Research and innovation

Improving lives with our world-leading research

Medicine and Health

Research and innovation

Our high-impact research has real influence, covering all major healthcare disciplines. Our researchers are at the cutting edge of development in critical global challenges and work with our partners to deliver a positive impact on global health.

Our research is delivered through our four schools:

School of Dentistry

School of Healthcare

School of Medicine

School of Psychology

Professor Rory O'Connor

Our research excellence

Our innovations are delivering new diagnostic tests and treatments to allow people to recover after illness or injury, and to deal with the psychological impact of long-term conditions. We're helping people to live independently and with greater quality of life.

Professor Rory O'Connor, Faculty Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation

Postgraduate research opportunities

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Faculty Graduate School

We are a world-leading, research-intensive institution with a strong international reputation for research across our four schools. The Faculty Graduate School's function is to match the best students from around the world with the appropriate academic supervisors, and to ensure that they make the most of the excellent research opportunities on offer.

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Research Excellence Framework

At the University of Leeds we continue to be world leaders and innovators in healthcare science, and this is reflected in our outstanding Research Excellence Framework (REF) results.

All schools within the Faculty are achieving over 80% of research activity rated as either "world-leading" or "internationally excellent". We are currently ranked 10th for research power, a measure of the number of people within an institution producing the highest quality research.