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Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast is a Russell Group university and is a broadly-based, research-driven institution with a dynamic world-class research and education portfolio and strong international connections.

The University's priority is to achieve nationally and internationally recognised research excellence in all of its many and varied disciplines, with world-class research in distinctive niches and thematic areas. An emphasis is placed on the expansion of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary activities.

Areas of research excellence at Queen's range across the whole spectrum: from Creative Writing and Poetry in the Seamus Heaney Centre to the design of new catalysts for cars; from Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies to Vascular Biology and its implications for Vision Science; from Cognition and Culture to Renewable Energy; and from Drug Design and Synthesis to Healthcare for the Mother and Child.

In the RAE 2008:

• 11 subject areas at Queen's ranked within the top 10 in the UK, with 24 in the top 20
• All areas at Queen's had research assessed as world leading, ie 4*
• 25 of the 38 Units of Assessment (UoAs) submitted had 50 per cent or more of the research activity recognised as world leading or internationally excellent (4* + 3*)

Coverage

Following on from the RAE 2008, using their in-house systems the Queen's University submitted 774 staff and 7,706 output records covering 23 UoAs. Evidence/Symplectic identified a further 4,121 records of which 3,560 were valid.