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Driving forward excellence in research: institutional strategies and approaches
Professor Malcolm Grant UCL President and Provost
HEPI conferenceResearch Excellence: Competition or Collaboration in
today‘s globalised HE sector2 December 2010, The Royal Society
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• UCL's status
• Knowledge transfer
• UCL Grand Challenges
• UCL strategies for research excellence
• UCL's national and international role
• Conditions for research excellence
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About UCLThen…• The foundation of UCL – as the first English
university to open its doors to all, regardless of race, creed or political belief – embodied many of Jeremy Bentham’s ideas on education and society.
And now…• London’s global university• 24,000 students; 4,000 researchers• Multidisciplinary research excellence
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UCL research excellence: success in research funding
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UCL research excellence: success in research outputsUCL field-weighted citation impact 2003-08 (size of bubble proportional to world impact. [World = 1; UK = 1.338; UCL = 1.594.]
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UCL annual research article outputs: 2003-2009
Source: Elsevier / Scopus.
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UCL research excellence: Success in people
• In the RAE 2008, UCL submitted over 1,800 staff to 49 UoAs. At least 50% of staff in most submissions ranked at 4* or 3*.
• UCL’s academic community includes: 36 Fellows of the Royal Society; 26 Fellows of the British Academy; 10 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering; 78 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
•There has been at least one Nobel Laureate from the UCL community every decade since the establishment of the Nobel Prizes in 1901
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Knowledge transfer
• Research benefits from engagement with the world outside academia
• UCL’s obligation as university• Five core pillars:
– Scholarship – Public engagement– Enterprise– Healthcare– Public policy
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Grand Challenges
• Harnessing UCL’s collective expertise to address global problems
• Promoting novel cross-disciplinary collaboration
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Advancing research excellence(Institutional strategies)
• Facilitating cross-disciplinary working
• Strategic use of QR
• Supporting researchers
• Collaborating with external partners
• Joined-up research planning
• Investing in infrastructure
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Providing leadership
• Working with Government and funders to ensure the excellence and global reputation of the UK research base
• Pursuing research collaborations – locally, nationally, globally
• Delivering research with impact: achieving societal benefit
• Generating knowledge and wisdom that can address global problems
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UCL: Developing a culture of wisdom
RESEARCH
KNOWLEDGE
WISDOM
IMPACT
KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE
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What are the (national) conditions for sustaining research excellence?• Maintaining sustainable public funding
(including block grant)
• Institutional autonomy
• Supporting concentrations of research excellence and critical mass
• Enhanced support for cross-disciplinary working
• Investing in the best researchers
• International free flow of scholars
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Competition or collaboration?Both• Competition within the sector drives excellence
and efficiency; internationally it pushes us to be a global leader in research
• A changing landscape for universities (globalised university sector; global problems; economic climate; radical changes to higher education in UK) mean that increased collaboration is both necessary and desirable
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Driving forward excellence in research: institutional strategies and approaches
Professor Malcolm Grant UCL President and Provost
HEPI conferenceResearch Excellence: Competition or Collaboration in
today‘s globalised HE sector2 December 2010, The Royal Society