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FSE-APR-2016-17---For-Intranet.Pdf THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2016-17 FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CONTENTS E PAG PRIORITIES AND ISSUES _________________________________________________________________ 3 SUMMARY OVERVIEW TABLES _________________________________________________________________ 4 INTRODUCTION _________________________________________________________________ 7 FACULTY AND SCHOOL SWOT ANALYSES Faculty of Science and Engineering _________________________________________________________________ 18 Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science _________________________________________________________________ 19 Chemistry _________________________________________________________________ 20 Computer Science _________________________________________________________________ 21 Earth and Environmental Sciences _________________________________________________________________ 22 Electrical and Electronic Engineering _________________________________________________________________ 23 Materials _________________________________________________________________ 24 Mathematics _________________________________________________________________ 25 Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering _________________________________________________________________ 26 Physics and Astronomy _________________________________________________________________ 27 FINANCE DATA _________________________________________________________________ 28 FACULTY RISK REGISTER AND SUMMARY OF COMPLIANCE Faculty Risk Register _________________________________________________________________ 30 Faculty Risk Map _________________________________________________________________ 39 Summary of Compliance _________________________________________________________________ 40 RESEARCH PERFORMANCE Faculty and School Overview _________________________________________________________________ 43 RGC income _________________________________________________________________ 44 RGC awards _________________________________________________________________ 48 RGC applications _________________________________________________________________ 55 Citations _________________________________________________________________ 56 Research Profiling Exercise/REFPE _________________________________________________________________ 57 Completion Profile _________________________________________________________________ 60 PGR enrolments _________________________________________________________________ 66 Invention disclosures, PoP, IP and Licences _________________________________________________________________ 71 TEACHING PERFORMANCE Faculty and School Overview ______________________________________________________________________ 73 ____________________________________________________________________________ 74 ____________________________________________________________________________ 81 Graduate Employability ____________________________________________________________________________ 83 % from Low Participation Neighbourhood (LPNs) _________________________________________________________________ 85 % from NS SEC ___________________________________________________________________________ 86 Non-continuation ___________________________________________________________________________ 87 Intake Profile ___________________________________________________________________________ 88 UG enrolments ___________________________________________________________________________ 92 Student: staff ratios ___________________________________________________________________________ 95 Attainment ___________________________________________________________________________ 96 Stellify ___________________________________________________________________________ 104 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Faculty and School Overview ___________________________________________________________________________ 105 Priority one: Research with social and environmental impact ______________________________________________________ 106 Priority two: Socially responsible graduates ______________________________________________________ 108 Priority three: Engagement ______________________________________________________ 110 Priority four: Responsible processes ______________________________________________________ 112 Priority five: Environmental sustainability ______________________________________________________ 113 STAFF SURVEY QUESTIONS Staff Survey Questions ______________________________________________________ 114 Staff Survey Action Plan ______________________________________________________ 117 OPERATIONAL PRIORITIES Review of progress against 2016/17 Operational Priorities ______________________________________________________ 120 FSE Operational Priorities 2017/18 ______________________________________________________ 137 Faculty Priorities and Issues Summary The key operational priorities identified for 2017/18 are: i) Review and develop an action plan to improve Teaching and Learning across the Faculty, thereby improving league table positions (by October 2017) ii) Enhance the profile of research activities across the Research Beacons and increase their impact, whilst optimising planning around MECD, HRI and other capital projects, including strategic development of new interdisciplinary activities to ensure delivery of University priorities (by July 2018) iii) Mentor and develop the range of existing leaders and tier 4 personnel (academic and PSS) to provide impactful leadership to enhance staff performance (by April 2018) and well-being and identify the next tier of leaders for future development programmes (by July 2018) iv) Strengthen our world class people by consolidating the flagship Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship Scheme further linking this into the University-wide investments in ECAs, whilst harnessing the diversity of our staff by consolidating progress on Athena Swan Awards, Juno Champion Awards, Race Equality Charter Mark and unconscious bias training (by December 2017) v) Simplification and standardisation of processes across the Faculty and Schools especially in the areas of Teaching and Learning (by June 2018) The issues that the Faculty wishes to discuss during the APR are: i) What are the barriers to achieving gold in TEF and equivalent in REF specifically in the context of University-wide issues, such as estates, culture and resources? How do we develop clearer mechanisms for cross-School teaching and research? ii) How do we maintain staff moral and high quality activity during change (Faculty Review; MECD; Student Lifecycle) in order to take staff with us successfully and positively as a result of implementation of agreed outcome of the Faculty review? iii) How do we improve engagement, consultation, decision making and managing staff? Can we review our processes to ensure that we promote higher staff engagement, harness staff contribution and enable buy-in? Page 3 of 148 APR Overview 2016/17 ChemicalScience EngineeringChemistry and AnalyticalComputer ScienceEarth and EnvironmentalElectrical Sciences and ElectronicMaterials EngineeringMathematics Mechanical,Engineering AerospacePhysics and and Civil Astronomy Dalton Research InstituteFacultyResearch Office (Including Institutes FY) and FSE Total Financial Performance 1 HEFCE Income £m 2.7 5.0 2.5 3.3 2.7 3.7 2.5 3.6 5.4 n/a 0.7 32.1 2 Tuition Fee Income £m 13.9 9.7 10.6 8.3 15.6 20.0 19.7 31.6 10.0 (0.1) 0.0 139.4 3 RGC Income (revenue) £m 4.9 20.7 7.4 9.2 9.6 13.3 3.2 5.4 21.3 0.4 0.3 95.7 4 Endowment, Investment & Other Income £m 1.0 3.0 1.0 1.3 1.9 3.8 0.6 2.3 2.6 0.1 2.9 20.3 5 Total Income £m 22.5 38.4 21.6 22.1 29.9 40.6 26.0 42.9 39.3 0.4 3.9 287.5 6 Pay £m 7.2 17.6 10.4 10.8 11.5 15.7 8.1 12.9 18.7 1.4 12.3 126.5 7 Non-pay £m 3.1 10.1 2.8 5.0 5.5 9.2 1.7 5.0 10.6 1.0 6.3 60.3 8 Total Expenditure £m 10.3 27.7 13.1 15.8 17.0 24.9 9.8 17.9 29.3 2.4 18.6 186.8 9 Contribution £m 12.2 10.8 8.5 6.4 12.8 15.7 16.2 25.0 10.0 (2.0) (14.7) 100.7 10 Contribution per academic staff FTE (27+28) 247,816 139,715 122,939 95,880 155,850 180,046 192,376 234,017 116,891 (1,526,718) (3,491,686) 141,064 11 Income per academic staff FTE (27+28) 457,038 496,766 312,410 331,086 364,057 465,596 308,752 401,573 459,380 305,344 926,366 402,740 12 Income per total staff FTE (32) 168,262 127,224 118,753 119,881 132,730 142,351 202,052 176,652 116,083 19,910 15,986 125,744 Research Performance 13 Research Income per RGC (inc RFs) FTE 114,486 295,757 125,169 130,441 137,931 142,018 40,827 60,194 226,379 173,160 136,364 142,330 14 International research income 1.0 4.7 2.7 2.6 0.3 2.6 0.9 0.8 5.5 0.0 0.0 21.1 15 Business income 0.9 1.6 0.7 1.0 3.3 3.3 0.2 1.4 0.8 0.0 0.3 13.6 16 PGR Enrolments 125 319 134 148 195 293 84 168 213 n/a 4 1683 17 PGR Completions (% within 5 years) 68.6 86.3 60.0 88.5 79.7 79.0 93.3 71.0 92.9 n/a n/a 79.6 18 Citations (%) 17.80 22.10 18.50 19.80 18.00 20.60 12.90 16.10 25.20 n/a n/a 20.30 19 RRE - at least one 3* (or has 4*) (%) 96 97 84 96 92 78 77 82 83 n/a n/a 86 Teaching Performance 20 NSS 2017 Results for Q27 92 91 86 76 n/a n/a Response rate less than 50% 21 Tariff 478.5 443.5 450.4 396.7 443.0 444.1 467.9 445.8 526.5 n/a n/a 22 LPNs % 6.6 6.7 11.1 4.1 9.0 5.1 12.8 6.3 5.3 n/a 5.3 7.0 23 NSSEC % 28.6 19.6 22.5 29.9 33.9 19.0 32.1 20.5 19.8 n/a 24.9 24.6 24 Positive graduate destinations 82.1 80.7 86.8 78.7 88.2 68.5 76.7 86.0 80.1 n/a n/a 80.3 Staff and Student FTE 25 Student Load 1137 1103 951 671 1093 1526 1713 2097 1201 n/a 117 11608 26 SSR 24.8:1 15.5:1 15.0:1 10.3:1 14.5:1 18.1:1 21.1:1 21.0:1 14.9:1 n/a n/a 17.3:1 27 Academic Staff
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