RESEARCH AND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
OUR RESEARCH Research at Oxford Brookes enjoys an international reputation, attracting high-quality staff and students. Our strategy for research and knowledge exchange, sets out the University’s future ambitions in the higher education sector, including developing our recognised research portfolio across the faculties whilst nurturing our emerging strengths and fostering greater international collaboration. We were successful in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), which showed 94% of Brookes research to be internationally recognised and 59% judged ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. We were in the top 10 universities for increase in research power since REF 2014. Investing in individuals and groups of researchers at every stage of their career is central to our success. ■ ■ Oxford Brookes has committed a Central Research Fund to support individuals and research groups including for example Collaborative Travel Awards, Bridging Funds, Research Fellowships and PhD scholarships. ■ ■ We hold the HR Excellence in Research Award from the European Commission, which recognises our commitment to supporting research staff. ■ ■ In 2016 we launched our Research Excellence Awards to support research-active academics with funding towards research leave, employment of a research assistant or project travel costs. ■ ■ We introduced Vice-Chancellor Fellowships in 2017 across our faculties, offering an excellent opportunity for researchers who want to develop their careers, with funding and startup support tailored to discipline needs.
Oxford Brookes achieved a record year for research grants awarded in 2016/17, an increase of 63% compared to last year; and we have continued this upward trajectory. Major funding comes from research councils, charitable trusts, industry and government. In recent years we have been successful in winning competitive funding from UK government departments and from the European Commission. Our income from intellectual property (IP) was more than £3m in 2016/17, and we have been in the top ten of all UK higher education institutions for IP income for the last seven years, according to HEFCE’s Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey. Through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), we have produced significant benefits for our partner businesses. We have a strong record of award-winning KTPs with industry, including Sony Entertainment and Inter-Continental Hotels. The latest projects are looking at solving problems of overheating in care homes and the design of buildings for flood resilience. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS Oxford Brookes is a university with an international outlook and reach. We already have a number of successful international partnerships and we are looking to deepen and strengthen these, as well as seek out new opportunities. We believe a key to success is to forge university-level, multi- dimensional strategic partnerships across a range of disciplines and are currently in negotiations to develop this arrangement in China, Australia and Malaysia.
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