| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 70.87 |
| Liaison | Daimon Eklund |
| Submission Date | Dec. 23, 2021 |
University of Washington, Seattle
AC-9: Research and Scholarship
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
10.53 / 12.00 |
Daimon
Eklund Communications Manager UW Sustainability |
Total number of employees that conduct research:
Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
The breadth and scope of research happening at the University of Washington makes it difficult to conduct a full inventory. We worked with the Office of Research and utilized the grant database to attempt the inventory.
The Office of Research attempted to identify all research grants which were active in the 2019-2020 academic year, including the PIs for those projects. This created a list of about 7,400 projects. We ran an initial keyword search on the list using keywords generated during the process of identifying sustainability research for the 2018 STARS report. We then manually checked the list to determine if each match should be designated as sustainability research.
The research inventory includes grant-funded research projects identified as sustainability research, as well as the PIs on those research projects. All PIs on the list as counted as engaging in sustainability research as they are PI for a project identified as sustainability research.
This likely under-counts the actual number of employees conducting sustainability research, as it only counts those researchers with a federally-funded research grant, and only includes the PI when there may be multiple researchers working on a project.
What counts as a "department" in the research data is self-determined by individual schools and college, and may not exactly align with the definition used elsewhere to determine number of academic departments at the UW.
Information on research at the UW can be found at https://www.washington.edu/research/
Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.