OUR RESEARCH SUCCESSES
The quality and application of our work has been recognised by several prestigious awards in recent years: n In 2009, a breakthrough made by Professor Steve Torr of our Natural Resources Institute was named as one of the ten most important discoveries to be made in a UK university over the past 60 years. A Universities UK poll of academics recognised his work on controlling the tsetse fly in Africa, which is helping to combat the fatal disease sleeping sickness. n The Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities Fire Safety Engineering Group, led by Professor Ed Galea, has been nominated for many awards, most recently a prestigious Guardian University Award for Ed’s work on a life-saving evacuation signage system. n The university won a Times Higher Education Award in 2008 for an innovation which converts industrial waste while capturing CO2. In 2008, the university won its third Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its participation in Tabeisa, an innovative project to reduce poverty in Africa. n Our research team helping to restore the Cutty Sark was named 2009 Times Higher Education Engineering Research Team of the Year. n Researchers working on 19 sustainable development and agriculture projects in India helped the university to win the 2010 Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding International Strategy.
n In addition to expanding work undertaken by our established research groups, we are developing new and exciting initiatives in a range of areas, including genomics, serious computer games and sports science. n The university has won particular praise for research in biological sciences, agriculture, materials, chemistry, computational engineering and mathematical sciences, sociology, education, statistics and operational research, engineering and history (Research Assessment Exercise 2008).
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