REF2021: Partnerships
The University of Glasgow has been recognised for its world-leading research and the positive impact it has on society, by the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021). This recognition includes the University’s commitment to the development of innovative partnerships at a local, national and international level.
We have supported colleagues in building collaborative relationships outside the university, recognising that combining experience enables complex societal problems to be addressed; alongside our research, colleagues host workshops and seminars with external partners, including civil servants, legal practitioners and MSPs and contribute to advisory groups.
Over the review period, 52 colleagues were involved in collaborative research with academics from other institutions, with the establishment of the Scottish Universities’ Legal Network on Europe (SULNE) and CREATe two excellent examples of this. We have invested in long-term partnerships, such as the Radboud-Glasgow Collaboration (most recently enabling a collaborative project on the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice) and the newly established European Centre for Advanced Studies (with the University of Leuphana).
Our research networks play an important role in our partnership developments, alongside external roles that colleagues in Law have with partners locally and internationally, such as with the Council of Europe (Murdoch), United Nations (Geiß) and the Scottish Government (Busby).
Within the university, we work through interdisciplinary partnerships, including:
A research network with Business/Management on constitutions and markets (Chadwick and Solana, GCRF 2019)
‘Researching Multilingually at Borders’ a research project led by the College of Arts, with education, sociology, and linguistics (Craig, AHRC, 2014-17)
Interdisciplinary research network on collective worship in schools, with education, philosophy and sociology (McCarthy, AHRC 2014-15)
‘All settled’ project with Social Policy (Mair, ESRC, 2013)
‘Built to last’ project on divorce law reform with history (Nuffield, Humanist Society Scotland, 2016)
