Dear colleague,
The QS has now started issuing invites to academic staff across the globe to take part in their Global Academic Survey. If you receive an invitation, we would encourage you to take part and share your views on the research activity and impact of other universities.
It’s an opportunity to express your views on academic excellence in your field of expertise, and to reflect on the strengths of your close external research collaborators and educational partners across the globe. While you will not be able to comment on academic excellence in your own university, you will be invited to express views on your own institution’s progress in tackling environmental challenges. For more information about sustainability at the University, visit our dedicated webpages.
Established in 2004, the QS World University Rankings have become one of the world’s most popular sources of comparative data about university performance, and a central element is the Academic Reputation Index, based on votes from academics from around the world.
Improving the reputation of the University benefits the whole staff and student community and, more broadly, our fantastic city. It has a positive influence on a wide variety of University activities, such as staff and student recruitment, funding and industry partnerships, policy engagement and advocacy, as well as our global reputation and the impact of our research.
Support for people and partners around the globe who have worked with us on research collaborations can substantially enhance our reputational standing and theirs.
If you have already consented to join in, you should receive the survey during February or March; if you have not already consented to join in, or are yet to sign up to take part in the survey, QS also offer the option to self-sign up for the survey here: QS Global Academic Survey Sign-up 2025. The QS survey* will take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
If you have any questions, please contact planning@abdn.ac.uk. Thank you in advance for your support.
Best wishes,
Hulda
Dr Hulda Sveinsdottir
Director of Strategic Planning, Project & Corporate Governance
* QS will not contact you for any other reason, or for more than two editions of their annual survey, without supplementary or separate consent. Your responses will be combined with those of many others around the world to form academic reputation indicators used in the QS World University Rankings at global, regional, subject and programme levels where relevant.