Faculty Research Culture Dr Jenny Rivers Faculty Research and Knowledge Exchange Manager The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Faculty Research Culture

Dr Jenny RiversFaculty Research and Knowledge Exchange Manager

The Faculty of

Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

School of the Arts

• Architecture

• Communication & Media

• English

• Music

• Philosophy

School of Histories, Languages & Cultures

• Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology

• Modern Languages & Cultures

• History

• Irish Studies

• Politics

School of Law & Social Justice

• Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

• Law

University of Liverpool Management School

• Organisation & Management

• Economics, Finance & Accounting

• Marketing & Operations

Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Themes

Digital Humanities

Centre for Architecture and Visual Arts

Institute of Cultural Capital

Risk, Security and Conflict

N8 Policing

Sustainable Cities

Heseltine Institute

Un-free labour

Centre for the Study of International Slavery

Politics, History, Law, Sociology, Criminology

Heritage

Combining strengths including Archaeology, History, Languages

Research Centres

Centre for Architecture & the Visual Arts

India in the World

Centre for the Study of International Slavery

Merseyside Agility Centre

Centre for Health, Arts & Sciences

Centre for Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

Heseltine Institute of Public Policy &

Practice

Charity Law & Policy Research Unit

Centre for Manx Studies

Research Partners

National Museums Liverpool Royal Liverpool

Philharmonic Orchestra

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool Biennial

The Reader Organisation

Research Facilities

Music studio

Acoustic Research Unit

Harold Cohen Library

Garstang Museum

Liverpool Law Clinic

Sydney Jones Library

Special Collections & Archives

Architecture Labs

Global Connections

• Research collaborationsXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Singapore Institute of Technology

University of Georgia Athens

Trinity College Dublin

Uppsala University

• Growing partnershipsAustralia

Hong Kong

North America

• Faculty visits, staff and PGR exchanges• Collaborative research• Joint postgraduate programmes

UK Research Funding System: Dual Support

• Higher Education funding bodies provide core funding as block grants to HEIs to support their research infrastructure and their strategic research priorities.

• This quality-related (QR) funding is allocated through a formula institutions’ volume of research activity and an assessment of the quality of their research based on regular research assessment exercises (REF).

HEFCE Block Grant (QR) 2015/16 - £1.6bn

• Research Councils provide grants to specific research projects and programmes. There is a balance between ‘responsive mode’ awards made in response to proposals submitted by researchers in any area they choose, and awards for proposals that relate to strategic priorities as set out in their strategic plans.

Research Council funding 2015/16 - £2.7bn

• November 2013 submitted to 13 units of assessment• Results December 2014

• Outputs (65%)• Impact (20%)• Environment (15%)

• 38 Impact Case Studies

Research + Knowledge Exchange Impact

• 70% internationally excellent and world-leading (3*/4*)• 70% outputs• 80% impact and environment

Top 10: ArchitectureArchaeology & EgyptologyEnglish

100% 3*/4* impact: LawArchitectureManagement SchoolEnglishSociology, Social Policy & Criminology

• 70% internationally excellent and world-leading (3*/4*)• 70% outputs• 80% impact and environment

Top 25% 3*/4* Architectureoutputs: Classics

Sociology, Social Policy & CriminologyArchaeology & EgyptologyEnglish

Top 25% 3*/4* Musicenvironment: Management School

English

Current research projects

Acoustics Research Unit Use of high level sound to clean industrial spaces

Management SchoolBusiness models for online retail

Archaeology, Classics & EgyptologyDeveloping tours of prehistoric archaeological sites in Turkey and Malta

Current research projects

Sociology, Social Policy & CriminologyExamining the long-term impact on Victorian children sent to secure homes, reformatories or gaol

Modern Languages & CulturesLatin(o) American Digital Art

PhilosophyCreativity Research Adaptive Road Map

Horizon Scanning,

Networking, Scoping

Project development

and submission

Award and establishment

of project

Active Project

Outcomes and outputs

Promotion and Communication

Research Project Lifecycle

Postgraduate community

• Local events & seminars

• Interdisciplinary research themes & networks

• Website and email communications

• Twitter

@livuniHSS_PGR