RAE Update 2 March 2009

GRE have received the hard copies of submissions back from the RAE panels and will be returning them over the next month.  For further information please contact Tracy Banton at GRE X8406.

RAE Update 18 December 2008

The results have now been posted on the RAE Website.  A message from the Vice Chanchellor can be found on the University Research pages.

RAE Update 29 April 2008

The results of the RAE will be published on the RAE website on 18 December 2008.

RAE Update 30 November 2007

The University of Greenwich has now submitted its entry to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).  The work of over 200 researchers in 19 subject areas will be rated by independent assessors as part of a national review, with the results being known by Christmas 2008.

The School of Humanities & Social Sciences submission is comprised of 39 researchers in six Units: CCMS, Law, Politics, Linguistics, English and History. 

For more information please contact Dr Alessandro Benati (tel: 020 8331 9048; e-mail: a.benati@gre.ac.uk).

Background of the RAE

The RAE 2008 is the sixth in a series of exercises conducted nationally to assess the quality of UK research and to inform the selective distribution of public funds for research by the four UK higher education funding bodies.

The first RAE was undertaken in 1986. For the first time it introduced an explicit and formalised assessment process of the quality of research. Further exercises held in 1989, 1992 and 1996 became gradually more transparent, comprehensive and systematic.

The fifth exercise in 2001 was the most rigorous and thorough exercise to date. It considered the work of almost 50,000 researchers in 2,598 submissions from 173 HEIs. The RAE is the principal means by which institutions assure themselves of the quality of the research undertaken in the HE sector.