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Research Strategy: Progress Report, August 2024

  • Key facts and figures
  • Collaboration
  • Creativity
  • Careers
  • Introduction
  • Key facts and figures
  • Acknowledgements

Key facts and figures

  • £197M average annual research income since 2020/21
  • 93.1% of research deemed world-leading or internationally excellent in REF2021
  • 6th in the Russell Group for income per R&T FTE in 2022/23
  • An annual average of 44 awards over £1m – an average amount of £3.2M
  • Talent Lab delivers 11 programmes focused on developing leadership in research, with 1,285 colleagues participating so far
  • 1,475 FTE Research and Teaching Staff, and 1,275 FTE Research-only staff
  • 3,120 PGRs
  • 12th in the world in THE Impact Rankings
  • £680,654 awarded to support research productivity through the pandemic
  • A signatory of 7 research-related Concordats
  • 4th in Russell Group for PGRs per FTE 
  • Over 500 doctoral degrees awarded each year
  • 118 impact case studies submitted to REF2021
  • £3.2m additional funding to support our PGR community since the pandemic
  • 7,229 academic outputs published in 2023 – over 60% of publications had an international co-author 
  • 53 James McCune Smith Scholars since 2022
  • 14,000 public and school visitors to the ARC since opening
  • 252 colleagues recognised for their positive contribution to the research environment as part of People Make Research campaign
  • 5th in the Russell Group in field-weighted citation impact
  • Open access rate over 80%
  • £1.2m distributed through Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund
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