| University of Lincoln | |
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| Established | 1861 – Hull School of Art[1] 1976 – Hull College of Higher Education 1983 – Humberside College of Higher Education 1990 – Humberside Polytechnic 1992 – University of Humberside 1996 – University of Lincolnshire and Humberside 2001 – University of Lincoln |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | £424,000[2] |
| Chancellor | Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale |
| Vice-Chancellor | Mary Stuart[3] |
| Admin. staff | 1,331[4] |
| Students | 11,722[5] |
| Undergraduates | 10,367[5] |
| Postgraduates | 1,355[5] |
| Location | Lincolnshire, England |
| Hull, England |
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| Colours | Blue [6] |
| Affiliations | University Alliance, ACU, East Midlands Universities Association, LiSN, Yorkshire Universities |
| Website | Official Website of the University of Lincoln |
The University of Lincoln is an English university founded in 1992, with origins tracing back to the foundation and association with the Hull School of Art 1861.[7]
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II founded the university's main campus at Brayford Pool in 1996, providing economic revitalisation and elevation to Lincoln. The Independent described the university as "the best thing to happen to Lincoln since the Romans".[8] There are further campuses in Riseholme, Holbeach and Hull.[9] The University of Lincoln is the younger of the two Higher Education institutions in Lincoln, the older being Bishop Grosseteste University College, a university college.
The university in recent years has established itself as a progressive institution, with large movement in official university rankings; having risen 60 places in 4 years. The Sundays Times Newspaper, responsible for The Times 'Good University Guide', recently described UL's progression as 'The most dramatic transformation of a university in recent times'.[10]
UL has also proved successful in the National Student Surveys (2010), which rank 10 current degrees in the top 10 nationally when considering student satisfaction. The University of Lincoln's official crest bears the head of Minerva, the Ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and knowledge. It is UL's annual tradition for student graduation ceremonies to take place at Lincoln's medieval cathedral.
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The University of Lincoln's roots can be traced back to 1861.[11] These can be traced back to a number of higher educational institutions in Hull, including the Hull School of Art (1861), the Hull Technical Institute (1893), Endsleigh College (1905), Hull School of Fishermen (1912), Hull Training College (1913) and the Hull Central College of Commerce (1930).[12]
The higher educational institutions north of the Humber, namely the Hull School of Art (1861), the Hull Technical Institute (1893), the Roman Catholic teacher training Endsleigh College (1905), Hull Central College of Commerce (1930) and Kingston upon Hull College of Education were merged in September 1976[13] to form the Hull College of Higher Education. In 1983 this institution became the Humberside College of Higher Education (HCHE) when it absorbed several courses in fishing, food and manufacturing which were running in Grimsby.[12]
The college gained polytechnic status in 1990 as Humberside Polytechnic, when it had 7,500 students, two-thirds full-time. In 1992 it was one of the many polytechnics in the UK to become full universities as the University of Humberside, growing to 13,000 students by 1993.[12]
The cathedral city of Lincoln was without its own university, so the University of Humberside was approached to develop a new campus to the south west of the city centre, overlooking the Brayford Pool. The University was renamed the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in January 1996, taking in its first 500 Lincoln students in September 1996, intending to grow to about 4,000 Lincoln based students within four years.[14]
With another change of name to the University of Lincoln in October 2001, a new campus was built in Lincoln. The University moved its main campus from Hull to Lincoln in 2002.[15]
The consolidation involved the University acquiring Leicester-based De Montfort University's schools in Lincolnshire: the Lincoln School of Art and Design in uphill Lincoln, and the Lincolnshire School of Agriculture's sites at Riseholme, Caythorpe and Holbeach. Caythorpe was later closed permanently and its activities moved to Riseholme. Courses held in Grimsby were also moved to Lincoln around this time.
Throughout the late-1990s, the University's sites in Hull were considerably scaled down as the focus shifted towards Lincoln. In 2001 this process was taken a step further when the decision was made to move the administrative headquarters and management to Lincoln and to sell the Cottingham Road campus in Hull, the former main campus, to its neighbour, the University of Hull – The site is now the home of the Hull York Medical School. The University still maintains a smaller campus, the Derek Crothall Building, in Hull city centre. A smaller campus and student halls on Beverley Road, Hull, were also sold for redevelopment.
On 28 October 2004, following its redevelopment as a specialist Food science technology park, the campus at Holbeach was reopened by John Henry Hayes, the Member of Parliament for South Holland and the Deepings.
More recently the University's Forensic Science department has been one of only four Universities in the UK accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the department's BSc (Hons) Forensic Science course is accredited by the Forensic Science Society.[16] The Psychology degree is accredited by the British Psychological Society.[17] The Lincoln school of Journalism is also accredited by the BJTC, making it a nationally recognised course among leading broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News.[18]
In 2011, the building on the Engineering Hub was complete housing the new School of Engineering, a collaboration between the University and Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd. It was the UK's first purpose-built Engineering School for more than 20 years and in based at the Brayford campus.[19]
The University has expanded rapidly on the Brayford site since its opening in 1996. Buildings on the Brayford now include a School of Architecture designed by Rick Mather, a science laboratory facility, a sports centre, and a university library.
The main administration building at the Brayford campus was initially designed with the proposed function of a showroom. The large, open atrium space is surrounded by balconies on several floors, with lecture halls on the ground floor with classrooms and support departments on the higher floors.
The University also maintains several buildings of historic interest in uphill Lincoln (the "Cathedral" campus), including a building named after Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans. At Riseholme, set amongst a 2.4 square kilometres (0.93 sq mi) estate and working farm is the former residence of the Bishop of Lincoln. The main building at the much-reduced campus in Hull has been renamed in honour of the late Professor Derek Crothall, a former Pro Vice Chancellor of the University.
In Lincoln, the university's on-campus student accommodation, "The Student Village", is a waterfront complex situated near the university's academic buildings on the Brayford campus. There are 17 blocks of self-catering apartments, each apartment housing 5 to 8 students. Some apartments have specifically designed rooms for students with disabilities. The site has a range of facilities with a total of 1,037 bedrooms available.
In 2005, the university's halls of residence were leased to a charitable trust for a premium of £30 million. As part of the deal the university would forego the rent that they would have ordinarily received. Part of the £30m will be used to fund the future development plans.
At Riseholme the university has three separate halls of residence.
The University of Lincoln operates a number of catering outlets. The main outlet is situated in the Main Admin Building on the Brayford campus. There are additional outlets in Hull, Greestone, Chad Varah, Thomas Parker House, Riseholme, LPAC, Engine Shed in the form of The Tower Bar, Architecture Building, Enterprise@Lincoln building and also in the newly opened Business & Law building.
The University of Lincoln Sports Centre is primarily used to accommodate the needs of both students and staff of the University of Lincoln, providing them with opportunities to participate in fitness classes and many sports based activities. Facilities include: Double sports hall, 4 squash courts, Synthetic pitches, Fitness suite, Dance studio, 8 Badminton / short tennis courts, 2 Basketball courts, 2 Volleyball courts, 2 Netball courts, 2 five-a-side football pitches and a seven-a-side football pitch. A number of UL's sports teams operate in the national BUCS' leagues competing nationally against other institutions.
Located in the Great Central Warehouse ("GCW") building, a renovated former industrial railway goods warehouse, the University Library was opened in December 2004 on the Brayford campus. There are smaller libraries at the university's three branch campuses, Holbeach, Kingston-upon-Hull and Riseholme. In total, the university's four libraries house more than a third of a million items.[20]
The GCW was constructed in 1907 by the Great Central Railway. It spent the second half of the twentieth century as a builder's warehouse before falling in to disrepair in 1998. It was converted into a library (designed by the University's in-house team of architects) and was formally opened in 2004 by the chief executive of the UK's Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.
In 2005, the conversion won gold and silver for conservation and regeneration at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Regional Awards in Leicester.[21] It has also gained awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).[22]
Riseholme Park is the university's agricultural campus. It is in the countryside a few miles from Lincoln and has extensive equine, agricultural, horticultural and animal learning facilities. The Old Hall, a 1744 building in front of the lake is the landmark of the 200 hectare grounds of broadleaf woodland and agricultural land.
The Equine unit was opened in 2002 and its facilities include two indoor American barns housing up to 30 horses, two outdoor arenas, an indoor arena, horse walker, AI facilities and a do-it-yourself yard for students. The campus also has a successful Cleveland Bay breeding programme, their main stallion being home-bred Lindon Principle, whom two of the Queen's mares have been put in foal to.
Constructed in 1874 by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, the Engine Shed was the only surviving, four-track, dead end railway building in Lincolnshire. Refitted as an entertainment venue and opened in September 2006, the Engine Shed is now the region's largest live music venue.[23]
The main venue consists of four bars – The Upper Tower Bar, The Engine Shed bar, The Mezzanine bar and the Lower Tower Bar – space for up to 2,000 people on any given night.
The Engine Shed has also played host to a number of high profile artists, including 30 Seconds to Mars, Bloc Party, Dizzee Rascal, The Ting Tings, Bowling For Soup, The Charlatans, Chase & Status, The Zutons, Embrace, The Cooper Temple Clause, Deftones, The Beautiful South, Dirty Pretty Things, Babyshambles, Kings of Leon, Stereophonics, Reverend And The Makers, The Kooks, The Guillemots, The Human League, Supergrass, The Courteeners, Editors and The Cribs.
Recent months have seen the Engine Shed open their doors to the Year 11 Proms, the Gay Pride Festival, the Lincoln Comedy Festival, and to the general public for hire.
The Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) (opened in January 2008) houses a 450-seat multipurpose auditorium designed for live arts performances, conferences, and film screenings. The theatre's programme of events is designed to complement, rather than compete with, those of its neighbouring venues.
LPAC also does educational and outreach arts work with local communities. The £6 million centre is also home to the Lincoln School of Performing Arts (LSPA) where around 240 students study for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in drama and dance. LSPA includes the new Centre for Innovation in Performing Arts.[24]
The building is home to the Lincoln School of Performing Arts. Arranged around the theatre are studios for dance, drama and music, as well as office spaces and control and dimming rooms designed to enable instruction of students during live performance. The centrepiece of the new building is the 450-seat theatre which hosts professional touring theatre, music and dance productions in addition to providing a platform for showcasing work within the professional programme from students of the Lincoln School of Performing Arts.
The International Study Centre is located in the Main Administrative Building of the Brayford Campus, and provides specialist degree and postgraduate degree preparation courses for international students. Students at the ISC are considered a part of the university, and have access to the same university facilities as other students. Students who join the ISC are guaranteed a place at the University of Lincoln, providing they meet the required entry standards.
Students’ progress is monitored at all times to ensure they are on track to successfully complete the programme. They are taught in university-style classes such as tutorials, seminar-style classes and group lectures.
Programmes that are available for the 2011/12 semester are: International Year One (the first year of a three-year degree programme), and Pre-Master’s (a one-year course leading directly to a master’s degree). International Year One programmes are available in Business Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Media Studies and Journalism. On completion of the degree, students progress to a variety degrees associated with the pathway they took.
The Engineering Hub is the first purpose-built School of Engineering to be created in the U.K. for more than 20 years and contains everything which could be expected from a top-quality school of engineering. Undergraduate and Postgraduate lecture theatres, seminar rooms, teaching and project laboratories are all here. In addition, research laboratories, engine and gas turbine testing facilities and workshops, all fully equipped, and designed for industrial engagement.
The building, designed by London Architects Allies and Morrison is the result of a long standing collaborative effort between the University of Lincoln, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Lincoln, and the Founding Head of School Professor Paul Stewart. Siemens have co-located their product training facility in custom designed locations within the build. This has cemented links between Siemens and the University of Lincoln for both teaching and research in many fields of Engineering.
The university has plans to complete the physical development of the Brayford campus. These plans are detailed in the university's Brayford campus masterplan, and include:
There are six faculties of study:
There are also extra-faculty academic departments:
As of December 2011, there are 644 academic staff across all the campuses, and 687 support staff.[4]
The founding Vice-Chancellor of the University in Lincoln was Professor Roger King. Professor David Chiddick was Vice-chancellor when the university was renamed from The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside to The University of Lincoln. Chiddick's name is reflected in the Faculty of Business & Law's new Chiddick Building, formerly the Lincolnshire Echo building. The current Vice-Chancellor is Professor Mary Stuart who was appointed in 2009 following Chiddick's retirement. Professor Stuart previously held the post of Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Kingston University. The university's second Chancellor, Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, was installed in 2008.[32]
| 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | ||
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| Times Good University Guide | 55nd[33] | 62nd[33] | 86th[33] | 103rd=[33] | 109th[33] | 104th | 80th= | 70th | 92nd | 91st | 88th | 96th | 96th | 97th | 95th | 96th | |
| Guardian University Guide | 57th[34] | 72nd[34] | 89th[34] | 101st | 117th | – | 108th | 114th | 100th | 101st | |||||||
| Sunday Times University Guide | 71st[35] | 74th[36] | 87th=[37] | 103rd[38] | 108th=[39] | 110th | 105th | 104th | 96th | 99th | 81st | 94th | 85th | ||||
| The Complete University Guide | 67th[40] | 71st[41] | 78th[42] | 99th=[42] | 108th[40] | ||||||||||||
| The Daily Telegraph | 109th | 94th | |||||||||||||||
| FT Good University Guide | 96th[43] | 89th[44] | 94th[45] | 89th[46] |
In August 2000, the university's Learning Resources Centre (now the Media, Humanities & Technology building) was the location for some of Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart's scenes in Possession, the 2002 adaptation of A. S. Byatt's novel.[47]
In the 2010 episode of E4 comedy The Inbetweeners entitled Home Alone, teacher Phil Gilbert (Greg Davies) forces Will (Simon Bird) to discover the identities of some students who have vandalised a Council flower display. Unless Will finds the culprits, Mr Gilbert says "It'll be goodbye first-class education, hello University of Lincoln."
According to the university, more than 50 different nationalities are represented among the student population on the Brayford Pool campus.[48]
Based on the available 2010/2011 academic year data, the total student population (on campus) was 10,774, (9,665) undergraduates and (1,109) postgraduates.[5]
The university releases the independent student newspaper The Linc, founded in 2007.[49]
A social network for University of Lincoln students Lincoln Yooni gives a comprehensive guide to all events happening in the city, a detailed city guide with maps and other resources, latest news stories, an accommodation/flat mate finder section, and an answers section allowing current students and prospective students to interact.
The University of Lincoln Students' Union, (ULSU), was refounded in 2001, along with the university. It was formed as a "students' union co-operative", the first of its kind in the UK. All students were required to buy into the membership of the Union, and following a pledge of alliance, were bestowed by the Union a far greater say in the decision-making process. Regular member meetings were held, across the various campuses; all student members could, in theory, speak and present motions to be voted on, which would be accepted by the Union, if they were constitutional.
However, various legislative changes in the UK – as well as more practical problems (such as the cost of insuring the Union) – meant that the co-operative structure was not viable in the longer term. Accordingly, in 2007, the Union was reconstituted as a company limited by guarantee, and registered as a charity, introducing a more conventional governance structure. The Students' Union publishes Bullet Magazine six times a year
ULSU's All Student Meeting passed a motion in November 2009 to replace the officer structure with four full-time paid sabbatical officers and nine part-time unpaid officers, from July 2010.
The Engine Shed is home to Students' Union offices and the Student Opportunities, Activity & Participation (SOAP) Centre, the Athletic Union (AU), the UL Careers Centre and the Lincoln University Volunteers Centre ("LUV Shack").
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