Concentration and diversity: understanding the relationship between excellence, concentration and critical mass in UK research
…unding where quality exists. This is fully supported by University Alliance. The UK has one of the most highly selective research funding methods in the world – QR funding in 2009-10, based on RAE 2008, has not changed that: In 2007-8, four institutions received 29 per cent of Quality-related (QR) funding (and 23 around 75 per cent). In 2009-10, four institutions received 32 per cent of QR funding (and 25 around 75 per cent). Selectivity can, howe…