1. Introduction to Research and Innovation at Leeds
Andy Gouldson
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Interdisciplinary Research)
8th June 2016

2. REF2014: Outcome
GPA GPA 3.13 (2.72 in 2008) National GPA Ranking 21st = (14= with 5 others in 2008) Research Power Ranking 10th (8th in 2008) Impact Ranking 13th (3.47 GPA)

3. REF2014: Ranking by research power
Institution
Power Ranking 2014
Research Power
% Staff Submitted
University College London 1
8,253
91.30%
University of Oxford 2
8,039
86.82%
University of Cambridge 3
6,943
95.06%
University of Edinburgh 4
5,571
83.28%
University of Manchester 5
4,929
77.98%
King's College London 6
4,425
79.69%
University of Nottingham 7
4,335
78.99%
Imperial College London 8
4,226
91.88%
University of Bristol 9
3,614
91.31%
University of Leeds 10
3,598
74.86%
University of Southampton 11
3,505
89.75%
University of Glasgow 12
3,404
83.79%
University of Sheffield 13
3,310
74.24%
University of Birmingham 14
3,270
80.71%
University of Warwick 15
2,998
83.47%

4. REF2014: Ranking by impact Institution Impact Ranking Impact GPA
Institute of Cancer Research 1
3.87
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 2
3.74
Imperial College London 3
3.68
St.George's, University of London 4
3.64
Cardiff University 5
3.61
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 6
3.57
University College London 7
3.54
King's College London 8
3.52
University of Oxford 9
3.51
University of Bristol 10
3.50
London School of Economics and Political Science
University of Cambridge 12
3.49
University of Leeds 13
3.47
University of Edinburgh 14
3.46
University of York
University of Manchester 16
3.45
University of Bath
University of Sheffield 18
3.43

5. 4* Outputs and Impact Leeds Russell Group Sector 4* Outputs 21% 27%
22%
4* Impact
54%
44%

6. World league tables QS % THE Shanghai Jiao Tong Employer reputation
Education
Employer reputation
Students / faculty 10 20
Reputation
Student / Faculty
PGR/UG
PGR/faculty
Institutional income / faculty 15
4.5
2.25 6
Alumni with Nobel / Fields
International outlook
Intl./domestic students
Intl./domestic faculty 5
% papers with intl. co-author
2.5
Research output 40
Research income / faculty
Papers / faculty (field weighted) 18
# papers
Per-capita performance
Research influence
Citations / faculty
# citations 30
Staff with Nobel/Fields
Highly cited papers
Papers in Nature / Science
Societal impact
Industry income
2015
(2014) ranking
87 (97)
133 (146)
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7. Research income – top 10

8. Proportion of outputs in top 10% most cited worldwide

9. Field weighted citation index

10. Strategic Plan
Aim: To be an outstanding research university securely placed within the UK’s top-ten and achieving significant real terms increases in research income
Targets:
Annual research income of £200m by 2020
85% eligible academic staff in REF2020 with outputs GPA > 3*
2800 FTE postgraduate research students by 2020

11. Build on our research strengths with creativity and high ambition
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12. Appoint outstanding early career researchers and senior academic leaders
Five-year academic fellowships leading to Associate Professor

13. Increase funding for PGR students
Leeds 110 Anniversary Research Scholarships (2 x 110)
Doctoral Training Centres
Industrial sponsorship
Campaign sponsorship
Focus on PGR student experience

14. Support academic staff to raise the number of 4* outputs
Internal mentorship and review of outputs

15. Become better informed and influential with our funders
Joining governing bodies and strategic advisory teams
Networking

16. Promote interdisciplinary research and impact around sector-facing themes
Cities Food
Culture Health
Energy Water
High Value Engineering
Medical Technologies
250 researchers, 10 departments, 36 HEIs, 44 companies
Clear focus requiring many disciplines
27 patents, across 17 patent families, 37 products have reached market
£88M public sector finance, £7M private sector finance

18. Themes Data Dashboard (All Themes)

19. Create sector-leading technology platforms for research
Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA)
MRC Centre for Medical Bioinformatics
City of Leeds a national centre for health informatics
ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre
Bragg Centre
Leading-edge materials and imaging lab
Adjacent to new home for Physics and Computing

20. Create sector-leading technology platforms for research
£17m investment in Astbury BioStructure Laboratory
State of the art instruments for Electron Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

21. Develop mutually beneficial collaborations with external partners
P&G
Marks & Spencer
Opera North

22. White Rose University Consortium
Leeds
Sheffield
York
Established 1997

23. White Rose purpose
…to add value from partnership activity in research, enterprise, innovation and learning and teaching
Notable successes in nationally-funded collaborative doctoral training:
Arts and Humanities (funded by AHRC)
Mechanistic Biology (funded by BBSRC)
Social Science (funded by ESRC)
Opening a White Rose EU office in Brussels

24. N8 Research Partnership
Newcastle
Lancaster
Durham
York
Liverpool
Leeds
Sheffield
Manchester
Established 2007

25. The power of 8
15,000 academic staff - 12% of the UK total 38,000 postgraduate students - 11% of UK total (taught and research) Total research income in 2010/11 was £747m - 17% of UK total £500m of Government research funding - 18% of UK total £72m of UK industrial research funding - 16% of UK total £120m from overseas research partners All eight universities in top 1% of institutions in the world

26. N8 purpose Agri-Tech Food Resilience programme
Increase research influence and impact through
Harnessing complementary expertise and critical mass
Combining influence across the North of England (e.g. health care)
Improving facilities through equipment sharing
Increasing industrial impact through interfacing to industry as N8
Agri-Tech Food Resilience programme
N8 HPC

27. Catalyse new research opportunities with selected international partners
University of Bergen
University of Bristol
University of Leeds
University of Sheffield
University of Southampton
University of York
University of Alberta
Maastricht University
University of Rochester
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhejiang University
University of Basel
University of Ghana
University of Sydney
University of Western Australia
University of Cape Town
University of Auckland
Established 2000

28. Create a high-profile presence for innovation and enterprise in the City and beyond
Access Innovation - SME engagement
Company incubation
Graduate start-ups and incubation (SPARK)
Networking and meeting space
Academic Health Science Network

29. Commercialise the outputs from our research
Partnership with IP Group plc established in 2002
Spin-out companies with a value in excess of £500m