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PRIORITY 1 CULTURE OF RESEARCH AMBITION

VIBRANT POSTGRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL COMMUNITYPRIORITY 3

Our mission is to be recognised globally for our academic strengths and the impact we deliver through our research. In the period 2016 - 21 we will work to create an inspiring research environment that nurtures talent and rewards outstanding leadership and excellence.

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Excellence in research and innovation, and making a positive global impact, are central to what we do at Queen’s University Belfast.

Professor James C. McElnayActing President and Vice Chancellor

PIONEERRESEARCH

PROGRAMMES

Vibrant Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Community

Create a vibrant and ambitious postgraduate and postdoctoral community; attracting, retaining, and developing the very best talent.

Connecting to Tackle Global Challenges

Reshape how we organise research to work with one another and with partners to yield solutions to the world’s most difficult problems.

Culture of Research Ambition

Inspire the next generation of world-class researchers, not just as individuals but as leaders and motivators of others.

GLOBAL RESEARCHINSTITUTES

Our Global Research Institutes bring researchers from different disciplines

together on a scale that enables them to address major societal challenges

Through Pioneer Research Programmes, we stimulate novel interdisciplinary research collaborations to tackle challenges emerging on the global horizon

Excellent research conducted by researchers working in a range of core disciplines is the foundation for our research success, as demonstrated through the results of REF 2014

CORE DISCIPLINES

Research Strategy 2016-21

GATE FOLD

Impact and Innovation Queen’s University is a powerhouse of innovation, and one of the highest performing universities in the UK for commercialisation of research. The University prides itself on developing research which makes a difference to the livelihood and well-being of societies, communities, and individuals around the world. Through reshaping debates on our past to help redefine our present, and inspiring the next generation of scientists, artists and business leaders, our research plays a central role in shaping the world we live in.

Securing children and young peoples’ rights at

the United Nations

Exploringexoplanet

atmospheres in molecular detail

Improving quality of life for millions of

patients through enhanced

orthopaedics

Protecting world heritage sites in Europe, South Asia and South America

ECIT institute in digital technology

created over 2,000 jobs and

35 start-ups

Point of caretechnology on

the front line of 2014 West African

Ebola crisis

Using technology to detect food fraud and protect global

food chains

Exposing the injustice

of the Hillsborough

Disaster

Explaining our shared past and

exploring our shared future, locally and globally

PostgraduateResearch The Graduate School provides an exclusive postgraduate hub for taught and research students. Based in the restored and remodelled Lynn Building, it was opened as a library in 1858. This fully-accessible refurbished space has modern, hi-tech group study rooms, a silent study area, and social spaces, creating a vibrant hub for intellectual exchange and collaboration.

The Queen’s postgraduate experience is embedded in the Masters or PhD programme, but is also so much more. The Graduate School is about intellectual challenge beyond disciplinary borders, personal effectiveness and skills development, promoting a culture of opportunity and enterprise, and a rich, diverse, inclusive social community.

There are five pillars which guide students’ experience through the Graduate School.

THINKERReflective

CriticalFlexible

Disruptive

LEADERVisionaryStrategic

Self-awareCollaborative

INNOVATORCreative

Business awareRisk managerInsight driven

FUTURE-READYConfidentResilient

Employer-focusedNetworked

COMMUNICATORAcademic writersPublic engaged

Socially networkedProfessional presenters

Dealing with the challenges of collecting, storing, securing and analysing the torrent

of digital data we are all generating.GRI - The Institute of Electronics,

Communications and Information Technology

Working with children and families in targeted, co-ordinated ways to prevent social problems that emerge later in life.PRP - Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation

Helping to better manage risks – financial, environmental, social – to protect the most vulnerable in society.PRP - Risk and Inequality

Bringing together environmental and energy analysis with emerging technologies to meet the challenges of long-term energy security.PRP - Centre for Sustainable Energy

HEALTHY GLOBAL POPULATION

TECHNOLOGY FUTURES

INCLUSIVE, SECURE AND ENRICHED SOCIETY

Our interdisciplinary research priorities are shaped by our three Global Challenge Themes. Together they raise pressing and difficult research questions which are motivating our first cohorts of Global Research Institutes (GRIs) and Pioneer Research Programmes (PRPs).

Through our GRIs and PRPs we are…

Harnessing advances in the fundamental understanding of radiation to improve treatments for patients with cancer.PRP - Centre for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Radiation Research

Using advanced technologies such as smart materials in drug delivery.PRP - Material and Advanced Technologies for Healthcare

Creating smart, autonomous manufacturing systems that will make the factories of the future more productive, resilient and energy-efficient.PRP - Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems

Interdisciplinary Research Priorities

Helping societies emerging from conflict resolve lingering differences and reconcile the

challenges of justice, peace and security.GRI - The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute

for Global Peace, Security and Justice

Working to ensure everyone has access to safe, nutritious food when the global population is growing faster than ever.

GRI - The Institute for Global Food Security

Tackling cancer, respiratory conditions and eye disease that affect populations worldwide, ensuring

advances can help fight a range of conditions.GRI - The Institute for Health Sciences

Research and EnterpriseQueen’s University BelfastUniversity RoadBelfast, BT7 1NNNorthern Ireland

T +44 (0) 28 9024 2568E rpo@qub.ac.uk

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Research Success

Top 10in the UK for

income from IP(HE-BCI Survey 2017)

£100m +in new research

awards in 2016-17

Over 75% of research assessed as “world-leading” or “internationally

excellent”(REF 2014)

9th in the World Rankings for International

ResearchCollaboration

(THE 2017)

8th in the UK for Research

Intensity (Times Higher Intensity

Rankings based on REF 2014)

43% growth over 5 years in research

grant awards(2012-2017)

1,900 people employed

in 40 Active spin-out

companies.

Top 30 most effective publishers in

the World(THE World UniversityRankings result 2018)

1st in the UK for KnowledgePartnershipswith Business