Manchester's Primary Care Research Group comes 2nd(*) in the country for research
Press release: 18 December 2008* Subject area: Primary care and other community based clinical subjects results
Members of The University of Manchester’s Primary Care Research Group are celebrating their outstanding RAE results. 80% of their research was classified in each of the two top international categories with 40% rated 4* (world leading) and 40% 3* internationally excellent. The group also made returns to Nursing (who came top of their group with half of their research judged to be 4*, Politics and Social Work).
Professor Anne Rogers, Head of the Primary Care Research Group at The University of Manchester said,
“This is an excellent endorsement of the extremely high standards of research produced by The Primary Care Research Group at Manchester. I would like to thank everyone involved for their part in these results which are the culmination of a lot of work and dedication over a long period of time”.
The University of Manchester has smashed the ‘Golden Triangle’ of research universities traditionally dominated by Oxford, Cambridge and London, according to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Based on any analysis of the RAE results, Manchester emerges amongst the country’s top four or five major research universities and is proving competitive with the University College London and Imperial College and just behind Oxford and Cambridge.
65% of research staff (amounting to 1,193 full-time equivalent staff) at The University of Manchester are judged to be carrying out work which is ‘world-leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*).
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Notes for editors
The Research Assessment Exercise
- The Research Assessment Exercise is conducted jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL).
- The primary purpose of the RAE 2008 is to produce quality profiles for each submission of research activity made by institutions. The four higher education funding bodies will use the quality profiles to determine their grant for research to the institutions which they fund with effect from 2009-10. Any higher education institution (HEI) in the UK that is eligible to receive research funding from one of these bodies is eligible to participate in the exercise.
- The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise are published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and posted on HEFCE’s RAE 2008 website.
- Full subject rankings can be viewed at: The Guardian: RAE 2008 results
Further information
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