The University of Gloucestershire has a vibrant academic community where creative research together with cutting-edge scholarship are conducted at a high level.
Our learning-led environment enables research to thrive across and between academic disciplines, providing the best support for postgraduate and also undergraduate students.
World-Leading Research
The government’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results for Higher Education institutions shows that the University has work of ‘world-leading’ quality in five of its research areas. More than half of the work in seven out of the University’s 12 submissions to the RAE was additionally recognised as of international quality, while all academic areas were judged to be of a quality that is recognised nationally. All results are available as ‘quality profiles’ on the RAE website at www.rae.ac.uk.
Research Degrees
The university has a dynamic research culture providing a stimulating intellectual context for postgraduate study and a supportive environment for home and international research students.
We offer a range of postgraduate opportunities across the university, where you can work on your individual research topic alongside experienced researchers and supervisors.
In addition to full training in research methods, the university also provides a training programme for research students who wish to pursue a teaching career in higher education. Departments may also provide opportunities for paid part-time lecturing and tutorial work. For more information on our research degrees, please see Postgraduate Research Opportunities.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
The university’s schools support a wide range of creative practice as well as pure, applied and commercial research, details of which can be found on their respective webpages:
Research and Consultancy
With a strong track record in applied research, the university pursues a variety of business links and consultancy work across its schools and through the Countryside & Community Research Institute. Knowledge exchange, enterprise and innovation is promoted by the Centre for Enterprise and Innovation.
Pedagogic Research and Scholarship Institute
The Pedagogic Research and Scholarship Institute leads pedagogic research and scholarship activity at the University of Gloucestershire. Its remit is to lead capacity building in research that informs active engagement both with the scholarship of learning and teaching; and academic practice and development for the 21st Century University.
The Institute’s research is focused around six main themes:
- Internationalisation
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Linking research, knowledge co-generation, practice and teaching
- Technology enhanced learning
- Engaging diverse communities (including employers and communities)
- Academic leadership in Higher Education
International Research Institute in Sustainability (IRIS)
The International Research Institute in Sustainability (IRIS) was established in 2008 to provide new cutting edge research programmes and to strengthen existing research expertise within the University.
IRIS has expertise across a range of areas, including: leadership, governance and organisational change; professional practice; wellbeing and the measuring of progress towards sustainable development.
IRIS offers annual PhD studentships as well as opportunities for research students to contribute, through participatory inquiry, critical action research and other innovative methodologies, to real change towards sustainability.
News and Events
There is a wide range of new and ongoing activity at the university, supporting and celebrating active, professional, and creative research success.
News and Events