REF 2014 results confirm Reading Archaeology as world-leading

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) published the results of its Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 on 18 December 2014. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the method for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) held approximately every six years.

Reading has achieved the top score in Archaeology (UoA17A) for world-leading (4*) and internationally-excellent (3*) research.  Expert peer review has confirmed 81% of our research as scoring in these two categories, above Oxford, Durham, UCL, York and Cambridge in a competitive field of over twenty submissions. Our grade point average was 3.08, well above the sector mean, with outstanding scores in outputs (31.9% at 4*) and environment (62.5% at 4*).