The University of Southampton’s outstanding business and public engagement has been recognised again with the release of the second Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF2).
The University’s strengths in public engagement, business partnerships, IP commercialisation and entrepreneurial activities – including graduate start-ups – have been recognised as amongst the best in England.
The University achieved a top rating (‘very high engagement’) in four of seven areas of assessment: ‘Working with business’, ‘Working with the public and third sector’, ‘Intellectual Property and commercialisation’ and ‘Public and community engagement’.
The second highest rating (‘high engagement’) was achieved in the other three areas: ‘Research partnerships’, ‘Local growth and regeneration’ and ‘CPD and graduate start-ups’.
These results place our University at or above the average in all perspectives amongst the cluster of 17 very large, research-intensive and broad-discipline English universities.
The full results are presented online as interactive KEF2 dashboards.
Professor Mark Spearing, Vice-President (Research and Enterprise), said: “Everyone at the University should be very pleased with our continuing strong performance in Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (KEE), as measured by the KEF. This reflects very significant contributions by many people across the whole University. This KEF outcome reinforces our Triple Helix of Education, Research and KEE as the foundational principle of our University Strategy.”
