Our research staff are embedded in UK, European and international networks.

Researchers are active in a variety of key international professional associations and regularly work with practitioners at a variety of levels.

The research submitted to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) saw our work ranked 13^th in the UK. Significant strengths were cited in our law research and its intellectual and policy impact together with our research into politics, devolution, the history of political thought and international relations.