1. Introduction to Research and Innovation at Leeds
Professor Lisa Roberts
Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation
14th November 2016

2. 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%

3. 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

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

5. 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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6. Research income – top 10

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

8. Field weighted citation index

9. 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

10. Appoint outstanding early career researchers and senior academic leaders
Five-year academic fellowships leading to Associate Professor

11. 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

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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. White Rose University Consortium
Leeds
Sheffield
York
Established 1997

19. 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

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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Create a high-profile presence for innovation and enterprise in the City and beyond
NEXUS
Company incubation
Graduate start-ups and incubation (SPARK)
Networking and meeting space

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

26. Research and Innovation Governance
Council
Senate
Research and Innovation Board
Graduate Board
9 Faculty Research and Innovation Boards
9 Graduate School Committees
School Research and Innovation Committees

27. Research and Innovation Support
Research and Innovation Development team (different funding streams, support for bids, innovation support, post award support, themes support, business development)
Contracts and Commercialisation team
Research quality and policy (inc REF) and Library staff
Research Finance (reporting, costing)
Marketing and Comms

28. WHAT ELSE WE NEED
A research and innovation strategy delivery plan
Leadership – quality, impact, income, themes, strategy, culture
Coordination
Ambition
Belief

29. Research and Innovation Strategy Delivery Plan
High quality research with overall profile >40% 4*
Research income of £200m pa by 2020
Attract and retain world class academics
Identify and market our research strengths
Performance management of the “tail”
Bid review process and support
Partner of choice for business, industry and public sector
Define what kind of partnerships we want
Hire better than what we have
Enhance and use appointments on REF panels, funding boards and advisory boards
Time
Strategic plan
Actions
Support and reward innovation and enterprise activity
Focus on quality not quantity
Support for larger bids
Shape forthcoming calls, be pre-emptive
Focus themes on big research questions and give support
Better community building/culture
UAF probation - too long, focus on quality of outputs etc
Celebrate success
Maintain investment in facilities
Workload balance-need time for research
Target new partners based on research strengths
Use Nexus to attract partners
Be clear about what we can offer
Be ambitious
Needs coordination
Define what 4* looks like
Big impact research questions (themes)
Share good practice
Grading of outputs
Define what “REF impact” is
Workload balance-need time away from teaching