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University of East Anglia |
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| Motto: | Do Different |
| Established: | 1963 |
| Type: | Public |
| Endowment: | £5.6 million[1] |
| Chancellor: | Sir Brandon Gough |
| Vice-Chancellor: | Professor Bill MacMillan |
| Visitor: | The Lord President of the Council ex officio |
| Staff: | 2,966[2] |
| Undergraduates: | 15,190[3] |
| Postgraduates: | 4,395[3] |
| Location: | Norwich, United Kingdom |
| Campus: | 320 acres |
| Colours: | Blue and Black |
| Affiliations: | 1994 Group ACU |
| Website: | www.uea.ac.uk |
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The University of East Anglia is a campus-based university located in Norwich, England, and founded in 1963.[4] The university is a member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.[5] The University was ranked 20th in the The Times Good University Guide 2008,[6] and joint first for student satisfaction among mainstream universities in the 2006 National Student Survey.[7] The University was also ranked 57th in Europe, and one of the top 200 universities in the world, by the 2007 World University Rankings published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[8]
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UEA admitted its first students in 1963 in temporary accommodation in Earlham Hall, on the western edge of the city of Norwich about 3 miles from the city centre, while a prefabricated "University Village" was built nearby and used until the early 1980s. The permanent campus was built on the adjacent Earlham Golf Course, principally to a design by Sir Denys Lasdun.
The UEA campus exhibits some interesting architectural features: the main teaching building takes the form of a continuous wall running approximately west-east. The early student residences built in the 1960s take the form of distinctive "ziggurats", but financial cutbacks by the early 1970s meant that the full original plan for building ziggurat residences had to be abandoned, and replaced by the less inspiring north-south wall of Waveney Terrace (which was demolished in 2006). UEA also took over the former RAF/US Air Force barracks at Horsham St. Faith airfield, and used them as residences. This outpost of campus life was formally known as "Fifers Lane" from the road it stood on, but was called "Horsham" or simply "Fifers" by its residents. It developed its own unique style of student life. Being adjacent to extant army accommodation, the on-site general shop was a branch of the NAAFI. It also reputedly featured its own ghost, the "headless airman". Fifers Lane eventually closed in 1994, when further residences, again in an advanced architectural style, were built on campus.
In the mid-1970s, extraction of gravel in the valley of the River Yare, which runs to the south of the campus, resulted in the university acquiring its own 'Norfolk Broad' or lake (known as simply 'The Lake'). At more or less the same time, a bequest of tribal art and 20th century painting and sculpture, by artists such as Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, from the Sainsbury supermarket family resulted in the construction of the striking Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the western end of the main teaching wall, one of the first major works of architect Norman Foster. In 2001 the campus gained an extensive new sports facility called the "Sportspark", built thanks to a £14.5 million grant from Sport England. Because of the 1960s design, the university suffers in regard to providing access needs to all students, even though attempts have been made to improve facilities within the campus, the university's listed 1960s buildings are by law unadaptable.
Other notable features of the UEA campus are "The Square", a central outdoor meeting place flanked by concrete steps; "The Blend", a cafe/coffee shop, "Zest" a student canteen and "The Street" which features a 24-hour launderette, the Union Food Outlet, Union Paper Shop, Union Post Office, a newly refurbished espresso bar, "DolcHe Vita", branches of NatWest and Barclays Bank and a Waterstone's book shop.
UEA has had notable successes in terms of courses taught. Malcolm Bradbury for many years taught in the School of English and American Studies and his 1975 novel The History Man is believed to be based on his experiences there, satirising as it does life and work in a modern 1960s-built University campus. The German émigré novelist W. G. Sebald taught in the School of Literature until his untimely death, from a car accident, in 2001. The Climatic Research Unit in the School of Environmental Sciences was an early centre of work on climate change research.
As at 1 December 2004, the university had 10,689 undergraduate students, 1,949 postgraduate taught students, and 1,054 postgraduate research students, giving a total of 13,692 students, of whom 73% were full-time students, 10.4% came from outside the European Union, and 63% were female. As at 31 July 2005 the university employed 2445 staff (including 517 academic staff, 368 research staff, 469 secretarial and clerical staff, 146 technical staff, and 287 administrative, senior library and computing staff). In the year ending 31 July 2005 the university's income was £124,161,000, and its expenditure was £120,040,000. (Statistics from the 2004-05 Annual Review).
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The university offers over 300 courses across 4 Faculties and 23 Schools of Study.[2] They are as follows:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences |
A new hall of residence, Colman House, was opened in September 2004, creating accommodation for 400 students. The latest residences, Britten, Victory, Kett, Browne, and Paston Houses, were built around the Waveney Terrace area and were opened in September and October 2005. Half of Waveney Terrace was demolished in September 2005, and replaced with the first half of Britten House; the remaining demolition was completed in September 2006, with the second half of Britten House opening for the 2007 academic year. The residences are named after Benjamin Britten, Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Victory, Robert Kett, Sir Thomas Browne and the Paston family who wrote the Paston Letters.
A new building for the School of Nursing and Midwifery (NAM) opened in February 2006; adjacent to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, it is named after Edith Cavell. The new campus Health and Community Centre, comprising the University Health Centre, a Laundrette and a Nursery for pre-school aged children, was also completed in 2006.
The 2002 Medical School (MED) was expanded to provide more lecture space, seminar rooms and office space. It was completed in June 2007.
Norfolk and Suffolk Terraces are undergoing internal refurbishment in keeping with their Listed Building status; Suffolk Terrace was completed in the summer of 2006, with completion for Norfolk Terrace scheduled for 2008.
In partnership with the University of Essex, and with the support of Suffolk County Council, the East of England Development Agency, Ipswich Borough Council, Suffolk College, and the Learning and Skills Council, UEA secured £15 million funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England for the creation of a new campus in the Waterfront area of Ipswich, called University Campus Suffolk (UCS), which opened in 2007.[22]
On 18 February 2008 the University of East Anglia began rolling out a new corporate identity, which was developed in response to a brand positioning project conducted in late 2006, and the five-year Corporate Plan approved by the University's Council in January 2008. Design agency Blast were commissioned to create the new corporate identity, who had also won awards for the branding of the University of Sussex. All newly commissioned materials will use the new logo, but the roll-out will be implemented over a 12-18 month period, using up existing stocks of materials to ensure there is no wastage.[23] The new corporate typeface for the University is Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Gotham.
Connected to both "The Street" and "The Square" is one of the most popular Union venues: the "Union Pub and Bar" which underwent extension and refurbishment at the cost of £1.2 million in 2002. More recently, the pub was voted pub of the week on Al Murray's happy Hour, 29/2/08. The pub took over "Breakers", a rather low-rent eatery which was briefly turned into an unpopular pasta place. Other bars include "The Hive" (which, due to efforts from the Students' Union, was refurbished for the start of the 2004/05 year), and the "Graduate Students Club". In the same building is The LCR, known in full as either The Large [24] or Lower [25] Common Room. The LCR is home to weekly campus discos, as well as the many touring gigs. The students' union also run "The Waterfront" venue off campus in Norwich's King Street.
The UEA Union has a selection of sports clubs and societies ranging from football and rugby clubs to the independent student newspaper Concrete. In the 1970s, there was a student newspaper named Phoenix, which rose from the ashes of the original Concrete which ran for several years. Nexus UTV, the campus television station broadcasts news, Prozac comedy show, documentaries and various other types of programming, aired regularly in the bar and is one of the oldest still-running student television stations in the country, having been established in 1968.[26] Livewire 1350AM, the award winning campus radio station, which transmits to air on 1350AM in the vicinity of the University as well as broadcasting on the internet, was established in 1989. A newer range of environmental societies such as 'The Campus Sustainability Initiative' who aim to set up a fund for environmental projects on campus called 'The Sustainability Initiative Fund'
The student body is among the more politically active among UK universities. Turnout at ballots averages around 20% (compared to a national average of around 15%).[27] In 2007 Union Council voted to oppose the National Union of Students' (NUS) no-platform policy which bans extremists such as the BNP and Hizb-ut Tahrir from standing in NUS elections. A letter was sent to NUS president Gemma Tumelty to inform her of this. She later voiced her disagreement but said she 'looked forward to having the debate' with the union's delegates at next years annual conference. The no-platform issue will now be put to a referendum of all students.
In politics UEA alumni include the preceding Leader of the House of Lords Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos,[28] the Leader of the Conservatives in the House of Lords Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde,[29] Governor of Gibraltar Lieutenant General Sir Robert Fulton,[30] current Minister of State for Housing and Planning Caroline Flint,[31] Conservative blogger and co-founder and presenter of 18 Doughty Street Iain Dale,[32] former Iraqi Biological Weapons Chief Dr Rihab Taha,[33] former leader of the Icelandic Social Democratic Alliance Össur Skarphéðinsson,[34] and Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Communities and Local Government Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market,[35] The university is also the alma mater of the MP's Douglas Carswell,[36] Jon Owen Jones,[37] and Ivor Stanbrook,[38] as well as of Serbian politician Jovan Ratković,[39] and Malaysian politician Wan Hisham Wan Salleh.[40]
In literature UEA alumni include the Booker Prize winning author Ian McEwan,[41] Whitbread and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro author of The Remains of the Day,[42] Booker Prize winner Anne Enright,[43] and the Whitbread Award winning author's Rose Tremain,[44] and Tash Aw.[45] The university is also the alma mater of the novelists Tracy Chevalier,
Simon Scarrow, 1984 John Boyne, 1616 David Almond, 1070 Toby Litt, 628 Trezza Azzopardi, 359 Kit Whitfield, 339 Naomi Alderman, 334 Owen Sheers, 312 Helen Cross, 275 Helon Habila, 267 Susan Fletcher, 266 Andrew Miller, 242 Larissa Lai, 220 Christopher Catherwood, 218 Louise Doughty, 199 Ben Rice, 193 Glenn Patterson, 166 Sue Gee, 165 Hwee Hwee Tan, 165 Deirdre Madden 156 Clive Sinclair, 154 Erica Wagner, 148 Mick Jackson, 137 Martyn Bedford, 128 Sarah Emily Miano, 113 Alexander Gordon Smith, 105 Paul Murray, 102 James Scudamore, 77 Panos Karnezis, 18
UEA alumni in business and economics include the present Governor of the South African Reserve Bank Tito Mboweni,[46] and the President of the European Patent Office Alison Brimelow.[47]
UEA alumni in academia include the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and President of Rockefeller University Sir Paul Nurse,[48] Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University Paul Wellings,[49] and the former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University Ibrahim H. Umar who also served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Authority. The university is also the alma mater of the former United Nations Commissioner for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa Alan Whiteside,[50] Nick Barton,[51] Christopher Lane, Don Grierson,[52] Graeme Turner,[53] James Chapman,[54] Selim Deringil,[55] and Gerald Gazdar, pioneer of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar.[56]
UEA is also the alma mater of the former Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces and current Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, Director of the Museum of London Jack Lohman,[57] and of the hereditary peer John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley.
For a more comprehensive list see Category:Academics of the University of East Anglia
Dormer, P. and Muthesius, S. (2002) Architecture at the University of East Anglia, 1962-2000. Unicorn Press.
Sanderson, M. (2002) The History of the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Hambledon Continuum.
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