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Breakthrough Foreword Unprecedented levels of investment in our research infrastructure have included state-of-the-art developments on campus and structural changes within our academic Colleges, fostering an environment in which world-class research flourishes. In the latest (2008) Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Swansea achieved the highest growth in world-leading and international-quality research activity of any university in the UK, effectively confirming our position as a truly research-intensive university. The subsequent doubling of our research income is evidence that this upward trajectory is being maintained. Now we stand at a critical point in our development as we move towards our centenary in 2020. Swansea’s new Science and Innovation Campus is among the most exciting and ambitious projects in the UK higher education sector for decades. Alongside the associated redevelopment of the Singleton Park Campus, this project reinforces Swansea’s growing reputation as one of the most rapidly progressing universities in the UK. The University has been hailed by the European Commission as an exemplar of how higher education can support innovation and knowledge economy growth within a region, and our proactive engagement with economic, social, and political challenges is true to the vision of our founders. Capitalising on the advantages of a campus environment and a new medical school, we have committed ourselves to a multidisciplinary approach to research, vastly increasing “ These are exciting times for Swansea University, as we continue to progress towards our aspiration of being one of the our success in winning major research grants and strengthening our joint ventures with industry and other organisations in the public and private sectors. Breakthrough provides an overview of the scale and impact of research being undertaken at Swansea, and captures the top 200 universities in the world and our immediate goal of becoming a top-30 research-led university in the UK by 2017. ” Professor Richard B. Davies Vice-Chancellor vitality of the research environment now firmly established at the University. 04 05
Breakthrough Introduction Swansea University has achieved recognition as a truly research-intensive institution through a successful policy of targeted intervention and investment. The University produces internationally excellent and world-leading research across all disciplines and displays strength across Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects), Medicine and Life Science, Social Sciences, and the Arts and Humanities. The results of the latest (2008) RAE speak volumes: the largest increase in internationally excellent and world-leading research in the whole of the UK, with more than 90% of our academic staff classed as research active. Swansea University is currently ranked 29th in the UK in terms of research income as a proportion of turnover, and our College of Engineering is performing on a par with universities in the Russell Group. Moreover, for every £1 million of Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) research grant awarded, we now secure more than £2.5 million of competitive research funding, from a wide variety of sources. Swansea’s approach to research builds on the aspirations of our founders, who in 1920 set out to respond to the requirements of industry. Their first five Chair appointments were in engineering, metallurgy, physics, mathematics, and chemistry – fields which remain prominent in the form of today’s STEM subjects and which underpin many of Swansea’s most notable advances. Recent progress has been impressive but our challenge now is to accelerate that momentum. We have pledged to continue our policy of strategic appointments; to sustain the growth of research grant income through improvements in bid-quality; to engage more researchers in grant-winning activities, and to build effective national and international collaborations. Each of Swansea’s six Colleges houses research clusters that bring together research institutes, private companies, the public and the third sector, and which build our capacity to lead in new and emerging areas. Moreover, our campus-based setting, and researchers who have invested in interdisciplinary work, have enabled a programme of cross-College collaboration that is a distinctive and energising aspect of the University’s dynamic research environment. Decades of applied research have enriched our economy and society. The UK Government’s growing emphasis upon impact reflects a guiding principle that informs our campus development programme, a vital catalyst for a development that provides a European hub for STEM research and industry collaboration. A further commitment to multidisciplinary research ensures that we combine strengths in STEM with research in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and business, economics and law, to address many of the world’s most complex and pressing challenges. The Science and Innovation Campus development heralds a new era for the University and its research. This significant investment will enable us to harness research strengths to a broad range of local and transnational business enterprises, and to promote the growth of high-technology clusters. Research informs all academic and student-based activities across the University and a research culture characterised by its vitality is pivotal to the future of the institution. By developing the University’s research portfolio, attracting and retaining the most talented researchers and postgraduates, and by working within and across disciplines, Swansea will continue to address the current and future challenges that confront Wales and the wider world. More than For every Swansea secures 90 % academic staff classed as research active Currently ranked 29 th in the UK £1 { research income as a proportion of turnover million HEFCW research {grant awarded { { £2.5 { of competitive research funding million { Professor Noel Thompson Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Cluckie Pro-Vice-Chancellor 06 07
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