Many research strengths

• environmental sciences

• structural biology

• medical & biological engineering

• materials

• health & biomedicine

• sports science

• business (international marketing, finance and accountancy) & law

• data analytics

Astbury Centre

Understanding life in molecular detail

Established in 1999 to study structural molecular and cellular biology.

60 faculty, 300 researchers.

£17m investment (2015) in state of the art instruments for Electron Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Priestley International Centre for Climate

Established in 2015 to consolidate our leading UK position.

All key areas of climate change research: physical science, ecosystem responses and changes, adaptation and mitigation.

One of the largest UK recipients of funding for climate change research.

Contributed Lead Authors to all three IPCC working group reports and its synthesis report

Bragg Centre

Advanced functional materials

A unique platform for growth, imaging, modelling and device engineering of materials - opening 2018

Magnetic materials, glasses/metal oxides/semiconductors

Terahertz technologies

Coupling magnetic and molecular materials

Soft materials

Leeds-Diamond soft x-ray facility

Biomaterials, colloids, granular materials, polymers, liquid crystals, biological and non-bio membranes, proteins

…and

Textiles

Concrete

Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

• 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

REF2014: Ranking by research power

Institution

Power

Ranking

2014

Research

Power

2014

% 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%

REF2014: Ranking by impact

Institution

Impact

Ranking Impact GPAInstitute 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 10 3.50

University of Cambridge 12 3.49

University of Leeds 13 3.47

University of Edinburgh 14 3.46

University of York 14 3.46

University of Manchester 16 3.45

University of Bath 16 3.45

University of Sheffield 18 3.43

World league tables

QS % THE % Shanghai Jiao Tong %

Education Employer reputationStudents / faculty

1020

ReputationStudent / FacultyPGR/UGPGR/facultyInstitutional income / faculty

154.52.2562.25

Alumni with Nobel / Fields 10

International outlook

Intl./domestic studentsIntl./domestic faculty

55

Intl./domestic studentsIntl./domestic faculty% papers with intl. co-author

2.52.52.5

Research output

Reputation 40 ReputationResearch income / facultyPapers / faculty (field weighted)

1866

# papersPer-capita performance

2010

Research influence

Citations / faculty 20 # citations 30 Staff with Nobel/FieldsHighly cited papersPapers in Nature / Science

202020

Societal impact

Industry income 2.5

2015(2014) ranking

87 (97) 133 (146) 101-150 (101-150)

Research income – top 10

Research awards

110

120

130

140

150

160

170

180

190

200

2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

£m

Awards Projected Awards Required Awards Income Projected Income Planned Income

January 2016

Strategic Plan 2014-2020

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*

3000 FTE postgraduate research students by 2020

Build on our research strengths with creativity and high ambition

Appoint outstanding early career researchers and senior academic leaders

Five-year academic fellowships leading to Associate Professor

Increase funding for PGR students

Leeds Anniversary Research Scholarships (128 for 2016 entry)

Doctoral Training Centres

Industrial sponsorship

Campaign sponsorship

Focus on PGR student experience

Support academic staff to raise the number of 4* outputs

Internal mentorship and review of outputs

Leeds Russell Group Sector

4* Outputs 21% 27% 22%

4* Impact 54% 54% 44%

REF 2014 4* outputs and impact

Bibliometrics

% outputs in top 10% most cited Field weighted citation index

Publicising our research outputs

Open Access

When you have a paper accepted for publication, deposit (or link to) the

accepted manuscript in our repository via Symplectic within 3 months of

acceptance. http://library.leeds.ac.uk/open-access

Research Data

When preparing a final manuscript for publication, include references to

the data underpinning the research findings. This data should be

deposited in an external specialist archive or in our own repository RDL

(Research Data Leeds). http://researchdata.leeds.ac.uk

Researchfish and ORCiD

To satisfy Research Council reporting requirements, update your

research outcomes in Researchfish in preparation for finalizing between

1 Feb 2016 – 4.00 pm 10 March 2016. http://www.researchfish.com

To distinguish you from every other researcher, create an ORCiD

identifier (or enter one if you already have one) via our Self Service

system (http://selfservice.leeds.ac.uk). RCUK, Wellcome and NIHR all

now using ORCiD. http://library.leeds.ac.uk/researcher-orcid

Become better informed and influential with our funders

Joining governing bodies and strategic advisory teams

Engagement

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

£17m investment in Astbury BioStructure Laboratory

State of the art instruments for Electron Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Develop interdisciplinary research around sector-facing themes

Cities

Sustainable

& Resilient

Infrastructure

Sustainable

Societies

Transport

Global society and business

Low carbon transitions

Social and environmental justice

Socio-technical systems

Urban robotics

Address complex systems issues in holistic, trans-disciplinary manner with emphasis on data analytics

54% of the world’s population live in

cities, forecast to rise to 66% by

2050 (UN, 2014)

Cultural Institute

Cultural value

Creative industries

Human language and communication

Culture, society and innovation

Culture identify and heritage

Better engage researchers and students with the cultural sector, including:

• Opera North, Hepworth Gallery, Leeds International Piano Competition, National Media Museum, The Royal Armouries

Build on Brotherton Library Special Collection

• Now includes South Bank Show archives

Energy

Oil and gas

Bio-energy

Low-carbon transitions

Water

Changing climate and rainfall patterns

River basin processes and management

Flood risk

Water sensitive urban design

Arctic, alpine and UK hydro-ecology

Computational fluid dynamics

One of the largest interdisciplinary water research centres globally

Food

Agriculture and agri-tech

Plant sciences

Ecology and evolution

Food chemistry and biochemistry

Food colloids and processing

Nutrition and public health

Food reassurance

40% of pigs in UK use feed designed by Leeds

£200M current grant portfolio

Health

Cardiovascular disease

Musculoskeletal disease

Genetics

Health informatics

Clinical and pre-clinical imaging

Medical humanities

Immunology, inflamation and infection

Molecular and digital pathology

Medical devices, including medical robotics

40 active spin-out companies

7 listed with market cap. > £500m

36% of faculty involved in applied research or consultancy

275 SMEs involved with Goldman Sachs 10,000 small businesses programme

Enterprise in the undergraduate curriculum for 1200+ students

Thriving graduate start-up incubator

Innovation and Enterprise

Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA)

£12m investment from UK research councils in 2014

Workspace promoting collaboration

State of the art IT infrastructure: security, connectivity, compute-power

Centre for Medical Bioinformatics

Molecular & phenotypic datasets

Patient records

Data analysis

Core partners:

• Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - one of the largest teaching hospitals in

Europe

• TPP, EMIS - two largest providers of on-line medical records in the UK (80%

of market, TPP has 40m+ unique patient records)

• Health and Social Care Information Centre - UK national centre for health

information

Current focus on inherited rare diseases, kidney disease, skin cancer and

colorectal cancer

Clinical

impact

Consumer Data Research Centre

Partnership with universities of Liverpool, Oxford and UCL

Industrial partners: Asda-Walmart, Barclays, Telefonica, Acxiom, Sainsburys, Post Office, Marks and Spencer

Data types: product sales, loyalty card and reward scheme, market research, movement (smart ticketing, traffic monitoring, mobile phone)

Develop mutually beneficial collaborations with external partners

Marks & Spencer Opera North

P&G

White Rose University Consortium

Leeds

Sheffield

York

Established 1997

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 Sciences (funded by ESRC)

Opening a White Rose EU office in Brussels

Durham

Newcastle

York

Leeds

Sheffield

Liverpool

Lancaster

Manchester

Established 2007

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

N8 purpose

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

Catalyse new research opportunities with selected international partners

Established 2000www.vectortemplates.com

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University of Bergen

Maastricht University

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