Head-of-Estates-Development

Research excellence

Our research strategy reflects our core status as a regionally connected, globally significant University. Our ongoing mission is to ensure continued growth in the quality and impact of research. Research activities are focused around areas of strategic strength that are world-leading and internationally excellent. Investment is directed towards the production of high-quality outputs, the development of outstanding impact and the recruitment of talented researchers to grow the University’s areas of strength.

Many of our 200 world-leading researchers are home-grown talent. They study with the University and stay on as academics. Others reach out to our highly-regarded links with industry, to

Our strategy is contributing to a growth in the quality and vitality of research and has helped to realise: n An overall rise of 12 places in the Times Higher Quality rankings in REF2014 n A 15% increase in the value of Quality Research related funding as a result of our successful REF2014 performance n The launch of 12 new University Research Centres to co-ordinate the work of more than 50 specialist research groups n A year-on-year increase in the University’s share of the most cited publications in the top 1% n International collaborators on 38 per cent of our outputs n Growth in research income – we

collaborate and work in business. The impact of our research was

independently assessed as internationally excellent and world leading in 2014, with core strengths in Art, Design and Fashion; Education, Health and Sociology Research includes work on life-saving diagnostic devices, global policy work to cut carbon emissions in aviation, EU equality law, biofuel cells, 3D printing, and green chemical transformations The English Language and Literature research area and Creative Writing School is led by Dame Professor Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate.

made a total of 355 funding applications in the 2014/15 academic year

n Our EU HR Excellence Award and our status as an Investors in People

Gold Champion, which provides evidence of the quality of our research environment

11

Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter