies.
Professor Nigel Vincent, University of Manchester, will chair Panel M covering Russian, Slavonic and East European Languages, French, German, Dutch and Scandinavian Languages, Italian, Iberian and Latin American Languages, Celtic Studies, English Language and Literature, Linguistics

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