SAgE Presentation to Council Steve Homans 11 th February

Schools & Institutes in SAgE 2 Engineering Schools  Chemical Engineering & Applied Materials (CEAM)  Civil Engineering & Geosciences (CEGS)  Electrical, Electronic & Computer Systems Engineering (EEE)  Marine Science & Technology (MAST)  Mechanical & Systems Engineering (MSE) Science Schools  Agriculture, Food & Rural Development (AFRD)  Biology (BIOL)  Chemistry (CHEM)  Computing Science (COMP)  Mathematics & Statistics (MATH) Research Institutes & Centres  Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability (NIReS)  Digital Institute (DI)  7 Research Centres “Supply” (disciplinary) “Demand” (thematic)

Successes was a very good year: Best student satisfaction results ever UG recruitment 6% above target Best research income results ever New research awards 50% above target Strong financial performance All of this despite REF preparations Successful recruitment drive Highly successful Science Festival

Key Recruitment 4 New Director of NIReS – Phil Taylor (Durham) New Head of MAST – Andrew Willmott (NOC) New Head of AFRD – Rob Edwards (DEFRA) New Dean of R&I – TBC HOAO (Singapore) – Bryn Jones (Newcastle) COO (Singapore) – Sarah O’Keeffe (Liverpool) New Head of Biology – in progress New Head of Chemistry – in progress

Challenges 5 Doctoral awards Student course feedback PDR completions Securing Athena SWAN awards Research still “off the pace” - citations

Investing in our strengths 6 4* quality Investment

SAgE Schools & Research Groups 7 MSE CEGS CEAM EEE COMP CHEM BIOL AFRD MATH Medicinal Chemistry Nanotechnology Photochemistry Marine Chemistry Communications, Sensors & Signal Processing Microelectronics System Design Emerging Technologies & Materials Power Electronics, Drives & Machines Applied Pure Stats Process Intensification & Catalysis Process Measurement & Optimisation Electrochemistry & Fuel Cells Advanced Materials Integrative Animal Science Food Quality & Health Rural Development Food & Society Soils, Crops & Environment Resource Economics Environmental Engineering Geoscience Geomatics Geotechnical & Structural Transport Water Resource Engineering Digital Interactions Biology Neuroscience & Computing Systems Asynchronous Concurrent Systems Dependability Biodiversity & Conservation Applied Cellular & Molecular Biology Systems Modelling Bioengineering MEMS & Sensors Design, Manufacture & Materials Multiphase Flow & Thermal Systems MAST Marine Technology Marine Science Where do our strengths lie?

SAgE Strengths 8

9 MSE CEGS CEAM EEE COMP CHEM BIOL AFRD FMS HaSS MATH Medicinal Chemistry Nanotechnology Photochemistry Marine Chemistry Communications, Sensors & Signal Processing Microelectronics System Design Emerging Technologies & Materials Power Electronics, Drives & Machines Applied Pure Stats Process Intensification & Catalysis Process Measurement & Optimisation Electrochemistry & Fuel Cells Advanced Materials Integrative Animal Science Food Quality & Health Rural Development Food & Society Soils, Crops & Environment Resource Economics Environmental Engineering Geoscience Geomatics Geotechnical & Structural Transport Water Resource Engineering Biology Neuroscience & Computing Systems Asynchronous Concurrent Systems Dependability Biodiversity & Conservation Applied Cellular & Molecular Biol ogy Systems Modelling Bioengineering MEMS & Sensors Design, Manufacture & Materials Multiphase Flow & Thermal Systems MAST Marine Technology Marine Science Digital Interactions Digital Interactions* Synthetic Biology* Earth Systems Engineering* Materials ‘Big data’ & cloud* Energy* Medicinal chemistry Biomedical Engineering Food Security *NIReS

Goals for REF2020 (based on RAE2008) 10 UoAGPA%4*PositionnumberTop GPAambition Agriculture =302.75top 5 Earth Systems =423.3top 10 Chemistry =333.2top 15 Pure maths =383.25top 15 App maths =463.05top 10 Statistics =313.3top 10 Computing =813.35top 10 Elec. Eng top 5 Chem. Eng =103.15top 3 Civil Eng =233.35top 2 Mech. Eng =333.05top 5 T&C Planning =263.05top 2

Science Central 11 £50m project approved Digitally-enabled Urban Sustainability Completion target: September 2017 Computing Science anchor tenant Major push to secure inward investment

Singapore (NUIS) 12 New governance structure implemented Approval to develop NUIS research strategy Application for HEI status

Critical tasks for 2014 (and beyond) 13 ‘Raise the Bar’ on our academic activities – focus on REF2020 preparations – continue to recruit the very best staff – creating a comprehensive support network to enable – shared understanding and approach to the delivery of excellence – growth in key areas – engender culture change - outputs Science Central – maintain momentum Develop a research presence in Singapore Renew the SAgE Vision

The SAgE Vision 14 “To be a Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering with a global reputation for academic excellence in its areas of strength, that provides leadership to the University and region in Sustainability, and that contributes substantially to all the University’s Societal Challenge themes.”

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