Lampas is typical of hybrid publications. It is important for Dutch-language knowledge transfer in the broad subject area of Altertumswissenschaft. Its articles capture the state of play in the field and often consist of original essays by Dutch scholars. Lampas occasionally features English-language articles. To give an example: just after the discovery and initial text publication of ‘the New Sappho’ (2014), Lampas published the first scholarly article about this newly discovered poem in Dutch, with an abstract in English. The article has already earned numerous citations.

Lampas is a journal for all professional classicists, whether working at a university or in secondary education. It bridges the gap between the scholarly pursuit of Greek and Latin language and literature, philosophy, history, archaeology and reception history on the one hand and the practice of teaching Greek and Latin language and culture as secondary school subjects at pre-university schools on the other.

It was founded especially for this purpose after the introduction of the 1968 Dutch Secondary Education Act (Mammoetwet), which dramatically altered final examinations and reformulated the basis of cooperation between tertiary and secondary education. Today, the journal regularly publishes theme issues addressing the material covered in final secondary school examinations, which changes every year. Other issues devote separate articles to authors and subjects that teachers can use as background material and that keep classicists abreast of trends in other subdisciplines. Lampas also has a section devoted to teaching methodology that often presents texts annotated for use in lessons, as well as a ‘Sightings’ (Signalementen) section, which discusses new publications that provide an overview of a subject area.

The aim of every self-assessment is to show the members of the site visit committee, who will often have broadly different backgrounds, what the research unit is and aims to be and what results it has achieved, in a way that is comprehensible to the committee and backed up by sound arguments. At core, then, every self-assessment report, whether it refers to a research group, research programme or research institute, consists of an overarching story. In other words, a self-assessment report is a narrative. It provides a consistent description of the unit's position, mission and aims, but also of the indicators that it has chosen. That is also the case for its research outputs: the point is not to provide separate lists of data, but to describe how the outputs relate to the nature of the research unit and its aims in the scientific/scholarly and societal domains. 

Self-assessment reports in the humanities are structured as follows: 

1. Introduction with brief description, profile sketch and aims
2. Relevant performance indicators selected
3. Results achieved in the domains of science/scholarship and society
4. Research unit’s own conclusions in light of its self-assessment

The first four sections should take the form of a consistent narrative.

The rest of the self-assessment report is structured according to the SEP format, but note that sections 6 and 9, in any event, must also be cast largely as a narrative. 

5. Context (administrative)
6. Outcomes of previous assessments, SWOT analysis and plans going forward
7. PhD programmes
8. Research integrity, ethics, research data management
9. Diversity
10. Case studies
11. Robust data with tables and appendices

 (Please see the manual, the format and the examples.)

The QRiH Manual provides a structure for the self-assessment report that allows research units to convey the most important features of their research in the form of a narrative. More information about the structure can be found in Format for self-assessment reports in the humanities (under Tools). The structure can be used to conduct self-assessments at various aggregate levels (e.g. programmes and institutes), or for case studies.

Technological Cultures of Sound is an example of a case study at Maastricht University. The case study was drawn up in accordance with the format used by the British Research Excellence Framework (REF). Here too, the report describes ‘research quality’, ‘impact on research’ and ‘relevance to society’ as interrelated aspects. The REF format is very concise, emphasises relevance (‘impact’), and makes a clearer distinction between scholarly activities and outreach activities. The case study can be downloaded here (PDF).

An example of a hybrid journal: Lampas

We will provide more examples in this section at a later date.

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