thanks Mike, that would be grand; look forward to seeing you in Vancouver; Ian's going to SFU (Simon Frazer), and I am going to do some long-distance work for Peter and just take some time to be a proper mum; will keep in touch; Jane > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Batty [SMTP:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 6:02 PM > To: McCarthy, Jane > Subject: Re: NEXSUS moves > > Well I hadn't heard - so much for the network ! only kidding. But I am > coming to vancouver in may 22-24 to a meeting and dont know anyone so I > will come and see you and have a beer or something. I will let you know. > Nice place they tell me Vancouver - is Ian going to UBC ?? and you too ?? I > will report to you on the April Nexsus meeting too !! > > Ok I will do the stuff - I think I had a go at doing the metrics but the > papers we have submitted are so out of data and wrong - paul torrens > submitted on year and peter I think must have lsot some of those I > submitted so I am going to do the lot again and do it afresh > > Ill get it to you in a day or so > > Mike > > > > > > At 15:19 21/01/03 +0000, you wrote: > >dear Mike, > >as you perhaps may have already heard, I am going to be leaving NEXSUS at > >the end of February, prior to a family move to Vancouver; at present I am > >busily tidying up loose ends and making sure I leave a tidy ship; > >one thing that is still outstanding concerns Metrics, and in particular > >the papers metrics; as I discussed at the last workshop, a tiered system > >would enable us to demonstrate that while our co-authored papers have not > >been great in number, we have been producing output that is closely > >related to the NEXSUS work; > >a few months ago I sent you the (attached) file of papers that have been > >reported as being your output in the previous NEXSUS Annual Reports to > >ESRC; I suggested that you go through these and using the tiering system I > >proposed (see explanatory file also attached), to indicate which category > >each paper fits into; > >your small effort in this respect would pay us all big dividends in > >producing a clear report for ESRC of the inside picture of our output; > >could I therefore ask you to revisit the attached files and to let me have > >a report back of your tiered papers and output, using the "Metrics so far" > >file as a guide; in addition could you also make sure that you are up to > >date with the inter-group meeting reports, by cross checking with the > >table in the bottom of the file; > >I would appreciate your response before the middle of February to enable > >me to pull together a final Metrics report for Peter's next Annual Report; > >many thanks, > >Jane > > <> <> > > _______________________________________________________ > Mike Batty > Director > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis > University College London > 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT > [t] 44 (0) 207 679 1781 > [f] 44 (0) 207 813 2843 > _______________________________________________________ > Look at our "All new web site" at http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ >