Presented by Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow at the JISC Future of Research conference, 19th October 2010

1. Future of Research: Reputation Professor Dame Julia M Goodfellow University of Kent

2. Nobel prizes - sets international reputation Robert Edwards for IVF Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov, University of Manchester for Graphene Christopher Pissarides (LSE) for economics Page 2 Future of Research

3. Reputation of the UK research base – being part of a strong sector 4% of OECD gross expenditure in R & D produces 14.4% of the most cited papers Leading OECD country on citations per gross domestic product and per researcher Research contract income to HE from business nearly doubled between 2001- 2006 PhD awards per million population are increasing in the UK and are second only to Germany Page 3 Future of Research

4. Strengthof UK research base: Health and medically related Social science Humanities Page 4 Future of Research

5. Institution and discipline level Research Assessment Exercise – Alone and as part of a more general league table Important for institution - Kent (24th or 30th in UK)and for individual discipline – History second in UK; Law 5th in UK etc…. Making sure that you include all the relevant data International League tables Malcolm Grant (UCL) has highlighted some of the arbitrary nature of rankings UK has four in top 10 Warwick not in top 200 in one table Page 5 Future of Research

6. Reputation of UK research base Strong reputation Strong on evidence Efficient and not complacent But ............ the world is changing Page 6 Future of Research

7. The Future – the international challenge Future of Research Page 7 China has increased its research output four-fold over ten years overtaking all but USA. India and Brazil have both doubled their output.

8. The national challenge After ten years of growth in public sector investment in research base (both in HEIs and research institutes), we are below OECD average. We are expecting cuts when most other developed countries are still investing. How will this affect our reputation? Page 8 Future of Research

9. Technological and social challenges Technology is changing fast – can we afford to invest? Can we afford not to ? Research data management – clearly important for our current researchers but also on potential researchers and potential partners Social challenges require interdisciplinary solutions across sciences, humanities and social science - can we afford to keep a broad research base? Page 9 Future of Research

10. People – secure our reputation Our students well respected for their training Country of choice for training of non-UK UK trained students able to go worldwide Maintenance of this base is essential for the future Page 10 Future of Research

11. Partnerships – Will we be partner of choice?Do we have the right support mechanisms for collaborative research?Do we use European initiatives enough? Page 11 Future of Research

12. Effectiveness – we will have to continue to be efficient in our use of resources; good track record in sharing Communication - we will need to communicate our successes much more if we are to maintain our world wide reputation. Use of modern technology will be essential. Page 12 Future of Research

13. Future imperatives People - strong in producing skilled, competent and able researchers Partnerships - strong links between quality of research and collaborations Effectiveness Communication Page 13 Future of Research