| Subject: | THE RAE RESULTS: MESSAGE FROM THE WARDEN AND THE DEAN FOR RESEARCH |
| From: | "VP Association" |
| Date: | Fri, December 19, 2008 11:41 am |
THE RAE RESULTS: MESSAGE FROM THE WARDEN AND THE DEAN FOR RESEARCH
Dear Colleagues,
We want to take this opportunity to thank all staff in the School of
Medicine and Dentistry for their marvellous efforts which have propelled
SMD into the top tier of research active medical schools, as announced
yesterday in the RAE results and reported in today's press.
This has contributed to an astonishing ascendancy of Queen Mary in the
league tables. In RAE 2001, QM was 48th in the Times Higher rankings. In
2008, we are now 13th out of 132 universities in the UK, one place
behind Edinburgh In the Guardian rankings we are 11th (the Guardian
does not count two small mono-subject institutions). Across QM as a
whole, Humanities and Social Sciences also performed at a very high
level.
QM belongs to the smaller research intensive 1994 group of universities,
while the 20 larger research intensive universities form the Russell
Group. QM performed better than 12 Russell Group universities,
including Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Kings, Leeds, Liverpool,
Newcastle, Sheffield, and Southampton.
Detailed comparisons between medical schools are not available at the
moment because different schools entered different units of assessment.
However Dentistry in UoA10 had a brilliant result. Based on quantity of
3* and 4* outputs, we were first equal with Manchester, and when this
was converted to rankings we were 2nd out of 14 UK dental schools.
In other units of assessment the medical school performed incredibly
well. To use the information and rankings published in Times Higher
Education:
UOA2-Cancer, 3rd of 14 submissions in terms of 3* and 4* work, joint
5th overall ahead of Oxford, Imperial, KCL and UCL.
UoA4- Hospital subjects (ICMS), joint 1st with Cambridge and Edinburgh
in terms of 3* and 4* papers, joint 7th overall out of 28 ahead of
Manchester, Newcastle and Southampton.
UoA6- Epidemiology (Wolfson Institute) , 2nd of 21 in terms of 3* and 4*
papers, 3rd overall ahead of Oxford, UCL and Bristol.
UoA7-Health Services Research, joint 5th out of 24 in terms of 3* and
4* papers, joint 7th overall out of 28, 4th overall ahead of Oxford,
UCL and KCL.
UOA9-Psychiatry, joint 10th out of 17 of 3* and 4* papers, 12th
overall.
UoA15- Preclinical and Human Biological Sciences ( WHRI), 3rd in terms
of 3* and 4* papers, 4th overall out of 13 ahead of KCL, Bristol and
Nottingham.
We expect that these results will guarantee Barts and the London School
of Medicine and Dentistry as being ranked one of the top 10 medical
schools in the UK, and with a fair wind, higher than that, in the same
company as Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and UCL.
Our congratulations and many thanks to all of you who contributed to
this fantastic result.
Best wishes,
Nick Wright
Warden
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