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QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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Our focus on world-leading research combined with first-class teaching makes Queen Mary, University of London an inspiring place to work and study.

Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher educationinstitutions, ranked in the top 10 per cent of universities in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (2008). One of the three largest of the colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 3,000 staff deliver high-quality,innovative degree programmes and research across awide range of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciencesand Laws; in Medicine and Dentistry; and in Science and Engineering.

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Setting the agendaacademically for more than125 years…the modernQueen Mary is a true all-round institution withexcellence in medicine and dentistry, science and engineering, and thesocial sciences and arts.” Sunday Times Good University Guide

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Queen Mary, University of London

• With a budget of £300m per annum anda yearly economic impact on the UKeconomy of over £750m, Queen Maryoffers a strong and diverse environmentto its 16,500 students and 3,000 staff.

• £250m investment in facilities. Queen Mary is unique amongst London’suniversities in offering an integratedresidential campus, with a 2,000-bedaward-winning Student Village on its Mile End campus.

• Queen Mary has made a strategiccommitment to facilitating research of thehighest quality. We actively recruit thebest academic staff in their disciplinesfrom around the world.

• Although a university in its own right,Queen Mary is also part of the federalUniversity of London, a wide-rangingbody made up of 19 self-governingcolleges and 10 other smaller specialistresearch institutes. The University ofLondon provides the single largest criticalmass of academic research in the UnitedKingdom; our graduate students are ableto take advantage of the world-classfacilities provided by the many specialistresearch centres that are part of thisnetwork: www.lon.ac.uk

• Queen Mary’s distinctiveness also arisesfrom its commitment to an engagementwith international excellence in educationand research, and a twin commitment to bring that engagement to bear on its London and Thames Gatewayenvironment through educationaloutreach and knowledge transferprojects. You can read about our strategic commitments, our objectives and the special character of Queen Mary in our Strategic Plan 2010-15(www.qmul.ac.uk/strategicplan/).

• Queen Mary has four campuses. Our integrated teaching, research andresidential campus in Mile End is close to the site of the 2012 Olympic Games,while Whitechapel is home to part of Barts and The London School ofMedicine and Dentistry; the stunningAlsop and AMEC-designed BlizardBuilding houses the largest open planlaboratories in Europe.

• Our other campuses are in centralLondon: the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Charterhouse Squareis located on the edge of the Cityof London. Our world-famous Centre forCommercial Law Studies is based atLincoln’s Inn Fields, in London’s legaldistrict.

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59-79 band in Europe and152-200 globallyThe Shanghai Jiao TangUniversities 2009 AcademicRanking of World Universities

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Humanities, SocialSciences and Law• Business and Management• Economics and Finance• English and Drama• Languages, Linguistics and Film(Film Studies, French, German,Hispanic Studies, Linguistics,Russian)

• Geography• History• Laws (including the Centre for Commercial Law Studies)

• Politics and International Relations

Science and Engineering• Biological and Chemical Sciences• Electronic Engineering andComputer Science

• Engineering and Materials Science• Mathematical Sciences• Physics

Barts and The LondonSchool of Medicineand Dentistry• Institute of Cancer• Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science

• Institute of Dentistry• Institute of Health Sciences Education• William Harvey Research Institute• Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine

• Queen Mary’s students come from over130 countries.

• Queen Mary offers two joint degreeprogrammes in collaboration with ourclose partner, Beijing University of Postsand Telecommunications (BUPT). Wehave 2,000 Queen Mary Engineeringstudents in China. Graduates receive BSc(Eng) degrees from both Queen Mary and BUPT in either Telecommunicationswith Management or e-CommerceEngineering with Law. The syllabus andteaching materials are based on QueenMary’s existing curricula, and are in linewith IET (Institution of Engineering andTechnology) accreditation requirements.All teaching takes place in China, usingteaching staff and materials from bothinstitutions. The initiative is the onlyrecognised joint programme at a Chinese ‘National Key University’.

• Along with Royal Holloway, University ofLondon, Queen Mary has entered into aconsortium with the University of LondonInstitute in Paris (ULIP). ULIP offersstudents the chance to study French inFrance, while working towards aUniversity of London degree – bothundergraduate and postgraduate degreesare offered. Students benefit from a trulyimmersive experience that plays to thestrengths of all parties involved.

Queen Mary’s excellence in teaching and researchis focused on its academic schools:

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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) hasan outstanding reputation for innovation and excellence inknowledge creation and knowledge dissemination. The Faculty is committed to ensuring that the social,economic and cultural benefits of original and creativethinking within the Humanities and Social Sciences are realised across all areas of its work.

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• The Research Assessment Exercise 2008,which determines funding awards,confirmed the exceptional quality ofresearch across the Faculty of Humanitiesand Social Sciences. Linguistics,Geography and Drama all came topnationally in their disciplines, while Englishcame second and Economics came sixth.Law, History, Politics, Hispanic Studiesand French all sustained their positions inthe top quartile of their disciplines. Thenew School of Business and Managementalso performed very well, coming 25thnationally in its first submission to an RAE.

• The HSS Faculty has over 400 membersof staff and its annual turnover isapproximately £43m, of which £4m iscompetitively awarded research incomefrom bodies such as the Arts andHumanities Research Council, theEconomic and Social Research Counciland the Leverhulme, Nuffield andWellcome Trusts. The Faculty has seen a very significant increase in externalresearch funding over recent years and is committed to further substantial growthby 2015.

• The HSS Faculty sets itself the higheststandards in the education of its 4,000undergraduate and 2,300 postgraduatestudents. The Faculty is committed tosupporting graduates for careers inacademia, government and the non-profitand corporate sectors, both in the UKand abroad.

• The supervision and training ofpostgraduate research students isfundamental to the Faculty’s knowledgecreation and dissemination. The Facultyaims to double its research studentnumbers by 2015: it received £2.9mthrough the AHRC block grantpartnership to support postgraduatestudents from 2009-14. In 2011, QueenMary was awarded Doctoral TrainingCentre status, alongside Goldsmiths,becoming one of only 21 such centresnationally. Over the next five years, 50PhD students at the two universities willbe fully-funded for their fees and livingcosts – 10 in each year – and this will be paid for by the ESRC. This representsdouble the number funded previously at the two universities.

• The Faculty is committed to exchangingthe knowledge it generates withbusinesses and the community, and hasforged notable partnerships with publicand private sector organisations, such asthe BBC; the British Film Institute; ArtsCouncil England; the World Bank; theBank of England; London Citizens; andleading Law firms.

• In 2011, Arts 2, the £21m building,designed by award-winning architectsWilkinson Eyre, opens providing a newlocation for the School of History, a new 300-seat lecture theatre for use by all Schools, and a new studio for FilmStudies and Drama. A further £1.1m has been allocated to refurbish existingteaching, and research space for Schools across the Faculty.

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Queen Mary’s Faculty of Science and Engineering is an internationally respected Facultywith a strong reputation in teaching and research.

The College was among the first in the UK to establish engineering, chemistry, computerscience and materials departments.

The Faculty of Science and Engineering employs 300 academics, with a further 300research assistants and support staff, and has an annual turnover of £53m, of which£13m is competitively awarded research income.

• The Faculty is taking a collaborativeapproach to solve the big problems inscience and engineering, includingresearch focusing on body sensors, data networks, clean energy, and drugdiscovery. Research Councils UKrecognised the School’s distinctiveapproach with the award of sixinterdisciplinary Roberts Fellows, whichput Queen Mary in the UK top 10 for this scheme. The highlight has been thelaunch of the £3m ImpactQM project,funding innovation and industrialknowledge-transfer in engineering and physical sciences.

• Around 3,000 undergraduates and 800PhD and Masters students form a vibrantpart of the Science and Engineeringcommunity. Placing an emphasis onstudent satisfaction and employability,Queen Mary offers state-of-the-artfacilities for learning, research, innovationand communication. The Faculty hasthree National Teaching Fellows andhouses several winners of the Drapers’awards for innovation in teaching andlearning.

• Queen Mary has invested heavily in itsScience and Engineering infrastructure.The recently completed £12m JosephPriestley Building houses 1000m2 ofoutstanding research facilities forenvironmental and chemical analysis, cell and molecular genetic imaging andthe study of protein nanostructure andfunction. The College's Capital Projectsalso include a multi-million pound faceliftof the School of Mathematical Sciencesand School of Biological and ChemicalSciences buildings.

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School of Biological and Chemical SciencesIdentified by the Biotechnology andBiological Sciences Research Council(BBSRC) as one of its top trainingenvironments for students, the School ofBiological and Chemical Sciences hasstate-of-the-art facilities for environmentaland chemical analysis, cell and moleculargenetic imaging and the study of proteinstructure and function. Focus areas for theSchool include biodiversity bioenergy andindustrial biotechnology and basic scienceunderpinning health.

The School is also home to the ResearchCentre in Experimental Psychology whichleads research in comparative cognitionand learning, sensory neuroscience,neurobiology and behaviour, vision, andevolution and behaviour, and draws onmultidisciplinary collaborations withlinguistics, psychiatry and health andorganisational psychology.

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer ScienceQueen Mary is one of the top 20universities in the UK for ComputerScience and Electronic Engineering, withoutstanding resources, such as a listeningroom and laboratories in antennas andaugmented human interaction. Areas ofresearch focus include mathematicalfoundations of computing, to applied areaslooking at human factors in device designto reduce medical errors and the EuropeanUnion-funded project, Living with Robotsand Interactive Companions. The Schoolalso hosts the Engineering and PhysicalSciences Research Council doctoraltraining centre in media and artstechnologies and is home to the Centre for Digital Music.

School of Engineering and Materials ScienceQueen Mary’s School of Engineering and Materials Science continues to pushforward the boundaries of engineering and materials science, and is committed to internationally competitive research,including specialities in Bioengineering,Biomaterials, Energy Systems,Nanostructure Materials and Solids and Fluids Modelling.

School of Mathematical SciencesAcademic research in the School ofMathematical Sciences covers pure andapplied mathematics, statistics andastronomy, with strengths in algebra andcombinatorics, analysis, geometry, logicand probability. The applied mathematicsgroup is at the forefront of research indynamical systems and general relativity.

The School of Mathematical Sciences alsohouses the renowned Astronomy Unit, withactive groups in the forefront of theoreticalcosmology, survey astronomy, solar andstellar physics, planetary formation, solarsystem dynamics and space plasmas.

School of PhysicsThe Faculty’s School of Physics has beenranked joint 8th best in the UK, (accordingto the Shanghai Jiaotong index) with closeresearch links to Mathematical Sciencesand the Astronomy Unit.

Research is concentrated in the ParticlePhysics Research Centre with its work onthe Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN, as well as the T2K neutrinoexperiment in Japan. In addition, theCentre for Research in String Theorycontinues a long tradition at Queen Mary of pioneering research in this fundamentalarea of theoretical physics, which will beexpanded into a new Centre for CondensedMatter and Materials Physics in May 2011.

The Faculty is divided into five schools offering research and teaching and includes20 well-established research centres in science and engineering subjects.

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Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistryis one of the UK’s leading medical and dental schools.It offers international levels of excellence in research andteaching while serving a population of unrivalled diversity,amongst which cases of diabetes, hypertension, heartdisease, TB, oral disease and cancers are prevalent.

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• The results of the 2008 ResearchAssessment Exercise confirmed Bartsand The London as one of the UK’s top four medical schools and 1st inLondon. The dental school was ranked1st equal by 4* and 3* outputs, and 2nd overall.

• The School has almost 1,000 membersof staff and its annual turnover isapproximately £110m, of whichover £50m is competitivelyawarded external research incomeadditional to that received fromHEFCE. This places Barts and TheLondon in the top tier of researchactive medical and dental schools.

• Through partnership with our linkedtrusts, notably Barts and The LondonNHS Trust, and our associatedUniversity Hospital Trusts – Homerton,Newham, Whipps Cross and Queen’s(Romford), the School’s researchand teaching is informed by anexceptionally wide ranging andstimulating clinical environment.

• At the heart of the School’s mission liesworld-class research, the result of afocused programme of recruitmentof leading research groups from theUK and abroad and a £100minvestment in state-of-the-art facilities.

• Research is focused on:– cancer– translation of basic research into patients– cardiovascular– dentistry– inflammation– endocrinology/metabolism– immunology and infectious diseases– skin disease– genomics– neuroscience– gastroenterology– epidemiology– public health and primary care

• The School is nationally andinternationally recognised for researchin these areas. Its fundamental mission,with its partner NHS Trusts and otherpartner organisations, such as CancerResearch UK, is to ensure that the bestpossible clinical service is underpinnedby the very latest developments inscientific and clinical teaching, training and research.

• Barts and The London offers aninnovative and distinctive educationalexperience to our 2,300 undergraduateand 1,000 postgraduate students,which we believe to be different fromand broader than that offered by otherLondon medical schools. We offer ourstudents exposure to research andclinical environments with worldwidereputations; the exceptionally richcultural and social diversity of eastLondon; and a varied and innovativemixture of educational opportunities toaccommodate different learning styles.

• A new £200m Cancer Centre was openedat St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 2010,providing equipment which will allow thedevelopment of screening for the earlieststages of cancer, enabling doctors to useminimally invasive techniques to removesmall growths before they have a chanceto invade.

• Barts and The London Academic DentalClinic offers members of the public thechance to receive free, routine NHSdentistry provided by senior dentalstudents under the supervision ofqualified dentists.

• A new £25m translational Heart Centre,opening in July 2011, will capitalise onthe world-renowned pharmacologicalstrengths of the William Harvey ResearchInstitute and bring therapies into patientcare amongst our diverse community of 1.8 million people in east London.

• The award-winning futuristic open planlaboratory, the Blizard Building, is alsohome to the Centre of the Cell. Dedicatedto inspiring curiosity and learning byconnecting science to everyday life, theCentre forms part of the College’sOutreach Programme, designed toimpact positively on the career, healthand personal life choices of local youngpeople.

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Queen Mary has its roots in four historic colleges:Queen Mary College, Westfield College, St Bartholomew’sHospital Medical College and the London HospitalMedical and Dental Colleges.The Mile End campus is historically the home of Queen Mary College, which began lifein 1887 as the People's Palace, a philanthropic endeavour to provide east Londonerswith education and social activities. It was admitted to the University of London in 1915.

Westfield College was founded in 1882 as a pioneering college for the higher educationof women, and was granted its Royal Charter in 1932. In 1995, Queen Mary andWestfield merged with two distinguished medical colleges, St Bartholomew's HospitalMedical College, established in 1843, and The London Hospital Medical and DentalColleges. The London was England's first medical school, founded in 1785.