Excellent result for SSP in the 2008 RAE

'In the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Sociology and Social Policy staff joined colleagues in the Division of Social Statistics and the Centre for Research on Ageing as part of a joint submission to the RAE Sub-Panel in Social Work and Social Policy and Administration. Our submission was ranked third in the country, with an overall ‘Grade Point Average’ of 3.0. The University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bill Wakeham, described the results obtained by the University as a whole as ‘an excellent endorsement of the extremely high standards of research produced by the University of Southampton’. He added: ‘These results underline how far the University of Southampton has progressed in the past decade, to become one of the most respected research universities in the UK’.