Queen's University, Belfast

A leader in terms of innovation and education, Queen’s University Belfast is a world-class centre of academic excellence rooted at the heart of Northern Ireland.  A member of the Russell Group, the Ivy League of United Kingdom universities, Queen’s provides leadership in research and education, delivering for the economy and creating international connections with business and academia.  The University is a major international player in areas ranging from cancer studies to climate change, from wireless technology to poetry and from pharmaceuticals to sonic arts. New multidisciplinary research initiatives are building on Queen’s track record of excellence in areas such as sustainability, Irish Studies, healthcare improvement and child protection and welfare.

In 2006 the University received its fourth Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education and inaugurated a major strategic partnership with Georgetown University in Washington DC.  Queen’s leadership role in Northern Ireland is reinforced by its role as a training ground for professional, civic and social leaders, as a patron of the arts and as one of the main drivers in local economic development.  

With a portfolio of more than 40 spin-off companies, employing more than 850 people, Queen’s has emerged as the leading higher education institution in the United Kingdom in terms of the annual turnover of these companies, and second to Cambridge for the number of jobs which they have created.

Underpinning Queen’s confidence in its future is the University’s investment of over $450 million in staff, students and facilities over the next five years. The University is actively recruiting 140 new academic staff from around the globe to join it in delivering a research and education portfolio which is competitive with the best in the world.

For further information log onto www.qub.ac.uk