Northumbria University’s health and
life sciences courses now rank in the top 500 in the world, according to the Times
Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2018.
The Rankings list the top 1,000
universities in the world and is Times Higher Education’s biggest league table
to date. It is the only global university performance table to judge
research-intensive universities across all of their core missions – teaching,
research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Northumbria features in the top 500 in the 2018 Times Higher Education in both the Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health subject ranking and in the Life Sciences subject ranking.
The University performed
particularly well in the metrics for research citations and industry income respectively.
Key strength
in research in the area of nursing, midwifery and health includes the work of The
Northern Hub for Veterans and Military Families Research, which has carried out
research into substance misuse amongst veterans and is being used to improve services
to support them. The Hub is also developing a smartphone app with a US software
company providing details of services available for UK military veterans as
well as being used to produce a map of need. The University is also leading on
a project to improve patient safety education, SLIPPS (Shared Learning from Practice to improve
Patient Safety), drawing on the real experiences of health and social care
students in work placements across five European countries.
Northumbria also has excellent partnerships with
industry, with income being used for research in particular in biological
services and sport science. This includes Glaxo Smithkline plc, Palintest Ltd
and the British Sailing Team.
The University is ranked top 50 in the
UK for research power and had the fourth largest
increase in quality research funding, according to the results of the 2014
Research Excellence Framework, which measures the quality of research
undertaken in universities. More than 80% of research power in Allied Health Professions
and Nursing were ranked as being of ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally
excellent’ quality, with sport and exercise science research power ranked in
the top 30 for excellence.
As well as attracting significant numbers of
international students and staff in these disciplines, the University works closely with more than 500 partner universities, colleges and
schools across the world. Northumbria’s partnership outreach sees the
University partner with education institutions across all six major continents
with partners in countries including USA, Canada, Australia, China, Japan and
India as well as nearly 200 partner organisations in Europe through the
Erasmus+ programme.
An extensive range of
professional bodies accredit Northumbria’s courses. These include the Nursing
and Midwifery Council, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Ofsted, the Institute of Biomedical Science and the
Chartered Society of Forensic Science and Association for Nutrition.
Professor Dianne Ford, Pro
Vice-Chancellor for Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University, said: “The
world rankings show the significant strides we have made in our world class research
and in our industry links. They clearly demonstrate our global reputation in
delivering academic excellence and are a real credit to Health and Life
Sciences at Northumbria. We continue to
recruit high quality students and excellent staff to what I believe is one of
the best Universities in the world.”
For more information on the THE World University Rankings, visit www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/by-subject.
For more information on courses and
research at Northumbria University visit www.northumbria.ac.uk
