Research quality
All UK universities and colleges are rated by the quality of their research in a periodic audit known as the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). This enables the Higher Education Funding bodies to make decisions about how much funding to provide to each institution, based on the quality of their research work.
The last RAE took place in 2008. Ratings ranged from 1* to 4*, according to how much of the institution's research was judged to reach national or international levels of excellence (4* being the highest).
In our subject area only 2 institutions scored higher than The University of Manchester in the last RAE. Our rating means that one quarter of our research output was judged to be World-Leading with 85% being classed as Internationally Excellent or above.
Further information:
- rae 2008 website for more information about the assessment process.
- The University of Manchester's overall performance
Prizes and Awards
[2011]
CEAS win two prestigious Rushlight awards |
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Rushlight Waste to Energy AwardKeld Energy in association with Alastair Martin from CEAS, have developed an advanced biomass CHP technology that addresses the problems of tar fouling, low process thermo-electric efficiencies and poor fuel flexibility in a scalable form from as small as 100 kW up to many MW. It can be fed with a range of biomass fuels and process wastes. Rushlight Clean Environment AwardPresented to Arvia Technology (a University spin out run by Nigel Brown and Ted Roberts) and Magnox North. The nuclear energy industry produces quantities of highly radioactive oils and oily wastes that are so heavily contaminated that they are defined as orphan wastes with no suitable disposal route. The oils are emulsified with an organic surfactant and poured into a plastic tank over a non-porous, highly conducting, adsorbent, carbon-based material. The oils are separated by adsorbtion and then destroyed, together with the organic surfactant, by anodic oxidation and the radioactivity remains in the aqueous phase. |
 Alastair Martin (left) and Nigel Brown from Arvia Technology with their Rushlight Awards
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[2010] CCaLC is IChemE prizewinnerThe University of Manchester won top prize at the recent IChemE 2010 innovation and excellence awards ceremony. The prize was awarded for the CCaLC carbon calculator software tool developed by a research group at the University of Manchester, led by Professor Adisa Azapagic. The CCaLC tool helps companies measure and reduce their carbon footprint at minimum cost and has been developed in collaboration with a range of industry partners. The project was deemed the best entry across all award categories and was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering prize (sponsored by Rowan House). Read about CCaLC at www.ccalc.org.uk More information on the work done by the Sustainable Systems group can be found here. |
Adisa Azapagic receiving the IChemE's "Outstanding achievement in chemical and process engineering" award.
Adisa is
accompanied by a representative of sponsors Rowan House and award ceremony hosts Ray Stubbs and Mark Lawrenson.
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[2010]
Arvia Technology scoops coveted innovation prize
Northwest-based water treatment specialists nets £100K
Chemicals Northwest member, Arvia Technology, has scooped first place in sustainability in a competition designed to support innovation at the ‘Innovate10’ event in London.
[2010]
British Association for Crystal Growth honour Roger Davey
Manchester hosted the 2010 meeting of the British Association for Crystal Growth with a special symposium to honour the work of Professor Roger Davey and his lifelong contribution to the field of crystal engineering.
Photographs of the event can be found here.
[2009] Theophilus Redwood Award 2009 awarded to Professor John Vickerman
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John Vickerman receiving the RSC's Theophilus Redwood Award from Gillian Greenway, President of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Analytical Division.
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[2008] Young Researcher Medal for AlineCEAS staff member Dr Aline Miller has recently been awarded the RSC Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal and also the Polymer Physics Group/American Physical Society Lecture Award.
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 Aline Miller
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[2008] Technology Commercialisation AwardA new and fast method for detecting potentially harmful airborne chemicals developed by Krishna Persaud scooped the UMIP Technology Commercialisation Award for Engineering and Physical Sciences. |
Krishna Persaud receiving the IChemE's "Water Award" on behalf of Arvia Technology.
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[2008] Award for ArviaArvia Technology Ltd -- Ted Roberts' spin-out company -- received the prestigious Water Award from the Institution of Chemical Engineers their 2008 Innovation and Excellence Awards Dinner in Birmingham.
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Ted Roberts receiving the IChemE's "Water Award" on behalf of Arvia Technology.
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