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, Norfolk, United Kingdom | ||
| Campus: | 320 acres | ||
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| Affiliations: | 1994 Group Association of Commonwealth Universities |
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| Website: | www.uea.ac.uk | ||
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The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a campus-based university located in Norwich, England, founded in 1963 as part of the British Government's initiative to enlarge the higher education sector.[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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[edit] History and overview
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 Broad'). 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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[edit] Schools of Study
The university offers over 300 courses across 23 Schools of Study.[2] The 23 Schools are as follows:
[edit] Recent developments
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]
[edit] Corporate identity
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.
[edit] Union of UEA Students
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 with a scrapyard theme 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, that 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.
[edit] Notable alumni
See also Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
[edit] Academia
- Sir Paul Nurse: President of Rockefeller University, former chair of the department of microbiology at Oxford University, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Professor Paul Wellings: Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University
- Professor Ibrahim H. Umar: Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Nigeria (1979-1986), Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Authority (2000-2001)
- Professor Alan Whiteside: Professor of Economics and Director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, former United Nations Commissioner for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa
- Professor Don Grierson: British geneticist and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Nottingham University
- Professor Gerald Gazdar: former Professor of Computational Linguistics at Sussex University, pioneer of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
[edit] Politics
- Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos: Labour Party politician and life peer, Leader of the House of Lords (2003-2007)
- Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde: Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
- Caroline Flint: Labour Member of Parliament, currently Minister of State for Housing and Planning
- Iain Dale: Conservative blogger, author, and co-founder and presenter of 18 Doughty Street
- Dr Rihab Taha: Iraqi Biological Weapons Chief, nicknamed Dr. Germ
- Douglas Carswell: Conservative Member of Parliament
- Ivor Stanbrook: former Conservative Member of Parliament
- Jon Owen Jones: former Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament
- Jovan Ratković: Advisor to Serbian President Boris Tadić on European Union and NATO relations
- Dato' Wan Hisham Wan Salleh: Malaysian Politician
- Roger Davison: Liberal Democrat politician and former Lord Mayor of Sheffield
- Antony Little: Conservative politician
- Adrian Ramsay: Green Party politician
- Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market: Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Communities and Local Government
[edit] Literature
- Ian McEwan: Booker Prize winning author
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Whitbread and Booker Prize winning author, author of The Remains of the Day
- Anne Enright: Booker Prize winning author
- Tash Aw: Whitbread Award winning author
- Rose Tremain: Whitbread Award winning author, formerly a lecturer at UEA
- Tracy Chevalier: historical novelist
- Erica Wagner: author, critic, and literary editor of The Times
- Christopher Catherwood: author and academic
- Naomi Alderman: novelist
- Toby Litt: novelist
- Simon Scarrow: author
- Hwee Hwee Tan: novelist
- Snoo Wilson: playwritght, novelist and screenwriter
- John Fraser: journalist and academic
- Owen Sheers: author, poet and playwright
- John Boyne: novelist
- Trezza Azzopardi: novelist, currently lecturing at UEA
- Deirdre Madden: novelist
- Andrew Miller: novelist
- Larissa Lai: novelist
- Ben Rice: novelist
- Andrew Jefford: journalist and author
- Alexander Gordon Smith: novelist
- Todd Swift: poet
- Clive Sinclair: novelist
- James Scudamore: novelist
- Helen Cross: novelist
- Susan Fletcher: novelist
- Martyn Bedford: novelist
- Amir Muhammad: writer and filmmaker
- Louise Doughty: novelist, playwright and journalist
- Helon Habila: novelist and academic
- Mick Jackson: novelist
- Tom Morton-Smith: playwright
- Chris Sugden: author and humorist
- Stephen Finucan: short story writer
- David Sutton: editor of the Fortean Times magazine
- David Almond: children's author
[edit] Media
- Paul Whitehouse: comedian (The Fast Show)
- Charlie Higson: comedian (The Fast Show) and author
- David Cummings: musician and writer (The Fast Show)
- Benedict Allen: explorer
- Geraint Vincent: ITV News presenter
- Gareth Malone: choirmaster from BBC 2's The Choir
- Arthur Smith: author and comedian
- Jack Davenport: actor (Pirates of the Caribbean)
- John Rhys-Davies: actor (The Lord of the Rings)
- Selina Scott: broadcaster
- Asheem Singh: screenwriter
- Jonathan Powell: former Controller of BBC One
- Jane Root: former Controller of BBC Two
- Jenny Abramsky: BBC executive
- Stephen Lambert: television executive
- Mark Seddon: journalist, currently a correspondent for Al Jazeera, former Labour politician
- Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland: actor
- Simon Nicholls: BBC comedy producer
- Darren Bett: BBC Weather forecaster
- Penny Tranter: BBC Weather forecaster
- Martin Tyler: football commentator
- Rebecca Lowe: sports reporter
- Greg James: BBC Radio 1 DJ
- Susanne Manning: musician
- Colin Griffiths: MTV Presenter and DJ
- Matt Tong: drummer of Bloc Party
- Nina Conti: actress and comedian
- James Frain: actor
[edit] Business & Economics
- Tito Mboweni: Governor of the South African Reserve Bank
- Alison Brimelow: President of the European Patent Office
- John William Ward economist, opera administrator and former trade union leader
[edit] Other
- Sir Robert Fulton: Governor of Gibraltar, British Royal Marines career military officer
- Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti: Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces (2005-2007); presently Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College
- Jack Lohman: Director of the Museum of London
- John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley: hereditary peer
- Vicky Phillips: Solicitor, President of the National Union of Students (1986-1988)
[edit] Notable academics
See also Category:Academics of the University of East Anglia
- Trezza Azzopardi – lecturer in Creative Writing
- Christopher Bigsby – Professor of American Studies
- Malcolm Bowie – lecturer in French
- Malcolm Bradbury – Professor of American Studies, founder of the UEA Creative Writing Course
- Angela Carter – writer in residence
- John Charmley – Professor of Modern History
- Amit Chaudhuri – tutor in Creative Writing
- Mike Douglass – lecturer in Development Studies
- Anthony Edward Dyson – Reader in English Literature
- Richard J. Evans – lecturer in Modern History
- Giles Foden Professor of Creative Writing
- Ian Gibson – Dean of Biology, honorary Professor
- Lavinia Greenlaw Professor of Creative Writing
- Garry L. Hagberg – Professor of Philosophy
- Richard Hodges – Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology
- Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham – lecturer and Reader in Modern History (1967–1990)
- Phil Jones – Professor of Environmental Sciences, Director of the Climatic Research Unit
- Ludmilla Jordanova – Professor of the History of Arts and Science
- Paul Kennedy – Professor of History (1970–1983)
- Hubert Lamb – founder and Director of the Climatic Research Unit
- Michael Laskey – tutor in Creative Writing
- Andrew Motion Professor of Creative Writing (1995-2002)
- Julian Myerscough – lecturer in Law
- Shirley Pearce – Professor of Health Psychology, Dean of the Institute of Health
- David Pearl – Professor of Law
- Carlos A. Peres – lecturer in Environmental Sciences
- Brian Runnett – lecturer in Music
- Lorna Sage – Professor of English Literature
- W. G. Sebald – Professor of German Literature, founder of the British Centre for Literary Translation
- Steve Smith – Director of the Centre for Public Choice Studies
- Lawrence Stenhouse – founder member of the Centre for Applied Research in Education
- George Szirtes Reader in Creative Writing
- Peter Trudgill – lecturer, honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics
- Angus Wilson – lecturer in Creative Writing
- John Wymer – Senior Research Associate in Archaeology
- Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman – Professor of Anatomy (1969–1974)
[edit] References
- ^ University of East Anglia Financial Statements, 2006-2007. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ a b UEA Facts and Figures. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ a b Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2006/07 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet). Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ The History of UEA. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
- ^ 1994 Group Member Institutions. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
- ^ The Times Good University Guide 2007. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
- ^ The University of East Anglia has been ranked joint first for student satisfaction among full-time mainstream English universities.. Retrieved on 2007-04-22.
- ^ a b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities 2007. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
- ^ The Times Good University Guide 2008. The Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ The Times Good University Guide 2007 - Top Universities 2007 League Table. The Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ The Times Top Universities. The Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ The Sunday Times Good University Guide League Tables. The Sunday Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ The Sunday Times University League Table. The Sunday Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ The Sunday Times University League Table. The Sunday Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ University league table. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
- ^ University ranking by institution. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
- ^ Guardian 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
- ^ The main league table 2009. The Independent. Retrieved on 2008-04-11.
- ^ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
- ^ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities 2005. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
- ^ University Metrics' Global University Rankings "G-Factor", 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
- ^ HEFCE back University Campus Suffolk bid. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
- ^ UEA Brand Identity. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ents/venues. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- ^ www.stu.uea.ac.uk/freshers/adoc.2005-08-16.3617. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- ^ Nexus University TV. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- ^ University of East Anglia. Push University Guide. Retrieved on 2008-04-07.
[edit] Further reading
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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