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ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 REF 2014 Has Given Us a Spectacular Opportunity to Let the World Know What a Great University We Have Here at Cardiff HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY YEAR ANNUALREVIEW 2014 PREFACE cardiff.ac.uk ANNUAL REVIEW Preface from the Vice-Chancellor When we embarked on our strategic vision, The Way Forward, we made a bold statement. We set out our ambition to come in the top 10 for quality in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), the mechanism used to assess the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, on the basis of a selective submission. I am delighted to report that the REF REF capped a year of many major agreement with the University of working at Cardiff University, results we received at the end of milestones for the University, each Leuven. This landmark partnership regardless of whether they are 2014 were truly exceptional. Amongst of which will help us deliver on the will boost research income, create University employees or employed by UK universities we rank fifth behind commitments we set out in The Way new research collaborations and offer third-party contractors and suppliers, Imperial College London, then LSE, Forward in our four priority areas of more opportunities for students and will receive a minimum hourly wage Oxford and Cambridge for the quality research and innovation, education, staff to study and teach abroad. significantly higher than the national of our research. We rank second in international and engagement. minimum wage. Closer to home we officially launched the UK on the impact measure which I was very proud to launch the Cardiff the GW4 Alliance at the House We’ve also worked hard to improve assesses the significance and reach Innovation System, an ambitious of Commons. The Alliance brings facilities for students. Our new of our research. £300M investment that will boost together the combined strengths £14.5M world class centre for Our REF highlights include Civil the Welsh economy and see Cardiff of the universities of Bath, Bristol, teaching and training tomorrow’s Engineering and Construction University become internationally Cardiff and Exeter and gives us global business leaders opened at which emerged as the top in the recognised as an engine for future the critical mass to succeed in Cardiff Business School. This state- UK, Psychology, Psychiatry and prosperity, health and growth in an increasingly competitive and of-the-art learning and teaching hub Neuroscience which was ranked 2nd Wales, the UK and the wider world. research-intensive environment. provides high-tech lecture theatres, in the UK, Communication, Cultural The launch was attended by the executive study zones and a high- Our plans to bring this vision to life and Media Studies – effectively the Secretary of State for Wales, Stephen tech ‘trading room’. include four new buildings which will School of Journalism, Media and Crabb MP, along with representatives transform a site on Maindy Road from Talybont Gate, a new hall of residence, Cultural Studies - which was also from industry, business, academia, a disused, former industrial space was also opened. Designed with ranked 2nd in the UK, Sociology charitable organisations and the into a cutting-edge campus. One of feedback from students in mind, the which was ranked 3rd in the UK, public sector. the new builds will be the world’s first new halls have more communal areas Allied Health which was joint 4th in Social Science Research Park, which Alongside these achievements, with Freeview TV and Wi-Fi access, the UK and Education, ranked joint will turn world-leading research into Cardiff University continued to modern cooking and dining facilities 5th in the UK. solutions to pressing problems facing make progress in other areas. I was on every floor, bigger beds and The REF results mean that we have society and the world. delighted that for the fifth consecutive showers in each of the rooms. emphatically achieved one of our year, the University made it into We unveiled our five flagship Talybont Gate is just one of a series most important key performance Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers in engagement projects at the Senedd, of recent development projects indicators. The result will also recognition of its commitment to the home of Welsh government. to improve facilities for students. influence other areas such as our equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual These projects see academics from The Students’ Union building on target to be in the top 100 in the QS employees. Cardiff is now ranked across the University working with the Cathays campus has been World University Rankings which 24th placing us second out of eight communities in Wales and Africa modernised as part of a multi- will undoubtedly benefit from this UK universities featuring in the index, on issues such as tackling poverty, million pound redevelopment that outstanding performance. the top Russell Group university and boosting the economy and improving includes a new nightclub, more social the only university in Wales to achieve While I have highlighted particular health, education and wellbeing. Each learning spaces, a new food court this status. successes above, of which we are of our five projects will help transform and refurbished reception and social very proud, I must emphasize that lives and deliver widespread and long- We became Wales’s first university areas. We invested £3M in a new 2nd this spectacular achievement is the lasting benefits. to be accredited as a Living Wage floor venue for the building and also result of a team effort right across the employer. Agreeing to be a Living opened a third-generation pitch at our To help meet the aims of our research University. Wage Employer means that everyone Llanrumney playing fields. strategy we signed a co-operation ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 REF 2014 has given us a spectacular opportunity to let the world know what a great university we have here at Cardiff. Alongside these launches, openings the Cardiff Law School. The Innocence and investments, our staff and Project was established in 2006 to students achieved a number of harness the interest of students in the significant personal successes area of criminal law and miscarriages that reflect well on the University. of justice. It’s wonderful to see our Professor Teresa Rees was made students applying the skills that we a Dame in the New Year’s Honours have taught them to make a real and list for services to social sciences. life-changing difference. Professor Steve Eales was awarded Looking to the year ahead, our the highly prestigious Herschel medal plans are ambitious. Work on our for investigation of outstanding merit new £44M CUBRIC building is well in observational astrophysics, and underway and due for completion Dr Haley Gomez received the Fowler towards the end of 2015. The new Award for noteworthy contribution to building will be one of Europe’s top astrophysics. Professor Sally Holland, facilities for brain imaging. We also who has an international reputation plan to introduce a number of new built on enabling children and young University Research Institutes, in people to represent their own views addition to our existing four, to tackle through participative research the grand global challenges of today. methods, was named as the new Children’s Commissioner for Wales. REF 2014 has given us a spectacular opportunity to let the world know what In the Commonwealth Games in a great university we have here at Glasgow in 2014, our students Cardiff. In the pages that follow, you’ll excelled. Eight of our high- see just some of the achievements performance athletes competed that represent the story of the last in the Games, with Physiotherapy 12 months. There is much more student Sally Peake taking a excellence and innovation that sliver medal in the Pole Vault and could not be included here. Biosciences student Natalie Powell achieving a gold medal in Judo. I hope you enjoy reading this Annual Review, and look forward to building At the end of last year our law students on our success next year. made history, overturning a murder conviction as part of a project run by YEAR IN PICTURES cardiff.ac.uk 2014 YEAR IN PICTURES LIVING WAGE EMPLOYER HEALTHY AGEING Cardiff University became Wales’s first university Tracking the lifestyle habits of 2,500 men living DIGGING THE ‘DIFF to be accredited as a Living Wage employer. in the Caerphilly area over 35 years, researchers More than 1,000 people joined a summer Agreeing to be a Living Wage employer means from the School of Medicine found that those who season of excavations and explorations on the that everyone working at Cardiff University followed four or five specified healthy habits had a Iron Age Caerau fort in Ely. Volunteers worked receives a minimum hourly wage significantly significantly reduced risk of chronic disease. The with researchers from the University to excavate higher than the national minimum wage. steps included: regular exercise, non-smoking, a a sizeable section of the site, digging down to healthy bodyweight, a healthy diet and a low alcohol unearth their heritage while learning new skills intake. and building strong local bonds. LOST VISIONS CARDIFF INNOCENCE PROJECT Professor Julia Thomas from the School of English, MAKES HISTORY NEW CATERPILLAR SPECIES Communication and Philosophy is collaborating with Students from Cardiff Law School secured the first experts from the School of Computer Sciences & appeal success for an Innocence Project in the DISCOVERED Informatics to make thousands of neglected images UK, with the quashing of the murder conviction of Researchers from the School of Biosciences from the British Library available for the public to Dwaine George. George served 12 years in prison working at our Danau Girang Field Centre in search online. Although many historical texts have for the crime after being found guilty at the age of Borneo discovered a new species of caterpillar.
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