Senate March 18 th 2015 College of Life and Environmental Sciences CLES

CLES – Who are we? Disciplines:Biosciences Geography Psychology Sport and Health Sciences CLES in Cornwall - Biosciences Geography Locations:Exeter Streatham Exeter St Luke’s Cornwall Penryn 14 buildings Students:3907 total FTEs 6.8% international Finances:£68m turnover 41% Research 59% Teaching

CLES – Who are we? Staff: 421 FTE College funded staff : 62% Academic & 38% Professional Services (19.1% Technical) 233 FTE Researchers and Contract Technicians 31% of academics are Early Career Lecturers Average age is Proleptic appointments 8% Academic staff are E&S Athena Swan Silver (SHS) and Bronze (Geography, Cornwall, Psychology)

CLES Research Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in Africa Recycling behaviour Photography, exploration, science and culture Children’s activity and heart disease Biodiesel from bacteria Plain packaging and smoking Brain injury in rugby players Plants in the office make us more productive Beetroot juice and sports performance Turtle habitat and conservation Streetlighting and bats Sea level rise and atoll formation

CLES- Research Research Income 2014/15 - £21.8M grants, £5.3 QR & RDP *Cornwall grant income: £6.4M Biosciences, £0.8M Geography

CLES Research Income / FTE: All top PGR / FTE: Most 1 st or 2 nd, Biosciences 6 th

CLES- REF 2014 REF Unit of AssessmentGPAFTEIntensity UOA: 4: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience % UOA: 5: Biological Sciences % *UOA: 7: Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences % UOA: 26: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism % Geography and Environmental Studies (UoA17A disaggregated from UoA 17) % *Joint submission with CEMPS

CLES research income trajectory

CLES Education ‘Every interaction counts’ All disciplines in a top 10, SHS top 2 60% of CLES offers at AAA or above Inter-disciplinary programmes: Medical Sciences and Natural Sciences (>100 students in 14/15 and growing) International recruitment and partnership: e.g. Psychology - 37 int students on UG, links with University of Tokyo, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Improved student facilities at St Luke’s; Richards Foyer and South Cloisters c.750 students on residential fieldtrips every year Global gold at iGEM (international genetically engineered machine foundation) Climate Change MOOC – c.25,000 students over 2 years HEFCE/ STEM teaching award £10m Grand challenges: Talking clothes

CLES Education – Student numbers Discipline profile – Students 2014/15 FTE

CLES Education – KPIs NSS %Employment (DLHE) % Times League Table Position Guardian League Table Position Biosciences Geography Psychology SHS International ranking 2014 Life Sciences 98th (THE) Geography 21st (QS) Psychology top 100 (QS) Earth Sciences top 100 (QS)

CLES Education – KPIs: CLES 4 year entry tariff profile Rising cohort sizes… …and rising tariff

Research Living Systems Institute recruitment and success REF2020: Moving from % intensity to ?240 o More and better impact case studies o Greater emphasis on 4* High proportion of ECRs – realising their potential Hitting projected income and reversing downturn in % earnings Industrial income and corporate partnerships RCUK funding – further increasing market share of declining(?) resource PGR – external funding, international, quality Education Embedding employability and enhancing graduate prospects High margin activity with STEM costs International partnerships and recruitment: Low base provides opportunity for existing UG and PGT programmes; esp. Psychology, Biosciences, Cornwall, INTO New programme development: e.g. Marine biology, Sport and Exercise Medicine (UG/PGT), clinical psychology PGT, ….. CLES challenges and opportunities - Global top 100 through synergy in research and education

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