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Nursing research takes its place on world stage

Source: guardian.co.uk Society

Dec 18, 2008

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Nursing, for many years medicine's poor relation, has come of age in the 2008 research assessment exercise (RAE). Academics in the field can justifiably claim to be world-leading in terms of research.

Nursing and midwifery was among the subjects with the most highly rated research in the results published today.

Half of the University of Manchester 's 57-strong department were judged "world-leading" and given the top rating of 4*, along with 45% of Southampton's 25 academics, 40% of Ulster's 26 staff and 35% of York's department of 22.

It is a surprising turnaround from the last exercise, in which the subject did relatively badly compared with more established academic disciplines. No university's department was judged worthy of being awarded the highest rating in 2001, which was then 5*. Only four won the second-best 5 rating.

But nursing was deemed to be an emerging research discipline and became one of seven to get "capability-building" funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Last year, the seven areas shared £22.1m in Hefce funding.

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