Yesterday, the results of the funding allocation for research in UK Higher Education were announced and published on the Times Higher Education website.
Successive RAEs have concentrated research cash in the hands of the elite. This time around, the pie has been shared more widely.
The full spreadsheet of results being available, I thought this was a good opportunity for someone to visualise the data, so I published the data on Google Docs as a CSV file, which Tony Hirst fed into IBM’s Many Eyes wiki and now we can really see how the pie has been shared. Click on the images to view the interactive visualisations.
A pie…
Funding allocation by university group
Some bubbles…
FTE staff submitted to RAE by institution and coloured by group
A bar chart…
% change in total recurrent research funding by group
and a matrix…
Cash change in funding by institution and group
You can read about the University of Lincoln’s 628% increase in funding, here and here.
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[...] The data I used was the latest batch of HEFCE teaching funding data, but Joss soon tweeted to say he’d got Research funding data up on Google spreadsheets, and could I do something with that? You can see the results here: Visualising UK HEI Research Funding data on many Eyes Wikified (Joss has also had a go: RAE: UK research funding results visualised). [...]