Quality of Research

Nineteen of our subjects – Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Classics, Economics, Education, English, German, History, Law, Middle East Studies, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Russian, Sociology, Sports Science and Theology were rated ‘internationally recognised’ for research in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. The University invests around £30 million a year in research. Research grant awards have increased by over 20% in the past two years.

Research activities at the University have generated three prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prizes, the latest for research into diabetes. Our research has also created ten spin-out companies and many opportunities for the exploitation of intellectual property. These include innovations for the rapid detection of malaria, cancer therapeutics, next generation recording media, driver assessment and training, counter-intuitive materials, and the psychology of office space.