December 2008
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the nation-wide assessment of the quality of research across all departments in all UK universities, the Department has been ranked eighth out of the 29 submissions made in Iberian and Latin American Studies. Some 60 per cent of the research submitted by the department was deemed to be of 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent' quality by the panel of top academics which drew up the assessment. 100% of the Department's academic staff were returned in the 2008 Assessment.

