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Charlotte Klein

Research Impact Lead

University of West London (UWL)

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University of West London (UWL) is a public university and draws on this heritage of over 160 in teaching and professional education. The University has approximately 16,000 academically and professionally accomplished students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, specialist, and professional degrees as far field as Dubai, Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, China, Oman, Hong Kong, Berlin, Cyprus, Athens, and Spain.

The University of West London Group has a number of sites: the main campus at St Mary’s Road, Ealing, Cavendish and Century House on the Uxbridge Road, and the Drama Studio London. The Paragon House campus is located in Brentford while the Berkshire Institute of Health is housed in the centre of Reading. Ruskin College in Oxford is also part of the UWL Group.

Today, the University is a thriving institution whose core aims are to inspire students to become creative professionals and to connect them to exciting and rewarding careers. The University has a strong reputation for high-quality education closely linked to employment. UWL is one of the top ten institutions in the country for employability, and the best performing multi-faculty university in London.

While predominantly a teaching-focused Higher Education Institution, research is fundamental to our identity as a University. We have rationalised our activities, particularly staff and research student appointments, to align with our strategic ambitions of underpinning pedagogic activity and professional training with impactful research. Our aim is to develop and incubate coherent areas of research excellence into outward-facing Research Centres, serving as a catalyst for enhancing research capability within our eight teaching departments. This investment will support the achievement of ambitious research activity targets, leading to outputs and impacts that will underpin an enhanced REF 2029 submission. Our goal for REF 2029 is to be ranked among the top 70 universities in the UK for research quality, a significant improvement from our 99th place out of 125 universities in REF 2021, which itself was a substantial improvement from our REF 2014 result.

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