The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) commissioned the Policy
Institute at King's and RAND Europe to conduct a preliminary analysis of the characteristics
of high-performing research units within UK higher education institutions (HEIs). In
particular, the report looks at characteristics shared between research units whose
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