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Dec 17, 2014 - n/a Sheffield B: Biomedical science. 65 55 3.51. 227 UEA A: Pharmacy. 48 3.43 Nottingham A: Pharmacy. 100
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

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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

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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