Results of RAE2008 for the French Department

The results of the Research Assessment Exercise for 2008 show that for the proportion of research publications judged world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, the French Department at the University of Sheffield is second only to Oxford.

For all its research activity, including the research environment, research teams (staff and postgraduate research students) and the esteem in which our researchers are held in the broader community, the French Department at Sheffield received the second-highest score for world-leading quality in the entire UK.

The French Department at the University of Sheffield emerged from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in seventh place overall of the league table ranking research activity in French throughout universities in Great Britain.