RAE2008 results

The School celebrated huge success in the RAE2008 including the largest volume of 4* research for nursing and midwifery

Highlights included:

Nursing and Midwifery

• researchers rated highest in London
• submitted second highest total number of researchers in the UK
• largest volume of 4* research
• highest proportion of 3* and 4* research

Centre for Food Policy

• 65% of research activities rated 4* and 3*, with all submissions rated of international or world significance
• ranked seventh out of 68 'Social Work and Social Policy & Administration' departments, in the Power Rankings by Research Fortnight.

Optometry and Visual Science

• 75% of research activity rated of a quality that is recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour, with ten% in the highest (4*) category

Language and Communication Science

• only department of Speech and Language Therapy in the UK to be submitted to the RAE in their own right, rather than as part of a larger grouping
• submitted research involving 80% of staff
•  60% of research activity rated as of a quality that is recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour, with 10% in the highest (4*) category