Portsmouth Business School

2008 Research Assessment Exercise Results for Portsmouth Business School

The result of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirms that we cover a wide spectrum of research to a high quality level. It is a mark of the continuing progress we have made in research over the years and shows that, taking into account the number of researchers submitted and the quality of our work, we are among the most research active business schools in our region.

Among the 90 UK universities submitting work in the Business and Management category, Portsmouth Business School (PBS) submitted the 15th largest number of research active staff and was 27th on a weighted quality basis placing it as the highest south coast university in the UK and the highest new university in this category. The Power Ranking provided by Research Fortnight, which is a UK independent body, is based on a quality index combined with the volume of full time equivalent staff submitted. This ranking provides a more complete picture than just the single dimension of quality ranking and demonstrates that we have both strength and depth in our research output, across a number of disciplines and a large number of research-active academic staff.

The funding received by HEFCE places the Business School among the top 28 universities which correlates with the Power Ranking and the funding to the Business School has increased by 74% over past years.

The Business and Management Unit of Assessment panel (UOA36) that is in charge of assessing the outputs of business schools stated that "the submission contained some work that was internationally excellent or better and this was distributed across all research groups". The Centre for Economics and Management of Aquatic Resources (CEMARE) was assessed as "of a world-leading standard" by the panel.