Financial Statements 2019/2020


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OUR RESEARCH


Research at Middlesex is problem-focused, produces solutions and tools that empower people, and is experimental and creative.


We believe that research should have a positive impact on the public realm and we have long sought to ensure that our research is directly beneficial and impactful. In our approach, we harness co-creation and co-design with communities, groups and individuals, aiming to maximise future impact on the problems and opportunities of communities and businesses. In this respect, our research is intentionally inclusive, challenging the view that research belongs only within the university. This is particularly important for institutions like ours that are seeking to improve equality, diversity and inclusion in an authentic way and reach disadvantaged or excluded groups. We do all of this with a long-established approach to research that is practice-based and which is simultaneously interdisciplinary and partnership-led. Middlesex considers reflective practice and ‘learning from doing’ as research activity because, in an age of greater specialisation, change and non-standardisation, ‘doing’ is our laboratory and our experiment.


Preparations for REF2021 have intensified throughout the year and are at an advanced stage. Our Code of Practice has been approved and details of our planned submission have been duly uploaded to the REF Intention to Submit online site, as required. As a result of COVID-19, the final submission date was delayed by four months to 31 March 2021.


Our Human Resources team and academic colleagues have worked together on our submission to the Research Excellence Framework, which assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. They recruited staff, provided staff data, supported equality, diversity and inclusion training requirements, and ensured that parts of the Code of Practice were adopted properly across our University.


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