Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
The UK’s Higher Education funding bodies carry out a Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) every few years, to examine the quality of research being carried out at universities. Universities can submit research outputs – publications, products or artistic performances – in up to 69 subject areas. In each subject area, a panel of experts assesses the research submitted and awards a quality rating, judged against standards of national and international excellence: there is a seven-point scale, from 1 at the bottom through 2, 3b, 3a, 4 and 5, to 5* at the top.
In the 2001 RAE, Goldsmiths’ Departments of Media and Communications and Sociology achieved the prized 5* rating, for international excellence in the majority of their research areas; Anthropology, Art, Design, English, and Music received a rating of 5 (international excellence in some areas of activity, national excellence in virtually all others).
Visit HERO for more information about the 2001 RAE, and RAE2008 for details of the exercise to be held in 2008 (both links open a new browser window).
For the 2001 RAE ratings, please see our Research website.
1994 Group
Goldsmiths is a member of the 1994 Group of internationally recognised small and medium research universities. In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, 95% of staff submitted by 1994 Group universities achieved the top three grades, indicating research of a national or international standard. The constituent universities offer individual supervision and small group teaching by some of the UK’s most distinguished scholars and researchers. Visit 1994group (link opens a new browser window) for details.
Local and national links
Through the Business Development Office, the College’s wealth of expertise and collective knowledge is made available to business and the community through:
- contract research and consultancy services -
providing leading-edge
business solutions
- maximising College-owned intellectual property
- training and development – providing high-quality
bespoke training
- facilitating networks and encouraging collaborative initiatives to benefit business and not-for-profit organisations.
We promote and participate in a wide variety of collaborative activities with business and public sector organisations. Collaboration allows the strengths and specialisms of partners to be used to the full, and builds solid networks for research, innovation and commercial activity.
We participate in two Centres for Knowledge Exchange, KnowledgeEast and Exchange, as well as the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise. Additionally, we work in partnership with the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Corporation of London, LondonFirst, ThinkLondon, ThinkBIG, and many others.
Visit Goldsmiths' Business Development Office for more information.