Top 10 ranking for SAC research

The School of Anthropology and Conservation are delighted to be ranked 10th for research power within the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014.

The REF 2014 assesses the quality of academic research conducted by higher education institutions and the School has been ranked 10th for its ‘research power’ within the area of Anthropology and Development Studies.

The research power rating recognises both the overall quality of the research and the number of researchers whose work was submitted for evaluation to the REF.

SAC was assessed as having 59% of its research as world-leading or internationally excellent confirming that our School is a central player in the UK both in terms of Anthropology (Social and Biological) and Biodiversity Conservation.  In addition, 88% of the research environment within the school was judged as being of world-leading or internationally excellent quality in terms of its vitality and sustainability.

In response to the results Professor Joao Pina Cabral, Head of School, said, “These results show how our school has a thriving research environment which incorporates a number of different disciplines within a coherent project aimed at responding to some of the central questions of our times.”

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