Dec 17, 2014 - 42 Ulster A: Nursing and Health science 17 2.89 Sheffield A: ..... 17 Royal Agricultural University .....
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
=9 12 =13 =13 15 =16 =16
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
147 136 25 15 64 104 57
38 36 39 37 28 34 40
3.20 3.19 3.16 3.16 3.14 3.12 3.12
471 434 77 46 201 324 176
18 =19
n/a n/a
94 144
=19 =19
n/a n/a
22
n/a
Newcastle Manchester Exeter Plymouth Sheffield Nottingham London School of Hygiene and Trop Med Leeds Liverpool (joint submission with LSTM) Bristol LSTM (joint submission with Liverpool) Warwick
Plymouth Cambridge Oxford King’s College London Cardiff Queen Mary Institute of Cancer Research Warwick UEA Edinburgh
48 39 34 32 33 27 29 24 35 27
3.33 3.21 3.20 3.20 3.16 3.14 3.09 3.07 3.07 3.06
Sheffield Exeter Imperial Manchester St Andrews Glasgow Leeds
21 36 27 22 25 21 18
3.04 3.04 3.03 2.98 2.98 2.95 2.92
28 3.10 30 3.09
292 St George’s 443 Newcastle
23 18
84 31
31 3.09 30 3.09
261 Leicester 96 Birmingham
32
24 3.05
164
27 3.04
99 Liverpool (joint submission with LSTM) 499 LSTM (joint submission with Liverpool) 150 UCL 218 Nottingham
=23
n/a Birmingham
=23 25
n/a Dundee n/a Leicester
50 72
28 3.04 27 3.03
n/a UEA
14
32 2.96
26 27 28 29 30 31
n/a St George’s 44 n/a Southampton 143 n/a Aberdeen 54 n/a Queen’s Belfast 74 n/a St Andrews 16 n/a National profile 3,571 2 Public health, Health services and Primary care 1 n/a Oxford 48 2 n/a Imperial 55 3 n/a Cambridge 57 4 n/a Bristol 75 5 n/a Queen Mary 21 6 n/a Keele 9 =7 n/a UCL 160 =7 =9
n/a York n/a King’s College London
=9 11
n/a Southampton n/a London School of Hygiene and Trop Med n/a Nottingham
=12
43 London School of Hygiene and Trop Med 130 Bristol 422 Dundee 157 Aberdeen 212 Southampton 45 Queen’s Belfast 11,391 National profile
29 25 25 20 17 39
2.95 2.94 2.89 2.88 2.79 3.19
57 57 50 50 44 36 46
3.48 3.46 3.41 3.34 3.29 3.27 3.24
166 189 195 249 68 30 518
53 24
42 3.24 37 3.23
171 76
11 257
37 3.23 43 3.22
34 828
33
38 3.18
105 Birmingham
Cambridge Oxford Southampton Imperial Keele Queen Mary Warwick (joint submission with LSTM) St George’s LSTM (joint submission with Warwick) King’s College London Bristol
GPA
823 659 464 1,113 230 683 473 192 1,439 568
% of 4* research activity
3.45 3.43 3.40 3.33 3.33 3.30 3.28 3.25 3.20 3.20
Institution
GPA
Research power
53 58 48 48 46 44 40 38 43 40
Impact
% of 4* research activity
GPA
239 192 136 334 69 207 144 59 450 177
2008 GPA
1 Clinical medicine 1 n/a Oxford 2 n/a Cambridge 3 n/a King’s College London =4 n/a Imperial =4 n/a Institute of Cancer Research 6 n/a Edinburgh 7 n/a Queen Mary 8 n/a Cardiff =9 n/a UCL =9 n/a Glasgow
2014 rank order by GPA
Institution
% of 4* research activity
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
Overall
100 100 94 90 83 82 84 80 80 89
4.00 4.00 3.94 3.90 3.83 3.82 3.81 3.80 3.80 3.77
75 86 74 75 72 72 71
3.75 3.74 3.74 3.73 3.72 3.72 3.71
2.91 Queen’s Belfast 2.90 Leicester
75 65
3.70 3.65
22 17
2.86 Glasgow 2.85 St George’s
77 72
3.62 3.62
16
2.85 Southampton
61
3.56
16
2.85 Manchester
61
3.56
17 18
2.84 Queen Mary 2.84 Liverpool (joint submission with LSTM) 2.83 LSTM (joint submission with Liverpool) 2.82 Birmingham 2.82 Plymouth 2.73 Warwick 2.71 UEA 2.66 St Andrews 2.97 National profile
77 58
3.55 3.53
58
3.53
54 30 40 40 0 76.4
3.45 3.30 3.20 2.60 2.27 3.71
46 42 42 39 22 30 32
3.34 3.27 3.26 3.23 3.08 3.07 3.05
100 95 90 90 90 83 80
4.00 3.95 3.90 3.90 3.90 3.83 3.80
24 32
80 80
3.80 3.80
26 24
3.05 Nottingham 3.05 Warwick (joint submission with LSTM) 3.04 King’s College London 3.00 LSTM (joint submission with Warwick)
80 80
3.80 3.80
25
2.97 Queen Mary
77
3.77
22 14 12 13 17 8 23.1
Institution Bristol Dundee Imperial Institute of Cancer Research Aberdeen Oxford UCL Cardiff Exeter London School of Hygiene and Trop Med Newcastle Cambridge Sheffield Edinburgh Nottingham Leeds King’s College London
Bristol Sheffield Oxford Liverpool Keele Imperial York
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
=15 =15 17 =18 =18 20 21 22
79
3.74
4
39 3.18
13 UEA
18
2.95 London School of Hygiene and Trop Med 2.94 St George’s 2.93 Leicester 2.91 Brunel 2.91 Birmingham 2.90 Aberdeen 2.89 Dundee 2.89 UEA 2.86 Southampton
76
3.73
80 67 60 58 67 53 50 50
3.70 3.67 3.60 3.58 3.53 3.53 3.50 3.50
40 50 40 63 33 29 20 10 10 0 68.3
3.40 3.40 3.40 3.37 3.33 3.23 2.90 2.90 2.70 2.50 3.63
100 100
4.00 4.00
90 89 87 84
3.90 3.89 3.87 3.84
84
3.84
84
3.84
80
3.80
80 80
3.80 3.80
76 75
3.76 3.75
3.15 3.15 3.14 3.12 3.12 3.11 3.09 3.07
150 36 76 139 82 76 77 43
n/a Liverpool 31 38 n/a Glasgow 48 25 n/a Sheffield 74 38 n/a Newcastle 27 25 n/a Queen’s Belfast 30 23 n/a Dundee 16 24 n/a Manchester 33 17 n/a Brunel 10 20 n/a Portsmouth 8 2 n/a Leeds Beckett 23 1 n/a National profile 1,354 39 3 Allied health professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy 1 n/a Sheffield B: Biomedical science 65 55 2 n/a Swansea A: Allied health 45 54 professions 3 n/a Southampton 35 53 =4 n/a Cardiff 75 48 =4 n/a Nottingham A: Pharmacy 44 51 6 n/a Bath 54 51
3.04 3.03 3.02 2.97 2.89 2.87 2.78 2.77 2.33 1.76 3.16
95 147 224 81 86 46 93 29 19 40 4,280
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
20 25 23 17 22 17 23 19 14 21 15 14 19 14 12 10 0 1 22.6
2.80 2.74 2.73 2.72 2.67 2.66 2.56 2.45 2.19 1.65 2.89
Institution
Newcastle Leeds Exeter Cardiff Glasgow Cambridge Queen’s Belfast Portsmouth Manchester Leeds Beckett National profile
3.51 3.49
227 UEA A: Pharmacy 157 Swansea A: Allied health professions
48 40
3.43 Nottingham A: Pharmacy 3.31 Southampton
3.47 3.42 3.42 3.41
120 256 151 185
113
51 3.38
Bangor Surrey Sheffield B: Biomedical science UEA B: Allied health professions and Nursing 381 Aston
40 36 35 37
3.29 3.28 3.28 3.28
32
Cardiff Sheffield B: Biomedical science Manchester Leeds
=8
n/a Surrey
65
44 3.37
218 Bath
35
=8
n/a Aston
57
45 3.37
191 Southampton
28
10 =11
n/a Queen’s Belfast A: Pharmacy n/a UCL B: Pharmacy
33 47
44 3.36 47 3.34
111 Lincoln 156 Birmingham
27 20
=11 13
32 41
44 3.34 43 3.33
108 Queen’s Belfast A: Pharmacy 136 Stirling
29 30
14 94
45 3.32 42 3.31
47 King’s College London A: Dentistry 311 Bradford
29 28
3.15 Newcastle 3.15 Hull
73 70
3.73 3.70
=15 =15 =18 =18 =20 =20 22
n/a Queen Mary n/a King’s College London C: Nursing and Palliative care n/a UEA A: Pharmacy n/a King’s College London B: Pharmacy and Nutritional sciences n/a King’s College London A: Dentistry n/a Newcastle n/a Keele n/a Stirling n/a Birmingham n/a Bangor n/a Strathclyde
3.23 King’s College London C: Nursing and Palliative care 3.22 Nottingham B: Nursing and Allied health professions 3.18 Brighton (joint submission with Sussex) 3.18 Bristol 3.18 Sussex (joint submission with Brighton) 3.16 Keele 3.16 Strathclyde
53 19 44 24 16 12 74
42 41 42 45 30 35 44
175 63 145 81 52 39 244
28 20 23 29 25 27 27
3.14 3.14 3.13 3.13 3.12 3.12 3.11
70 73 67 66 60 60 58
3.70 3.67 3.67 3.66 3.60 3.60 3.58
=23
n/a Lancaster
64
39 3.27
60
3.55
14 =15
n/a Manchester
Aberdeen Cardiff UCL Exeter Nottingham York Leicester London School of Hygiene and Trop Med Glasgow Dundee Queen’s Belfast Newcastle Liverpool Manchester Sheffield Brunel Portsmouth Leeds Beckett National profile
GPA
2.95 UCL
Institution
% of 4* research activity 23
Research power
98 Leeds
GPA
39 3.18
48 12 24 45 26 24 25 14
% of 4* research activity
Total number of FTE staff submitted 31
34 32 36 30 32 37 25 22
7
Impact
GPA
=12
Institution
n/a Warwick (joint submission with LSTM) n/a LSTM (joint submission with Warwick) n/a Aberdeen n/a St George’s n/a Leicester n/a Birmingham n/a Leeds n/a Cardiff n/a Exeter n/a UEA
Output
% of 4* research activity
=12
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
3.31 3.31 3.30 3.30 3.29 3.29 3.28
Nottingham A: Pharmacy Coventry Cardiff Queen Mary Sheffield A: Dentistry Reading Keele
211 Kent (joint submission with Greenwich: A – Pharmacy)
30
Glasgow Bath UCL B: Pharmacy Swansea A: Allied health professions UCL A: Dentistry Birmingham King’s College London B: Pharmacy and Nutritional sciences 3.11 Ulster B: Biomedical sciences
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
26 =27 =27
n/a UEA B: Allied health professions and Nursing n/a Ulster B: Biomedical sciences n/a Bradford
14
34 3.26
74 44
39 3.24 30 3.22
38 33 14 16 23
=40 =40 42 =43 =43 45
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
46 47 48 49 =50 =50 =50 53 =54 =54 56 =57 =57 =57 =57
Glasgow Caledonian Lincoln Dundee City UWE UEL
n/a Ulster A: Nursing and Health science n/a Hertfordshire B: Allied health professions and Nursing n/a Reading n/a Oxford Brookes n/a Bedfordshire n/a Open n/a Anglia Ruskin n/a Queen’s Belfast B: Nursing and Midwifery n/a Kent (joint submission with Greenwich A: Pharmacy) n/a Greenwich A: Pharmacy (joint submission with Kent) n/a Manchester Met n/a Robert Gordon (joint submission with UHI) n/a Huddersfield n/a Roehampton
5
38 3.22 30 30 43 38
107 44 52 71
3.21 3.21 3.20 3.17
38 3.17
Manchester UCL B: Pharmacy Leeds Nottingham Trent
16 Roehampton
30
3.11 City
55
3.55
26
3.09 Surrey
66
3.54
26 26
3.09 Bedfordshire 3.09 Nottingham Trent
53 53
3.53 3.53
24
3.09 Northumbria
60
3.52
29 29 23 26
3.08 3.08 3.07 3.07
56 50 50 50
3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50
22
Aston Queen’s Belfast A: Pharmacy Queen Mary Hertfordshire B: Allied health professions and Nursing 3.06 Glasgow Caledonian
48
3.48
53 47 46 50 40 40
3.47 3.47 3.46 3.43 3.40 3.40
32 40 34 53 27 27
3.32 3.30 3.29 3.27 3.27 3.27
27
3.27
20
3.20
20 20 20 20 20
3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20
GPA
Institution
145 Greenwich A: Pharmacy (joint submission with Kent) 46 King’s College London B: Pharmacy and Nutritional sciences 240 Lancaster 142 King’s College London C: Nursing and Palliative care 122 Glasgow
% of 4* research activity
Research power
GPA
37 3.27
=34 =34 36 37 =38 =38
=32
% of 4* research activity
44
n/a Nottingham B: Nursing and Allied health professions n/a Sheffield A: Dentistry n/a Glasgow n/a Bristol n/a Brighton (joint submission with Sussex) n/a Sussex (joint submission with Brighton) n/a Hull n/a Nottingham Trent n/a Coventry n/a UCL A: Dentistry n/a Northumbria n/a Portsmouth
=29 =29 31 =32
Total number of FTE staff submitted
n/a Leeds
Impact
GPA
25
Institution
Output
% of 4* research activity
=23
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
34 24 18 34 44 24
31 30 20 29 31 24
3.16 3.16 3.14 3.13 3.12 3.12
108 75 55 107 138 74
UEL Newcastle Portsmouth Glasgow Caledonian Strathclyde Ulster B: Biomedical sciences
24 18 20 20 22 19
3.05 3.03 3.02 3.00 2.97 2.97
44 19 22 68 45 15
24 25 24 28 28 19
3.11 3.11 3.07 3.06 3.06 3.05
138 60 69 207 139 45
Open Hull Bristol Oxford Brookes UCL A: Dentistry Northumbria
22 18 30 15 17 18
2.97 2.96 2.94 2.94 2.93 2.91
32
23 3.04
14
Institution
15
2.89
24 2.99
98 Nottingham B: Nursing and Allied health professions 42 Ulster A: Nursing and Health science
17
2.89
UWE Portsmouth Manchester Met King’s College London A: Dentistry Dundee UEA B: Allied health professions and Nursing Bradford Oxford Brookes Lancaster Stirling Teesside Robert Gordon (joint submission with UHI) UHI (joint submission with Robert Gordon) Sheffield A: Dentistry
23 10 25 17 11
17 18 24 16 10
69 30 73 50 33
15 11 13 25 18
2.89 2.89 2.88 2.88 2.87
Ulster A: Nursing and Health science UEL Swansea B: Nursing Birmingham City Bangor
19
13 2.91
Kingston Cardiff Met Dundee South Wales Queen’s Belfast B: Nursing and Midwifery 55 Bedfordshire
21
2.85 Anglia Ruskin
20
3.20
16
23 2.90
47 Swansea B: Nursing
8
2.83 Huddersfield
20
3.20
2
23 2.90
13
2.82 Lincoln
40
3.17
61 14
19 2.88 17 2.85
17 17
2.82 Westminster 2.82 De Montfort
13 40
3.13 3.10
10 10
8 2.85 14 2.85
14 13
2.82 Open 2.81 Coventry
10 13
3.10 3.03
16
0
3.00
19
2.81 Queen’s Belfast B: Nursing and Midwifery 2.81 London South Bank
20
3.00
6 13
2.81 Edge Hill 2.81 Uclan
20 23
3.00 2.90
2.98 2.96 2.92 2.92 2.92
5
17 2.85
61
n/a UHI (joint submission with Robert Gordon) n/a Swansea B: Nursing
14
9 2.84
62 63
n/a Kingston n/a Sheffield Hallam
17 23
10 2.82 11 2.81
6 UWE 177 Wolverhampton 38 Sheffield Hallam 29 Edinburgh Napier 29 Brighton (joint submission with Sussex) 15 Hertfordshire A: Pharmacy and Pharmacology 40 Hertfordshire B: Allied health professions and Nursing 49 Anglia Ruskin 64 Sussex (joint submission with Brighton)
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
GPA
2.80 Hertfordshire A: Pharmacy and Pharmacology 2.80 Middlesex
0
2.90
20
2.90
18 20 15 5 8 13 11 17 16 12
2.77 2.76 2.73 2.73 2.72 2.70 2.70 2.68 2.68 2.67
40 0 0 0 10 0 8 0 13 0
2.90 2.90 2.90 2.87 2.80 2.77 2.74 2.63 2.60 2.60
12
2.67 York St John
0
2.60
13
2.57
0 0 0
2.50 2.50 2.50
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2.40 2.40 2.40 2.30 2.30 2.27 2.20 2.07
18
10 2.79
=64
n/a Hertfordshire A: Pharmacy and Pharmacology n/a Cardiff Met
12
9 2.79
66 =67 =67 =67 70 =71 =71 73 =74 =74
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
16 35 25 15 7 15 13 22 51 50
=74
n/a Salford
42
7 2.63
10
5 2.62
=78 =78 80
n/a Greenwich B: Allied health professions and Nursing n/a Plymouth n/a De Montfort n/a London Met
35 31 11
14 2.58 13 2.58 9 2.57
90 Teesside 81 Uclan 28 Salford
8 10 8
=81 =81 83 =84 =84 86 87 88
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
21 14 12 31 25 11 3 8
10 6 5 11 7 7 7 4
55 36 31 80 62 28 8 20
16 9 10 8 4 7 2 7
77
89 90 91 92 93 94
Teesside Liverpool John Moores Westminster Middlesex South Wales London South Bank UWS Edinburgh Napier Brunel Uclan
Bournemouth Canterbury Christ Church Birmingham City Wolverhampton Sunderland Edge Hill Cumbria Queen Margaret
n/a Chester
n/a West London n/a Northampton n/a York St John n/a Worcester n/a Bucks New n/a National profile 4 Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience 1 n/a Oxford 2 n/a Cardiff 3 n/a Cambridge 4 n/a York 5 n/a Birkbeck 6 n/a Royal Holloway =7 n/a Imperial =7 n/a Birmingham 9 n/a Newcastle 10 n/a Sussex 11 n/a Edinburgh 12 n/a King’s College London =13 n/a UCL =13 n/a Essex =15 n/a St Andrews
23
12 10 15 11 16 9 12 9 13 11
2.77 2.75 2.75 2.75 2.68 2.67 2.67 2.65 2.63 2.63
2.56 2.56 2.55 2.54 2.54 2.53 2.50 2.41
3 2.29
33 Greenwich B: Allied health professions and Nursing 44 Plymouth 95 Westminster 68 London Met 41 Huddersfield 20 London South Bank 39 Liverpool John Moores 35 Middlesex 59 Brunel 133 UWS 130 Robert Gordon (joint submission with UHI) 111 UHI (joint submission with Robert Gordon) 25 Manchester Met
Bournemouth Canterbury Christ Church Sunderland De Montfort Edge Hill Queen Margaret Birmingham City Northampton
53 West London
15 13 6 11 7 2,748
5 5 3 2 2 31
2.16 2.14 2.13 2.00 1.96 3.09
32 29 12 22 14 8,490
98 69 76 25 28 23 44 41 52 41 117 239 287 21 30
67 60 58 51 60 51 50 52 51 45 49 47 51 40 46
3.62 3.52 3.51 3.46 3.45 3.44 3.41 3.41 3.37 3.36 3.35 3.34 3.30 3.30 3.29
356 244 267 86 98 80 151 139 174 139 393 798 946 69 99
Chester Worcester York St John Bucks New Cumbria National profile Oxford York Cambridge Aberdeen Cardiff Royal Holloway Warwick Essex Sussex Imperial Birmingham Birkbeck Bangor Glasgow Exeter
15 8
9
8 1 3 5 3 – 21.4 54 43 44 41 42 42 41 40 35 33 37 39 33 37 31
GPA
Institution
51 City
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Total number of FTE staff submitted
Institution
Output
% of 4* research activity
=64
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Institution
UEA A: Pharmacy Canterbury Christ Church London Met Sheffield Hallam Liverpool John Moores Kingston Salford Bournemouth Brunel Roehampton
2.65 Chester 2.60 Sunderland 2.57 Reading 2.53 Greenwich B: Allied health professions and Nursing 2.53 West London 2.53 UWS 2.52 South Wales 2.48 Cardiff Met 2.45 Queen Margaret 2.45 Edinburgh Napier 2.37 Bucks New 2.30 Kent (joint submission with Greenwich A: Pharmacy) 2.24 Greenwich A: Pharmacy (joint submission with Kent) 2.23 Plymouth 2.21 Wolverhampton 2.10 Northampton 2.03 Worcester – Cumbria 2.95 National profile
0
2.07
0 0 0 0 – 47.2
1.80 1.70 1.60 1.50 – 3.33
3.47 3.36 3.35 3.34 3.33 3.31 3.27 3.24 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.17 3.15 3.14 3.14
100 100 100 100 87 86 84 84 82 90 80 80 80 80 80
4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 3.87 3.86 3.84 3.84 3.82 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.80
Birkbeck Swansea UEL Stirling Newcastle Oxford Imperial Sussex Edinburgh Cardiff Bristol Southampton Liverpool Dundee Heriot–Watt
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
69 71 46 219 67 104 110 107 220 170 110 47 47 104 42 135 105 122 94 75 66 74 99 98 43 63 57 61 56 34 40 76 21 61 34 52 38 34 46 25 57 38 34 31 33 30 36 12 33 24 30 34 32 26
Institution Stirling St Andrews Newcastle Leicester Edinburgh King’s College London Dundee UCL Nottingham Plymouth UEA Southampton Manchester Lancaster Sheffield Swansea Liverpool Bristol Durham Surrey Leeds Goldsmiths Bournemouth Anglia Ruskin Kent Reading Queen’s Belfast Nottingham Trent City Hull UEL Edge Hill Portsmouth Westminster Roehampton Ulster Liverpool John Moores Middlesex Abertay York St John Oxford Brookes Kingston Strathclyde Brunel Uclan Chichester Greenwich Keele Coventry Hertfordshire Northumbria Heriot–Watt Lincoln Liverpool Hope
32 35 28 31 28 25 24 33 23 19 26 28 24 28 22 28 23 24 16 21 16 18 11 10 20 19 17 16 14 11 8 23 16 10 10 12 16 7 6 7 12 6 2 8 6 0 12 6 10 2 11 6 7 2
3.14 3.08 3.07 3.07 3.06 3.04 3.03 3.02 3.01 3.00 2.97 2.96 2.94 2.94 2.92 2.91 2.88 2.87 2.86 2.86 2.85 2.84 2.84 2.80 2.79 2.77 2.76 2.73 2.70 2.68 2.67 2.64 2.61 2.61 2.60 2.59 2.58 2.57 2.54 2.50 2.49 2.49 2.48 2.43 2.42 2.42 2.40 2.39 2.39 2.39 2.38 2.36 2.29 2.26
Institution
GPA
3.29 3.28 3.27 3.23 3.23 3.22 3.21 3.21 3.20 3.19 3.19 3.18 3.18 3.15 3.10 3.07 3.06 3.05 3.04 3.04 3.02 2.99 2.98 2.96 2.93 2.89 2.86 2.81 2.80 2.80 2.79 2.73 2.73 2.72 2.71 2.69 2.69 2.68 2.64 2.61 2.58 2.57 2.57 2.56 2.54 2.49 2.47 2.46 2.41 2.37 2.36 2.35 2.29 2.28
% of 4* research activity
38 40 43 42 29 38 44 42 43 38 39 31 44 37 29 27 22 31 21 29 29 26 24 23 25 25 19 13 21 17 17 13 12 20 20 22 18 7 13 10 13 8 4 5 7 15 12 13 7 4 13 10 10 8
GPA
21 22 14 68 21 32 34 33 69 53 34 15 15 33 14 44 34 40 31 25 22 25 33 33 15 22 20 22 20 12 14 28 8 23 13 19 14 13 18 10 22 15 13 12 13 12 15 5 14 10 13 14 14 12
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
Institution Warwick Bangor Stirling Manchester Aberdeen Exeter Glasgow Southampton Bristol Nottingham Sheffield Dundee Swansea Liverpool UEA Leeds Leicester Reading Plymouth Durham Lancaster Queen’s Belfast Goldsmiths Kent UEL Nottingham Trent Surrey Hull Portsmouth Strathclyde Roehampton City Abertay Brunel Heriot–Watt Northumbria Coventry Westminster Uclan Liverpool John Moores Ulster Oxford Brookes Middlesex Hertfordshire Bournemouth Edge Hill Keele York St John Anglia Ruskin Kingston Lincoln Derby Staffordshire Greenwich
GPA
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
% of 4* research activity
2008 GPA
=15 17 18 =19 =19 21 =22 =22 24 =25 =25 =27 =27 29 30 31 32 33 =34 =34 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 =44 =44 46 =47 =47 49 50 =51 =51 53 54 55 56 =57 =57 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Strathclyde King’s College London Queen’s Belfast Royal Holloway Nottingham Trent Bangor Northumbria UCL Birmingham Reading Cambridge Manchester Sheffield Goldsmiths Coventry UEA Essex Portsmouth York Brunel Warwick Uclan Kent St Andrews Roehampton Staffordshire Abertay York St John Leeds Nottingham Durham Hull Lancaster Glasgow Exeter Plymouth Derby Chester Leicester Aberdeen Keele Middlesex Lincoln Westminster Leeds Beckett City Hertfordshire Queen Margaret Ulster Surrey Oxford Brookes London South Bank Liverpool John Moores Edge Hill
80 78 73 73 73 73 73 73 68 68 73 60 60 60 60 60 53 53 47 73 47 47 40 40 40 40 40 40 36 60 53 27 53 60 40 40 40 40 0 0 40 0 40 0 0 20 20 40 27 27 0 0 0 0
3.80 3.78 3.73 3.73 3.73 3.73 3.73 3.71 3.68 3.68 3.64 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.53 3.53 3.47 3.47 3.47 3.47 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.36 3.33 3.27 3.27 3.27 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.73 2.73 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.40
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
30 14 22 27 13 23 11 21 16 17 16 5 9 7,862
34 73 110 100 224 45 31 190 44 48 173
58 58 56 51 47 48 50 52 47 48 46
3.55 3.50 3.44 3.41 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.37 3.37 3.28 3.25
121 256 377 339 761 153 104 639 150 156 562
21 55 43 61 50 37 65 55 44 145 89 74 24 23 25 45 60 35 21 18 39 24 91 26 23 12
46 3.25 42 32 38 33 30 33 29 28 37 30 30 19 31 23 22 22 18 17 16 25 15 23 13 3 11
3.23 3.20 3.19 3.16 3.16 3.15 3.15 3.15 3.12 3.11 3.07 3.07 3.07 3.06 3.01 3.00 2.99 2.98 2.97 2.94 2.89 2.88 2.67 2.67 2.48
Institution London South Bank Bolton Derby Winchester Queen Margaret Chester Leeds Beckett Staffordshire South Wales Worcester Glyndwr Northampton Newman National profile Institute of Cancer Research Newcastle Dundee Oxford Imperial Sheffield Birmingham Edinburgh Sussex Cambridge York
69 Bath 177 137 194 159 118 203 172 139 451 278 227 74 72 75 135 181 104 61 53 115 69 262 68 61 31
UCL (joint submission with Birkbeck) Leicester Birkbeck (joint submission with UCL) Queen Mary UEA Kent Exeter Bristol Warwick Cardiff Liverpool King’s College London Reading St Andrews Manchester Royal Holloway Leeds Glasgow Southampton Aberdeen Durham Essex Oxford Brookes Nottingham Sheffield Hallam
GPA
2.26 2.26 2.25 2.22 2.12 2.10 2.09 2.01 1.86 1.78 1.75 1.51 1.18 3.12
% of 4* research activity
Research power
9 8 4 2 0 2 3 2 2 1 2 0 0 38
GPA
GPA
13 6 10 12 6 11 5 10 9 9 9 3 8 2,520
Impact
% of 4* research activity
% of 4* research activity
Institution
n/a Chester n/a Queen Margaret n/a London South Bank n/a Leeds Beckett n/a Chichester n/a Liverpool Hope n/a Bolton n/a Worcester n/a Winchester n/a Glyndwr n/a South Wales n/a Newman n/a Northampton n/a National profile 5 Biological sciences 1 n/a Institute of Cancer Research 2 n/a Dundee 3 n/a Edinburgh 4 n/a Imperial =5 n/a Oxford =5 n/a Sheffield =5 n/a Newcastle =8 n/a Cambridge =8 n/a York 10 n/a Sussex =11 n/a UCL (joint submission with Birkbeck) =11 n/a Birkbeck (joint submission with UCL) 13 n/a Cardiff 14 n/a Birmingham 15 n/a Leeds =16 n/a St Andrews =16 n/a Leicester =18 n/a Bristol =18 n/a Exeter =18 n/a UEA 21 n/a Manchester 22 n/a Aberdeen =23 n/a King’s College London =23 n/a Kent =23 n/a Queen Mary 26 n/a Bath 27 n/a Warwick 28 n/a Glasgow 29 n/a Southampton 30 n/a Reading 31 n/a Liverpool 32 n/a Durham 33 n/a Royal Holloway 34 n/a Nottingham =35 n/a Oxford Brookes =35 n/a Essex n/a Keele 37
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
=70 =70 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
6 4 4 3 0 2 2 2 3 4 2 0 – 25.9
2.26 2.25 2.23 2.17 2.17 2.12 2.12 1.98 1.97 1.85 1.85 1.07 – 2.93
Worcester Kingston Bolton Greenwich Liverpool Hope Bournemouth Glyndwr Winchester Chichester Anglia Ruskin South Wales Northampton Newman National profile
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 60.9
2.40 2.40 2.40 2.20 2.00 1.80 1.40 1.40 1.40 1.20 1.20 1.00 – 3.49
48 47 43 36 39 38 35 39 46 36 32
3.44 3.33 3.30 3.26 3.26 3.25 3.24 3.20 3.20 3.16 3.15
York St Andrews Edinburgh Institute of Cancer Research Dundee Leeds Cambridge Oxford Cardiff Durham Sheffield
92 90 80 80 75 71 70 62 60 68 52
3.92 3.90 3.80 3.80 3.75 3.71 3.64 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.52
31
3.12 Exeter
50
3.50
37 26 37 32 28 21 27 26 29 31 19 30 18 23 26 19 22 22 16 19 15 4 11 14 8
3.11 3.11 3.11 3.09 3.07 3.07 3.05 3.03 3.03 3.02 3.02 2.98 2.97 2.96 2.94 2.93 2.92 2.92 2.91 2.90 2.70 2.68 2.67 2.63 2.57
50 54 40 40 40 44 39 43 48 44 44 37 23 13 27 40 15 16 27 40 30 13 10 0 0
3.50 3.46 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.36 3.33 3.30 3.28 3.18 3.18 3.15 3.13 3.13 3.13 3.10 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.87 2.86 2.80 2.63
Institution
Newcastle Imperial Aberdeen UEA Southampton Nottingham Glasgow Sussex Leicester UCL (joint submission with Birkbeck) Birkbeck (joint submission with UCL) Manchester Bristol Bath Kent Queen Mary King’s College London Warwick Reading Keele Oxford Brookes Royal Holloway Birmingham Worcester Liverpool
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
5 5 6 9 0 2 0 37
2.45 2.43 2.24 2.09 1.73 1.60 1.57 3.17
40 59 29 27 13 22 19 7,523
Salford Keele Huddersfield Worcester Anglia Ruskin Abertay Derby National profile
7 4 15 9 0 4 0 29.3
2.45 2.44 2.29 2.24 1.87 1.82 1.73 3.03
20 13 39 28 33 73 55 34
56 46 46 40 44 45 42 35
3.48 3.38 3.37 3.27 3.26 3.24 3.23 3.21
71 43 131 92 109 237 176 109
Warwick Lincoln Aberdeen Glasgow Bristol UEA Queen’s Belfast Liverpool
37 35 35 25 24 20 26 23
3.28 3.26 3.22 3.10 3.04 3.02 2.99 2.97
11
32 3.21
35 Cambridge
26
40 123
40 3.18 42 3.13
126 Stirling 384 Nottingham
16 20
Aberdeen Warwick Stirling Greenwich Reading Glasgow Bristol Aberystwyth (joint submission with Bangor) 2.96 Bangor (joint submission with Aberystwyth) 2.96 Queen’s Belfast 2.90 Cranfield
57
42 3.13
180 Reading
20
111 103
37 3.12 35 3.11
348 Royal Veterinary College 322 Edinburgh (joint submission with SRUC) 43 SRUC (joint submission with Edinburgh) 44 Heriot–Watt 214 Newcastle
17 18
13 14
2.40 Cambridge 2.45 Edinburgh (joint submission with SRUC) n/a SRUC (joint submission with Edinburgh) 2.70 Nottingham 2.50 Royal Veterinary College
15
1.65 Lincoln
14
31 3.07
2.60 Leeds 2.50 Aberystwyth (joint submission with Bangor) 2.40 Bangor (joint submission with Aberystwyth) 2.25 Cranfield
14 70
30 3.06 32 3.05
18
32 3.05
26
23 2.94
=11
16 =17 =17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
2.20 Heriot–Watt 2.40 Newcastle 2.40 UWE 2.15 Greenwich 1.95 Harper Adams 1.70 Plymouth n/a Hertfordshire n/a Canterbury Christ Church n/a Writtle 1.50 Royal Agricultural University 2.41 National profile 7 Earth systems and Environmental sciences 1 3.20 Oxford =2 2.95 Bristol =2 3.30 Cambridge 4 2.85 Southampton 5 2.80 Leeds =6 3.05 UCL (joint submission with Birkbeck)
10 25 14 24 17 24 12 13 9 12 1,042
23 19 14 21 10 13 10 2 0 3 35
2.87 2.84 2.75 2.70 2.66 2.60 2.41 2.14 1.46 1.40 3.06
36 44 43 69 79 34
43 36 40 41 36 34
3.36 3.34 3.34 3.29 3.26 3.25
Institution
56 Aberystwyth (joint submission with Bangor) 77 Bangor (joint submission with Aberystwyth) 27 Leeds 72 Hertfordshire 38 UWE 63 Harper Adams 45 Cranfield 64 Canterbury Christ Church 28 Plymouth 27 Greenwich 13 Writtle 17 Royal Agricultural University 3,189 National profile 122 148 142 226 258 111
Oxford Swansea Bristol Cardiff Cambridge Southampton
GPA
GPA
16 24 13 13 7 14 12 2,373
% of 4* research activity
% of 4* research activity
10 =11
n/a UEA
Research power
=8
GPA
n/a Sheffield Hallam n/a Salford n/a Worcester n/a Huddersfield n/a Anglia Ruskin n/a Abertay n/a Derby n/a National profile 6 Agriculture, Veterinary and Food science 1 2.70 Aberdeen 2 2.75 Warwick 3 2.50 Glasgow 4 2.45 Stirling 5 2.20 Queen’s Belfast 6 2.60 Reading 7 2.40 Liverpool =8 2.25 Bristol
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
38 39 40 41 42 43 44
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47.8
2.60 2.53 2.47 1.90 1.20 1.20 0.90 3.34
100 100 90 90 85 82 80 76
4.00 4.00 3.90 3.90 3.85 3.82 3.80 3.72
76
3.72
70 60
3.70 3.60
2.88 Leeds
60
3.60
60 77
3.60 3.56
77
3.56
16 18
2.87 Heriot–Watt 2.80 Edinburgh (joint submission with SRUC) 2.80 SRUC (joint submission with Edinburgh) 2.75 Liverpool 2.74 Royal Veterinary College
60 64
3.53 3.46
14
2.73 Cambridge
58
3.42
14
2.73 UEA
40
3.40
40 47 40 30 40 27 0 0 0 0 64.3
3.30 3.17 3.03 3.00 2.90 2.77 1.70 1.60 0.80 0.40 3.43
77 73 68 67 63 52
3.77 3.73 3.68 3.67 3.63 3.52
18
Institution Essex Salford Sheffield Hallam Anglia Ruskin Huddersfield Derby Abertay National profile
11 15 9 7 5 3 8 5 0 4 18.2
2.73 2.72 2.66 2.61 2.60 2.50 2.49 2.38 2.00 1.55 2.83
UWE Nottingham Plymouth Newcastle Lincoln Harper Adams Canterbury Christ Church Hertfordshire Royal Agricultural University Writtle National profile
40 41 31 34 31 31
3.35 3.34 3.28 3.26 3.22 3.21
UEA Newcastle Lancaster Brunel Institute of Zoology Cambridge
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
=16 18 19 20 =21 =21 =21 =24 =24 =26 =26 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 =38 =38 40 41 42 43 44 45
2.80 2.80 2.65 2.75 2.70 2.50 2.85 2.50 2.75 2.80 n/a 2.30 2.40 2.80 2.05 2.65 2.40 2.35 1.80 2.35 2.30 2.35 n/a n/a 2.40 1.90 n/a 2.73 8 Chemistry 1 3.20 2 2.85 3 3.05 4 3.00 5 2.80 =6 2.80 =6 2.95 =6 2.90 9 2.70
Lancaster Cardiff Aberdeen Birmingham Leicester Glasgow Liverpool Plymouth Sheffield Edinburgh Queen’s Belfast UHI Brunel Open Heriot–Watt York Portsmouth Stirling Edinburgh Napier Ulster Brighton Manchester Met Keele Coventry Abertay Bedfordshire Derby National profile Cambridge Liverpool Oxford Bristol Durham UCL Imperial Warwick Cardiff
11 25 63 42 35 21 76 35 35
34 3.25 34 26 35 29 27 22 27 24 21
3.21 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.15 3.12 3.11 3.11 3.10
4
21 3.10
25
25 3.09
36 80 201 134 110 65 235 108 110
Birkbeck (joint submission with UCL) Royal Holloway Leeds Birmingham Liverpool Leicester Exeter Manchester Bangor (joint submission with Aberystwyth) 12 Aberystwyth (joint submission with Bangor) 76 Durham
45 15 28 28 22 35 25 45 24 105 24 32 16 58 18 24 26 15 6 18 14 24 10 10 14 5 7 1,380
32 24 18 13 16 21 17 14 19 21 10 14 19 11 6 14 8 14 7 9 4 5 2 8 2 0 0 24
3.08 3.07 3.06 3.06 3.06 3.04 3.04 2.98 2.98 2.94 2.92 2.91 2.88 2.87 2.81 2.80 2.78 2.72 2.60 2.59 2.59 2.58 2.57 2.55 2.51 1.97 1.90 3.05
138 46 87 86 67 106 75 134 71 309 71 94 47 166 49 67 72 40 16 48 37 62 26 27 36 9 14 4,209
63 34 84 59 41 62 55 35 23
57 51 49 39 35 37 34 32 32
3.54 3.50 3.43 3.35 3.31 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.29
222 119 288 196 135 205 181 115 76
Glasgow Aberdeen Institute of Zoology UEA Sheffield Plymouth Newcastle Queen’s Belfast Reading UHI Open Lancaster Portsmouth Edinburgh York Heriot–Watt Stirling Ulster Coventry Manchester Met Brunel Keele Abertay Edinburgh Napier Brighton Derby Bedfordshire National profile Liverpool Cambridge Oxford UEA Bristol Warwick Queen Mary Sheffield Southampton
23
3.11 UCL (joint submission with Birkbeck)
60
3.52
23 19 24 17 23 19 23 20 17
3.11 3.10 3.09 3.07 3.07 3.07 3.04 3.03 3.03
60 51 60 47 44 47 50 65 32
3.52 3.51 3.50 3.47 3.44 3.42 3.40 3.35 3.32
17
3.03 Bangor (joint submission with Aberystwyth) 3.02 Aberystwyth (joint submission with Bangor) 2.98 Exeter 2.97 Queen’s Belfast 2.97 Swansea 2.95 Edinburgh Napier 2.93 Edinburgh 2.92 York 2.91 Sheffield 2.90 Leicester 2.88 Heriot–Watt 2.86 Glasgow 2.83 UHI 2.81 Birmingham 2.81 Portsmouth 2.79 Plymouth 2.66 Oxford 2.66 Stirling 2.66 Brighton 2.63 Liverpool 2.61 Open 2.58 Keele 2.58 Cardiff 2.55 Coventry 2.53 Ulster 2.52 Manchester Met 2.42 Abertay 2.21 Bedfordshire 1.95 Derby 2.95 National profile
40
3.30
40
3.30
20 20 40 20 32 40 27 13 13 30 10 10 10 16 18 20 20 0 6 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 36.2
3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.14 3.13 3.13 3.13 3.13 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.08 3.02 3.00 3.00 2.87 2.83 2.80 2.70 2.70 2.63 2.60 2.60 2.10 1.30 3.25
76 66 60 50 50 50 50 66 56
3.76 3.66 3.60 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.49 3.47
17 16 12 12 19 21 15 15 10 13 15 12 17 9 15 10 5 16 14 12 8 3 3 3 4 0 0 0 18.2 45 47 38 32 28 29 31 23 26
GPA
Institution
29 UCL (joint submission with Birkbeck)
% of 4* research activity
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Total number of FTE staff submitted 9
Impact
GPA
8 9 10 11 12 13 =14 =14 =16
Institution
3.05 Birkbeck (joint submission with UCL) n/a Swansea 2.90 Royal Holloway 2.90 UEA 2.85 Manchester 2.80 Durham n/a Institute of Zoology 3.00 Reading n/a Exeter 2.60 Bangor (joint submission with Aberystwyth) n/a Aberystwyth (joint submission with Bangor) 2.75 Newcastle
Output
% of 4* research activity
=6
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
3.44 3.42 3.32 3.29 3.26 3.25 3.24 3.21 3.20
Institution
Birkbeck (joint submission with UCL) Reading Durham Royal Holloway Manchester Leeds Aberdeen Southampton Bristol
Durham Cambridge Liverpool Manchester Leeds Bath Cardiff UCL Oxford
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
20 52 45
29 3.27 33 3.24 29 3.23
=12
3.00 Edinburgh (joint submission with St Andrews) 3.00 St Andrews (joint submission with Edinburgh) 2.65 Bath 3.15 Nottingham 2.90 York
43
28 3.23
37
28 3.23
33 42 47
25 3.23 27 3.22 27 3.21
2.85 Sheffield
29
21 3.19
2.90 Leeds 2.75 Strathclyde (joint submission with Glasgow) 2.75 Glasgow (joint submission with Strathclyde) n/a Queen Mary
34 35
23 3.18 21 3.15
31
21 3.15
14
20 3.07
=23 =23
2.60 Heriot–Watt 2.65 Birmingham
30 28
25
n/a Lancaster
12
=12 =12 16 17 18 19 =20 =20 22
=26 =26 28 =29 =29 31 32 =33 =33 35 36 37
2.40 2.40 2.45 2.45 2.50 n/a 2.15 2.20 2.45 2.00 2.55 n/a 2.79 9 Physics 1 2.35 2 2.65 =3 =3 =3 6 =7 =7 9 10 11 12 =13
Leicester Aberdeen Queen’s Belfast Newcastle Hull Kent Reading Loughborough Bangor Huddersfield Sussex Greenwich National profile Strathclyde Oxford
2.80 Edinburgh (joint submission with St Andrews) 2.85 Nottingham 2.85 St Andrews (joint submission with Edinburgh) 2.35 Cardiff 2.85 Cambridge 2.60 Manchester 2.75 Durham 2.75 Imperial 2.65 Southampton 2.60 Warwick 2.55 Leeds
21 20 34 24 24 17 22 23 9 15 17 14 1,229
93 York 109 Nottingham 112 Heriot–Watt
47 54 50
3.47 3.43 3.42
23
3.17 York
40
3.40
23
3.17 Queen’s Belfast
40
3.40
22 19 21
40 40 35
3.40 3.40 3.35
35
3.35
18 15
3.17 Aberdeen 3.16 UEA 3.15 Strathclyde (joint submission with Glasgow) 3.13 Glasgow (joint submission with Strathclyde) 3.12 Warwick 3.10 Newcastle
30 27
3.30 3.27
17
3.09 Leicester
37
3.23
24
GPA
% of 4* research activity
3.19 Imperial 3.17 Bristol 3.17 Southampton
Institution
17
3.09 Sheffield
20
3.20
12 3.01 11 3.01
14 21
20 28
3.20 3.19
20 2.98
36 Leeds
14
3.09 Lancaster 3.08 Edinburgh (joint submission with St Andrews) 3.06 St Andrews (joint submission with Edinburgh) 3.06 Nottingham 2.98 Hull 2.96 Kent 2.89 Heriot–Watt 2.88 Loughborough 2.87 Queen Mary 2.84 Birmingham 2.84 Greenwich 2.76 Huddersfield 2.73 Bangor 2.70 Reading 2.53 Sussex 3.13 National profile
28
3.19
26 27 13 10 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39.6
3.18 3.03 3.03 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.80 2.80 2.70 2.70 2.50 2.13 3.32
12 14 11 8 12 12 8 6 3 3 11 2 28
2.94 2.94 2.93 2.91 2.91 2.88 2.85 2.70 2.70 2.67 2.66 2.46 3.19
40 3.35 43 3.34
66
37 3.33
55 37
24
120 St Andrews (joint submission with Edinburgh) 107 Cardiff 135 Bath 151 Imperial
25 22 23
97 Strathclyde (joint submission with Glasgow) 43 Glasgow (joint submission with Strathclyde) 90 Birmingham 84 Manchester
27 125
20 153 65 75 117 35 55
Institution
64 Lancaster 170 UCL 145 Edinburgh (joint submission with St Andrews) 140 Durham
GPA
2.60 UEA 2.85 Manchester 2.65 Southampton
Impact
% of 4* research activity
10 11 =12
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
63 59 101 70 70 49 63 61 25 39 45 35 3,921
Reading Kent Hull Leicester Sussex Aberdeen Queen’s Belfast Newcastle Huddersfield Bangor Loughborough Greenwich National profile
37 3.33 37 3.33
90 Oxford 416 Edinburgh (joint submission with St Andrews) 220 St Andrews (joint submission with Edinburgh) 182 Strathclyde 123 Cardiff
31 38 38 31 35 31 29
64 504 214 244 383 113 176
3.30 3.29 3.29 3.27 3.26 3.25 3.23
25 3.16
Warwick Southampton Portsmouth Durham Sheffield Heriot–Watt Nottingham
76 Imperial
13 14 10 6 16 9 5 4 5 5 1 3 22.1 33 27
3.24 Manchester 3.22 Strathclyde
83 80
3.83 3.80
27
3.22 Nottingham
73
3.73
27 22
3.20 Leeds 3.20 Bath
67 67
3.67 3.67
24 25 22 22 24 22 21
3.19 3.19 3.18 3.16 3.16 3.16 3.14
63 60 60 42 40 48 46
3.63 3.60 3.60 3.42 3.40 3.39 3.39
46
3.39
24
Cardiff Southampton Kent Glasgow Durham Imperial Edinburgh (joint submission with St Andrews) 3.13 St Andrews (joint submission with Edinburgh)
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
16 17 18 =19 =19
GPA
Research power
% of 4* research activity
GPA
Institution
% of 4* research activity
GPA
2.85 Bath 2.65 Heriot–Watt 2.75 UCL 2.70 Exeter 2.75 Sheffield 2.50 Queen’s Belfast 2.75 Glasgow 2.55 Surrey 2.65 Bristol 2.50 Queen Mary 2.65 Liverpool n/a Portsmouth 2.70 Birmingham 2.90 Lancaster 2.40 Liverpool John Moores 2.20 Kent 2.55 Leicester 2.55 King’s College London 2.55 Royal Holloway 2.60 York 2.70 Sussex 2.55 Swansea 2.60 Hertfordshire 2.25 Keele 2.30 Uclan 2.45 Loughborough n/a Huddersfield 1.95 Aberystwyth 2.65 National profile 10 Mathematical sciences 1 n/a Oxford 2 n/a Cambridge 3 n/a Warwick 4 n/a Imperial =5 n/a Bristol =5 n/a Lancaster 7 n/a Manchester =8 n/a Leeds =8 n/a Dundee 10 n/a Nottingham =11 n/a St Andrews =11 n/a Newcastle =13 n/a Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) =13 n/a Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) =13 n/a Royal Holloway
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
=13 15 =16 =16 =16 19 20 21 22 23 =24 =24 26 27 28 29 =30 =30 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
23 21 111 40 30 45 45 28 44 24 34 16 39 35 23 5 49 27 25 34 25 21 33 11 21 20 12 12 1,704
25 25 23 23 23 23 22 25 23 17 17 17 23 24 23 27 21 18 14 21 17 10 7 15 6 4 6 1 28
3.16 3.15 3.12 3.12 3.12 3.11 3.10 3.09 3.08 3.07 3.06 3.06 3.05 3.04 3.03 3.02 3.01 3.01 3.00 2.93 2.92 2.89 2.70 2.67 2.59 2.52 2.43 2.42 3.15
73 66 345 125 94 139 139 85 136 74 105 50 119 106 69 15 148 80 75 101 72 61 89 28 54 50 29 29 5,366
Queen’s Belfast Birmingham Queen Mary Cambridge King’s College London Sussex Keele Exeter Liverpool John Moores Liverpool Bath UCL Lancaster Manchester Leeds Royal Holloway Bristol York Swansea Glasgow Surrey Kent Leicester Hertfordshire Uclan Loughborough Huddersfield Aberystwyth National profile
25 23 23 24 23 20 23 22 22 17 16 19 28 18 14 18 19 18 13 14 16 24 9 9 10 7 10 2 21.3
3.13 3.13 3.13 3.12 3.10 3.10 3.09 3.08 3.07 3.06 3.06 3.05 3.05 3.03 3.03 3.02 3.00 2.99 2.98 2.96 2.95 2.94 2.82 2.76 2.76 2.65 2.64 2.55 3.08
Cambridge Heriot–Watt Leicester Surrey Liverpool John Moores Oxford UCL Exeter Warwick Bristol Royal Holloway Queen’s Belfast Lancaster Liverpool Queen Mary York Sheffield King’s College London Portsmouth Birmingham Swansea Hertfordshire Sussex Uclan Loughborough Aberystwyth Huddersfield Keele National profile
48 50 43 40 40 42 30 24 30 26 13 8 10 10 0 40 10 10 13 24 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 37
3.38 3.37 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.26 3.20 3.16 3.10 3.10 3.00 2.92 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.77 2.66 2.63 2.40 2.40 2.37 2.27 2.10 1.80 1.50 3.19
149 144 104 100 84 25 54 53 13 55 31 20 57
59 45 44 44 43 40 38 36 27 32 26 29 29
3.55 3.36 3.35 3.34 3.29 3.29 3.27 3.21 3.21 3.19 3.16 3.16 3.14
528 483 349 335 275 82 178 170 41 175 97 64 178
Oxford Cambridge Warwick King’s College London Dundee Imperial Lancaster Newcastle UCL Bristol Manchester Bath Birmingham
41 35 31 31 24 28 30 26 26 28 24 21 21
3.35 3.26 3.17 3.17 3.15 3.14 3.14 3.09 3.08 3.07 3.07 3.07 3.07
Oxford Royal Holloway Lancaster Bristol Dundee Durham Imperial Manchester Warwick Leeds Newcastle Sheffield Cambridge
88 80 77 69 60 57 56 53 43 57 53 40 45
3.88 3.80 3.77 3.65 3.60 3.57 3.53 3.53 3.43 3.43 3.43 3.40 3.34
Institution
36
29 3.14
114 Cardiff
20
3.05 Glasgow
32
3.32
14
23 3.14
22
3.04 Southampton
30
3.30
n/a Bath
44
26 3.12
22
3.04 St Andrews
40
3.30
n/a n/a n/a n/a
55 34 63 43
23 20 27 19
44 Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) 139 Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) 170 Queen Mary 105 LSE 194 Nottingham 132 St Andrews
18 20 22 15
3.04 3.04 3.03 3.03
27 30 40 42
3.27 3.23 3.20 3.18
Southampton Sheffield UCL Glasgow
3.10 3.09 3.08 3.08
Cardiff Nottingham City Bath
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
24
18 3.08
22
n/a Durham
54
24 3.06
=23 =23 25 26 27 28 =29 =29 31 32 33 34 35 =36 =36 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53
n/a Queen Mary n/a Exeter n/a Reading n/a York n/a LSE n/a King’s College London n/a Liverpool n/a City n/a UEA n/a Aberdeen n/a Surrey n/a Coventry n/a Birmingham n/a Loughborough n/a Strathclyde n/a Kent n/a Sussex n/a Keele n/a Brunel n/a Queen’s Belfast n/a Leicester n/a Portsmouth n/a Open n/a Aberystwyth n/a Northumbria n/a Swansea n/a London Met n/a Plymouth n/a South Wales n/a Greenwich n/a Chester n/a National profile 11 Computer science and Informatics 1 3.15 UCL 2 2.75 Warwick 3 3.20 Imperial 4 3.15 Manchester 5 2.75 Sheffield 6 3.35 Cambridge =7 3.15 Oxford =7 2.95 York 9 2.90 Newcastle 10 3.05 Liverpool 11 3.00 Queen Mary 12 3.05 Lancaster 13 3.10 Nottingham 14 2.70 King’s College London 15 3.20 Edinburgh =16 3.20 Southampton 3.10 Glasgow =16
165 UEA
35 35 27 31 31 43 40 16 22 23 28 9 40 34 33 33 20 8 24 12 24 11 19 11 14 15 4 14 9 5 7 1,930
14 18 15 17 13 22 13 19 9 14 14 7 15 10 15 10 11 12 11 5 6 6 9 8 5 12 4 7 0 8 2 29
3.01 3.01 3.00 2.97 2.95 2.94 2.93 2.93 2.92 2.90 2.89 2.88 2.87 2.86 2.86 2.82 2.80 2.79 2.71 2.70 2.69 2.68 2.61 2.57 2.50 2.49 2.46 2.42 2.30 2.08 2.04 3.12
105 104 80 91 92 127 116 47 64 67 82 26 115 97 94 93 56 22 65 32 63 29 49 28 35 37 10 35 21 10 14 6,022
71 24 49 45 31 55 74 35 28 24 31 33 43 46 95 44 42
61 56 56 48 47 48 53 44 46 35 39 36 37 32 40 44 36
3.57 3.53 3.50 3.42 3.39 3.36 3.34 3.34 3.33 3.32 3.29 3.26 3.24 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.18
252 86 173 153 103 183 245 116 92 80 100 108 139 147 303 141 132
Sheffield Surrey Glasgow Royal Holloway Aberdeen Southampton Coventry Keele York City Exeter Loughborough Reading Sussex Open Durham Liverpool Kent Strathclyde Plymouth Queen’s Belfast Aberystwyth Brunel Portsmouth Leicester Swansea Northumbria London Met Greenwich South Wales Chester National profile Warwick UCL Liverpool Imperial Oxford King’s College London Cambridge Manchester Sheffield Queen Mary Royal Holloway Lancaster Edinburgh St Andrews Swansea Exeter York
21 15 18 21 17 11 22 17 10 19 17 17 16 16 17 17 14 13 14 7 11 11 7 12 8 10 5 12 7 6 12 0 4 22.7 52 49 39 43 48 34 37 29 32 33 32 30 33 30 33 32 26
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
74 Leeds
Institution
3.02 Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) 3.02 Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) 3.01 Liverpool 3.01 Exeter 3.00 Reading 3.00 York 2.99 Queen Mary 2.98 Kent 2.97 Strathclyde 2.97 Queen’s Belfast 2.96 Portsmouth 2.96 Coventry 2.95 UCL 2.95 Aberdeen 2.95 UEA 2.94 LSE 2.89 Leicester 2.87 Brunel 2.85 Sussex 2.79 Loughborough 2.79 Surrey 2.77 London Met 2.76 Birmingham 2.73 Keele 2.72 South Wales 2.71 Swansea 2.70 Northumbria 2.67 Aberystwyth 2.67 King’s College London 2.61 Open 2.53 Plymouth 2.45 Chester 2.29 Greenwich 3.04 National profile 3.46 3.43 3.35 3.34 3.31 3.26 3.19 3.19 3.19 3.18 3.17 3.16 3.15 3.14 3.11 3.11 3.09
Newcastle Cambridge Warwick Southampton UCL York Hull Manchester Imperial Leeds Sheffield Glasgow Bristol Birmingham Lancaster Queen Mary Cardiff
GPA
n/a Cardiff
Impact
% of 4* research activity
=19
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
30
3.14
30
3.14
18 30 10 20 10 20 30 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 13 27 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35.9
3.10 3.10 3.10 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.77 2.73 2.73 2.70 2.63 2.60 2.60 2.50 2.40 2.40 2.30 2.30 2.20 2.10 2.10 2.10 2.02 1.73 1.50 1.50 0.90 3.14
90 87 87 84 80 80 80 76 73 73 70 68 60 52 50 50 60
3.90 3.87 3.87 3.84 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.76 3.73 3.73 3.70 3.68 3.60 3.52 3.50 3.50 3.50
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
132 79 62 127 36 56 75 42 43 72 86 82 30 56 37 73 70 43 101 89 60 37 54 52 50 88 55 41 84 40 106 52 65 27 37 52 33 35 27 43 31 32 28 67 23 12 31 34 81 30 30 23 122 30
Institution UEA Newcastle Birmingham Birkbeck Nottingham Bristol Cardiff Leicester Durham Aberystwyth Oxford Brookes Plymouth Glasgow Leeds Aberdeen Sussex Southampton Essex Dundee Open Bath Kent Brunel Queen’s Belfast Lincoln Teesside Portsmouth Heriot–Watt UWE Stirling Bangor Ulster City Aston Northumbria Surrey Keele Strathclyde Manchester Met De Montfort Kingston Goldsmiths UEL Hull Huddersfield Glasgow Caledonian Hertfordshire Middlesex Loughborough Liverpool Hope Bedfordshire Brighton UWS Edinburgh Napier
31 25 29 32 22 23 21 23 20 25 19 23 23 20 23 23 31 23 22 14 15 18 23 13 16 5 19 12 15 9 13 5 11 12 10 12 4 13 0 14 8 12 6 10 13 4 9 9 6 0 8 3 7 4
3.07 3.05 3.04 3.03 3.02 3.02 3.02 3.00 3.00 2.98 2.98 2.98 2.96 2.96 2.93 2.93 2.91 2.90 2.90 2.89 2.86 2.85 2.84 2.78 2.76 2.75 2.74 2.71 2.71 2.69 2.68 2.65 2.65 2.65 2.65 2.64 2.63 2.62 2.62 2.61 2.60 2.59 2.56 2.52 2.52 2.51 2.49 2.46 2.46 2.46 2.44 2.41 2.41 2.41
Institution
GPA
3.17 3.17 3.17 3.13 3.11 3.08 3.06 3.04 3.02 2.99 2.97 2.97 2.97 2.96 2.95 2.93 2.92 2.92 2.89 2.87 2.82 2.81 2.79 2.77 2.77 2.75 2.75 2.75 2.74 2.71 2.68 2.67 2.63 2.61 2.58 2.57 2.55 2.52 2.52 2.51 2.48 2.44 2.44 2.43 2.40 2.39 2.36 2.34 2.33 2.33 2.32 2.30 2.29 2.21
% of 4* research activity
31 32 40 29 32 28 30 26 19 22 18 23 23 22 15 21 11 19 22 13 12 20 15 21 16 15 15 13 17 23 9 11 9 9 8 11 20 6 3 6 3 5 4 8 0 3 6 8 5 1 3 8 6 4
GPA
42 25 20 41 12 18 24 14 14 24 29 28 10 19 12 25 24 15 35 31 21 13 19 19 18 32 20 15 31 15 40 19 25 10 14 20 13 14 11 17 13 13 12 27 10 5 13 14 35 13 13 10 53 14
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
Institution Bristol Leeds Swansea Birmingham Dundee UEA Royal Holloway Cardiff Durham St Andrews Kent Heriot–Watt Exeter Aberdeen Plymouth Aberystwyth Bath Sussex Essex Open Queen’s Belfast Portsmouth Goldsmiths Birkbeck Aston City Leicester UWE Brunel Hull Ulster Surrey De Montfort Kingston Stirling Strathclyde Oxford Brookes Brighton Edinburgh Napier Loughborough Teesside Coventry Manchester Met Hertfordshire Liverpool John Moores Keele Northumbria Huddersfield Bedfordshire Salford Glasgow Caledonian Bangor Middlesex South Wales
GPA
2.95 3.05 2.90 3.00 2.75 2.75 2.80 2.85 2.80 2.70 2.75 2.65 2.65 2.90 3.00 2.95 2.95 2.85 2.75 2.95 2.65 1.90 2.70 2.75 n/a 2.60 2.80 2.40 n/a n/a 2.55 2.35 2.40 2.20 2.40 2.55 2.50 2.60 2.00 2.60 2.50 2.05 2.15 2.60 2.50 n/a n/a 2.05 2.10 n/a 1.80 2.50 2.25 2.25
% of 4* research activity
2008 GPA
=18 =18 =18 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 =28 =28 =28 31 32 33 =34 =34 36 37 38 39 40 =41 =41 =43 =43 =43 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 =55 =55 57 58 =59 =59 61 62 63 64 65 =66 =66 68 69 70 71
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Dundee Nottingham Heriot–Watt Liverpool Aston Portsmouth King’s College London City Kent Goldsmiths Aberystwyth Oxford Swansea Brighton Queen’s Belfast Nottingham Trent Durham Coventry Edinburgh UEA Bath St Andrews Aberdeen Plymouth UWE Salford Edinburgh Napier Exeter Loughborough Greenwich Kingston Royal Holloway Sussex Stirling Liverpool John Moores De Montfort Surrey Essex South Wales Ulster Open Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Strathclyde Huddersfield Birkbeck Brunel Leicester Leeds Beckett Staffordshire Birmingham City Keele Westminster Oxford Brookes
50 48 40 40 40 40 40 40 30 27 23 60 60 20 13 30 30 10 48 27 0 13 27 0 20 0 0 10 13 20 20 40 10 10 0 0 20 20 20 18 0 0 10 13 0 0 10 0 0 0 40 0 0 40
3.50 3.48 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.33 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.23 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.13 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.04 3.03 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.87 2.80 2.80 2.73 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.67 2.67 2.60 2.60 2.54 2.50 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.37 2.30 2.27 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.00 2.00
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
=4 =4 6 =7 =7 9 =10 =10 12
n/a Birmingham B: Chemical engineering n/a Leeds
2.35 2.34 2.32 2.30 2.19 2.17 2.14 2.14 2.13 2.09 2.04 1.87 1.79 1.77 1.65 1.64 1.39 1.27 2.86
40 28 23
27 3.14
102 Manchester A: Chemical engineering
18
32
30 3.14
14
3.02 Leeds
60
3.60
54 45
23 3.12 22 3.11
99 Sheffield B: Chemical and Biological engineering 169 Cranfield 139 Sheffield A: Mechanical engineering and Advanced manufacturing
70 76 60
3.70 3.69 3.60
60
3.60
19 18
3.01 Bath 3.01 Loughborough
39 49
3.39 3.37
n/a UCL n/a Sheffield A: Mechanical engineering and Advanced manufacturing n/a Manchester B: Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing engineering n/a Cranfield
34
27 3.11
107 Newcastle
25
2.99 UCL
37
3.37
157
26 3.10
16
2.98 Cambridge
50
3.30
n/a Loughborough n/a Bath
127 61
26 3.08 19 3.08
486 Birmingham A: Mechanical engineering 392 Bath 188 Queen’s Belfast
13 11
2.97 Greenwich 2.96 Sheffield A: Mechanical engineering and Advanced manufacturing 2.96 Strathclyde
30 26
3.30 3.26
30
3.10
18 3.06
67
24 3.03
204 Greenwich
17
14 =15
n/a Newcastle n/a Queen’s Belfast
43 50
21 3.02 11 2.99
=15
n/a Birmingham A: Mechanical engineering n/a Greenwich
21
14 2.99
131 Birmingham B: Chemical engineering 148 Manchester B: Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing engineering 63 Loughborough
9
17 2.91
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
63 17 9 18 13 12 12
18 19 20 21 22 23 =24
2.00 2.00 2.00 1.90 1.80 1.70 1.63 1.50 1.50 1.40 1.30 1.20 1.10 1.10 1.00 0.70 0.70 0.20 2.99
33
30
17
0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36.9
3.34 Birmingham B: Chemical engineering 3.12 Imperial 3.06 Manchester B: Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing engineering 3.02 Manchester A: Chemical engineering
n/a Sheffield B: Chemical and Biological engineering n/a Strathclyde
13
Institution Sunderland Teesside Manchester Met Glasgow Caledonian Northumbria Robert Gordon Middlesex UWS Liverpool Hope Bangor Edge Hill Glyndwr West London UEL Derby Lincoln London Met Chester National profile
GPA
5 0 7 5 0 0 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22.1
% of 4* research activity
1.90 Greenwich 14 9 2.19 31 Derby 2.50 Lincoln 15 10 2.17 31 Liverpool John Moores 2.15 Nottingham Trent 14 6 2.16 31 Glyndwr 2.00 UWS 14 4 2.16 30 Coventry n/a UEL 4 4 2.11 8 Westminster 1.75 Liverpool Hope 7 0 2.10 15 Robert Gordon 2.35 Robert Gordon 19 0 2.05 38 Greenwich n/a Birmingham City 7 8 2.04 15 Salford 2.35 Glyndwr 6 5 2.04 13 Birmingham City 2.05 Westminster 20 0 2.03 40 South Wales n/a Derby 12 4 1.91 23 London Met 2.05 Staffordshire 8 0 1.74 14 Nottingham Trent 1.90 Sunderland 13 0 1.70 22 Chester 1.50 London Met 5 0 1.64 9 West London n/a Leeds Beckett 9 0 1.52 14 Staffordshire 1.65 West London 10 0 1.51 15 Sunderland n/a Chester 4 0 1.30 5 Leeds Beckett n/a Edge Hill 5 0 1.29 6 Edge Hill 2.75 National profile 2,044 26 2.89 5,908 National profile 12 Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing engineering 109 Cambridge 1 n/a Cambridge 32 47 3.38 2 n/a Imperial 173 46 3.34 577 Imperial 3 n/a Manchester A: Chemical 34 30 3.20 108 UCL engineering
GPA
Institution
72 73 =74 =74 76 77 78 =79 =79 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Brunel Bradford Brighton Portsmouth Liverpool John Moores Wolverhampton Sunderland
6 9 7 1 2 1 2
2.72 2.69 2.67 2.46 2.45 2.20 2.03
92 Leeds
26 Strathclyde 172 45 23 44 32 26 25
Bradford Brunel Brighton Portsmouth Liverpool John Moores Sunderland Wolverhampton
20
30
3.10
14 17
2.95 Sheffield B: Chemical and Biological engineering 2.94 Cranfield 2.92 Newcastle
31 16
3.08 3.08
15
2.90 Queen’s Belfast
13
3.07
16
2.89 Birmingham A: Mechanical engineering 2.81 Brunel 2.70 Bradford 2.70 Portsmouth 2.64 Brighton 2.61 Liverpool John Moores 2.35 Northampton 2.25 Wolverhampton
10
2.97
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2.71 2.63 2.50 2.50 2.30 2.20 2.10
14 9 11 2 3 3 2
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
n/a Oxford n/a Imperial A: Electrical and Electronic engineering n/a Imperial B: Metallurgy and Materials n/a Leeds n/a UCL
90 80
3.90 3.80
GPA
% of 4* research activity
4.00
127 UCL
38
3.33 Plymouth
80
3.70
20 38
41 3.41 40 3.37
33 32
3.60 3.53
35 3.30 25 3.22
53 50
3.53 3.50
44
35 3.19
26
50
3.50
34 19
27 3.19 20 3.19
23 17
3.17 UCL 3.15 Southampton
42 54
3.42 3.41
35
23 3.15
140 Sheffield B: Materials science and Engineering 108 Newcastle 61 Queen Mary A: Electrical and Electronic engineering 110 Queen Mary B: Materials
3.31 Imperial B: Metallurgy and Materials 3.27 Manchester B: Electrical and Electronic engineering 3.25 Leeds 3.22 Sheffield A: Electronic and Electrical engineering 3.20 Queen’s Belfast
60 60
84 35
68 Imperial B: Metallurgy and Materials 128 Imperial A: Electrical and Electronic engineering 278 Bangor 112 Southampton
20
30
3.30
52
22 3.14
163 Queen’s Belfast
23
3.14 Birmingham A: Electronic, Electrical and Computer engineering 3.10 Aston
27
3.27
91 Sheffield A: Electronic and Electrical engineering 184 Liverpool 96 Manchester A: Metallurgy and Materials 256 Open
14
3.09 Bath
23
3.23
18 20
3.09 Strathclyde 3.05 Manchester A: Metallurgy and Materials 3.03 Birmingham B: Metallurgy and Materials 3.01 Surrey 3.00 Ulster 3.00 Queen Mary B: Materials
33 52
3.22 3.20
50
3.20
18 13 37
3.18 3.13 3.10
14
3.00 Queen Mary A: Electrical and Electronic engineering
10
3.10
0 19
3.00 Liverpool 2.98 York
0 0
3.00 3.00
6 12
2.97 Open 2.89 Sheffield B: Materials science and Engineering 2.88 Glyndwr 2.87 Edinburgh Napier
0 0
2.87 2.80
0 0
2.80 2.80
10 40 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 36.5
2.70 2.70 2.60 2.50 2.30 2.20 2.20 2.00 1.90 1.60 3.19
n/a Surrey
83
15 3.08
18 19 20
n/a Queen Mary B: Materials n/a Bath n/a Liverpool
24 21 24
21 3.07 13 3.04 12 3.02
21
n/a Birmingham A: Electronic, Electrical and computer engineering n/a Open n/a York
26
14 2.97
18 22
8 2.93 4 2.91
n/a Ulster n/a Bangor
19 13
11 2.89 23 2.89
26 27
n/a Aston n/a Plymouth
24 8
16 2.86 16 2.81
28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Reading Liverpool John Moores Loughborough Glyndwr Sheffield Hallam UWS Salford Greenwich Uclan Edinburgh Napier National profile
100
44 3.43
17
=24 =24
58
37
20 3.10 27 3.09
22 23
122 Cambridge
46 41
59 31
14
1.80 3.23
122 Oxford 153 Leeds
15 16
13
0 38.4
Institution
60 3.58 49 3.46
31 3.11
12
2.07 Sunderland 2.95 National profile
34 44
29
=9 =9
0 18
Institution
14 Northampton 3,525 National profile
3.53 Imperial A: Electrical and Electronic engineering 3.43 Oxford 3.41 Cambridge
n/a Southampton n/a Sheffield A: Electronic and Electrical engineering n/a Manchester A: Metallurgy and Materials n/a Queen’s Belfast n/a Queen Mary A: Electrical and Electronic engineering n/a Sheffield B: Materials science and Engineering n/a Manchester B: Electrical and Electronic engineering n/a Birmingham B: Metallurgy and Materials n/a Strathclyde n/a Newcastle
=9
GPA
n/a Northampton 7 0 2.03 n/a National profile 1,152 25 3.06 13 Electrical and Electronic engineering, Metallurgy and Materials 1 n/a Cambridge 34 69 3.65
Impact
% of 4* research activity
=24
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
17 7 38 14 31 8 16 12 8 10 1,071
10 0 4 2 2 5 8 6 2 1 25
2.76 2.69 2.65 2.57 2.55 2.51 2.49 2.39 2.36 2.29 3.10
74 Surrey 62 Strathclyde 72 Manchester B: Electrical and Electronic engineering 78 Bath 53 Liverpool John Moores 65 Birmingham B: Metallurgy and Materials 55 York 36 Salford 69 Aston 22 Birmingham A: Electronic, Electrical and Computer engineering 47 Reading 19 Ulster 100 Greenwich 36 UWS 80 Glyndwr 19 Plymouth 39 Sheffield Hallam 29 Loughborough 19 Uclan 24 Edinburgh Napier 3,320 National profile
35 25
13 11 12 10
17 12 12 13 10 8 3 0 3 3 3 2 19.7
2.87 2.85 2.77 2.73 2.66 2.61 2.60 2.59 2.56 2.16 3.06
Loughborough Newcastle Sheffield Hallam Reading Liverpool John Moores Bangor UWS Greenwich Uclan Salford National profile
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
2.85 2.60 3.00 n/a 2.50 2.65 2.60 2.55 2.50 2.90 3.00 2.65 2.60 2.45 2.55 2.30 2.35 2.40
Warwick Exeter Nottingham Liverpool Keele Nottingham Trent Durham Lancaster Leicester Surrey Leeds Sussex Aberdeen City UWE Aston Hull Northumbria
47 47 41 25 30 30 21 20 10 7 8 11 14 3 24
3.44 3.42 3.31 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.04 2.98 2.84 2.69 2.65 2.59 2.56 2.05 2.99
49 194 48 111 70 129 136 60 96 49 85 99 18 29 1,167
Imperial Dundee Cardiff Sheffield Manchester Newcastle Strathclyde Leeds Bradford Queen’s Belfast Birmingham UCL Loughborough Edinburgh Napier National profile
32 34 25 18 20 20 24 22 15 6 6 11 7 4 18.1
3.25 3.24 3.19 3.10 3.03 3.01 2.99 2.98 2.85 2.73 2.66 2.47 2.43 2.22 2.89
94 177 22 34 53 54 34 19
55 53 44 44 38 41 36 38
3.51 3.48 3.40 3.39 3.37 3.36 3.31 3.31
329 617 74 114 180 180 112 62
Sheffield Oxford Cambridge Dundee UCL Imperial Queen Mary Nottingham Trent
41 40 37 33 30 29 35 27
3.39 3.34 3.29 3.26 3.25 3.25 3.22 3.21
123
38 3.30
407 Glasgow
23
109
36 3.30
359 Exeter
92
36 3.30
75 25 84
35 3.29 40 3.29 30 3.25
192
33 3.23
95 44 149 34 34 14 34 25 30 55 45 14 39 54 14 24 15 23
32 26 27 19 20 25 17 17 10 18 14 11 12 9 10 15 9 12
3.22 3.18 3.16 3.14 3.09 3.09 3.08 3.08 2.99 2.98 2.97 2.97 2.94 2.85 2.85 2.83 2.82 2.80
GPA
16 17 18 19 =20 =20 =22 =22 24 25 =26 =26 28 =29 =29 31 32 33
n/a Southampton
14 57 15 35 22 41 45 20 34 18 32 38 7 14 390
% of 4* research activity
15
GPA
=12 =12 14
% of 4* research activity
=9
2.80 Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) 2.70 Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) 2.95 Swansea 2.30 Queen Mary n/a Glasgow
Research power
=9
n/a Bristol
GPA
=9
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
14 Civil and Construction engineering* 1 3.15 Cardiff 2 3.35 Imperial 3 3.00 Dundee 4 3.05 Sheffield 5 n/a Manchester 6 3.10 Newcastle 7 2.60 Leeds 8 2.10 Strathclyde 9 2.95 Queen’s Belfast 10 2.70 Birmingham 11 2.70 Loughborough 12 2.65 UCL 13 2.50 Bradford 14 2.10 Edinburgh Napier 2.82 National profile 15 General engineering* 1 3.10 Oxford 2 3.35 Cambridge 3 n/a Sheffield 4 2.95 Imperial 5 n/a King’s College London 6 n/a UCL =7 n/a Cardiff =7 2.30 Dundee
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
100 66 50 42 50 28 20 30 20 13 13 8 20 0 33.9
4.00 3.66 3.50 3.42 3.30 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.10 2.87 2.77 2.66 1.90 1.60 3.16
84 80 80 70 72 68 70 60
3.80 3.80 3.80 3.70 3.66 3.64 3.60 3.58
60
3.58
21
Oxford King’s College London Cardiff Durham Bristol Cambridge Imperial Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) 3.18 Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) 3.15 Swansea
55
3.55
303 Bristol
22
3.13 Queen Mary
63
3.50
246 King’s College London 81 Cardiff 273 Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) 621 Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) 305 Liverpool 140 UWE 471 Keele 107 Leicester 106 Southampton 44 Swansea 105 Warwick 77 Lancaster 90 Sussex 164 Northumbria 133 Aberdeen 42 Hull 113 Nottingham 153 Surrey 40 Durham 67 Leeds 42 City 64 Aston
14 19 21
3.13 Warwick 3.13 Southampton 3.11 Glasgow
52 54 51
3.48 3.44 3.42
21
3.11 Dundee
53
3.40
14 16 13 16 17 16 15 12 10 18 11 15 10 18 5 8 10 15
3.10 3.10 3.06 3.06 3.05 3.05 3.01 2.98 2.98 2.97 2.96 2.96 2.95 2.95 2.95 2.91 2.90 2.88
48 43 37 33 37 20 20 32 24 0 40 13 20 10 27 40 0 27
3.38 3.37 3.37 3.23 3.23 3.10 3.10 3.08 3.06 3.00 3.00 2.93 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.87
Institution
Institution Cardiff Imperial Manchester Newcastle Dundee Leeds Sheffield Queen’s Belfast Loughborough Strathclyde Birmingham UCL Bradford Edinburgh Napier National profile
Nottingham UCL Lancaster Surrey Sheffield Liverpool Sussex Exeter Aberdeen Leicester Greenwich City Keele London South Bank Kent Nottingham Trent Teesside Aston
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
67 47 171 57 34 31 49 36 87 36 66 37 86 32 36 27 50 29 32 57 32 57 18 19 30 16 9 22 12 7,487
28 25 39 34 32 136 10 35 27 22 42 19 15 35
50 48 50 48 44 46 39 41 34 35 28 35 45 36
3.38 3.38 3.35 3.32 3.28 3.25 3.23 3.22 3.18 3.18 3.13 3.13 3.11 3.05
96 83 131 113 106 442 34 112 87 71 131 60 46 106
Institution Uclan Bolton Kent Hertfordshire Plymouth Oxford Brookes South Wales Manchester Met Lincoln Liverpool John Moores Coventry Teesside London South Bank Brunel Robert Gordon UWS Kingston Glasgow Caledonian Staffordshire Huddersfield UEL De Montfort Abertay Bournemouth Anglia Ruskin Greenwich Wales Trinity Saint David Southampton Solent Derby National profile Glasgow Aberdeen Liverpool Bath Cambridge Gloucestershire Sheffield Kent Cardiff A: Planning and Geography UCL Loughborough Reading Sheffield Hallam Newcastle
4 10 8 0 12 5 2 11 14 0 6 6 4 9 9 5 2 4 3 0 4 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 17.2
2.88 2.81 2.80 2.80 2.78 2.77 2.76 2.74 2.74 2.74 2.66 2.64 2.61 2.60 2.60 2.58 2.52 2.51 2.47 2.45 2.43 2.38 2.33 2.28 2.28 2.26 2.00 1.81 1.57 2.98
Manchester Met Leeds Bournemouth Robert Gordon Anglia Ruskin Brunel Plymouth UWS Huddersfield Hull Oxford Brookes Bolton Derby Northumbria Coventry UWE De Montfort Glasgow Caledonian Kingston Staffordshire Hertfordshire Liverpool John Moores Uclan South Wales Lincoln Abertay Wales Trinity Saint David UEL Southampton Solent National profile
46 42 40 35 38 29 35 40 31 34 29 30 29 19
3.31 3.24 3.19 3.17 3.16 3.12 3.09 3.08 3.07 3.05 3.05 3.03 3.01 2.95
Bath Cardiff B: Architecture Reading Sheffield Cambridge Glasgow Loughborough Ulster Sheffield Hallam UCL Newcastle Oxford Brookes Aberdeen Manchester
2.86 Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) 2.86 Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) 2.86 Westminster 2.84 De Montfort 2.82 Liverpool
30
36 3.05
91 Queen’s Belfast
23
18
31 3.05
54 De Montfort
31
38 14 8
25 2.94 30 2.93 21 2.90
112 Birmingham City 41 Manchester 24 Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh)
21 25 23
Institution
GPA
2.78 2.72 2.70 2.69 2.63 2.63 2.62 2.60 2.59 2.58 2.56 2.52 2.48 2.48 2.47 2.45 2.40 2.40 2.32 2.31 2.31 2.29 2.28 2.26 2.08 2.05 1.75 1.67 1.41 3.06
% of 4* research activity
Research power
11 8 11 7 4 3 4 6 4 6 3 0 4 7 1 0 3 9 1 0 8 1 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 26
GPA
n/a Ulster n/a De Montfort n/a Gloucestershire
24 17 63 21 13 12 19 14 34 14 26 15 35 13 15 11 21 12 14 25 14 25 8 8 14 8 5 13 9 2,447
Impact
% of 4* research activity
17 18 19
GPA
n/a Kent n/a Plymouth 2.55 Brunel 2.15 Manchester Met 2.05 Teesside 2.10 Uclan n/a Coventry 2.10 Bolton 2.60 London South Bank 2.10 Robert Gordon 2.20 Oxford Brookes 2.40 Hertfordshire 2.30 Huddersfield n/a UWS 2.60 South Wales 2.70 Liverpool John Moores 1.80 Glasgow Caledonian n/a Lincoln 1.95 Kingston 2.10 Bournemouth 1.60 Greenwich 2.15 De Montfort n/a Anglia Ruskin 2.45 Staffordshire 1.95 Abertay n/a UEL n/a Wales Trinity Saint David n/a Derby 1.25 Southampton Solent 2.66 National profile 16 Architecture, Built environment and Planning =1 n/a Bath =1 n/a Glasgow 3 n/a Cambridge 4 n/a Sheffield 5 n/a Loughborough 6 n/a UCL 7 n/a Aberdeen 8 n/a Reading =9 n/a Cardiff A: Planning and Geography =9 n/a Liverpool =11 n/a Newcastle =11 n/a Sheffield Hallam 13 n/a Cardiff B: Architecture =14 n/a Heriot–Watt (joint submission with Edinburgh) =14 n/a Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) =14 n/a Manchester
% of 4* research activity
Institution
34 35 36 37 =38 =38 40 41 42 43 44 45 =46 =46 48 49 =50 =50 52 =53 =53 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
0 18 0 0 0 11 0 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41.6
2.87 2.86 2.73 2.70 2.70 2.66 2.63 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.37 2.37 2.30 2.23 2.13 2.10 2.10 1.90 1.90 1.80 1.60 1.50 1.40 1.40 1.20 0.20 3.19
90 90 70 70 68 63 60 58 53 52 42 40 40 37
3.90 3.90 3.70 3.70 3.68 3.63 3.60 3.58 3.53 3.47 3.42 3.40 3.40 3.37
56
3.33
56
3.33
40 40 27
3.30 3.30 3.27
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
=20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 =29 =29 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
n/a Queen’s Belfast 31 n/a Westminster 25 n/a UWE 31 n/a Salford 49 n/a Birmingham City 4 n/a Nottingham 24 n/a Kent 11 n/a Strathclyde 15 n/a Glasgow Caledonian 22 n/a Northumbria 18 n/a Edinburgh Napier 8 n/a Liverpool John Moores 17 n/a Plymouth 13 n/a UEL 5 n/a Nottingham Trent 11 n/a Leeds Beckett 18 n/a Uclan 10 n/a London Met 12 n/a Greenwich 6 n/a Anglia Ruskin 8 n/a Wolverhampton 14 n/a Dundee 9 n/a Lincoln 6 n/a Robert Gordon 15 n/a Bolton 4 n/a National profile 1,025 17 Geography, Environmental studies and Archaeology 1 n/a Bristol A: Geography 46 =2 n/a Cambridge B: Geography 46 =2 n/a Royal Holloway 24 4 n/a LSE 36 5 n/a St Andrews 37 =6 n/a Oxford B: Geography and 54 Environmental studies =6 n/a Glasgow A: Geography 13 =8 n/a UCL B: Geography 40 =8 n/a Oxford A: Archaeology 33 10 n/a Durham B: Geography 63 11 n/a Newcastle B: Geography 27 =12 n/a Southampton B: Geography 32 =12 n/a Queen Mary 31 14 n/a Durham A: Archaeology 25 15 n/a UCL A: Archaeology 61 16 n/a York 19 =17 =17 =19 =19 =19 =22
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Leicester A: Archaeology Reading A: Archaeology Leeds Cambridge A: Archaeology Liverpool B: Archaeology Exeter A: Geography and Environmental studies
19 19 49 43 16 52
21 20 10 16 14 10 26 17 6 10 14 7 7 20 9 15 3 3 6 8 5 7 5 7 3 29
2.89 2.80 2.71 2.69 2.66 2.65 2.62 2.53 2.52 2.52 2.50 2.49 2.45 2.41 2.34 2.30 2.23 2.22 2.20 2.11 2.09 2.00 1.94 1.89 1.38 2.92
51 44 41 43 42 41
3.33 3.26 3.26 3.25 3.24 3.23
155 149 77 118 118 174
37 41 41 43 35 32 34 38 42 42
3.23 3.19 3.19 3.18 3.17 3.13 3.13 3.11 3.10 3.09
42 129 106 200 86 100 98 77 189 58
35 30 32 35 31 31
3.08 3.08 3.07 3.07 3.07 3.05
60 59 150 131 49 158
LSE Glasgow A: Geography Bristol A: Geography Newcastle B: Geography Southampton B: Geography Oxford B: Geography and Environmental studies Cambridge B: Geography Queen Mary Liverpool B: Archaeology Royal Holloway Reading A: Archaeology Durham B: Geography Oxford A: Archaeology UCL B: Geography Cardiff Exeter A: Geography and Environmental studies Nottingham B: Geography Durham A: Archaeology Sheffield B: Geography Leeds Open King’s College London
23
GPA
Institution
93 Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot–Watt) 88 Oxford Brookes 71 Cardiff B: Architecture 83 Westminster 131 Plymouth 11 Ulster 64 UEL 30 UWE 37 Northumbria 54 Strathclyde 46 Salford 20 Edinburgh Napier 43 Nottingham 32 London Met 13 Anglia Ruskin 26 Nottingham Trent 42 Uclan 22 Leeds Beckett 27 Greenwich 13 Glasgow Caledonian 17 Liverpool John Moores 28 Dundee 18 Wolverhampton 12 Lincoln 28 Bolton 6 Robert Gordon 2,992 National profile
% of 4* research activity
Research power
GPA
23 2.89
Impact
Institution
2.82 Cardiff A: Planning and Geography
GPA
32
% of 4* research activity
Total number of FTE staff submitted
Institution
n/a Oxford Brookes
Output
% of 4* research activity
=20
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
20
3.20
20 13 20 0 0 40 0 27 40 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38.4
3.10 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.80 2.73 2.63 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.40 2.37 2.10 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 1.90 1.60 1.50 1.50 1.30 1.20 0.30 3.14
21 30 19 11 10 30 4 4 14 9 6 7 4 13 15 5 15 9 6 5 10 7 7 5 2 22.7
2.78 2.78 2.73 2.64 2.62 2.60 2.52 2.49 2.46 2.45 2.44 2.42 2.40 2.38 2.37 2.37 2.34 2.32 2.31 2.30 2.27 2.16 2.15 1.74 1.72 2.79
Queen’s Belfast Salford UWE Nottingham Glasgow Caledonian Strathclyde Liverpool John Moores Northumbria Edinburgh Napier Gloucestershire Birmingham City Nottingham Trent Leeds Beckett UEL Plymouth London Met Uclan Greenwich Wolverhampton Kent Robert Gordon Anglia Ruskin Dundee Lincoln Bolton National profile
34 39 40 33 32 29
3.18 3.18 3.14 3.13 3.09 3.07
St Andrews Leicester A: Archaeology Hull Sussex York Newcastle B: Geography
76 73 70 80 63 70
3.76 3.73 3.70 3.70 3.63 3.60
33 28 30 27 32 32 34 31 31 27
3.07 3.05 3.05 3.03 3.03 3.01 3.01 2.99 2.98 2.97
Royal Holloway Bradford Exeter B: Archaeology UCL B: Geography Cambridge B: Geography Bristol A: Geography Swansea Birmingham Southampton A: Archaeology Aberystwyth
60 60 60 66 57 57 50 50 50 42
3.60 3.60 3.60 3.58 3.57 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.42
29 29 22 24 30 23
2.97 2.95 2.95 2.94 2.94 2.93
Oxford A: Archaeology Manchester A: Geography Sheffield A: Archaeology Middlesex Glasgow A: Geography Sheffield B: Geography
40 50 40 40 40 37
3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.37
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
GPA
Research power
% of 4* research activity
GPA
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Sheffield B: Geography Sussex King’s College London Birmingham Bradford Aberystwyth Exeter B: Archaeology
25 21 35 25 13 39 11
25 28 30 30 34 28 24
3.05 3.05 3.04 3.04 3.04 3.03 3.02
76 63 106 76 39 118 34
St Andrews Sussex Birmingham UCL A: Archaeology Manchester A: Geography Cambridge A: Archaeology Aberystwyth
21 18 25 26 19 21 19
2.92 2.89 2.88 2.86 2.86 2.83 2.82
30 31 32 =33 =33 35 36 37 38 =39 =39
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Southampton A: Archaeology Swansea Cardiff Hull Open Manchester A: Geography Sheffield A: Archaeology Nottingham B: Geography Dundee Queen’s Belfast Leicester B: Geography
21 28 13 35 13 27 18 41 14 31 24
29 27 28 27 23 24 26 26 18 27 16
3.01 2.98 2.97 2.96 2.96 2.95 2.93 2.92 2.85 2.78 2.78
63 83 39 102 38 80 52 119 41 86 68
24 16 27 21 20 21 22 17 24 17 16
41 42 43 44
n/a n/a n/a n/a
13 29 21 33
13 17 14 13
2.77 2.75 2.74 2.72
37 80 58 90
45 46 47 48
n/a n/a n/a n/a
Aberdeen Plymouth Stirling Liverpool A: Geography and Environmental studies Newcastle A: Archaeology Bournemouth Anglia Ruskin Loughborough
Southampton A: Archaeology Exeter B: Archaeology Newcastle A: Archaeology Leicester B: Geography Leicester A: Archaeology Dundee Bradford Aberdeen York Hull Liverpool A: Geography and Environmental studies Plymouth Sheffield A: Archaeology Swansea Loughborough
9 30 18 30
18 10 13 9
2.71 2.65 2.64 2.61
24 78 46 79
Queen’s Belfast Bournemouth Anglia Ruskin Stirling
49 50 51
n/a Manchester B: Archaeology n/a Nottingham A: Archaeology n/a Northumbria
10 13 19
10 2.59 6 2.58 8 2.55
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
10 22 15 15 14 10 11 13 12 10 10 13
10 6 7 11 7 8 11 3 7 9 5 7
52 =53 =53 55 =56 =56 58 =59 =59 61 62 63 64 =65 =65 67 68 69 70
Institution
Glasgow B: Archaeology Reading B: Geography Edinburgh Middlesex Oxford Brookes Kingston Portsmouth UHI Salford Wales Trinity Saint David Northampton UWE
n/a Bristol B: Archaeology and Anthropology n/a Nottingham Trent n/a Gloucestershire n/a Uclan n/a Worcester n/a Winchester n/a Chester B: Archaeology
9 12 11 8 11 5 4
2.52 2.51 2.51 2.45 2.38 2.38 2.37 2.33 2.33 2.26 2.24 2.23
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
=22 =22 =25 =25 =25 28 29
% of 4* research activity
Total number of FTE staff submitted
Impact
2008 GPA
Output
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
54 40 42 49 40 20 37
3.32 3.30 3.26 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.17
2.82 2.82 2.82 2.79 2.79 2.79 2.78 2.76 2.74 2.71 2.71
Durham B: Geography Cardiff Cambridge A: Archaeology UCL A: Archaeology King’s College London Open Oxford B: Geography and Environmental studies Durham A: Archaeology Southampton B: Geography Plymouth Stirling Liverpool B: Archaeology Dundee Glasgow B: Archaeology Leeds LSE Queen Mary Leicester B: Geography
40 30 30 10 37 20 20 33 40 30 13
3.13 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.07 3.00 3.00 2.90
18 18 14 11
2.71 2.70 2.69 2.66
UWE Nottingham A: Archaeology Manchester B: Archaeology Reading A: Archaeology
10 0 0 0
2.90 2.90 2.90 2.87
21 13 13 19
2.65 2.65 2.64 2.63
23 40 20 13
2.83 2.80 2.80 2.73
26 Reading B: Geography 34 Northumbria 48 Manchester B: Archaeology
10 9 16
2.61 2.56 2.55
0 0 10
2.70 2.70 2.60
24 55 37 37 33 24 26 31 28 22 21 29
11 11 17 8 9 13 14 11 9 5 11 5
2.53 2.53 2.50 2.45 2.44 2.44 2.44 2.40 2.34 2.33 2.32 2.32
Anglia Ruskin Queen’s Belfast Portsmouth Exeter A: Geography and Environmental studies Edinburgh Aberdeen Liverpool A: Geography and Environmental studies Bournemouth UHI Salford Newcastle A: Archaeology Loughborough Reading B: Geography Northumbria Nottingham Trent Kingston Nottingham B: Geography Oxford Brookes Gloucestershire
10 0 20 0 10 0 0 0 0 8 0 0
2.60 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.47 2.40 2.40 2.36 2.20 2.20
4 2.17
Edinburgh Oxford Brookes Chester B: Archaeology Northampton Nottingham A: Archaeology Kingston Wales Trinity Saint David Portsmouth Glasgow B: Archaeology Salford Gloucestershire Bristol B: Archaeology and Anthropology 20 Uclan
0 7 4 2 3
25 24 17 23 11
2.14 2.14 2.09 2.07 2.02
11 1.90
Winchester UHI Middlesex Worcester Nottingham Trent
8 UWE
Institution
7
2.26 Worcester
0
2.20
4 2 5 3 0
2.26 2.23 2.16 2.16 2.09
0 0 0 0 0
1.90 1.90 1.90 1.80 1.70
0
1.70
8
Wales Trinity Saint David Northampton Edge Hill Uclan Bristol B: Archaeology and Anthropology 2.00 Winchester
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
n/a Chester A: Geography and Development studies n/a Liverpool Hope
74
n/a National profile 18 Economics and Econometrics 1 3.50 UCL 2 3.55 LSE 3 3.35 Oxford 4 3.05 Cambridge 5 3.35 Warwick 6 3.15 Bristol 7 3.35 Essex 8 2.95 Edinburgh 9 3.00 Royal Holloway 10 3.15 Nottingham 11 2.75 UEA 12 2.80 Surrey 13 3.15 Queen Mary 14 2.75 York 15 2.70 St Andrews 16 3.05 Manchester 17 3.00 Glasgow 18 2.70 Sussex =19 2.95 Exeter =19 2.75 Birmingham 21 3.00 Southampton 22 2.85 Birkbeck 23 2.90 Leicester 24 2.80 Sheffield 25 2.85 Aberdeen 26 2.65 City 27 2.90 Kent 28 2.65 Brunel 3.01 National profile 19 Business and Management studies 1 n/a LSE 2 n/a Cambridge 3 n/a Imperial 4 n/a Oxford 5 n/a London Business School 6 n/a Cardiff 7 n/a City 8 n/a Bath 9 n/a Leeds 10 n/a Strathclyde 11 n/a Lancaster 12 n/a Warwick 13 n/a St Andrews =14 n/a King’s College London =14 n/a Sheffield
0
1.91 Liverpool Hope
0
0.80
6 Liverpool Hope
0
0
0.70
27 2.91
4,905 National profile
22.1
1.80 Chester A: Geography and Development studies 2.81 National profile
34.3
3.06
37 51 84 27 42 19 33 18 14 35 14 21 24 28 21 33 24 17 25 24 22 25 22 15 19 14 22 26 756
79 69 56 47 45 44 32 30 35 18 17 19 18 17 15 17 12 17 15 10 16 7 12 13 3 15 4 1 30
3.78 3.55 3.44 3.42 3.41 3.32 3.25 3.14 3.11 3.05 3.04 3.01 2.98 2.93 2.92 2.89 2.86 2.84 2.78 2.78 2.70 2.60 2.59 2.58 2.48 2.44 2.32 2.20 3.04
139 182 289 92 142 62 108 55 45 107 43 62 73 82 60 96 68 49 68 67 59 65 58 38 48 33 51 58 2,297
70 55 56 43 43 29 31 20 35 27 24 20 22 20 18 14 19 22 13 11 8 8 15 10 17 5 3 2 27.7
3.68 3.47 3.36 3.36 3.27 3.19 3.15 3.12 3.10 3.06 3.06 3.03 3.03 3.02 2.95 2.87 2.83 2.76 2.75 2.72 2.72 2.72 2.70 2.62 2.54 2.46 2.32 2.15 3.00
Bristol UCL LSE Warwick Oxford Cambridge Royal Holloway Manchester York Sussex Essex Queen Mary Nottingham Birmingham UEA Surrey Edinburgh Exeter Southampton Glasgow Aberdeen Birkbeck Kent St Andrews Brunel Sheffield City Leicester National profile
100 92 87 60 64 50 60 40 40 37 20 13 18 27 20 0 13 13 10 0 0 0 13 0 0 40 20 0 36.3
4.00 3.92 3.87 3.60 3.51 3.50 3.40 3.30 3.30 3.23 3.20 3.13 3.10 3.00 3.00 2.87 2.87 2.73 2.70 2.63 2.63 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.20 2.20 1.90 1.87 3.11
81 39 58 42 99 73 78 65 73 73 122 104 22 36 35
59 60 49 51 56 43 41 41 38 43 41 35 38 32 33
3.46 3.44 3.40 3.36 3.29 3.28 3.23 3.20 3.18 3.17 3.16 3.15 3.14 3.12 3.12
279 134 197 141 325 238 253 208 233 233 387 329 70 113 108
49 48 55 44 38 44 37 55 31 27 28 25 26 24 25
3.35 3.29 3.28 3.24 3.20 3.19 3.15 3.08 3.04 3.03 3.03 3.00 2.99 2.95 2.93
Cambridge Aberdeen Strathclyde St Andrews Brighton Bristol Ulster LSE Bournemouth Reading Sheffield Portsmouth Liverpool Leeds Stirling
84 80 80 73 73 70 67 64 63 60 60 58 57 60 60
3.84 3.80 3.75 3.73 3.73 3.70 3.67 3.64 3.63 3.60 3.60 3.58 3.57 3.55 3.52
10
7 1.58
4
0 1.39
1,686
Institution
16 Edge Hill 11 Chester A: Geography and Development studies 15 Cumbria
UCL Cambridge LSE Warwick Oxford Essex Edinburgh UEA Royal Holloway Surrey St Andrews Nottingham Bristol Queen Mary Glasgow York Leicester Southampton Exeter Manchester Birmingham Sheffield Sussex Birkbeck City Aberdeen Kent Brunel National profile Imperial LSE London Business School Oxford Warwick Cambridge City UCL UEA Cardiff Bath King’s College London Durham Royal Holloway Lancaster
4 11
GPA
1.60 0.90
3 1.83 0 1.78
% of 4* research activity
0 0
9 6
Research power
1.96 Cumbria 1.95 Chester B: Archaeology
GPA
GPA
73
Impact
% of 4* research activity
n/a Edge Hill n/a Cumbria
% of 4* research activity
Institution
71 72
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Institution
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
124 74 373 142 137 157 124 39 83 40 180 127 67 124 82 260 132 100 156 52 126 65 144 140 94 151 123 45 54 112 81 69 102 113 59 164 109 112 159 45 62 61 54 25 60 67 88 111 59 154 17 42 75
Institution Leeds Sheffield Edinburgh St Andrews Loughborough Bristol Aston Reading Essex Queen’s Belfast Surrey Ulster Manchester Strathclyde Kent Bangor Glasgow Open Stirling Queen Mary Aberdeen Exeter Cranfield Newcastle York Sussex Swansea Bradford Liverpool Birmingham Nottingham Southampton Kingston Nottingham Trent Oxford Brookes Lincoln Leicester Brighton De Montfort Heriot–Watt UWE Soas Middlesex UWS Hull Birkbeck Bedfordshire Edinburgh Napier Anglia Ruskin Teesside Keele London Met Portsmouth
22 24 21 24 22 15 21 19 17 21 17 23 21 19 18 19 18 14 15 20 17 18 14 19 17 18 9 18 9 17 16 12 17 13 9 10 15 17 9 8 10 9 12 6 10 13 11 11 7 10 10 8 8
2.92 2.91 2.89 2.88 2.87 2.87 2.86 2.86 2.84 2.83 2.82 2.82 2.81 2.81 2.80 2.80 2.78 2.78 2.77 2.77 2.77 2.76 2.76 2.75 2.75 2.74 2.71 2.70 2.67 2.66 2.65 2.65 2.65 2.60 2.59 2.59 2.58 2.57 2.56 2.55 2.54 2.52 2.51 2.51 2.49 2.49 2.49 2.49 2.48 2.48 2.46 2.46 2.45
Institution
GPA
3.11 3.09 3.07 3.07 3.05 3.04 3.03 3.03 3.02 3.02 2.97 2.97 2.97 2.96 2.93 2.92 2.92 2.90 2.88 2.88 2.87 2.87 2.86 2.85 2.85 2.84 2.84 2.84 2.83 2.81 2.81 2.78 2.75 2.74 2.74 2.72 2.72 2.69 2.66 2.66 2.65 2.65 2.65 2.65 2.64 2.60 2.59 2.54 2.54 2.53 2.53 2.52 2.50
% of 4* research activity
32 30 37 30 27 29 31 46 24 31 24 28 30 24 22 28 21 21 21 19 20 23 17 18 23 21 19 28 21 19 16 19 11 17 16 18 17 11 14 12 11 11 16 13 14 13 10 6 11 12 16 10 10
GPA
40 24 122 46 45 52 41 13 28 13 61 43 22 42 28 89 45 34 54 18 44 23 50 49 33 53 43 16 19 40 29 25 37 41 22 60 40 42 60 17 24 23 21 9 23 26 34 44 23 61 7 17 30
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
Institution Reading UEA Manchester Aston Durham Edinburgh Cranfield UCL Bristol Aberdeen Loughborough Stirling Ulster Royal Holloway Swansea Nottingham Liverpool Southampton Queen’s Belfast Open Sussex York Essex Exeter Queen Mary Birmingham Kent Brighton Bradford Glasgow Bangor Kingston Heriot–Watt Portsmouth De Montfort Newcastle Middlesex Surrey Leicester Salford Oxford Brookes Nottingham Trent Bournemouth Lincoln Soas Manchester Met UWE Hull Northumbria Brunel Robert Gordon Aberystwyth Birkbeck
GPA
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
% of 4* research activity
2008 GPA
16 17 =18 =18 20 21 =22 =22 =24 =24 =26 =26 =26 29 30 =31 =31 33 =34 =34 =36 =36 38 =39 =39 =41 =41 =41 44 =45 =45 47 48 =49 =49 =51 =51 53 =54 =54 =56 =56 =56 =56 60 61 62 =63 =63 =65 =65 67 =68
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Cardiff Swansea UEA Open Birmingham City City Cranfield King’s College London Southampton Queen Mary Soas Coventry Huddersfield Nottingham Oxford Edinburgh Bradford Lancaster Lincoln Manchester Aston Oxford Brookes Salford Bath York De Montfort Heriot–Watt Imperial Nottingham Trent Kent Birmingham Exeter Middlesex Kingston Uclan Robert Gordon Sussex London Business School Royal Holloway Loughborough Queen’s Belfast Durham UWE Manchester Met UCL Northumbria Glasgow Bangor Anglia Ruskin Warwick Aberystwyth Essex Dundee
50 60 50 50 50 60 60 50 40 50 40 40 37 52 44 47 47 48 30 54 27 27 40 49 50 50 18 23 13 36 30 23 18 23 40 50 24 46 32 27 27 24 20 40 40 37 34 10 10 22 27 20 27
3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.47 3.44 3.42 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.37 3.36 3.36 3.33 3.33 3.32 3.30 3.29 3.27 3.27 3.27 3.26 3.23 3.23 3.18 3.17 3.13 3.12 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.08 3.06 3.06 3.04 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.97 2.94 2.90 2.90 2.89 2.87 2.80 2.77
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
2.50 2.48 2.47 2.44 2.43 2.42 2.42 2.40 2.40 2.36 2.35 2.33 2.32 2.31 2.30 2.29 2.28 2.27 2.26 2.23 2.23 2.21 2.12 2.05 1.93 1.92 1.86 1.83 1.65 1.57 1.44 1.34 1.32 2.89
43 81 26 46 6 34 11 44 27 33 7 17 16 9 45 34 25 48 7 12 11 63 24 29 21 33 22 17 14 9 4 9 6 9,595
34 63 24 19 47 10 76 29 39 109 31 24 22 54 46 31 44 35 15
54 53 44 45 50 46 44 41 41 40 38 34 36 42 37 38 36 26 22
3.44 3.40 3.34 3.33 3.32 3.32 3.31 3.27 3.25 3.23 3.23 3.23 3.20 3.18 3.17 3.17 3.14 3.09 3.07
117 214 81 63 156 33 251 95 127 352 100 79 70 172 144 98 137 108 46
King’s College London LSE Durham Ulster UCL York Cambridge Leeds Bristol Oxford Warwick Sheffield Cardiff Edinburgh Nottingham Queen’s Belfast Kent Queen Mary Exeter
Institution Aberystwyth Manchester Met Salford Robert Gordon Brunel Plymouth Northumbria Sheffield Hallam Glasgow Caledonian Bournemouth Westminster Dundee Roehampton UEL Staffordshire Birmingham City Greenwich Uclan Hertfordshire Coventry Huddersfield Wolverhampton Derby York St John Northampton Leeds Beckett Worcester London South Bank Chester Sunderland Bucks New Cumbria South Wales National profile LSE King’s College London Sheffield York Durham Cambridge Warwick Leeds Ulster Exeter Oxford Bristol Cardiff UCL Queen Mary Kent Birmingham Queen’s Belfast Nottingham
GPA
13 8 9 11 8 6 14 6 10 7 12 2 6 7 9 3 4 8 2 8 0 7 4 5 2 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 2 26
% of 4* research activity
17 33 10 19 2 14 5 18 11 14 3 7 7 4 19 15 11 21 3 6 5 29 11 14 11 17 12 9 9 6 3 7 5 3,320
GPA
Research power
Coventry Plymouth Edinburgh Napier Huddersfield Bucks New Anglia Ruskin Birmingham City Keele Uclan Bedfordshire Cumbria Staffordshire Sheffield Hallam London Met Dundee Glasgow Caledonian UWS Westminster UEL Teesside Roehampton Greenwich Wolverhampton Hertfordshire Derby Leeds Beckett Northampton London South Bank Worcester Chester South Wales York St John Sunderland National profile
Impact
% of 4* research activity
GPA
2.55 3.10 2.90 2.65 3.05 n/a 2.80 2.55 2.60 3.00 2.40 2.50 2.80 2.75 2.90 2.80 2.85 2.70 2.30
Institution
% of 4* research activity
20 Law 1 2 3 4 =5 =5 7 8 9 =10 =10 =10 13 14 =15 =15 17 18 19
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
=68 70 71 72 73 =74 =74 =76 =76 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 =88 =88 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
8 5 6 10 11 10 5 4 5 5 8 6 0 0 3 6 7 3 8 5 6 3 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 0 – – – 20.5
2.44 2.43 2.42 2.42 2.41 2.41 2.41 2.39 2.38 2.37 2.34 2.29 2.26 2.25 2.24 2.24 2.22 2.19 2.16 2.14 2.12 2.00 1.83 1.83 1.81 1.69 1.64 1.57 1.57 1.13 – – – 2.76
Newcastle Leicester Birkbeck Sheffield Hallam UEL Brunel Plymouth Leeds Beckett London South Bank Roehampton Hull Greenwich Glasgow Caledonian Derby Edinburgh Napier Staffordshire London Met Westminster Wolverhampton UWS Sunderland Keele Surrey Bedfordshire Northampton Worcester Teesside Hertfordshire Chester York St John Bucks New Cumbria South Wales National profile
27 11 10 20 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 10 0 10 13 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 – – – 37.7
2.76 2.71 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.52 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.30 2.30 2.30 2.30 2.23 2.18 2.10 2.00 1.90 1.90 1.80 1.60 0.30 – – – 3.15
38 38 27 34 28 31 29 28 22 21 26 25 22 27 26 25 28 25 21
3.22 3.22 3.13 3.13 3.12 3.11 3.10 3.06 3.04 3.04 3.01 3.01 3.00 2.99 2.99 2.98 2.97 2.92 2.91
Ulster Edinburgh UCL King’s College London Queen’s Belfast Leeds Durham Cardiff York Bristol LSE Glasgow Oxford Nottingham Cambridge Exeter Manchester Swansea Warwick
100 87 87 80 80 80 80 80 80 68 77 60 60 53 56 40 36 53 40
4.00 3.87 3.87 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.80 3.68 3.66 3.60 3.53 3.53 3.51 3.40 3.36 3.33 3.30
Institution
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
91 94 37 121 90 81 115 83 63 58 52 75 56 59 47 65 55 56 62 53 83 21 43 33 20 78 47 41 34 17 23 33 33 31 25 21 10 21 14 20 13 21 10 21 13 7 6 3 4,598
30 62 18 77
68 54 52 54
3.54 3.45 3.40 3.31
106 215 61 254
Institution Leicester Lancaster Soas UEA Liverpool Stirling Newcastle Birkbeck Reading Edinburgh Southampton Manchester Aberdeen Essex Glasgow Keele Dundee City Surrey Strathclyde Sussex Middlesex Westminster Northumbria Brunel Hull UEL Swansea De Montfort Aberystwyth Nottingham Trent Oxford Brookes UWE Edge Hill Lincoln Liverpool John Moores Uclan Robert Gordon Birmingham City Bangor Derby Anglia Ruskin Greenwich Bedfordshire Wolverhampton Sunderland Abertay London Met National profile Essex LSE Sheffield UCL
13 23 31 26 17 13 21 17 18 20 22 17 20 18 19 18 14 19 14 14 8 10 8 5 6 5 4 6 7 2 7 0 6 2 0 0 4 7 0 12 0 3 3 0 9 0 0 – 20.1
2.91 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.88 2.88 2.87 2.85 2.84 2.82 2.82 2.80 2.78 2.77 2.75 2.75 2.74 2.71 2.71 2.68 2.57 2.57 2.56 2.54 2.52 2.51 2.51 2.49 2.48 2.46 2.39 2.37 2.31 2.29 2.24 2.23 2.16 2.14 2.14 2.04 2.04 2.03 2.03 2.00 1.98 1.77 1.70 – 2.83
Kent Lancaster UEA Middlesex Keele Queen Mary Sheffield Aberystwyth Essex Liverpool Edge Hill Bangor Liverpool John Moores Leicester Strathclyde UEL Birkbeck Dundee Newcastle City Birmingham UWE Hull Sussex Reading Birmingham City Lincoln Aberdeen Soas Uclan Stirling Northumbria Anglia Ruskin Southampton Brunel Nottingham Trent De Montfort Oxford Brookes Robert Gordon Surrey Derby Westminster Bedfordshire Sunderland Abertay Wolverhampton Greenwich London Met National profile
59 44 43 33
3.42 3.30 3.28 3.13
Oxford Sheffield Essex Keele
Institution
GPA
3.06 2.97 2.97 2.96 2.96 2.96 2.92 2.92 2.91 2.91 2.88 2.85 2.83 2.81 2.79 2.76 2.76 2.75 2.74 2.70 2.68 2.68 2.61 2.59 2.54 2.53 2.50 2.50 2.48 2.48 2.42 2.38 2.37 2.37 2.36 2.34 2.32 2.28 2.25 2.18 2.10 2.08 1.87 1.73 1.65 1.63 1.63 1.37 2.96
% of 4* research activity
Research power
28 29 27 20 26 24 12 23 28 11 26 15 17 14 16 15 14 14 16 16 13 8 7 3 9 6 5 3 3 0 5 4 1 4 5 8 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 6 2 0 0 0 27
GPA
GPA
30 32 13 41 30 27 40 28 22 20 18 26 20 21 17 23 20 21 23 20 31 8 17 13 8 31 19 16 14 7 9 14 14 13 11 9 4 9 6 9 6 10 5 12 8 4 4 2 1,553
Impact
% of 4* research activity
% of 4* research activity
Institution
2.40 Lancaster 2.65 Birmingham 2.25 UEA 2.50 Manchester 2.60 Glasgow 1.95 Birkbeck 2.20 Leicester 2.45 Essex 2.35 Soas 2.45 Liverpool 2.45 Keele 2.70 Reading 2.65 Strathclyde 2.25 Newcastle 2.55 Dundee 2.20 Aberdeen 1.65 Middlesex 2.10 City 2.50 Southampton 2.45 Swansea 2.60 Sussex 2.15 Stirling 2.05 Aberystwyth 2.20 UEL n/a Surrey 2.45 Brunel 2.20 Westminster 2.35 Hull n/a Northumbria n/a Liverpool John Moores 1.85 De Montfort 1.80 UWE n/a Edge Hill 1.70 Nottingham Trent 1.60 Uclan n/a Bangor 1.60 Lincoln 2.40 Oxford Brookes n/a Birmingham City 1.50 Robert Gordon n/a Derby n/a Anglia Ruskin n/a Bedfordshire 1.85 Wolverhampton 1.40 Greenwich 1.30 Sunderland 2.00 Abertay 1.55 London Met 2.48 National profile 21 Politics and International studies 1 3.15 Essex 2 2.80 LSE 3 3.15 Sheffield 4 2.85 Oxford
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
20 =21 =21 =23 =23 =23 =26 =26 =28 =28 30 31 32 33 34 =35 =35 37 38 39 =40 =40 42 43 44 45 =46 =46 =48 =48 50 51 =52 =52 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 =65 =65 67
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
52 20 40 27 53 16 27 27 20 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 20 27 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 38.3
3.28 3.20 3.20 3.17 3.17 3.16 3.13 3.03 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.77 2.73 2.70 2.70 2.63 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.53 2.50 2.50 2.40 2.30 2.30 2.23 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.13 2.00 1.30 1.30 1.00 0.80 – 3.14
87 73 80 70
3.87 3.73 3.70 3.70
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
3.28 3.19 3.18 3.16 3.13 3.07 3.04 3.03 3.02 3.00 2.99 2.99 2.98 2.95 2.92 2.91 2.87 2.87 2.86 2.86 2.85 2.85 2.84 2.81 2.80 2.79 2.79 2.78 2.75 2.75 2.71 2.69 2.68 2.65 2.62 2.58 2.55 2.50 2.44 2.44 2.42 2.37 2.21 2.17 2.15 2.08 2.07 2.01 1.85 1.76 1.70 1.07 2.90
98 155 86 73 76 105 59 64 39 89 294 40 38 97 107 47 71 24 70 69 61 34 68 67 91 93 66 131 85 38 36 69 38 35 54 28 46 26 27 13 12 35 42 16 15 24 19 38 7 12 25 3 3,697
Institution Southampton Aberystwyth York Exeter Oxford Warwick Reading Cambridge Birkbeck Swansea Queen Mary Cardiff Sussex UEA Strathclyde Glasgow Brunel Manchester Nottingham Royal Holloway Edinburgh Soas King’s College London St Andrews Leeds City Goldsmiths Durham Westminster Ulster Kent Queen’s Belfast Robert Gordon Aberdeen Bristol Newcastle Leicester Keele Birmingham Dundee Lincoln Oxford Brookes Surrey Liverpool Bradford UWE London Met Liverpool Hope Hull Coventry Canterbury Christ Church St Mary’s, Belfast National profile
35 35 27 22 33 26 27 29 25 17 15 22 23 25 17 15 20 14 16 11 20 20 22 17 17 17 11 14 8 8 12 15 8 11 13 15 12 14 11 9 4 5 15 15 6 3 0 0 0 3 2 – 20.9
3.05 3.01 3.00 2.97 2.96 2.91 2.91 2.86 2.86 2.86 2.85 2.84 2.83 2.83 2.78 2.77 2.76 2.74 2.74 2.74 2.72 2.72 2.71 2.69 2.67 2.67 2.63 2.62 2.61 2.60 2.59 2.58 2.58 2.57 2.52 2.52 2.51 2.49 2.47 2.39 2.36 2.35 2.30 2.30 2.28 2.25 2.13 2.05 1.94 1.78 1.72 – 2.74
Institution
GPA
41 43 44 37 30 38 29 29 26 32 34 28 30 29 20 26 20 19 27 25 12 20 13 12 21 16 19 24 16 23 22 16 7 11 14 7 8 7 7 5 20 11 0 3 6 10 6 2 0 0 1 0 28
% of 4* research activity
Research power
30 49 27 23 24 34 19 21 13 30 98 14 13 33 37 16 25 8 25 24 22 12 24 24 32 33 24 47 31 14 13 26 14 13 21 11 18 11 11 5 5 15 19 7 7 11 9 19 4 7 15 3 1,275
GPA
GPA
UCL Warwick Aberystwyth York Exeter Edinburgh Strathclyde Sussex Cardiff Cambridge King’s College London Southampton Birkbeck St Andrews Manchester Reading Durham Swansea Soas Leeds Queen Mary UEA Glasgow Royal Holloway Queen’s Belfast Nottingham Brunel Birmingham Kent Keele Bradford Bristol Westminster City Newcastle Ulster Leicester Goldsmiths Aberdeen Robert Gordon Liverpool Oxford Brookes Hull Lincoln Dundee Surrey UWE Coventry London Met Liverpool Hope Canterbury Christ Church St Mary’s, Belfast National profile
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
% of 4* research activity
2.75 2.65 2.95 2.30 2.60 2.45 2.00 2.65 n/a 2.50 2.30 2.05 2.35 2.35 2.50 2.15 2.40 2.05 2.65 1.80 2.35 2.10 2.30 2.10 2.40 2.50 2.05 2.35 2.10 2.15 2.40 2.20 1.80 n/a 2.30 2.15 1.80 2.10 2.05 1.95 1.80 1.95 2.15 1.70 2.10 n/a 1.55 1.60 1.65 0.95 n/a n/a 2.34
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 =15 =15 17 18 19 20 =21 =21 =23 =23 =25 =25 27 28 29 =30 =30 32 =33 =33 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 =43 =43 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Leeds LSE Strathclyde Bradford King’s College London Soas Warwick Edinburgh UCL Sussex York St Andrews Queen’s Belfast Kent Exeter Cardiff Birkbeck Swansea Durham Brunel Cambridge Aberystwyth Birmingham Nottingham Bristol Manchester Royal Holloway Reading UEA Liverpool Glasgow Queen Mary Coventry Leicester City Hull Oxford Brookes Westminster Ulster Newcastle Southampton UWE Robert Gordon Goldsmiths Aberdeen Canterbury Christ Church Lincoln Liverpool Hope Dundee Surrey London Met St Mary’s, Belfast National profile
67 61 60 60 64 53 57 50 50 50 60 50 50 40 40 30 40 40 27 27 40 40 40 30 10 16 27 13 0 50 0 13 0 0 0 0 40 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 40
3.67 3.61 3.60 3.60 3.53 3.53 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.47 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.27 3.20 3.20 3.13 3.10 3.10 3.08 3.03 2.93 2.90 2.90 2.87 2.87 2.87 2.80 2.80 2.77 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.63 2.60 2.40 2.20 2.10 1.90 1.80 1.70 1.70 1.50 1.40 1.20 – 3.22
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
102 173 114 32 184 132 115 93 187 113 40 103 102 26 43 54 99 32 79 31 102 62 46 70 52 86 41 34 30 118 52 45 35 27 40 61 28 22 40 25 38 23 70 133 70 63 51 18 76 58 27 47 22
Oxford LSE UEA Swansea Southampton Kent York Glasgow Bristol Bradford UCL Edinburgh Teesside Nottingham Bath Sheffield Bedfordshire Leicester Stirling Birmingham Liverpool Durham Leeds Keele Open Ulster Loughborough South Wales Plymouth Liverpool Hope London Met Liverpool John Moores Strathclyde London South Bank Queen’s Belfast Manchester Met Goldsmiths Lincoln Brunel Hull Sussex Dundee Portsmouth Glasgow Caledonian UEL Huddersfield Northumbria Salford Brighton Uclan De Montfort Middlesex UWS
68 56 49 39 30 26 29 26 29 26 17 22 10 29 22 22 25 6 19 21 13 22 15 16 14 20 19 22 13 5 17 8 26 15 13 13 17 7 23 10 10 18 9 5 9 14 7 5 10 8 11 7 7
3.58 3.49 3.36 3.24 3.15 3.06 3.05 3.02 2.96 2.95 2.93 2.92 2.90 2.89 2.88 2.88 2.88 2.88 2.83 2.82 2.82 2.81 2.80 2.79 2.78 2.77 2.76 2.75 2.74 2.74 2.73 2.72 2.71 2.71 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.69 2.68 2.63 2.55 2.55 2.54 2.54 2.54 2.53 2.52 2.49 2.46 2.45 2.45 2.42 2.35
LSE York Oxford UCL Kent Loughborough Bath Dundee UEA Glasgow Caledonian South Wales Ulster Strathclyde Nottingham Leeds Bedfordshire Edinburgh Glasgow Salford Huddersfield Bristol Stirling Sussex Teesside London Met Queen’s Belfast De Montfort Liverpool Bradford Liverpool John Moores Durham Birmingham Uclan Brighton Sheffield UEL Brunel Keele Open Leicester Southampton Nottingham Trent Birmingham City Plymouth Middlesex Hull London South Bank Manchester Met UWE Portsmouth Goldsmiths Northumbria Swansea
GPA
3.72 3.67 3.39 3.38 3.37 3.23 3.23 3.20 3.19 3.16 3.15 3.13 3.12 3.07 3.05 3.04 3.01 2.99 2.96 2.96 2.95 2.94 2.94 2.90 2.88 2.86 2.86 2.86 2.86 2.83 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.78 2.77 2.75 2.70 2.67 2.65 2.64 2.64 2.60 2.58 2.58 2.58 2.55 2.54 2.49 2.49 2.45 2.36 2.34
Institution
% of 4* research activity
Research power
79 71 54 48 50 41 46 38 40 38 31 40 35 35 30 26 24 15 24 30 23 26 31 22 14 14 30 4 25 24 15 26 22 19 20 17 28 9 9 13 8 10 15 12 7 12 18 11 5 8 5 5 11
Institution
GPA
GPA
27 47 34 10 55 41 36 29 59 36 13 33 33 8 14 18 33 11 27 10 35 21 16 24 18 30 14 12 10 42 19 16 12 10 14 22 10 8 15 10 14 9 27 51 27 25 20 7 31 23 11 20 10
Impact
% of 4* research activity
% of 4* research activity
Institution
22 Social work and Social policy* 1 2.80 Oxford 2 3.30 LSE 3 2.85 York 4 2.55 UEA 5 2.95 Kent =6 3.00 Southampton =6 3.10 Bath 8 2.30 Glasgow 9 2.85 Edinburgh 10 2.70 Bristol 11 2.90 UCL 12 2.50 Nottingham 13 2.95 Leeds 14 2.60 Swansea 15 2.50 Bedfordshire 16 2.80 Sheffield 17 2.60 Stirling 18 n/a Teesside =19 2.65 Queen’s Belfast =19 n/a Loughborough 21 2.70 Birmingham =22 2.65 Ulster =22 2.30 Strathclyde 24 2.65 Durham 25 n/a Liverpool =26 2.75 Keele =26 2.45 South Wales =26 2.35 Leicester =26 2.55 Bradford 30 2.40 Huddersfield =31 2.65 Open =31 2.15 Brunel =31 2.70 Sussex =31 2.40 London Met 35 n/a Glasgow Caledonian 36 2.55 Plymouth 37 2.25 Dundee 38 n/a Liverpool John Moores 39 2.70 London South Bank 40 2.45 Salford =41 1.90 Manchester Met =41 2.10 UEL 43 2.25 Brighton =44 2.45 Middlesex =44 2.30 Uclan =44 2.35 Hull 47 2.15 De Montfort 48 2.25 Goldsmiths =49 2.20 Northumbria =49 n/a Portsmouth 51 2.30 Lincoln 52 2.05 UWE 53 2.70 Nottingham Trent
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
100 100 100 100 93 90 84 80 80 80 80 67 63 60 60 60 56 60 50 48 40 40 40 40 40 30 53 27 40 20 27 20 10 40 10 20 47 20 27 0 34 30 0 37 40 27 0 0 0 13 0 0 0
4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 3.93 3.90 3.84 3.80 3.80 3.70 3.70 3.67 3.63 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.30 3.27 3.27 3.20 3.20 3.13 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.07 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.94 2.90 2.90 2.83 2.80 2.67 2.50 2.50 2.47 2.40 2.40 2.20 2.10
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
GPA
Research power
% of 4* research activity
GPA
% of 4* research activity
GPA
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
2.05 UWS 2.25 Anglia Ruskin 1.30 Liverpool Hope n/a Sunderland 1.55 Edge Hill 2.15 Birmingham City n/a Leeds Beckett 2.25 Bolton 1.65 Chester 2.58 National profile 23 Sociology 1 2.85 York 2 2.85 Manchester 3 2.70 Cardiff 4 2.80 Lancaster 5 2.65 Oxford 6 2.75 Edinburgh 7 2.85 Essex 8 2.40 LSE 9 2.40 Bristol 10 n/a King’s College London 11 2.70 Exeter 12 2.65 Cambridge =13 2.10 Birkbeck =13 2.50 Newcastle 15 2.75 Surrey =16 2.60 Open =16 2.30 City =16 2.60 Aberdeen =19 2.85 Goldsmiths =19 2.15 Manchester Met 21 2.70 Warwick 22 2.55 Sussex 23 2.20 UEL 24 2.45 Brunel 25 2.05 Roehampton 26 2.60 Queen’s Belfast 27 2.10 Leicester 28 n/a Abertay 29 n/a Winchester 2.47 National profile 24 Anthropology and Development studies 1 n/a Oxford B: International development 2 n/a Manchester A: Anthropology 3 n/a Manchester B: Development studies =4 n/a UEA =4 n/a LSE B: International development 6 n/a Queen’s Belfast 7 n/a Edinburgh 8 n/a Cambridge 9 n/a Durham =10 n/a UCL
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
23 14 6 7 17 7 13 4 5 1,302
4 7 3 3 5 0 5 0 0 27
2.23 2.16 2.13 2.12 2.03 2.02 1.93 1.28 1.25 2.89
51 31 13 15 35 15 26 5 6 3,762
Sunderland UWE Leeds Beckett Nottingham Trent Edge Hill Anglia Ruskin Birmingham City Chester Bolton National profile
5 7 8 7 7 11 0 0 0 19.4
2.27 2.26 2.25 2.24 2.22 2.20 1.89 1.67 1.67 2.77
UWS Lincoln Anglia Ruskin Leeds Beckett Sunderland Edge Hill Liverpool Hope Bolton Chester National profile
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43.8
2.07 1.90 1.80 1.80 1.70 1.37 1.10 0.60 0.40 3.17
20 49 29 29 33 58 47 25 17 19 24 16 26 19 19 37 22 13 37 21 35 16 19 12 11 25 12 7 7 704
41 42 37 39 37 34 38 34 32 29 23 27 22 23 24 22 15 14 18 18 18 11 18 9 23 12 12 5 0 27
3.27 3.26 3.22 3.21 3.19 3.16 3.14 3.12 3.07 3.01 2.99 2.98 2.92 2.92 2.91 2.86 2.86 2.86 2.83 2.83 2.76 2.75 2.74 2.69 2.66 2.59 2.58 2.00 1.85 2.97
65 158 95 92 105 184 149 77 52 57 72 47 77 54 56 106 62 37 105 60 95 45 53 32 30 64 30 14 13 2,090
York Manchester King’s College London LSE Oxford Lancaster Cardiff Surrey Edinburgh Leicester Essex Aberdeen Cambridge Exeter Birkbeck Newcastle Bristol Open Goldsmiths Manchester Met Brunel City Warwick Queen’s Belfast UEL Sussex Roehampton Abertay Winchester National profile
23 24 35 29 23 24 18 17 21 19 22 22 27 20 19 18 23 16 17 16 15 14 18 13 11 10 16 7 0 19.7
3.02 3.01 3.01 3.00 2.99 2.97 2.94 2.94 2.93 2.90 2.89 2.88 2.86 2.85 2.84 2.84 2.84 2.81 2.78 2.77 2.77 2.73 2.71 2.70 2.68 2.66 2.49 2.30 2.22 2.85
York Cardiff Lancaster Bristol Manchester Roehampton Edinburgh Oxford Open Manchester Met Newcastle Cambridge King’s College London Essex Birkbeck Exeter UEL City LSE Sussex Aberdeen Brunel Goldsmiths Warwick Surrey Leicester Queen’s Belfast Abertay Winchester National profile
100 80 80 63 67 60 54 60 60 40 53 40 33 43 40 40 53 27 37 20 0 0 8 10 27 0 10 0 0 43.2
4.00 3.80 3.80 3.63 3.60 3.60 3.54 3.50 3.44 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.33 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.23 3.20 2.90 2.80 2.68 2.60 2.40 2.00 1.90 1.40 1.00 3.22
100
4.00
44
40 3.18
16 26
35 3.12 37 3.11
24 23 15 34 36 25 31
36 31 42 33 31 30 40
3.08 3.08 3.07 3.02 3.00 2.96 2.91
Institution
140 LSE A: Anthropology 50 Manchester A: Anthropology 82 Oxford B: International development 73 69 45 104 108 73 91
UEA LSE B: International development Manchester B: Development studies Brunel Soas A: Social anthropology Durham Cambridge
Institution
32
2.97 Queen’s Belfast
27 23
2.93 Manchester B: Development studies 2.92 LSE B: International development
70 67
3.70 3.67
23 21 21 15 24 27 22
2.84 2.84 2.82 2.79 2.78 2.75 2.74
60 53 60 50 50 48 40
3.60 3.53 3.52 3.50 3.50 3.48 3.40
Edinburgh Durham Oxford B: International development Sussex Manchester A: Anthropology Cambridge Goldsmiths
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
2.91 2.89 2.88 2.87 2.84 2.80 2.76 2.70 2.67 2.65 2.63 2.62 2.49 2.49 2.48 2.90
54 64 36 160 54 50 30 104 39 29 72 24 33 22 21 1,629
Oxford King’s College London Nottingham Sheffield Cambridge Durham Cardiff Exeter Birmingham Bristol UCL A: Institute of Education Edinburgh Queen’s Belfast York Loughborough Manchester Southampton Warwick Reading Open Lancaster Glasgow Stirling Leeds Sussex Manchester Met Newcastle Roehampton UEA Dundee Strathclyde Ulster Goldsmiths Aberdeen Sheffield Hallam UWE Leicester
39 36 25 15 34 25 21 26 24 35 219 40 23 22 8 33 22 35 16 54 11 38 14 32 16 23 17 14 13 9 25 12 10 10 12 10 24
65 54 55 38 54 50 48 44 47 44 48 43 35 44 28 36 31 32 29 38 25 32 22 23 25 23 21 20 14 9 16 24 15 8 12 20 12
3.57 3.42 3.37 3.32 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.28 3.26 3.23 3.21 3.21 3.20 3.20 3.13 3.11 3.08 3.04 3.04 3.02 3.01 3.00 2.99 2.96 2.95 2.88 2.88 2.88 2.83 2.79 2.78 2.76 2.73 2.71 2.70 2.70 2.67
140 124 83 48 113 81 68 85 77 111 703 128 73 71 24 103 68 105 47 164 33 113 42 95 47 65 48 41 37 25 68 34 26 26 33 28 64
Institution Edinburgh Soas B: Development studies UCL Queen’s Belfast Goldsmiths Sussex Roehampton Oxford A: Anthropology Open Liverpool John Moores Aberdeen St Andrews Kent Queen Margaret Greenwich National profile Oxford Exeter King’s College London Sheffield Birmingham Roehampton Cambridge Cardiff Nottingham Reading Queen’s Belfast Loughborough Bristol Lancaster Durham Manchester York Stirling UCL A: Institute of Education Dundee UEA Southampton Staffordshire Edinburgh Warwick Sussex Leeds Goldsmiths Sheffield Hallam Liverpool John Moores Stranmillis Manchester Met Newcastle UWE Glasgow Open Bedfordshire
GPA
24 24 23 23 30 25 23 17 11 11 11 18 18 6 8 27
% of 4* research activity
Research power
19 22 13 56 19 18 11 39 15 11 27 9 13 9 9 562
Institution
GPA
GPA
Sussex Open Goldsmiths Oxford A: Anthropology LSE A: Anthropology Soas A: Social anthropology Aberdeen Soas B: Development studies St Andrews Roehampton Kent Brunel Liverpool John Moores Greenwich Queen Margaret National profile
Impact
% of 4* research activity
% of 4* research activity
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 25 Education 1 2.90 2 2.85 3 2.40 4 2.40 =5 2.85 =5 2.60 =5 n/a 8 2.70 9 2.35 10 2.75 =11 n/a =11 2.30 =13 2.35 =13 2.65 15 1.60 16 2.55 17 2.25 =18 2.65 =18 2.00 20 2.40 21 2.40 22 2.00 23 2.60 24 2.75 25 2.60 =26 2.65 =26 2.45 =26 2.15 29 2.55 30 1.70 31 2.00 32 2.10 33 1.95 34 1.90 =35 1.85 =35 1.85 37 2.05
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
=10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 =23 =23 25
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
17 15 26 19 18 13 16 17 13 16 13 14 9 13 0 19.1
2.71 2.66 2.64 2.64 2.64 2.63 2.63 2.62 2.60 2.55 2.53 2.52 2.50 2.41 2.19 2.70
UEA Oxford A: Anthropology Open Greenwich UCL St Andrews Soas A: Social anthropology Kent Aberdeen Soas B: Development studies Roehampton Queen Margaret Brunel LSE A: Anthropology Liverpool John Moores National profile
47 34 23 20 40 0 27 10 10 24 0 0 40 27 40 40.8
3.33 3.29 3.23 3.20 3.00 3.00 2.73 2.70 2.70 2.66 2.60 2.60 2.40 2.27 2.20 3.19
51 38 34 23 38 31 38 32 31 25 25 23 30 24 26 31 28 25 28 14 22 18 25 19 23 25 17 23 15 16 30 21 22 19 17 17 19
3.37 3.16 3.15 3.13 3.11 3.09 3.04 3.04 3.03 3.03 3.01 3.00 2.98 2.98 2.95 2.92 2.90 2.90 2.89 2.89 2.88 2.86 2.86 2.85 2.84 2.84 2.82 2.82 2.81 2.78 2.75 2.73 2.71 2.70 2.68 2.67 2.66
Nottingham Durham Sheffield King’s College London Oxford Ulster Southampton Edinburgh York UCL A: Institute of Education Cambridge Cardiff Bristol Leeds Queen’s Belfast Open Glasgow Manchester London Met Manchester Met Warwick Strathclyde Loughborough Newcastle Birmingham Exeter Stirling UCL B: Medical education Reading UWE Aberdeen Sussex Edge Hill Brunel Lancaster Northampton UEA
100 100 100 92 84 80 77 76 73 74 80 60 50 60 47 60 40 40 40 37 40 40 30 27 37 30 20 40 53 40 20 27 40 0 20 0 0
4.00 4.00 4.00 3.92 3.84 3.80 3.77 3.76 3.73 3.70 3.70 3.60 3.50 3.50 3.47 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.37 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.23 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.17 3.10 3.10 3.03 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.70
Institution
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
3.58 3.57 3.52 3.44 3.37 3.32
25 124 44 118 74 46
=7 =7 9 10
2.00 Cardiff Met (joint submission with Bangor) 2.25 Bangor (joint submission with Cardiff Met) 2.75 Loughborough 2.20 Exeter
2.65 2.63 2.62 2.61 2.61 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.58 2.56 2.56 2.55 2.54 2.53 2.52 2.51 2.50 2.47 2.46 2.45 2.43 2.39 2.38 2.35 2.33 2.33 2.24 2.23 2.08 2.07 2.04 2.04 2.03 2.00 1.95 1.94 1.70 1.65 1.56 2.73
Bristol Leeds Liverpool John Moores Birmingham Bath Surrey
53 56 44 43 36 34
3.53 3.40 3.39 3.26 3.20 3.18
Institution Huddersfield Leeds Beckett UEL Leicester Plymouth Canterbury Christ Church Roehampton Glasgow Caledonian Liverpool Hope Goldsmiths Dundee Brighton UWS Bath Spa Liverpool John Moores Wolverhampton Bolton Winchester Sheffield Hallam Lincoln Hull Sunderland Worcester Newman Cumbria Derby Stranmillis York St John Birmingham City Oxford Brookes Bedfordshire Staffordshire St Mary’s, Twickenham Anglia Ruskin Nottingham Trent Bishop Grosseteste Chester West London Greenwich National profile
13
40 3.25
42 King’s College London
38
11
40 3.25
36 South Wales
33
Bristol Liverpool John Moores Loughborough Bath Swansea Cardiff Met (joint submission with Bangor) 3.16 Bangor (joint submission with Cardiff Met) 3.12 Birmingham
68 23
44 3.24 34 3.23
27 31
3.10 Brunel 3.04 Surrey
221 Exeter 75 Stirling
GPA
58 61 62 55 47 46
18 17 19 20 17 10 11 17 12 12 8 6 16 6 14 15 7 11 13 13 13 8 14 14 7 10 0 8 2 5 10 6 5 12 0 3 4 10 0 21.7
Institution Leicester Birmingham City Winchester Brunel Chester Strathclyde Liverpool Hope Newman UEL Ulster Huddersfield Aberdeen Oxford Brookes UWS Brighton Hull Wolverhampton London Met Lincoln Plymouth Glasgow Caledonian West London Derby UCL B: Medical education Canterbury Christ Church Bishop Grosseteste Cumbria Bath Spa Edge Hill Greenwich Nottingham Trent Leeds Beckett York St John Worcester Anglia Ruskin Bolton Northampton St Mary’s, Twickenham Sunderland National profile
% of 4* research activity
38 34 10 31 31 21 21 60 53 18 18 22 18 18 16 16 12 33 15 31 24 19 26 28 13 25 10 15 29 9 10 8 12 39 26 16 17 34 18 4,138
GPA
Research power
2.66 2.65 2.65 2.61 2.55 2.55 2.54 2.52 2.47 2.47 2.46 2.41 2.38 2.38 2.38 2.36 2.36 2.35 2.34 2.30 2.30 2.26 2.21 2.15 2.15 2.14 2.07 2.04 1.98 1.96 1.94 1.94 1.93 1.87 1.82 1.74 1.70 1.59 1.49 2.87
Institution
38 =39 =39 41 =42 =42 44 45 =46 =46 48 49 =50 =50 =50 =53 =53 55 56 =57 =57 59 60 =61 =61 63 64 65 66 67 =68 =68 70 71 72 73 74 75 76
Impact
% of 4* research activity
GPA
13 10 15 13 15 10 17 9 5 9 12 5 11 11 16 12 20 4 8 10 11 12 9 5 9 4 11 2 2 0 0 5 6 6 7 3 3 5 7 30
2008 GPA
1.60 Brunel 14 1.75 Liverpool John Moores 13 2.45 London Met 4 1.80 Huddersfield 12 1.45 Liverpool Hope 12 1.70 UEL 8 n/a UCL B: Medical education 8 2.05 Plymouth 24 2.10 Canterbury Christ Church 22 2.05 Brighton 7 2.05 Winchester 7 1.75 Wolverhampton 9 1.90 Birmingham City 8 1.75 Newman 7 1.95 Staffordshire 7 2.00 Lincoln 7 1.50 Stranmillis 5 1.70 UWS 14 2.00 Glasgow Caledonian 6 1.95 Hull 14 2.00 Oxford Brookes 11 n/a Bedfordshire 8 1.15 Edge Hill 12 1.40 Bath Spa 13 n/a Derby 6 1.65 Leeds Beckett 12 n/a Chester 5 1.45 Bolton 7 1.65 Northampton 15 1.00 Cumbria 5 n/a Anglia Ruskin 5 1.65 West London 4 0.95 Bishop Grosseteste 6 n/a Nottingham Trent 21 n/a Worcester 14 0.85 York St John 9 1.65 Greenwich 10 1.75 Sunderland 21 1.10 St Mary’s, Twickenham 12 2.29 National profile 1,442 26 Sport and exercise sciences, Leisure and Tourism* 1 2.65 Bristol 7 2 2.60 Liverpool John Moores 35 3 2.20 Leeds 13 4 2.75 Birmingham 34 5 2.30 Bath 22 6 n/a King’s College London 14
2014 rank order by GPA
% of 4* research activity
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
Overall
40 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42.9
2.70 2.70 2.70 2.67 2.63 2.63 2.60 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.10 2.10 2.00 1.90 1.90 1.90 1.90 1.80 1.80 1.70 1.70 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.50 1.50 1.33 1.30 1.30 1.20 0.70 3.12
100 90 75 73 70 67
4.00 3.90 3.75 3.73 3.70 3.67
67
3.67
60
3.60
60 60
3.60 3.60
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
14
36 3.18
12
2.25 Brunel
29
38 3.16
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 =20 =20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 =41 =41 =41 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
n/a Bournemouth 2.10 Brighton 1.25 Swansea n/a Edinburgh 1.95 London South Bank 1.65 South Wales 2.40 Stirling 2.15 Sheffield Hallam 1.75 Canterbury Christ Church 1.70 Staffordshire 2.30 Leeds Beckett 2.10 Ulster 1.85 Chichester 1.80 Aberystwyth n/a Essex 1.40 Gloucestershire n/a Kent n/a Portsmouth n/a Abertay n/a Lincoln n/a Edge Hill 1.80 Bedfordshire n/a Wolverhampton 1.55 Hull n/a Uclan 1.45 Nottingham Trent 1.80 Northumbria 1.90 Chester n/a Worcester n/a UWS 1.40 York St John 1.40 St Mary’s, Twickenham n/a Cumbria 1.30 Newman 2.05 Sunderland n/a Liverpool Hope n/a Leeds Trinity 1.60 Bucks New n/a Southampton Solent 2.11 National profile 27 Area studies 1 n/a LSE 2 n/a Birmingham 3 n/a Exeter 4 n/a London Met =5 n/a UEA =5 7 8
n/a Aston n/a Oxford n/a UCL
14 21 10 24 9 7 22 32 15 13 49 13 19 10 9 18 11 8 6 7 14 19 9 11 21 13 14 12 14 9 7 7 6 4 6 9 3 5 6 790
29 23 28 22 16 25 20 17 17 13 21 14 18 8 13 12 14 10 19 12 13 9 4 5 5 0 2 1 4 15 6 15 14 0 3 4 0 0 0 25
3.13 3.00 2.91 2.88 2.87 2.83 2.81 2.75 2.75 2.74 2.72 2.71 2.67 2.66 2.64 2.61 2.60 2.54 2.53 2.49 2.48 2.41 2.37 2.36 2.34 2.30 2.28 2.26 2.24 2.24 2.24 2.23 2.14 1.98 1.96 1.94 1.80 1.72 1.38 2.83
20 8 15 9 14
55 44 45 35 34
3.40 3.37 3.25 3.09 3.08
12 71 39
27 3.08 36 3.07 43 3.03
67 26 47 26 43
Birmingham LSE Aston Oxford Exeter
39 37 28 32 27
37 Sussex 218 Westminster 119 UEA
26 33 30
3.01 Leeds
60
3.60
3.01 Exeter
53
3.53
50 50 53 40 40 40 40 27 40 40 40 30 40 37 0 0 10 40 40 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 39.2
3.50 3.50 3.43 3.40 3.40 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.00 3.00 2.97 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.60 2.50 2.40 2.10 2.10 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 1.87 1.80 1.80 1.70 1.70 1.40 1.30 1.30 1.20 1.20 – 3.04
100 100 70 84 63
4.00 4.00 3.70 3.68 3.63
50 50 40
3.50 3.50 3.40
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
46 Cardiff Met (joint submission with 24 Bangor) 91 Bangor (joint submission with Cardiff 24 Met) 44 Bournemouth 18 64 Brunel 26 29 Loughborough 21 69 Abertay 29 27 Brighton 22 20 London South Bank 13 63 Lincoln 19 88 Ulster 9 41 Edinburgh 13 37 Aberystwyth 13 132 Bedfordshire 15 36 Swansea 13 51 Sheffield Hallam 11 27 Canterbury Christ Church 14 23 UWS 24 46 York St John 9 29 Leeds Beckett 16 19 Staffordshire 8 15 Gloucestershire 6 17 Kent 9 35 St Mary’s, Twickenham 23 47 Chichester 11 21 Nottingham Trent 0 26 Essex 8 50 Liverpool Hope 7 29 Uclan 8 31 Cumbria 22 28 Edge Hill 8 31 Northumbria 2 21 Portsmouth 0 16 Chester 2 16 Wolverhampton 3 13 Newman 0 8 Worcester 0 12 Hull 8 17 Sunderland 4 5 Bucks New 0 9 Southampton Solent 0 8 Leeds Trinity – 2,235 National profile 19.5
GPA
n/a Surrey
Impact
% of 4* research activity
11
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Institution
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
3.00 2.93 2.90 2.88 2.87 2.77 2.67 2.66 2.64 2.59 2.57 2.57 2.56 2.55 2.55 2.55 2.54 2.53 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.49 2.44 2.40 2.37 2.33 2.33 2.31 2.31 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.20 2.14 2.14 1.91 1.85 1.45 – 2.73 3.27 3.14 3.07 3.00 2.96
Institution
King’s College London Portsmouth Chichester Gloucestershire Canterbury Christ Church Edinburgh London South Bank Brighton Bournemouth Staffordshire Essex Sheffield Hallam Edge Hill Leeds Beckett Hull Aberystwyth Wolverhampton Ulster Kent Worcester Lincoln Chester Stirling Uclan Northumbria Nottingham Trent Sunderland Abertay Bedfordshire Cumbria Newman St Mary’s, Twickenham South Wales York St John Liverpool Hope Bucks New UWS Southampton Solent Leeds Trinity National profile
LSE Exeter London Met UCL Nottingham A: American and Canadian studies 2.96 UEA 2.94 Birmingham 2.93 Bath
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
Institution
% of 4* research activity
GPA
23 28
2.92 Portsmouth 2.91 Cambridge
40 20
3.24 3.10
21 20 21 24
2.91 2.86 2.86 2.74
30 40 20 10
3.10 3.05 3.00 2.97
20 19 24 11 19
2.71 2.70 2.67 2.63 2.62
0 13 0 0 0
2.80 2.77 2.73 2.70 2.60
13
2.56 Chester
0
2.60
32 20
30 3.02 31 2.97
11 12 13 14
11 22 13 39
20 21 21 25
2.95 2.91 2.90 2.89
32 64 38 114
15 16 17 18 19
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
7 26 47 14 22
17 23 19 13 16
2.83 2.81 2.78 2.77 2.75
21 73 131 39 61
20 21 22 23
n/a Loughborough n/a Wolverhampton n/a Chester n/a National profile 28 Modern languages and Linguistics 1 n/a Queen Mary A: Linguistics 2 n/a Edinburgh B: Linguistics =3 n/a Kent =3 n/a Queen Margaret =5 n/a Southampton =5 n/a Queen’s Belfast 7 n/a Cardiff
5
22 2.70
Glasgow Sheffield London Met Nottingham A: American and Canadian studies Soas Portsmouth UCL UHI Bath
13 Nottingham B: Contemporary Chinese studies 59 Loughborough 15 Wolverhampton 17 Chester 1,415 National profile
24 7 8 483
9 2 9 28
2.51 2.11 2.08 2.93
8 34 25 11 25 23 15
62 45 39 34 39 40 37
3.58 3.29 3.24 3.24 3.23 3.23 3.21
27 113 80 35 79 76 48
GPA
Institution
n/a Cambridge n/a Nottingham A: American and Canadian studies n/a Glasgow n/a Edinburgh n/a Sussex n/a Portsmouth UHI Bath Soas Sheffield Nottingham B: Contemporary Chinese studies n/a Westminster
Impact
97 Edinburgh 58 Cambridge
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Total number of FTE staff submitted
Institution
Output
% of 4* research activity
9 10
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Aston Oxford UHI Nottingham B: Contemporary Chinese studies Glasgow Edinburgh Soas Sheffield Sussex
12 4 13 23.6
2.50 2.32 2.13 2.80
Loughborough Westminster Wolverhampton National profile
0 0 0 34.7
2.53 2.40 1.50 3.13
Queen Mary A: Linguistics Edinburgh B: Linguistics Queen Margaret Kent Warwick Glasgow B: Celtic studies Cambridge
58 41 36 34 33 38 35
3.52 3.23 3.23 3.18 3.11 3.10 3.09
100 90 90 80 80 77 70
4.00 3.90 3.90 3.80 3.80 3.77 3.70
60 60 60 60 58
3.60 3.60 3.60 3.53 3.50
50 50 50 60 57
3.50 3.50 3.50 3.47 3.43
60 40 60 45 30
3.40 3.40 3.33 3.30 3.30
=8 =8 10 =11 =11
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Cambridge Essex Glasgow B: Celtic studies Manchester York
97 13 6 73 14
40 40 38 41 45
3.20 3.20 3.19 3.16 3.16
309 40 20 229 44
Southampton Cardiff Queen’s Belfast Essex Manchester
29 21 28 34 31
3.04 3.04 3.02 3.02 2.97
=13 =13 15 =16 =16
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
25 25 34 50 31
41 34 30 35 35
3.13 3.13 3.09 3.04 3.04
78 77 105 152 95
Royal Holloway Liverpool Durham King’s College London Birmingham
30 24 25 28 22
2.97 2.96 2.95 2.92 2.92
18 =19 =19 =21 =21
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
7 48 41 34 33
28 32 26 25 31
3.01 3.00 3.00 2.98 2.98
21 145 122 101 99
Bristol Oxford York Uclan Newcastle
24 28 34 25 26
2.92 2.91 2.90 2.90 2.88
Roehampton Swansea B: Celtic studies Aston Manchester Essex
=23
n/a
37
31 2.96
20
3.30
n/a n/a
22 21
27 2.96 26 2.95
2.87 Wales (joint submission with Wales Trinity Saint David) 2.86 Queen Margaret 2.86 Glasgow B: Celtic studies
40
=23 25
Bangor Royal Holloway Warwick Newcastle Queen Mary B: Modern languages, literatures and culture Sheffield B: Linguistics UCL King’s College London Durham Sheffield A: Languages and Culture Edinburgh A: Modern languages and Celtic and Scottish studies Reading Liverpool
Cardiff Bangor Heriot–Watt Reading Sheffield B: Linguistics Queen’s Belfast Swansea A: Modern languages and Linguistics York Ulster A: Celtic studies Queen Mary A: Linguistics Newcastle Edinburgh A: Modern languages and Celtic and Scottish studies Sheffield A: Languages and culture Royal Holloway Southampton Kent UCL
30 30
3.30 3.30
n/a Birkbeck
25
22 2.94
40
3.30
n/a n/a n/a n/a
58 63 33 4
26 31 16 21
2.85 Wales Trinity Saint David (joint submission with Wales) 2.81 Nottingham 2.81 Cambridge 2.78 King’s College London 2.77 Edinburgh B: Linguistics
44 36 24 40
3.27 3.25 3.24 3.20
26 27 28 =29 =29
Nottingham Leeds Birmingham Swansea B: Celtic studies
2.92 2.91 2.90 2.90
108 Swansea B: Celtic studies 64 Nottingham 62 Queen Mary B: Modern languages, literatures and culture 75 Bangor 168 184 96 12
Exeter Birkbeck UCL Sheffield A: Languages and culture
23 28 26 27 20 22 25
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
11 12
25 2.86 26 2.85
1
26 2.85
n/a Ulster A: Celtic studies n/a Wales (joint submission with Wales Trinity Saint David) n/a Wales Trinity Saint David (joint submission with Wales) n/a St Andrews n/a Exeter n/a Soas n/a Heriot–Watt
33 32 12 10
13 30 27 33
40
n/a Aston
19
24 2.80
41
n/a Uclan
11
20 2.78
42
n/a Swansea A: Modern languages and Linguistics n/a Roehampton
12
17 2.77
10
17 2.72
=44
n/a Aberdeen
22
21 2.71
=44
n/a Glasgow A: Modern languages and Linguistics n/a UHI n/a Nottingham Trent n/a Aberystwyth B: Celtic studies
22
49 50 51 52
=34 =36 =36 =36 39
43
=44 47 48
53 54 55 56 57
27 15
30 Leeds 35 Soas
30 30
3.20 3.10
30 30
3.10 3.00
50
2.97
20 0 40 0
2.90 2.90 2.84 2.80
Aberdeen Sheffield B: Linguistics Aberystwyth B: Celtic studies Wales (joint submission with Wales Trinity Saint David) 52 Wales Trinity Saint David (joint submission with Wales) 29 Roehampton
24 12 25 23 23
2.69 Wolverhampton
0
2.80
0
2.70
15
0
2.70
15
2.62 Uclan
20
2.70
5
2.59 Liverpool
20
2.67
23 2.71
33 Edinburgh A: Modern languages and Celtic and Scottish studies 28 Glasgow A: Modern languages and Linguistics 60 Swansea A: Modern languages and Linguistics 60 UHI
2.66 Ulster B: Modern languages and Linguistics 2.65 Soas
14
2.59 Aberdeen
27
2.63
6 9 12
16 2.71 23 2.64 18 2.56
16 Ulster A: Celtic studies 23 UWE 31 Aston
15 12 5
25 0 0
2.62 2.60 2.60
n/a Leicester
12
5 2.49
14
0
2.60
n/a Wolverhampton n/a UWE n/a Ulster B: Modern languages and Linguistics n/a Aberystwyth A: Modern languages and Linguistics n/a Greenwich
11 10 12
11 2.46 9 2.43 9 2.42
30 Ulster B: Modern languages and Linguistics 27 Leicester 24 Heriot–Watt 30 Wolverhampton
2.57 Oxford 2.47 Leicester 2.45 Aberystwyth A: Modern languages and Linguistics 2.45 UHI
5 15 12
2.40 Bristol 2.39 Exeter 2.34 UWE
20 10 0
2.40 2.30 2.20
7
5 2.25
3
7 2.14
n/a Salford n/a Westminster n/a London Institute in Paris n/a National profile 29 English Language and Literature 1 2.95 Warwick 2 3.15 York 3 2.90 Newcastle 4 2.80 Durham 5 3.05 Queen Mary 6 2.95 St Andrews =7 2.85 UCL =7 2.60 Swansea 9 2.70 Sussex =10 3.00 Nottingham =10 2.85 Cardiff =10 2.80 UEA 13 3.00 Oxford 14 2.90 Aberdeen =15 2.80 King’s College London
11 4 3 1,386
2 0 0 30
2.04 1.99 1.54 2.96
37 36 32 34 41 28 28 17 35 42 24 18 88 22 45
58 61 57 52 54 54 52 53 45 48 42 45 42 31 45
3.53 3.49 3.46 3.42 3.41 3.40 3.36 3.36 3.28 3.27 3.27 3.27 3.26 3.24 3.23
93 91 35 28
16 Westminster 6 Aberystwyth A: Modern languages and Linguistics 22 Salford 8 Greenwich 5 London Institute in Paris 4,101 National profile 132 126 111 116 140 95 95 56 113 137 79 60 286 70 144
Warwick York Durham UCL Aberdeen Queen Mary Newcastle St Andrews Cambridge Cardiff Swansea Sussex Huddersfield Oxford Brookes Northumbria
13
Institution
2.77 Birkbeck 2.76 Queen Mary B: Modern languages, literatures and culture 2.75 Nottingham Trent 2.74 Durham 2.73 Glasgow A: Modern languages and Linguistics 2.73 Warwick 2.72 St Andrews 2.70 Leeds 2.69 Birmingham
2.84 2.84 2.84 2.82
3 St Andrews
20 30
GPA
Institution
90 Nottingham Trent 336 Reading
GPA
29 2.89 27 2.88
Research power
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Total number of FTE staff submitted 31 117
Impact
% of 4* research activity
33 =34
Institution
n/a Bristol n/a Oxford
Output
% of 4* research activity
31 32
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
8
0
2.24 Aberystwyth B: Celtic studies
0
2.10
7
2.11 Salford
0
1.80
3 – – 24.8
2.08 – – 2.86
Westminster Greenwich London Institute in Paris National profile
0 – – 37.8
1.60 – – 3.12
49 49 42 50 38 41 38 42 38 36 41 43 31 30 37
3.41 3.33 3.30 3.29 3.28 3.23 3.21 3.21 3.20 3.20 3.17 3.16 3.16 3.14 3.12
Newcastle Kingston Swansea Bedfordshire St Andrews Warwick Lancaster Manchester Met Oxford Queen Mary Queen’s Belfast York Bolton UEA King’s College London
100 100 100 100 90 68 67 63 60 68 60 68 60 53 52
4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 3.90 3.68 3.67 3.63 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.53 3.52
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
29 125 127 119 109 99 82 163 90 209 166 78 109 55 163 70 87 45 41 115 72 51 50 72 37 80 31 86 99 59 44 64 48 39 37 39 28 64 37 39 56 36 82 57 57 57 30 33 19 55 19 20 59 36
Institution Roehampton Birmingham UEA Westminster Dundee Liverpool Southampton Nottingham Manchester Edinburgh Napier King’s College London Ulster Stirling Goldsmiths Liverpool Hope Bangor Bedfordshire Oxford Leicester Royal Holloway Birmingham City Edinburgh Leeds Reading Glasgow Sheffield UWE Plymouth Queen’s Belfast Essex Strathclyde Birkbeck Exeter Manchester Met Open Aberystwyth Keele St Mary’s, Twickenham Lancaster Liverpool John Moores Kent Surrey Portsmouth Bath Spa Loughborough Teesside Newman Edge Hill Hull De Montfort Sheffield Hallam Nottingham Trent Bristol Greenwich
33 33 36 33 37 33 39 32 31 28 34 25 27 31 32 36 33 25 33 33 26 26 30 25 30 24 26 33 28 29 27 23 28 22 20 24 25 28 21 18 22 22 24 23 22 13 7 13 15 22 15 19 15 13
3.12 3.10 3.08 3.08 3.08 3.06 3.05 3.03 3.03 3.03 3.02 3.02 3.01 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.99 2.98 2.98 2.97 2.96 2.96 2.96 2.95 2.94 2.94 2.94 2.93 2.92 2.91 2.87 2.85 2.85 2.85 2.85 2.83 2.83 2.82 2.82 2.79 2.78 2.78 2.77 2.77 2.75 2.73 2.69 2.68 2.66 2.65 2.64 2.63 2.63
Institution
GPA
3.23 3.20 3.19 3.19 3.19 3.19 3.19 3.18 3.18 3.14 3.14 3.13 3.11 3.11 3.07 3.07 3.06 3.05 3.05 3.03 3.01 3.01 3.01 3.00 2.99 2.98 2.98 2.95 2.93 2.93 2.92 2.91 2.89 2.88 2.88 2.87 2.87 2.84 2.84 2.83 2.81 2.81 2.80 2.80 2.72 2.72 2.69 2.61 2.60 2.58 2.58 2.56 2.55 2.55
% of 4* research activity
45 40 42 34 38 41 43 43 36 34 40 41 33 34 35 33 30 20 33 34 33 29 26 19 25 24 24 26 23 26 22 25 20 22 16 19 26 30 22 16 19 25 19 21 15 11 22 16 8 12 11 13 16 21
GPA
9 39 40 37 34 31 26 51 28 67 53 25 35 18 53 23 28 15 14 38 24 17 17 24 12 27 11 29 34 20 15 22 17 13 13 14 10 23 13 14 20 13 29 21 21 21 11 13 7 21 8 8 23 14
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
Institution Bedfordshire Sheffield Queen’s Belfast Birmingham Manchester Leeds Royal Holloway Glasgow Liverpool Cambridge Lancaster Southampton Edinburgh Westminster Exeter Manchester Met Leicester Oxford Brookes Bangor Kent Surrey Essex Open Stirling Birmingham City Reading Dundee Northumbria Birkbeck Strathclyde Roehampton Goldsmiths Huddersfield Liverpool John Moores Ulster Aberystwyth Edinburgh Napier Kingston De Montfort Keele Nottingham Trent UWE Hull Loughborough Bath Spa Bristol Plymouth Portsmouth Uclan Sheffield Hallam Chichester South Wales Brunel Liverpool Hope
GPA
2.10 2.80 2.90 2.80 3.05 2.95 2.85 2.95 2.90 2.95 2.70 2.80 3.05 1.80 3.00 2.35 2.70 2.40 2.55 2.85 n/a 2.60 2.70 2.55 2.05 2.80 2.45 2.10 2.80 2.50 2.30 2.65 1.95 2.10 2.25 2.45 1.95 2.40 2.95 2.55 2.50 2.20 2.55 2.50 2.15 2.85 2.05 n/a 1.90 2.20 1.95 2.40 2.50 1.45
% of 4* research activity
2008 GPA
=15 17 =18 =18 =18 =18 =18 =23 =23 =25 =25 27 =28 =28 =30 =30 32 =33 =33 35 =36 =36 =36 39 40 =41 =41 43 =44 =44 46 47 48 =49 =49 =51 =51 =53 =53 55 =56 =56 =58 =58 =60 =60 62 63 64 =65 =65 67 =68 =68
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Nottingham Sheffield Manchester Durham Leeds UCL Open Exeter Glasgow Surrey De Montfort Birmingham City Westminster Cardiff Liverpool Royal Holloway Liverpool John Moores UWE Essex Birmingham Kent Edinburgh Sussex Hull Leicester Nottingham Trent Bangor Edinburgh Napier Aberdeen Strathclyde Oxford Brookes Worcester Southampton South Wales Stirling Birkbeck Reading Roehampton Keele Aberystwyth Uclan Teesside Goldsmiths Bristol Cambridge Bath Spa Loughborough Northampton Dundee Hertfordshire Ulster Greenwich Sheffield Hallam Chichester
60 52 50 60 50 60 47 40 53 53 40 40 50 47 30 40 50 40 27 26 36 30 20 30 30 27 20 40 0 40 0 0 23 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
3.52 3.52 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.47 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.37 3.33 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.26 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.13 3.10 3.10 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.97 2.90 2.87 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.77 2.77 2.75 2.73 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.60 2.60 2.50 2.50
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
2.51 2.51 2.48 2.46 2.46 2.45 2.43 2.41 2.41 2.40 2.30 2.30 2.28 2.22 2.21 2.14 2.12 2.07 2.01 1.96 3.03
28 16 20 30 20 27 41 28 15 33 25 17 10 28 17 25 4 19 16 11 5,973
37 35 31 27 40 12 39 130 42 115 25 37 30 42 38 20 14 44 36 29 44 30 27 61 20 35 23 20 13 14 29 32
45 42 43 45 44 45 46 45 43 44 42 43 39 42 40 39 37 40 35 38 34 33 30 32 30 33 34 27 21 27 25 30
3.32 3.31 3.30 3.30 3.29 3.29 3.28 3.26 3.25 3.24 3.24 3.23 3.23 3.22 3.21 3.21 3.19 3.18 3.18 3.18 3.15 3.15 3.14 3.13 3.12 3.09 3.07 3.07 3.03 3.02 3.01 2.99
124 114 101 91 131 39 128 424 135 373 82 120 96 136 122 64 46 139 113 91 139 93 85 192 61 108 71 61 38 43 87 97
Birmingham York Southampton Sheffield King’s College London Hertfordshire Warwick Oxford Exeter Cambridge Manchester St Andrews Leeds UCL Queen Mary Sussex Cardiff Glasgow Birkbeck Durham LSE Queen’s Belfast Leicester Edinburgh Lancaster UEA Liverpool Swansea Keele Open Oxford Brookes Royal Holloway
Institution Brunel Lincoln Chichester Anglia Ruskin Chester Uclan Hertfordshire South Wales Canterbury Christ Church Kingston Northampton Salford York St John Wolverhampton Bolton Leeds Trinity Sunderland Gloucestershire Worcester Bishop Grosseteste National profile Sussex Sheffield Southampton Manchester Birmingham York Exeter King’s College London Warwick Cambridge Birkbeck Leicester UEA Cardiff Oxford LSE Lincoln Leeds Durham Northumbria St Andrews Sheffield Hallam Keele Edinburgh UCL Queen’s Belfast Reading Hertfordshire Lancaster Queen Mary Newcastle Nottingham
GPA
8 8 9 3 10 13 8 5 21 8 10 18 4 7 7 9 8 5 4 7 33
% of 4* research activity
Research power
11 6 8 12 8 11 17 12 6 14 11 8 5 12 8 12 2 9 8 6 1,971
GPA
GPA
Lincoln Teesside Greenwich Northampton Hertfordshire Salford Anglia Ruskin Canterbury Christ Church Bolton Edge Hill Chester St Mary’s, Twickenham Newman Sunderland Worcester York St John Bishop Grosseteste Gloucestershire Wolverhampton Leeds Trinity National profile
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
% of 4* research activity
n/a n/a 1.70 1.85 2.40 2.35 2.70 1.60 1.40 1.65 1.90 1.70 n/a 2.40 1.85 1.30 1.60 2.15 n/a 1.90 2.66 30 History 1 2.70 2 2.75 =3 2.95 =3 2.90 =5 2.75 =5 2.95 7 3.00 8 3.00 9 2.75 =10 2.95 =10 2.70 =12 2.75 =12 2.75 14 2.95 =15 2.80 =15 2.80 17 2.40 =18 2.75 =18 2.95 =18 2.70 =21 2.90 =21 2.70 23 2.60 24 2.65 25 2.65 26 2.70 =27 3.00 =27 2.55 29 2.60 30 2.40 31 2.80 32 2.70
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
=70 =70 72 =73 =73 75 76 =77 =77 79 =80 =80 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
25 12 17 13 15 11 15 19 8 15 5 20 14 6 14 10 10 7 11 – 28.6
2.61 2.61 2.60 2.58 2.58 2.57 2.55 2.55 2.51 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.45 2.37 2.25 2.25 2.23 2.17 2.00 – 2.94
Northumbria Salford Lincoln Brunel Anglia Ruskin Portsmouth Canterbury Christ Church Gloucestershire Huddersfield Sunderland York St John Plymouth Chester Edge Hill Leeds Trinity Liverpool Hope Newman Wolverhampton St Mary’s, Twickenham Bishop Grosseteste National profile
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 35.8
2.40 2.40 2.40 2.37 2.33 2.30 2.30 2.30 2.27 2.10 2.10 2.10 2.00 1.80 1.70 1.40 1.40 1.20 1.20 – 3.15
48 42 38 42 40 36 38 35 37 36 35 25 35 36 35 33 35 31 32 31 37 33 30 30 32 31 25 27 29 28 31 31
3.26 3.25 3.23 3.21 3.20 3.18 3.14 3.13 3.11 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.09 3.09 3.08 3.08 3.08 3.07 3.07 3.07 3.06 3.04 3.04 3.03 3.03 3.03 3.02 3.02 3.01 3.00 3.00 2.99
Hertfordshire Aberdeen King’s College London Glasgow De Montfort Birmingham St Andrews Queen Mary York Royal Holloway Southampton Leeds Open UWE UHI Warwick Queen’s Belfast Durham Sheffield Manchester Met Stirling Swansea Lancaster Essex Edinburgh Oxford Liverpool Cambridge Birkbeck Manchester Cardiff UCL
100 73 68 66 60 58 58 58 50 50 60 50 50 50 50 48 40 50 60 40 40 37 37 50 40 44 47 51 32 50 30 36
4.00 3.73 3.68 3.66 3.60 3.58 3.58 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.37 3.37 3.37 3.34 3.33 3.33 3.32 3.32 3.30 3.30 3.28
Institution
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
2.98 2.96 2.95 2.95 2.95 2.94 2.92 2.90 2.88 2.88 2.87 2.87 2.86 2.83 2.82 2.82 2.81 2.81 2.81 2.80 2.77 2.77 2.76 2.76 2.70 2.70 2.69 2.69 2.65 2.63 2.63 2.62 2.59 2.58 2.56 2.53 2.53 2.46 2.43 2.35 2.34 2.33 2.31 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.18 2.16 2.12 1.95 1.93 3.04
48 93 71 65 55 29 85 38 58 37 52 43 23 71 40 31 67 31 17 12 44 37 39 23 38 34 40 21 43 37 29 18 28 44 34 18 13 18 6 14 12 24 24 9 15 9 14 9 12 9 6 5,429
Cambridge
39
53 3.41
Institution Oxford Brookes Liverpool Goldsmiths Glasgow Open Bristol Swansea Kent Strathclyde Northampton Bangor Hull Teesside Huddersfield Dundee Roehampton Glasgow Caledonian Soas South Wales Manchester Met Royal Holloway Westminster Plymouth Winchester Aberdeen Essex Nottingham Trent Stirling Canterbury Christ Church Aberystwyth Liverpool John Moores Edge Hill UHI UWE Ulster Wolverhampton Chichester Chester Anglia Ruskin Worcester St Mary’s, Twickenham De Montfort Sunderland Uclan Liverpool Hope Greenwich Leeds Trinity Gloucestershire Bath Spa Bishop Grosseteste Newman National profile
131 Cambridge
29 31 28 25 25 27 21 24 29 22 11 22 14 14 16 21 7 21 12 12 18 19 14 15 14 12 9 15 6 6 9 10 6 2 9 11 12 5 13 20 19 4 6 10 7 7 0 7 4 – – 27.8
2.99 2.99 2.95 2.92 2.92 2.91 2.90 2.89 2.89 2.89 2.81 2.78 2.78 2.76 2.75 2.75 2.75 2.74 2.74 2.73 2.71 2.71 2.69 2.69 2.68 2.67 2.67 2.66 2.64 2.63 2.61 2.60 2.59 2.53 2.52 2.51 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.45 2.44 2.38 2.38 2.35 2.32 2.28 2.27 2.11 2.07 – – 2.96
39
Institution Exeter Kent Bangor Teesside LSE Strathclyde Sussex Dundee UEA Nottingham Oxford Brookes Leicester Hull Reading Roehampton Wolverhampton Keele Nottingham Trent Ulster Huddersfield Goldsmiths Edge Hill Glasgow Caledonian Sheffield Hallam Bath Spa Worcester Bristol South Wales Liverpool John Moores Aberystwyth Canterbury Christ Church Winchester Liverpool Hope Northampton Newcastle Lincoln Plymouth Leeds Trinity Uclan Chester Northumbria Chichester Soas Westminster Greenwich Gloucestershire St Mary’s, Twickenham Sunderland Anglia Ruskin Bishop Grosseteste Newman National profile
3.19 Cambridge
GPA
20 27 26 27 25 21 28 11 23 22 19 24 19 18 16 13 20 23 9 17 16 13 13 11 14 16 8 8 10 5 9 11 10 15 7 6 13 9 7 3 12 7 4 0 4 12 2 6 8 5 6 31
% of 4* research activity
Research power
16 31 24 22 19 10 29 13 20 13 18 15 8 25 14 11 24 11 6 4 16 13 14 8 14 13 15 8 16 14 11 7 11 17 13 7 5 8 2 6 5 10 11 4 7 4 6 4 6 5 3 1,786
GPA
GPA
Reading Kent Aberdeen Strathclyde Bristol Goldsmiths Nottingham Bangor Northumbria Stirling Essex Sheffield Hallam Northampton Hull Manchester Met Teesside Newcastle Lincoln Glasgow Caledonian UHI Dundee UWE Huddersfield Nottingham Trent Roehampton De Montfort Aberystwyth South Wales Ulster Canterbury Christ Church Plymouth Edge Hill Winchester Soas Wolverhampton Liverpool John Moores Worcester Chichester Newman Chester Westminster Uclan Liverpool Hope Leeds Trinity Greenwich St Mary’s, Twickenham Bath Spa Sunderland Anglia Ruskin Gloucestershire Bishop Grosseteste National profile
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
% of 4* research activity
2.50 3.00 2.85 2.30 2.60 2.05 2.60 2.45 1.85 2.50 3.00 2.05 2.30 2.70 n/a 2.40 2.40 2.25 2.15 n/a 2.70 2.35 2.40 2.10 2.30 2.30 2.35 2.55 2.55 2.00 2.10 1.85 2.55 2.80 2.15 1.90 1.40 2.00 1.75 2.35 2.00 2.20 n/a 2.00 2.25 n/a 2.30 2.35 2.65 1.90 n/a 2.66 31 Classics* 1 3.15
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
33 34 =35 =35 =35 38 39 40 =41 =41 =43 =43 45 46 =47 =47 =49 =49 =49 52 =53 =53 =55 =55 =57 =57 =59 =59 61 =62 =62 64 65 66 67 =68 =68 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
40 40 20 20 34 27 27 27 30 40 10 30 10 13 0 0 0 20 13 20 0 20 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – – 36.1
3.24 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.18 3.13 3.13 3.03 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.77 2.70 2.70 2.63 2.60 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.47 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.30 2.30 2.23 2.20 2.10 2.10 2.00 2.00 2.00 1.30 1.00 – – 3.18
66
3.66
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
47 38 224 64 40 44 43 92 46 58 31 39 65 17 40 35 24 22 32 24 21 1,178
Institution St Andrews Reading Durham Warwick Nottingham Birmingham Newcastle Bristol Oxford King’s College London Liverpool Edinburgh Exeter Glasgow UCL Leeds Manchester Kent Royal Holloway Open Wales Trinity Saint David National profile
30 37 35 26 39 33 32 32 34 34 21 31 22 21 20 19 22 17 18 10 7 29.4
3.17 3.16 3.14 3.09 3.06 3.05 3.05 3.04 3.03 2.98 2.97 2.91 2.87 2.83 2.81 2.81 2.75 2.69 2.67 2.55 2.45 2.97
Oxford Birmingham King’s College London
72 14 24
51 3.31 49 3.30 44 3.23
237 Warwick 46 Sheffield 78 Oxford
38 35 41
19 23 17 24 24 35
34 39 38 46 37 41
3.22 3.21 3.21 3.20 3.20 3.19
61 73 53 77 76 112
Edinburgh Essex Birkbeck Birmingham Southampton King’s College London
10 19 25 15 18 12 11
34 33 34 31 30 32 25
3.19 3.18 3.12 3.12 3.06 3.05 2.98
30 61 78 45 56 38 31
6 6 13 12 10 19 6 13 8 10 13 18 4
23 21 20 17 20 20 24 11 17 19 31 14 16
2.98 2.88 2.86 2.86 2.85 2.82 2.81 2.80 2.79 2.78 2.75 2.74 2.73
18 18 36 34 29 53 17 36 22 26 36 50 11
St Andrews LSE Aberdeen Sussex Leeds UCL Cambridge B: History and Philosophy of science Bristol Dundee Cambridge A: Philosophy Liverpool Queen’s Belfast York Reading UEA Nottingham Kingston Durham Manchester Glasgow
4 =5 =5 =7 =7 =9
2.65 3.15 2.95 3.15 2.80 2.95
=9 11 =12 =12 14 15 =16
2.90 3.05 2.80 2.90 2.95 2.85 2.70
Warwick St Andrews LSE UCL Edinburgh Cambridge B: History and Philosophy of science Essex Sheffield Leeds Bristol Cambridge A: Philosophy Birkbeck Sussex
=16 18 =19 =19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
2.60 2.30 2.50 2.45 2.25 2.60 n/a 2.80 2.10 2.25 2.20 2.65 n/a
Queen’s Belfast UEA Manchester Southampton Cardiff Durham Kingston Nottingham Liverpool Hertfordshire Aberdeen York Keele
Institution Oxford Kent Durham St Andrews Birmingham King’s College London Nottingham Warwick UCL Reading Exeter Open Newcastle Manchester Leeds Bristol Edinburgh Glasgow Royal Holloway Liverpool Wales Trinity Saint David National profile
GPA
3.29 3.29 3.26 3.18 3.16 3.14 3.08 3.07 3.06 3.04 3.01 3.00 2.91 2.88 2.87 2.86 2.79 2.77 2.68 2.60 2.21 3.08
% of 4* research activity
43 37 47 38 33 38 28 32 29 30 29 26 27 14 21 23 17 17 16 12 4 34
GPA
14 12 69 20 13 14 14 30 15 19 10 13 23 6 14 12 9 8 12 9 9 383
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
Institution Durham St Andrews Oxford Birmingham Reading Nottingham Warwick King’s College London Bristol Exeter Newcastle UCL Edinburgh Leeds Manchester Kent Liverpool Glasgow Open Royal Holloway Wales Trinity Saint David National profile
GPA
2.85 2.70 3.05 2.60 2.50 2.55 2.85 2.85 2.70 2.80 2.45 2.95 2.45 2.15 2.70 1.90 2.40 2.05 2.20 2.25 n/a 2.68 32 Philosophy 1 2.95 2 2.35 3 3.05
% of 4* research activity
=2 =2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
65 60 50 50 47 40 40 40 30 30 40 40 40 20 0 13 27 10 0 0 0 41.4
3.60 3.60 3.50 3.50 3.47 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.30 3.30 3.27 3.20 3.10 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.87 2.50 2.40 2.20 1.70 3.27
80 80 74
3.80 3.80 3.74
29 29 38 37 26 34
3.28 Birmingham 3.19 Keele 3.17 Cambridge B: History and Philosophy of science 3.12 UCL 3.11 Cardiff 3.10 Queen’s Belfast 3.09 King’s College London 3.09 UEA 3.07 St Andrews
80 70 60 63 50 53
3.70 3.70 3.60 3.50 3.50 3.43
27 27 37 33 29 34 29
3.03 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.99 2.98 2.96
Oxford Essex LSE Kent Leeds Manchester Edinburgh
60 40 37 40 30 40 37
3.40 3.40 3.37 3.30 3.20 3.20 3.10
21 21 26 27 18 17 24 17 14 25 13 16 13
2.95 2.93 2.90 2.90 2.88 2.86 2.86 2.78 2.76 2.75 2.70 2.70 2.70
Bristol Birkbeck Hertfordshire UWE Cambridge A: Philosophy Sheffield Nottingham Stirling Kingston Warwick Sussex Durham Liverpool
20 40 30 40 0 23 10 20 30 10 0 13 0
3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.00 2.97 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.83 2.80 2.60 2.60
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
3 4 5
n/a Westminster n/a St Andrews n/a York
GPA
Research power
% of 4* research activity
GPA
% of 4* research activity
GPA
2.35 Kent 3.05 Reading 2.95 Stirling 2.50 Dundee 2.60 Glasgow n/a UWE 2.35 Open 1.75 Oxford Brookes 2.40 Manchester Met 2.20 Hull n/a St Mary’s, Twickenham 2.74 National profile 33 Theology and Religious studies* 1 3.00 Durham 2 2.65 Birmingham =3 2.60 Lancaster =3 2.55 Leeds =3 2.90 UCL 6 2.90 Cambridge 7 2.15 Kent 8 2.75 Edinburgh 9 2.70 King’s College London 10 2.25 Cardiff 11 2.70 Soas 12 2.90 Oxford =13 2.75 Nottingham =13 2.45 Exeter 15 2.85 Manchester =16 2.65 St Andrews =16 2.85 Sheffield 18 2.95 Aberdeen 19 2.45 Bristol 20 1.50 Heythrop 21 2.25 Open 22 n/a Wales Trinity Saint David 23 2.30 Glasgow 24 1.60 Canterbury Christ Church 25 2.00 Roehampton 26 1.95 Liverpool Hope 27 2.15 Chester 28 1.60 Winchester 29 2.20 Gloucestershire 30 2.20 St Mary’s, Twickenham 31 1.45 York St John 32 1.65 Leeds Trinity 33 n/a Newman 2.49 National profile 34 Art and Design: History, practice and theory 1 n/a Reading B: Typography and Graphic communication 2 n/a Courtauld
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Institution
=30 =30 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
13 11 12 5 11 6 8 6 8 7 5 591
18 17 13 14 8 11 6 9 4 2 4 31
2.72 2.72 2.71 2.68 2.57 2.45 2.39 2.30 2.26 2.22 1.61 3.01
36 30 34 13 28 15 19 14 18 16 8 1,778
Cardiff Hertfordshire Stirling Kent Open Oxford Brookes Keele UWE Manchester Met Hull St Mary’s, Twickenham National profile
10 18 14 13 7 14 0 5 7 3 0 26.3
2.68 2.66 2.63 2.56 2.50 2.50 2.44 2.35 2.13 2.10 1.40 2.92
Manchester Met Hull Southampton Open York Reading Glasgow Dundee St Mary’s, Twickenham Oxford Brookes Aberdeen National profile
0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 35.3
2.50 2.50 2.30 2.30 2.27 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 1.80 1.40 3.07
25 9 22 11 7 24 8 27 26 9 14 33 16 11 15 14 4 19 9 16 6 8 11 6 7 15 11 8 5 5 7 4 2 413
50 51 42 33 37 34 38 34 39 33 29 34 30 21 28 31 21 29 21 22 18 14 11 6 16 9 8 6 3 9 2 0 0 28
3.34 3.26 3.15 3.15 3.15 3.12 3.11 3.09 3.08 3.06 3.04 3.02 3.01 3.01 2.97 2.93 2.93 2.88 2.85 2.82 2.71 2.64 2.56 2.52 2.47 2.37 2.35 2.33 2.21 2.20 2.07 1.99 1.79 2.91
83 29 70 34 22 76 25 82 80 28 43 99 47 34 43 41 12 55 25 45 16 22 28 15 17 35 26 20 12 11 14 7 4 1,201
Leeds Birmingham Durham UCL Oxford Cardiff Soas Sheffield Nottingham Bristol St Andrews Exeter Edinburgh Kent Cambridge Open King’s College London Lancaster Manchester Roehampton Canterbury Christ Church Aberdeen Heythrop Wales Trinity Saint David Liverpool Hope Chester Glasgow St Mary’s, Twickenham York St John Leeds Trinity Winchester Gloucestershire Newman National profile
37 53 35 32 36 35 29 20 33 28 28 21 24 31 20 27 30 22 18 24 9 17 13 6 15 13 5 8 3 0 3 4 – 23.7
3.15 3.15 3.11 3.07 3.06 3.05 3.02 3.00 2.97 2.91 2.90 2.90 2.89 2.89 2.87 2.86 2.84 2.80 2.71 2.64 2.55 2.54 2.54 2.47 2.41 2.40 2.38 2.29 2.23 2.20 2.19 2.17 – 2.79
Lancaster Durham Birmingham Kent Cambridge Aberdeen King’s College London Manchester Wales Trinity Saint David Heythrop Edinburgh Glasgow UCL Exeter Winchester Nottingham Leeds Oxford St Andrews Cardiff Soas Canterbury Christ Church Liverpool Hope Sheffield St Mary’s, Twickenham Bristol Gloucestershire Open Chester Roehampton Leeds Trinity York St John Newman National profile
87 77 60 60 53 53 50 50 50 40 40 40 50 20 20 13 20 40 40 20 20 0 0 10 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 37.4
3.87 3.77 3.60 3.60 3.53 3.53 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.40 3.30 3.30 3.30 3.20 3.10 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.70 2.70 2.60 2.50 2.40 2.30 2.10 2.10 2.00 1.90 – 3.15
8
56 3.51
33
56 3.49
24 13 19
45 3.36 38 3.30 47 3.29
Institution
29 Courtauld 113 Reading B: Typography and Graphic communication 81 St Andrews 42 Warwick 62 Westminster
Institution
50
3.39 Heriot–Watt
90
3.90
46
3.39 York
87
3.87
44 46 34
3.33 UEA 3.20 Sheffield Hallam 3.19 Glasgow
80 73 73
3.80 3.73 3.73
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
Sheffield Hallam UCL A: History of art Essex Warwick Soas Leeds A: Art Open Arts London Birmingham Lancaster UEA Royal College of Art Loughborough
24 17 5 11 10 16 23 110 6 32 15 60 55
42 3.26 47 3.24 42 37 32 40 35 34 29 31 33 31 31 37 38
3.22 3.22 3.21 3.19 3.16 3.15 3.13 3.12 3.12 3.10 3.10 3.08 3.08
21
n/a Edinburgh
43
33 3.07
22
n/a Newcastle
16
24 3.03
23 24 25 =26 =26 =26 =29 =29 31 =32
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
45 14 21 34 24 17 10 6 64 10
34 32 34 31 21 33 25 27 30 23
=32
n/a
=32
n/a
35 =36 =36 38 39 =40
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
=40
Dundee Bournemouth Leeds B: Design Coventry Middlesex Glasgow Southampton Leicester Brighton Cardiff Met (joint submission with South Wales and Wales Trinity Saint David) South Wales (joint submission with Cardiff Met and Wales Trinity Saint David) Wales Trinity Saint David (joint submission with Cardiff Met and South Wales) Kingston UCL B: Fine art Oxford Birkbeck Brunel Birmingham City
3.02 3.00 2.99 2.98 2.98 2.98 2.97 2.97 2.95 2.94
79 55 15 35 31 49 73 342 19 100 46 183 169
Manchester Open Southampton Essex Newcastle Birmingham Ulster Sheffield Hallam Arts London Nottingham York Chester Kingston
132 UEL 49 Lancaster 134 41 63 103 70 49 30 18 189 29
Middlesex Leeds A: Art UCL B: Fine art Sussex Oxford UEA London Met Edinburgh Royal College of Art Liverpool John Moores
38 36
GPA
% of 4* research activity
Research power
Institution
37 UCL A: History of art 80 Soas
Institution
22 18 23 18 21 10 14 19 22 19
3.19 Coventry 3.19 Reading B: Typography and Graphic communication 3.16 Westminster 3.11 Leeds B: Design 3.11 Loughborough 3.11 Dundee 3.04 Leeds A: Art 3.04 Bournemouth 3.03 Brunel 3.02 Edinburgh 3.00 Brighton 3.00 Royal College of Art 2.94 Birmingham City 2.94 UWE 2.93 Cardiff Met (joint submission with South Wales and Wales Trinity Saint David) 2.93 South Wales (joint submission with Cardiff Met and Wales Trinity Saint David) 2.91 Wales Trinity Saint David (joint submission with Cardiff Met and South Wales) 2.89 Leicester 2.88 Arts London 2.86 Ulster 2.85 Courtauld 2.82 Birkbeck 2.80 UCL A: History of art 2.80 Birmingham 2.79 Essex 2.77 Creative Arts 2.75 Norwich University of the Arts
42 32 39 28 32 33 31 33 27 35 22 22 24 30 21
GPA
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
GPA
12 25
% of 4* research activity
Institution
n/a Manchester n/a Ulster
Impact
% of 4* research activity
=8 =8 10 11 12 13 14 =15 =15 =17 =17 =19 =19
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
6 7
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
70 70
3.70 3.70
63 63 67 60 60 60 60 58 54 54 50 50 50
3.63 3.63 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.58 3.54 3.54 3.50 3.50 3.50
50
3.50
50
3.50
50 47 73 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
3.50 3.47 3.47 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.30 3.30
7
23 2.94
20 Leicester
21
2.75 Middlesex
27
3.27
7
23 2.94
20 Loughborough
18
2.74 UCL B: Fine art
27
3.27
24 19 9 22 13 32
24 20 22 24 27 26
2.93 2.92 2.92 2.91 2.90 2.88
69 55 26 63 38 93
18 19 13 21 17 10
2.74 2.71 2.70 2.70 2.66 2.66
30 20 20 40 20 27
3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.13
n/a UWE
21
25 2.88
59
10
2.66 Glasgow School of Art
30
3.10
=42
n/a Plymouth
14
17 2.84
39
10
2.66 Goldsmiths
30
3.10
=42 44 45 46
n/a n/a n/a n/a
11 31 8 23
19 22 21 23
32 89 24 63
18 13 17 11
2.65 2.64 2.63 2.63
20 20 33 27
3.10 3.10 3.07 3.00
Reading A: Art Goldsmiths UEL De Montfort
2.84 2.83 2.82 2.80
Reading A: Art Plymouth Manchester Met Huddersfield Northumbria Cardiff Met (joint submission with South Wales and Wales Trinity Saint David) South Wales (joint submission with Cardiff Met and Wales Trinity Saint David) Wales Trinity Saint David (joint submission with Cardiff Met and South Wales) Bath Spa Dundee Goldsmiths Bristol
Lancaster St Andrews Manchester Salford Aberystwyth Open
Robert Gordon Cumbria De Montfort Manchester Met
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
113 146 24 150 56 36 22 20 20 11 31 24 54 29 24 24 35 9 22 35 34 10 19 12 55 28 19 31 20 56 21 14 23 47 19 28 13 3 4,587
16 23 12 20 13 27 15 11
69 68 62 55 55 48 53 44
3.62 3.55 3.55 3.43 3.42 3.41 3.41 3.38
58 80 42 69 43 93 51 36
GPA
2.78 2.76 2.75 2.74 2.72 2.72 2.72 2.70 2.69 2.67 2.66 2.62 2.59 2.55 2.55 2.55 2.54 2.54 2.53 2.49 2.42 2.41 2.37 2.34 2.31 2.30 2.29 2.27 2.25 2.18 2.04 2.01 1.95 1.94 1.88 1.79 1.62 0.86 2.86
% of 4* research activity
24 23 13 14 17 10 11 33 19 14 13 23 15 7 14 12 14 14 9 12 4 8 7 14 5 7 9 8 4 7 5 7 7 2 0 3 3 0 26
GPA
Research power
41 53 9 55 21 13 8 7 7 4 12 9 21 11 10 10 14 4 9 14 14 4 8 5 24 12 8 14 9 26 10 7 12 24 10 16 8 4 1,604
Impact
% of 4* research activity
GPA
n/a Northumbria n/a Glasgow School of Art n/a Liverpool John Moores n/a Manchester Met n/a Creative Arts n/a Lincoln n/a Bristol n/a Heriot–Watt n/a Norwich University of the Arts n/a Aberystwyth n/a Sussex n/a Nottingham n/a Nottingham Trent n/a Hertfordshire n/a Bucks New n/a Salford n/a Huddersfield n/a Chester n/a London Met n/a Bath Spa n/a Anglia Ruskin n/a Cumbria n/a Oxford Brookes n/a Worcester n/a Sunderland n/a Arts University Bournemouth n/a Derby n/a Uclan n/a Robert Gordon n/a Wolverhampton n/a Northampton n/a Greenwich n/a Teesside n/a Falmouth n/a Staffordshire n/a Southampton Solent n/a Leeds Beckett n/a Writtle n/a National profile 35 Music, Drama, Dance and Performing arts 1 n/a Queen Mary =2 n/a Southampton =2 n/a Roehampton A: Dance 4 n/a Oxford 5 n/a Manchester B: Drama =6 n/a Warwick =6 n/a Durham 8 n/a Open
% of 4* research activity
Institution
47 48 49 50 =51 =51 =51 54 55 56 57 58 59 =60 =60 =60 =63 =63 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
13 15 10 11 9 10 16 12 17 15 14 14 10 14 12 21 4 12 6 13 9 15 11 8 6 7 6 12 7 7 5 2 5 0 3 0 4 0 18.5
2.62 2.61 2.61 2.61 2.60 2.59 2.58 2.58 2.58 2.57 2.56 2.56 2.56 2.54 2.50 2.50 2.47 2.46 2.44 2.44 2.43 2.40 2.35 2.35 2.33 2.29 2.27 2.27 2.17 2.11 2.01 2.00 1.91 1.89 1.78 1.75 1.69 1.10 2.70
Newcastle Warwick Soas Bucks New Oxford Bristol Plymouth Lincoln Teesside Reading A: Art Uclan Anglia Ruskin Southampton Liverpool John Moores Derby Northumbria Northampton Kingston Staffordshire Hertfordshire UEL Worcester Bath Spa Sunderland Nottingham Trent Arts University Bournemouth Sussex Falmouth Huddersfield Oxford Brookes Chester London Met Wolverhampton Nottingham Greenwich Southampton Solent Leeds Beckett Writtle National profile
13 20 20 20 20 20 0 20 20 20 20 0 0 0 20 26 20 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36.6
3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.80 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.70 2.62 2.60 2.57 2.50 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.30 2.27 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.10 2.10 2.00 2.00 1.90 1.70 1.50 1.50 1.23 1.00 0.40 3.12
Roehampton A: Dance Soas Queen Mary Birmingham A: Music Southampton Open Oxford Warwick
61 59 52 50 55 44 50 38
3.50 3.47 3.40 3.38 3.35 3.34 3.32 3.28
Southampton Queen Mary Goldsmiths A: Music Royal Northern College of Music Huddersfield Royal College of Music Ulster Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Durham Leeds B: Performance and the Cultural industries Manchester B: Drama Leeds A: Music King’s College London B: Film
100 100 100 100 90 90 90 87
4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 3.90 3.90 3.90 3.87
80 80
3.80 3.80
80 70 63
3.80 3.70 3.63
Institution Birkbeck Brighton Bournemouth Hertfordshire Lincoln Coventry De Montfort Leeds B: Design Norwich University of the Arts Birmingham City Nottingham Trent UWE Glasgow Creative Arts Oxford Brookes Worcester Brunel Arts University Bournemouth Anglia Ruskin Aberystwyth Glasgow School of Art Bucks New Wolverhampton Derby Cumbria Sunderland Salford Greenwich Uclan Heriot–Watt Southampton Solent Northampton Leeds Beckett Robert Gordon Falmouth Staffordshire Teesside Writtle National profile
9 =10
n/a Soas n/a King’s College London B: Film
8 15
44 3.36 45 3.30
27 Manchester B: Drama 50 Nottingham
44 49
3.24 3.24
=10 12 13
n/a Sheffield n/a Nottingham n/a Cardiff
12 11 13
48 3.30 45 3.29 43 3.28
41 King’s College London B: Film 35 Durham 43 Sheffield
41 41 46
3.22 3.21 3.20
Institution
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
122 29 45 40 45 53 42
=25 28 29 =30 =30 =32
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Bristol B: Music Royal Northern College of Music St Andrews Cambridge Newcastle Exeter
9 11 8 22 14 16
35 36 27 34 36 30
3.09 3.08 3.07 3.06 3.06 3.04
28 33 24 69 42 48
=32 =32
n/a York A: Music n/a Roehampton B: Drama, Theatre and Performance n/a Royal Central School of Speech and Drama n/a Royal College of Music n/a Liverpool n/a Glasgow n/a Reading n/a Sussex n/a Keele n/a Ulster
13 12
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
Institution
GPA
3.20 3.19 3.17 3.17 3.10 3.09 3.09
Institution
% of 4* research activity
39 34 43 34 37 42 30
20 21 =22 =22 24 =25 =25
Institution
GPA
38 9 14 13 15 17 14
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
% of 4* research activity
3.26 3.26 3.25 3.25 3.25 3.22
=14 =14 =16 =16 =16 19
60 33 57 48 46 49
Royal Holloway B: Music Cardiff Manchester A: Music City Royal Holloway A: Drama and theatre Newcastle
44 37 38 33 33 37
3.19 3.13 3.12 3.10 3.09 3.09
Guildhall School Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Bristol A: Drama Sheffield Bath Spa Roehampton A: Dance
60 60 60 60 60 60
3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60
Birmingham B: Drama King’s College London A: Music Bristol B: Music Kent Leeds A: Music Cambridge York B: Theatre, Film and Television
33 43 30 29 31 33 15
3.05 3.04 3.03 3.02 3.02 2.97 2.96
60 50 50 40 40 40 40
3.60 3.50 3.50 3.40 3.40 3.40 3.40
29 23 31 29 22 23
2.96 2.95 2.94 2.94 2.93 2.91
40 40 37 30 40 50
3.40 3.40 3.37 3.30 3.30 3.30
29 3.04 24 3.04
Bangor Bristol A: Drama Edinburgh York A: Music Huddersfield Roehampton B: Drama, Theatre and Performance 40 St Andrews 35 Reading
Open Warwick Manchester A: Music Birmingham City Anglia Ruskin Bangor Roehampton B: Drama, Theatre and Performance Glasgow City Oxford Cardiff Liverpool Plymouth
21 18
2.91 UEL 2.90 Kent
50 36
3.30 3.28
21
39 3.03
64 Keele
28
2.88 Surrey
23
3.23
14 9 11 10 4 8 13
34 32 31 18 15 29 28
43 27 33 29 12 23 39
22 24 23 26 25 21 27
2.86 2.84 2.84 2.80 2.79 2.79 2.76
23 23 40 33 20 60 20
3.23 3.23 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.20
26
2.76 Aberdeen
20
3.20
8 23 19 15 22 21 19 21 18
2.75 2.74 2.70 2.70 2.69 2.68 2.68 2.66 2.64
20 20 13 37 10 20 50 10 10
3.20 3.20 3.13 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.10
15 20 7
2.62 Sussex 2.60 Edinburgh 2.59 York St John
10 47 40
3.10 3.07 3.00
21 20 12 12 9
2.56 2.54 2.47 2.45 2.43
40 30 10 30 37
3.00 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.83
14
22 2.89
=43 45 =46 =46 =48 =48 50 =51 =51
n/a Leeds B: Performance and the Cultural industries n/a Birmingham B: Drama n/a York B: Theatre, Film and Television n/a Birmingham City n/a Royal Conservatoire of Scotland n/a Surrey n/a De Montfort n/a Queen’s Belfast n/a Aberystwyth n/a Oxford Brookes
Exeter Goldsmiths A: Music Royal Northern College of Music Liverpool Royal College of Music Oxford Brookes Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 40 Glasgow
6 15 17 15 22 13 35 28 12
30 11 20 26 20 21 31 23 26
2.89 2.86 2.85 2.85 2.84 2.84 2.83 2.81 2.81
17 41 49 42 61 37 98 79 33
53 54 =55
n/a Trinity Laban Conservatoire n/a Plymouth n/a Brunel
12 8 18
18 2.78 25 2.76 25 2.75
32 23 50
=55 57 58 59 60
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
14 16 12 11 11
21 15 26 15 14
38 43 32 30 29
=43
Royal Academy of Music South Wales Bath Spa Aberdeen Goldsmiths B: Theatre and performance
Impact
Research power
GPA
43 38 44 43 42 38
2008 GPA
18 10 18 15 14 15
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Royal Holloway B: Music Birmingham A: Music Huddersfield Leeds A: Music Manchester A: Music Royal Holloway A: Drama and theatre Kent City Goldsmiths A: Music Bristol A: Drama King’s College London A: Music Edinburgh Bangor
2014 rank order by GPA
% of 4* research activity
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
Overall
3.01 3.00 2.98 2.94 2.93 2.92 2.91
2.75 2.70 2.69 2.67 2.66
Sussex Royal Academy of Music Queen’s Belfast Ulster De Montfort Surrey Trinity Laban Conservatoire Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Goldsmiths B: Theatre and performance Birmingham City Aberystwyth Leeds B: Performance and the Cultural industries Plymouth Brunel South Wales Aberdeen Hull
South Wales Royal Holloway A: Drama and theatre Aberystwyth Exeter King’s College London A: Music Oxford Brookes Trinity Laban Conservatoire
Nottingham St Andrews Royal Holloway B: Music Brunel De Montfort York A: Music Chichester Soas Liverpool Hope A: Music
Keele Royal Academy of Music Birmingham A: Music Bristol B: Music Middlesex
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
53 19 52 18 39
Liverpool Hope A: Music Middlesex Bath Spa Rose Bruford Canterbury Christ Church
66 67 68 69 70 =71 =71 73 74 75 76 77 =78 =78 80 81 82 83 84
n/a Chichester 12 24 2.41 28 Manchester Met n/a Winchester 12 9 2.40 30 Winchester n/a Canterbury Christ Church 14 15 2.39 33 Lincoln n/a Manchester Met 11 5 2.36 25 Worcester n/a Anglia Ruskin 14 12 2.33 32 Chichester n/a York St John 10 13 2.29 23 UEL n/a Rose Bruford 6 7 2.29 14 Salford n/a Salford 12 10 2.28 27 Guildhall School n/a Falmouth 26 12 2.14 56 York St John n/a Hertfordshire 5 4 2.09 11 Falmouth n/a Worcester 4 0 2.05 9 West London n/a Lincoln 11 2 2.02 23 Anglia Ruskin n/a West London 5 7 1.88 8 Bedfordshire n/a Sunderland 2 0 1.88 4 Hertfordshire 9 2 1.81 16 Edge Hill n/a Chester n/a Bedfordshire 7 11 1.80 12 Liverpool Hope B: Drama n/a Liverpool Hope B: Drama 9 0 1.79 16 Leeds Beckett n/a Edge Hill 12 0 1.72 20 Chester n/a Leeds Beckett 11 2 1.41 16 Sunderland n/a National profile 1,142 29 2.87 3,278 National profile 36 Communication, Cultural and Media studies, Library and Information management 1 n/a LSE 14 65 3.59 50 LSE 2 n/a Cardiff 13 61 3.49 47 Wolverhampton 3 n/a Goldsmiths 21 55 3.43 72 De Montfort 4 n/a Leicester B: Museum studies 11 52 3.40 37 UEA =5 n/a Westminster 18 52 3.37 60 Loughborough B: Communication and Media studies =5 n/a Wolverhampton 7 48 3.37 24 Cardiff 7 n/a Loughborough B: Communication 31 50 3.35 103 Westminster and Media studies 8 n/a King’s College London 33 54 3.29 109 Leicester B: Museum studies 9 n/a Royal Holloway 13 45 3.27 43 Goldsmiths 10 n/a Leeds 25 48 3.26 81 Nottingham
2.42 2.40 2.38 2.36 2.31
0 0 40 10 10
2.80 2.80 2.80 2.70 2.70
2.31 2.28 2.26 2.25 2.23 2.22 2.18 2.11 2.11 2.10 2.10 1.98 1.92 1.90 1.79 1.78 1.65 1.63 – 2.75
Cambridge Winchester Birmingham B: Drama Canterbury Christ Church Goldsmiths B: Theatre and performance Reading Hertfordshire Newcastle Manchester Met Chester Hull Rose Bruford Queen’s Belfast Falmouth York B: Theatre, Film and Television Salford Liverpool Hope B: Drama Edge Hill Bedfordshire West London Worcester Lincoln Leeds Beckett Sunderland National profile
8 13 4 0 21 11 11 11 8 10 10 6 17 0 0 0 3 3 – 25
0 20 20 0 0 13 0 20 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 38.8
2.70 2.70 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.00 1.90 1.60 1.60 1.40 1.40 1.30 1.00 – 3.14
47 39 49 38 41
3.38 3.25 3.24 3.22 3.21
LSE Cardiff Leicester B: Museum studies King’s College London Goldsmiths
100 100 100 90 87
4.00 4.00 4.00 3.90 3.87
40 42
3.21 Westminster 3.19 Leeds
87 63
3.87 3.63
35 34 33
60 60 60
3.60 3.60 3.60
60 60
3.60 3.60
53 63 60 50
3.53 3.50 3.50 3.40
53
3.40
40 40 40
3.40 3.40 3.40
Institution
52 Royal Holloway 77 Leicester A: Media and Communication 46 Newcastle 34 Leeds 81 Glasgow 70 Edinburgh Napier
40 34 33 35 33 30
3.08 3.02 3.02 3.00
35 3.14
30 UEL
29
2.97
36 3.10 33 3.10 33 3.06
77 Queen Margaret 46 King’s College London 75 Northumbria A: Communication, Cultural and Media studies
25 33 29
2.95 2.93 2.92
n/a Nottingham n/a Glasgow
16 24
40 3.23 45 3.22
=12 14 =15 =15
n/a n/a n/a n/a
Newcastle De Montfort Sussex Leicester A: Media and Communication n/a UEA
14 11 26 22
42 36 41 37
10
n/a Bournemouth n/a UEL n/a City
25 15 25
=18 =18 20
4 18 17 11 19
3.18 Sussex 3.15 Sheffield 3.11 Loughborough A: Library and Information management 3.11 Portsmouth 3.09 Wolverhampton
11 =12
17
GPA
2.50 2.50 2.47 2.47 2.44
% of 4* research activity
20 4 9 17 21
GPA
Institution
21 8 21 7 16
Impact
% of 4* research activity
Research power
Institution Middlesex Liverpool Hope A: Music Hull UEL Guildhall School
GPA
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
% of 4* research activity
2008 GPA
=61 =61 =63 =63 65
Output
Total number of FTE staff submitted
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
3.22 3.18 3.17 3.17
City Bournemouth Brighton Loughborough B: Communication and Media studies Leicester A: Media and Communication Ulster Stirling Royal Holloway
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK 2014: INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY SUBJECT
GPA
22 8 18 14
38 24 27 27
3.02 2.94 2.93 2.93
67 22 53 40
Bournemouth Anglia Ruskin Uclan Nottingham Trent
22 18 30 24
2.89 2.88 2.88 2.87
UWS Liverpool Glasgow UEL
30 40 40 20
3.30 3.30 3.27 3.20
11 15 15 17
31 27 27 29
2.93 2.90 2.90 2.86
32 43 43 50
22 23 24 24
2.82 2.81 2.80 2.78
Sheffield Hallam UCL UWE Nottingham
27 40 13 27
3.17 3.17 3.13 3.13
Sunderland Nottingham Trent Uclan Roehampton Salford Sheffield Hallam Anglia Ruskin Bath Spa Liverpool Birmingham City
13 12 9 14 17 25 9 7 8 11
25 20 20 29 25 24 12 13 18 9
2.84 2.81 2.79 2.78 2.73 2.72 2.70 2.69 2.66 2.65
36 33 25 39 46 67 23 20 20 30
City Brighton Sunderland Loughborough A: Library and Information management Leeds Trinity UWE UCL Oxford Brookes St Mary’s, Twickenham Bath Spa Stirling Glasgow Caledonian Portsmouth Derby
20 21 25 17 17 19 19 20 20 21
2.73 2.72 2.72 2.71 2.70 2.68 2.63 2.63 2.63 2.62
20 40 20 0 0 20 0 40 20 0
3.10 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.90 2.90 2.90
Robert Gordon Glasgow Caledonian Derby Liverpool John Moores Winchester Queen Margaret Lincoln Ulster Bedfordshire
11 11 17 13 13 9 6 16 12
15 17 14 12 14 16 12 21 9
2.65 2.64 2.63 2.63 2.59 2.59 2.59 2.57 2.55
28 30 44 34 33 24 17 42 29
Sheffield Liverpool John Moores Robert Gordon Salford Roehampton London Met Winchester Bedfordshire Birmingham City
16 13 17 25 23 13 22 14 13
2.61 2.60 2.60 2.59 2.58 2.57 2.56 2.52 2.50
0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0
2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.77 2.77 2.70 2.70 2.60
n/a Middlesex n/a UWS n/a Northumbria B: Library and Information management n/a Oxford Brookes n/a London South Bank n/a London Met n/a Brunel n/a St Mary’s, Twickenham n/a Leeds Beckett n/a Canterbury Christ Church
20 14 7
50 Leeds Beckett 34 Brunel 18 Middlesex
4 19 11
2.46 2.46 2.42
Liverpool John Moores Roehampton Glasgow Caledonian Birmingham City De Montfort Robert Gordon Lincoln Sunderland Nottingham Trent Northumbria B: Library and Information management Derby Winchester London South Bank Bath Spa Middlesex Salford UEA Uclan Northumbria A: Communication, Cultural and Media studies Bedfordshire Edinburgh Napier Anglia Ruskin
0 0 0
2.60 2.50 2.40
15 18 10 15 8 11 9
2.42 2.39 2.38 2.37 2.35 2.32 2.29
Canterbury Christ Church Leeds Beckett Brunel Queen Margaret London Met Edge Hill York St John
0 20 0 0 20 20 0
2.30 2.20 2.00 1.90 1.90 1.80 1.80
2 2 8 11 12 8 7 3 – 23.4
2.28 2.19 2.17 2.14 1.94 1.92 1.87 1.68 – 2.74
Glyndwr Staffordshire Aberystwyth Oxford Brookes St Mary’s, Twickenham Southampton Solent Bolton Leeds Trinity West London National profile
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 35.2
1.70 1.60 1.60 1.40 1.40 1.10 0.90 0.10 – 3.05
=39 41 =42 =42 =44 =44 =44 47 48
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Edge Hill West London Aberystwyth Leeds Trinity York St John Staffordshire Southampton Solent Glyndwr Bolton National profile
7 2.54 7 2.47 6 2.45
7 10 7 19 5 30 14
11 1 13 12 11 6 5
2.43 2.42 2.40 2.35 2.33 2.30 2.28
18 25 18 45 11 68 33
12 3 6 4 6 14 5 4 8 935
11 24 6 13 5 5 5 8 2 29
2.24 2.21 2.18 2.01 1.90 1.86 1.78 1.77 1.44 2.86
28 6 13 8 11 25 9 7 11 2,673
Liverpool Lincoln Aberystwyth Sheffield Hallam Canterbury Christ Church Edge Hill Northumbria B: Library and Information management London South Bank UWS York St John Ulster Glyndwr Southampton Solent Staffordshire Bolton West London National profile
GPA
3.30
Institution
% of 4* research activity
50
Research power
2.89 Newcastle
GPA
26
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
% of 4* research activity
51 Sussex
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 =39
52 53 54 55 56 57 58
Total number of FTE staff submitted
35 3.04
=24 =27 =27 29
49 50 51
Impact
17
Institution
n/a Loughborough A: Library and Information management n/a Sheffield n/a Edinburgh Napier n/a UWE n/a Northumbria A: Communication, Cultural and Media studies n/a Portsmouth n/a Brighton n/a Stirling n/a UCL
22 23 =24 =24
Output
% of 4* research activity
21
2008 GPA
2014 rank order by GPA
Overall
Institution