{"id":272,"date":"2015-01-14T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T11:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=272"},"modified":"2015-01-14T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:15:09","slug":"kent-law-school-ranked-8th-in-uk-for-research-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/kent-law-school-ranked-8th-in-uk-for-research-intensity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Law School ranked 8th in UK for research intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Law School is ranked 8th in the UK for research intensity in the latest Times Higher Education<\/em>\u00a0 (THE) rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the THE\u00a0rankings by subject<\/a>, based on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, the School outperforms 19 of 24 Russell Group universities, including Warwick, Queen\u2019s Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham and York.<\/p>\n

Research intensity\u00a0measures the School\u2019s average quality score in combination with the proportion of eligible staff submitted for review to the REF.\u00a0 Almost all (99%) of Kent Law School\u2019s research was judged to be of international quality with 79% judged as \u2018world-leading\u2019 or \u2018internationally excellent\u2019. The School submitted 45 academics for review \u2013 an impressive 89% of eligible staff.<\/p>\n

The REF, an independent survey of UK universities, has already ranked the School 7th for its ‘research power’<\/a> with more than a third of the School’s research being given the highest 4* rating.<\/p>\n

The dynamic research culture and community within the School has also been fully endorsed with 100% of its research environment recognised as being conducive to producing research of ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ quality in the initial REF results<\/a> published in December.<\/p>\n

Head of School Professor Didi Herman said: ‘These are excellent results which reflect both our international reputation for producing world-leading research and our passion and commitment to producing research that makes a difference in society.<\/p>\n

‘We submitted almost all our eligible staff for review and are very proud of the depth and breadth of the exceptional research in which our staff are engaged.<\/p>\n

‘We use our research to advise governments, law-makers, legal practitioners, international bodies, non-governmental organisations and activists.’<\/p>\n

As an institution, the University of Kent<\/a> has also performed well in the rankings for research intensity, being placed 17th<\/sup> nationally amongst multi-faculty institutions.<\/p>\n