The Tertiary Education Commission has today announced the appointment of chairs for the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) peer review panels for the 2018 quality evaluation.
HRC Chief Executive Professor Kath McPherson has been named chair for the PBRF panel for health. Kath has a clinical background in nursing and her academic background straddles nursing, rehabilitation and psychology (particularly health psychology and applied psychology). She was a panel member in the 2012 quality evaluation.
Also named as a chair is Distinguished Professor Ian Reid from the University of Auckland, lead researcher on the HRC-funded programme 'Mechanisms and management of musculoskeletal disease'. Ian has been named chair of the PBRF panel for medicine and public health.
For more details see the Tertiary Education Commission website.