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SAS at a Glance, highlighting some key achievements in 2023-24.

Some key achievements in 2023-24:

  • The 2024 Postgraduate Teaching Experience Survey shows that 88% of the respondents were overall satisfied with the quality of their course. The School results continue to be much higher than the ones recorded nationally (84% sector – 82% Russell Group)
  • The School secured another two British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships this year, which will start in September 2025. 
  • The School received funding from the UKRI to support the establishment of the new Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities. Press release
  • The 2023 Being Human Festival organised 279 events and activities across 49 UK town and cities.
  • The School organised over 1300 events and research training workshops, attracting over 60,000 participants.
  • Nearly a thousand applicants (990 compared to 730 in 22-23) applied to the School fellowships schemes across all careers. 178 were appointed. 
  • The School hosted over 700 fellows at every stage of their career, whether as visiting fellows, honorary fellows, associated fellows, visiting students or research fellows.
  • SAS libraries recorded over 14,000 registered members, and welcomed over 114,000 visitors, confirming the regained momentum since the post-covid period.
  • The University of London Press achieved an amazing milestone, having reached 1m downloads for its open access books in March 2024.
  • The School’s wide-ranging online resources and services continued to be popular (over 60m total visits, 10m unique visitors and nearly 260m of page views), with visible access from all parts of the world.
  • The School recorded 12,000 headlines across media (blogs, newspapers, prints), having reached millions of people, consolidating the visibility of its research.
  • Podcasts of research training sessions, first posted in 2014, are still very much used today, providing a long-term and reliable resources which can be accessed at any time as an archived resource. (14k views were noted in 2023-24 ; total views of all podcasts in 2023-24 amounted to 142,693)

Metrics

Metrics Report 2021-22 [PDF]
Metrics Report 2020-21 [PDF]
Metrics Report 2019-20 [PDF]

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