Research Rating (RAE / REF)

Sport research at Stirling is ranked first in Scotland in the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008), with 40% of the School’s research output considered to be world leading and 15% rated as internationally excellent.

For the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, which replaces the RAE, the School is working todevelop excellence in sport, exercise and health’ through its research. It aims to have a rating of ‘world leading’ for 80% of its research outputs, and has also set a benchmark to be assessed as having a very considerable impact in terms of its reach and significance.