Appointment to Head of School of Law Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Surrey The University in numbers TOP 10 £400M 140 125 YEARS GUARDIAN £70M £1.7BN OF SHAPING IN CAMPUS 5G INNOVATION COMPANIES CONTRIBUTION LEAGUE * AT SURREY THE FUTURE INVESTMENT CENTRE TO NATIONAL TABLE 2018 * SINCE 2000 RESEARCH PARK ECONOMY 90% IN NSS 95% 17,300 + GLOBAL MARKET STUDENTS 2,300+ LOCAL JOBS LEADER IN FOR OVERALL EMPLOYMENT FROM OVER STUDENT RATE OVER 5 PLACEMENT SUPPORTED BY SATELLITE 120 COUNTRIES PARTNERS THE UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY SATISFACTION YEARS 2 surrey.ac.uk University of Surrey 3 Why Surrey? Surrey encourages students to be the best they can be. At the University of Surrey, we ask and answer important questions that create new insight and understanding. More than any other British university, we actively share our knowledge through innovative teaching, professional training and business collaborations. We inspire people to do wonderful things, and also help them to acquire the skills, Jennifer Jacobsen experience and knowledge they need to pursue better lives in a better world. BSc (Hons) Business and Retail Management 90% FOR TOP 10 IN THE 95% A TOP NEW £45M 852 + STUDENT GUARDIAN EMPLOYMENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL SATISFACTION UNIVERSITY RATE OVER 5 FOR SPORT VETERINARY RESEARCH LEAGUE TABLE YEARS MEDICINE CO-AUTHORSHIPS 2015/16 Surrey achieved an In recent years, The University Surrey Sports Park The establishment Surrey is a world- impressive overall Surrey has of Surrey has is one of Europe’s of a new £45-million class, research-led satisfaction score established itself as an outstanding leading sports School of Veterinary University, committed of 90 per cent in a top-ten university record for graduate venues. This £36- Medicine – one of to research excellence. the 2016 National in major university employability. million centre only eight in the Our outstanding Student Survey. league table rankings. features world-class UK – has put Surrey research contributions According to data from facilities and plays on the map as a benefit society as a Read more at: the Higher Education host to a number pioneering centre whole and address surrey.ac.uk/pl Statistics Agency of professional for interdisciplinary key global challenges. (HESA), 95.6 per cent teams, athletes research to improve Through our research of our graduates were and sports events. animal and human activity we are in work (or further Surrey Sports Park health. delivering global study) six months is also home to wellbeing, creating after graduation in Team Surrey, which Opened by HM The sustainable cities, 2015. offers 46 sports Queen, the new communities and clubs for students School’s alliances with economies, and The employment rate to join. The Park an extensive network connecting societies of our graduates over was the official of partners in clinical and cultures. the past five years is 95 training base of the practice, research and per cent. Irish and Italian industry provides an national teams outstanding training during the 2015 environment for our Rugby World Cup. students, as well as for practising veterinary Surrey Sports Park surgeons, veterinary hosted the Lacrosse nurses, para- World Cup in 2017. professionals and clinical scientists. 4 surrey.ac.uk University of Surrey 5 Our research Wonder should be at the root of all academic research, but at Surrey we never feel that our research is complete until it has been tested, built upon and used for the greater good. It’s not that we only ever do applied research. We simply 1996 2002 2011 have a restless desire to make wonderful things happen as a result of everything we do. Health Case study: Mobile technology in medicine From nutrition to nursing ethics and from sleep to Researchers from the University of Surrey have launched a new programme of research called infectious disease, University of Surrey academics eSMART (Electronic Symptom Management using ASyMS Remote Technology), that uses mobile are at the forefront of groundbreaking discoveries phone technology to remotely monitor patients who are undergoing chemotherapy to treat breast, and translational research to improve human and bowel and blood cancers. The Advanced Symptom Management System (ASyMS) allows patients to animal health. Surrey research is contributing to report the side effects from their chemotherapy via a mobile phone. This information is immediately secure a safer, healthier world for all. sent securely to a computer, which assesses their symptoms and triggers alerts to doctors or nurses within minutes if they require specialist intervention. Read more at: surrey.ac.uk/pl4 Science & technology Case study: Satellites and space debris Our industrial collaborations and partnerships Researchers at Surrey Space Centre have created new technology to aid spacecraft repair, dispose ensure our academics lie at the heart of shaping of radioactive waste and monitor spacecraft. The intelligent robotic systems can inspect, monitor future technologies. Home to award-winning and identify when spacecraft needs repairing, and will also have the potential to support astronauts departments and world-leading research centres, on space missions and to deal with space debris. The autonomous technology will be deployed our experienced scientists explore fields such as in snake-like robots and will have a great deal of manipulability, perceiving their environment air travel, forensic analysis, satellite navigation, through built-in cameras. solar power, ultra-fast lasers, water sanitation and Read more at: surrey.ac.uk/pl5 weather forecasting – to name just a few. Society Case study: accessible tourism From research into wearable University of Surrey research has found that Europe is losing out on as much as €142 billion every electroencephalography (EEG) equipment to year due to poor infrastructure, services and attitudes towards travellers with special access needs. obesity drug failure and lack of accessible tourism, The European Commission-funded research found that travellers within the EU who required our academics are leading the way with their special access (whether through disability or age) undertook 783 million trips within the region investigations into society. The diversity of our in 2012, contributing €394 billion and 8.7 million jobs to the European economy. However, if pioneering work reveals the role our academics European destinations were fully accessible, this demand could increase by up to 44 per cent a year – play in creating a wider understanding of society. producing an additional €142 billion GDP and creating 3.4 million jobs. Read more at: surrey.ac.uk/pl6 6 surrey.ac.uk University of Surrey 7 The exciting opportunity at Surrey is how we use our Surrey means business knowledge to deliver significant impact on business and society within the rapid speed of change in the digital era. We’re connected to the local community, the regional economy and the wider world through collaboration. Whether partnering with the biggest names in technology and communication to build the world’s first 5G Innovation Centre on our campus, hosting 140 high-tech companies on our own Research Park, or stimulating over Professor Alan W. Brown £1bn of economic activity in the southeast of England every year, our business partnerships put our expertise to Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Surrey Business School work for everyone’s benefit. 5G INNOVATION 2,300+ SURREY PARTNERS ECONOMIC SURREY RESEARCH NUMBER ONE CENTRE PLACEMENT PARTNERS WITH THE NATIONAL IMPACT PARK BUSINESS INCUBATOR PHYSICAL LABORATORY IN EUROPE The 5G Innovation Centre Our long-established Professional The University of Surrey, An economic-impact study The Research Park is home The University has been (5GIC) at the University Training placement programme along with the University of (conducted in autumn 2014 to over 140 companies, incubating technology of Surrey is the largest is admired by universities Strathclyde, has been selected by BiGGAR Economics) found with many specialising in businesses since 2002, when UK academic research around the world. Over the to enter into a partnership with that the University of Surrey social sciences, technologies, (along with Bath, Bristol and centre dedicated to the past five years, more than 2,300 the Department for Business, and the Surrey Research health-related activities and Southampton universities) development of the next partner organisations have Innovation & Skills (BIS) to set Park generated around £1.5 engineering. Since it was we founded the SETsquared generation of mobile and worked with us to give students a new strategic direction for billion Gross Value Added for opened in 1985, the Park has Partnership. Since then, wireless communications. valuable experience of the the world-renowned National the UK economy in 2013/14. helped over 500 companies Exeter University joined Bringing together leading professional environment and Physical Laboratory (NPL), The study revealed that the – some of which were newly (2011) and the Partnership academic expertise and help them develop vital skills a global centre of excellence University and Research established businesses and has directly supported over key industry partners in for the competitive graduate in measurement science. Park directly or indirectly are now world leaders in 650 companies, helping a shared vision, 5GIC will employment market. supported more than 17,000 their field. them raise over £0.75 billion jobs – 10,600 of which