UCL takes second position in research excellence across UK institutions

The excellence of study at UCL and its good actual-globe effect has improved due to the fact 2014, in accordance to the Exploration Excellence Framework 2021 (REF) evaluation benefits announced today.

UCL has arrive next in the Uk for research electricity by a evaluate of common investigation rating multiplied by personnel numbers submitted. For this, 93 for each cent of our exploration was graded 4* ‘world leading’ and 3* ‘internationally excellent’. Our investigate been given a ‘grade point average’ of 3.50 (out of 4) – an enhancement from 3.22 in 2014. A total of 3,432 UCL lecturers submitted to this REF procedure.

UCL came next in research electricity only to Oxford (1^st) and we taken care of our posture as leading in the British isles for exploration ability in medicine, well being and everyday living sciences as effectively as social sciences. Other British isles leaders in investigation electrical power involve Cambridge (3rd), Edinburgh (4th), and Manchester (5th).

The REF is carried out somewhere around every single 6 to 7 decades to evaluate the excellent of study across 157 Uk universities and to share how this investigate added benefits society the two in the United kingdom and globally.

The effects are major for benchmarking study excellence across United kingdom establishments and are used by the 4 Uk better education and learning funding bodies to advise the allocation of about £2billion of community financial investment in analysis every single yr. This Quality Similar (QR) funding allows us to spend in the best persons and services, to supply an ecosystem in which early career scientists can thrive and perform with our associates to tackle the greatest issues dealing with humanity.

By means of our interdisciplinary perform, UCL scientists have been collaborating with area and intercontinental companions on a assortment of troubles – from tackling inequalities and weather modify and addressing health and fitness worries together with COVID-19, HIV and cancer. They have assisted preserve historical heritage for upcoming generations, remodeled social treatment coverage and apply, and labored with marketplace to source chopping-edge technological know-how for worldwide house missions.

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This is an unbelievably outstanding consequence that all people in our community can really feel really proud of. It displays devotion and tricky work, encouraged thinking, proactive collaboration and a enormous appetite to examine, find out, and make profit. The end result is that we are not only delivering analysis of an exceptionally superior good quality but also employing it to make a genuine, tangible variance to lives and societies around the world.”

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Dr Michael Spence, UCL President & Provost

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UCL submitted evidence of a breadth of research actions including 8,052 exploration outputs this sort of as journal content articles, textbooks, models, exhibitions and performances. We also shared 194 impact scenario experiments showcasing diverse effects across each school to fight the most pressing world wide difficulties of our time, and we delivered proof of the setting that allows us to produce effects.

UCL arrived leading for exploration power in the primary panels of ‘medicine, well being and life sciences’ and ‘social sciences’. We also saw results with our school of Legal guidelines, and departments of the Institute of the Americas and Philosophy with all a few coming leading total by analysis graded 4*.

We noticed enhancements in our scores inside of every single of the 4 key panels. Of the 32 topic models assessed across the a few aspects of ‘output’, ‘impact’ and ‘environment’, 78 per cent amplified their score in contrast to REF 2014 by quality level common – which is a simple measure of the all round or common high quality of exploration. No topics observed a fall in study high quality.

Professor David Value, UCL Vice-Provost (Study, Innovation & World-wide Engagement), claimed: “My congratulations and thanks to everyone who played a section in obtaining these results, both customers of the investigate neighborhood and people countless numbers of skilled workers who guidance them. This contains everyone who has played a role in the progress and dissemination of unique, major and rigorous research outputs, the shipping of public reward through exploration-informed impression with achieve and importance, and in the formation of essential and sustainable investigation environments.

“I am also grateful to the customers of the UCL REF staff and their sterling perform all through the procedure, and to associates of the UCL REF Steering Group – in individual its Key Panel potential customers, Professor Sasha Roseneil, Professor Stella Bruzzi, Professor Ivan Parkin and Professor Geraint Rees.”

We will be celebrating the influence of our REF study more than the up coming number of weeks by way of our ‘Where analysis transforms lives’ campaign – a collection of podcasts and case experiments.