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Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering
Professor Steve HomansPro-Vice-Chancellor
Convocation Saturday 15th June 2013
Funding
• EPSRC: £5.5M partnership with Northumbria Water Ltd.
• NERC: £2.7M SINATRA (Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding) Project
• EPSRC: £1M as part of an 'underpinning power electronics' scheme, enabling the University to play a strong part in a National programme for power electronics
• Coastal Community Fund Bid/European Fisheries fund: £1M towards a larger £1.3M scheme to create a collaborative environment in the heart of the Port of Blyth
• EPSRC: £960,699 for research into High Frequency Degenerate Mode Acoustic Sensors
• EPSRC: £746,938 to study Energy Efficient Rural Food Processing Utilising Renewable Energy to Improve Rural Livelihoods
To achieve and sustain research excellence
To achieve and sustain research excellence
Appointments & Achievements
• Director of NIReS: Professor Phil Taylor - leading expert in renewable energy and academic lead for the UK’s largest Smart Grid £54M project
• Synthetic Biology: Natalio Krasnogor - EPSRC Leadership Fellow (Synthetic Biology) and Professor of Synthetic Biology
• Professor Ian Metcalfe awarded a €2M ERC Advanced Investigator award
• Dr Feng Hao and Dr Nick Walker awarded ERC Starting grants • Professors Elaine Martin and Ian Metcalfe received FREng status
• Mr Jeff Neasham devises £40 ultrasound machine that could be used by health professionals in developing countries where standard ultra sound machines are not available due to cost
• Lady Elsie Robson officially opened the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation PET Tracer Production Unit (Cyclotron) in conjunction with the School of Chemistry and Northern Institute for Cancer Research
Undergraduate recruitment
Institution Name
2012 2011
Change in number of accepted
places
Change %
Newcastle University
4669 4357 312 +7.2
University of Southampton
4499 5189 -690 -13.3
Northumbria University
5714 6290 -576 -9.2
University of Sheffield
4711 5197 -486 -9.4
University of Liverpool
3945 4369 -424 -9.7
University of Leeds
6428 6844 -416 -6.1
University of Birmingham
5135 5520 -385 -7.0
University of Manchester
7861 8114 -253 -3.1
University of Nottingham
7160 7187 -27 -0.4
University of York
3749 3701 48 +1.3
Durham University
4026 3800 226 +5.9
Faculty Name2012 Apps
2013 Apps
% increase
(2012/2013)
Faculty - HSS 13,553 15,389 13.55
Faculty - Medical Sciences 6806 7801 14.62
Faculty - SAgE 6955 8115 16.68
School
School – Agriculture, Food & Rural Development
875 981 12.11
School – Biology 663 716 7.99
School – Chem Engineering & Advanced Materials
752 1167 55.19
School – Chemistry 653 655 0.31
School – Civil Engineering and Geosciences
559 621 11.09
School – Computing Science 688 967 40.55
School – Electrical & Electronic Engineering
376 434 15.43
School – Marine Sciences and Technology
585 588 0.51
School – Mathematics and Statistics
715 872 21.96
School – Mechanical and Systems Engineering
1040 1052 1.15
Figures include Home, EU and International applicants
Postgraduate Research Students
• 15% increase in number of applications from potential home research students this year
• 31% increase in number of applications from international research
students
PRES 2013
Question Category
Q17.a. Overall, I am satisfied with the experience of
my research degree
programmeSupervision Facilities
Research Culture
Research Skills
Development
Professional Development
Response Rate
Positive Score (Average)
Positive Score (Average)
Positive Score (Average)
Positive Score (Average)
Positive Score (Average)
% Agree
Faculty of SAgE 50.0% 85.8% 89.0% 68.3% 90.3% 83.8% 84.5%
Newcastle 55.1% 84.6% 83.8% 68.3% 87.3% 79.7% 83.5%
Russell Group 43.4% 83.4% 80.3% 66.7% 84.9% 76.6% 82.4%
Sector 41.8% 83.3% 78.2% 64.5% 84.8% 76.3% 81.6%
Internationalisation (Singapore)
School of Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
BEng Honours in Electrical Power
Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering &
Advanced Materials
BEng Honours in Chemical Engineering
School of Agriculture, Food & Rural Development
BSc Honours in Food & Human Nutrition School of Marine
Science & Technology• BEng Honours in Marine
Engineering• BEng Honours in Naval
Architecture• BEng Honours in Offshore
Engineering
School of Mechanical & Systems
Engineering
BEng Honours in Mechanical Design &
Manufacturing Engineering
Research
Industry Engagement
Internationalisation (Science without Borders)
• Between 2012 – 2016, Science without Borders (SwB) will provide 10,000 Brazilian students with the opportunity to study in the UK
• 48/49 students across SAgE Schools in 2012; expecting 78/81 students in 2013
“I have no complaints at all. This experience has overcome my best expectations.All the services that I have used so far have been excellent and really helpful.. As I talk to other SwB students from other universities, I see that Newcastle University is one that is most well informed about the program and offers the best support for the students.”
SwB 2012 Feedback Questionnaire
Excellent%
Good%
Satisfactory%
Unsatisfactory%
How would you rate the quality of your programme
55.8 44.2 0.0 0.0
How would you rate the quality of the support you have received from your School?
51.2 46.5 2.3 0.0
How would you rate your overall experience at Newcastle University? 83.3 16.7 0.0 0.0