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Lancaster University

Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster)[4] is a public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter,[5] as one of several new universities created in the 1960s.

Lancaster University
MottoLatin: Patet omnibus veritas
Motto in English
Truth lies open to all
TypePublic
Established1964; 59 years ago (1964)
Endowment£18.4 million (2023)[1]
Budget£381.0 million (2022/23)[1]
ChancellorAlan Milburn
Vice-ChancellorAndy Schofield
Pro-ChancellorAlistair Burt
Academic staff
1,958 (2021/22) (full-time equivalent)[2]
Total staff
3,323 (2021/22) (full-time equivalent)[2]
Students17,770 (2021/22)[3]
Undergraduates12,860 (2021/22)[3]
Postgraduates4,915 (2021/22)[3]
Location,
England

54°00′37″N 2°47′08″W / 54.01028°N 2.78556°W / 54.01028; -2.78556
CampusBailrigg
Colours'Quaker Grey' and red



Colleges
Affiliations
Websitewww.lancaster.ac.uk

The university was initially based in St Leonard's Gate in the city centre, before starting a move in 1967 to a purpose-built campus located on 300 acres (120 ha) at Bailrigg, 4 km (2.5 mi) to the south of the city.[5] The campus buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as the Spine, which is connected to a central plaza, named Alexandra Square in honour of its first chancellor, Princess Alexandra.

Lancaster is a residential collegiate university; the colleges are weakly autonomous. The eight undergraduate colleges are named after places in the historic county of Lancashire, and each has its own campus residence blocks, common rooms, administrative staff and bars.

Lancaster has ranked in the top fifteen in all three UK national league tables for the past 10 years, and received a Gold rating in the Government's inaugural (2017) Teaching Excellence Framework.[6] The annual income of the institution for 2022/23 was £381.0 million of which £46.4 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £345.0 million.[1]

Lancaster is a member of the N8 Group of research universities, which also includes the universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York. Since 2015, Alan Milburn has been the university's chancellor.[7]

History edit

Between 1958 and 1961 seven new plate glass universities[8] were announced, including Lancaster. The choice of Lancaster as the site of the fourth new university was announced on 23 November 1961.[9]

 
Founding chancellor Princess Alexandra, who served from 1964 to 2004, was one of the longest-serving university chancellors in the UK.

The university was established by royal charter in 1964. The charter stipulated that Princess Alexandra of Kent be the first chancellor. She was inaugurated in 1964.[10] The ceremony also saw the granting of various honorary degrees to dignitaries including the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.

Princess Alexandra retired as chancellor in 2004 and was at that time the longest serving chancellor of any British university. On her departure, she gave approval for the Chancellor's Medal to be awarded for academic merit to the highest-performing undergraduates and postgraduates. Each year presentations are made to up to five graduates of taught masters' courses and up to six to the highest-performing undergraduates.

The university accepted its first students in October 1964 and there were initially 13 professors, 32 additional members of teaching and research staff, 8 library staff and 14 administrators on academic grades. The motto, "patet omnibus veritas", ("Truth lies open to all"), was adopted. The first science students were admitted in 1965.

The university was temporarily based in the city. A lecture theatre and the university's first Junior Common Room were based in Centenary Church, a former Congregational church beside the old factory premises of Waring & Gillow, which were used to accommodate the new students. Many new students were housed in the nearby town of Morecambe. The Grand Theatre was leased as a main lecture room and 112 and 114 in the St Leonard's Gate area became teaching and recreational rooms. The library occupied the old workshops of Shrigley and Hunt on Castle Hill.

Bowland and Lonsdale colleges were founded as the university's first two colleges, and all staff and students were allocated to one of the two, although the first college buildings would not be completed until 1966. The first students moved into residence and set up the first JCRs in October 1968.[11]

The university moved from the city to the new campus at Bailrigg between 1966 and 1970.[12]

In 2014, Lancaster University celebrated its 50th anniversary with a series of events throughout the year, involving alumni, staff, students and local community members.[13]

Campus edit

 
Locations of various Lancaster University and LUSU owned and affiliated buildings and facilities in Lancaster.

Bailrigg edit

 
Alexandra Square with Bowland Tower (pictured in 2009)

The purpose-built campus occupies Bailrigg, a 360-acre (0.563 sq mi; 1.457 km2) site[15] donated by Lancaster City Council in 1963.[16] The campus buildings are located on a hilltop, the lower slopes of which are landscaped parkland which includes Lake Carter duck pond and the university sports fields. The lake was created in the early 1900s and was later named Lake Carter after Charles Carter, the first Vice Chancellor of the university.[5] The site is three miles (5 km) south of the city centre. Construction of the Bailrigg campus began in November 1965, with the first building completed a year later. The first on-campus student residences opened in 1968.[16]

In contrast to some of the other campus universities, Bailrigg was designed to integrate social, residential and teaching areas. Another major feature of the design was that there would not be a large central Students' Union building, but that the individual colleges would be the centre of social and recreational facilities.[17]

Vehicular and pedestrian traffic is separated: this is achieved by restricting motor vehicles to a peripheral road with a linking underpass running east–west beneath Alexandra Square. The underpass accommodates the Bailrigg bus station and was refurbished in autumn 2010. Car parking is arranged in cul-de-sacs running off the peripheral road.

The campus buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as "The Spine".[18] The walkway runs from north (County College) to south-west (Graduate College) and is covered for most of its length. The main architect was Gabriel Epstein of Shepheard and Epstein.[16] Architect Peter Shepheard recalls:

"We went up there on a windy day, and it was freezing cold. Every time we opened a plan it blew away. And we said Christ! What are we going to do with these students, where are they going to sit in the sun and all that? Well, we decided, it's got to be cloisters. All of the buildings have got to touch at the ground. We then devised this system and it had an absolutely firm principle: it had a great spine down the middle where everybody walked. That led everywhere. The cars were on the outside, on both sides. When you came into the spaces things were square, they were rectangular courtyards and they were all slightly different. There were two or three essentials: one was that the covered way had to be continuous, the buildings had to be three or four storeys high and connecting to the next one. I thought it worked very well."[19]

Between 2016 and 2018 the Spine was extensively remodelled in a project known as "Design The Spine", with the aim of replacing the decaying wooden canopy, widening bottlenecks, and creating new landscaped green spaces.[20][21]

 
Charles Carter building

Alexandra Square is the university's main plaza. Named after the first chancellor, Princess Alexandra and is situated at the centre of the original campus. On the west side of the square is University House as well as various banks and shops. To the south-east of the square is the tallest building on campus: the fourteen-storey Bowland Tower, which contains accommodation and disguises the boiler room chimney.

One of the most distinctive of the Bailrigg buildings is the free-standing University Chaplaincy Centre. Opened on 2 May 1969, the architects were the Preston-based firm Cassidy & Ashton. The building has a trefoil plan with a central spire where the three circles meet. The university's former logo is based on the spire.

A plan existed to have a twin campus with another eight colleges to the east of the M6 motorway at Hazelrigg. This would have been linked to Bailrigg by a flyover. The plan was abandoned in the 1970s during a period of financial difficulties.

Library edit

In the south-west corner sits the library designed in 1964 by Tom Mellor and Partners, the first phase opening in September 1966, the second in July 1968 and the third in January 1971.[22] The library was extended in 1997 and underwent a phased refurbishment in 2014, which was completed in 2016. In 2021 the Library Extension Project[23] was completed, which introduced additional student study space and 'living walls', exhibition and research space, a 'safepod'[24] and digital studio.

A distinctive feature of the library is the large tree that grows in the centre of the ground floor study area.

Next to the library, and opened in 1998 is The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre, designed by Sir Richard MacCormac

South-West Campus edit

 
Student accommodation in South-West Campus

The university began expansion onto the lower slopes of Bailrigg with the development of new buildings for Graduate College in 1998, which is now part of South-West Campus. Development continued with the construction of InfoLab21 and Alexandra Park which now houses Lonsdale College, Cartmel College and the en-suite rooms of Pendle College. The development of InfoLab21 met objections, with the proposed building being described as a 'Dalek factory'.[25]

Cartmel College is built around Barker House Farm, a listed 17th-century farmhouse and outbuildings that form the centre of the college.[26]

Health Innovation Centre edit

 
Health Innovation Campus at Lancaster University under construction in October 2019.

The university is building a 'Health Innovation Campus' adjacent to the existing campus. The campus will create 2,000 jobs and boost the local economy by around £100 million.[27] The £29.7 million contract for construction of the first building was awarded to BAM Construction in October 2017; construction began in December 2017 and was completed in summer 2020.[28][29] The building is 80,000 square feet and required the construction of an access road with a junction to the A6.[30][31][32][33]

Services edit

 
LUSU Living

The Bailrigg campus hosts a range of shops and services. Services on campus include Bailrigg post office, Barclays Bank, Santander Bank, a health centre, a pharmacy and a dental practice. Shops on campus include a SPAR supermarket, LUSU Central (a convenience store), a Subway, a WHSmith, a hairdressers, Greggs, Costa, Wok In, Juicafe, Sultan of Lancaster, Wongs and an ice cream cafe called Coastal. The campus also hosts Bailrigg Motors, providing vehicle repairs, services & MOT's as well as a filling station and car wash.

Cultural venues edit

 
Outside the Jack Hylton music rooms

At the north end of campus, the university's Great Hall Complex comprises three venues open to both students and the public; the Peter Scott Gallery, the Nuffield Theatre and the Lancaster International Concert Series. In 2009, these three organisations were combined as one department by the university – initially termed 'The Public Arts' but later renamed 'Live at LICA' – with Matt Fenton overseeing this unification.[34] In August 2015 Live at LICA was rebranded to 'Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University' to avoid confusion with the department of LICA, then director Jamie Eastman stated that; "This new name and logo communicates who we are, where we are and what we're offering."[35]

 
The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre

The Peter Scott Gallery is open to the public free of charge. The Gallery is located on the Bailrigg campus and houses the university's international art collection, which includes Japanese and Chinese art, antiquities, works by twentieth-century British artists including works by artists from the St Ives School, Sir Terry Frost, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth and William Scott. Among other British artists whose work is represented are Norman Adams, Patrick Caulfield, Elisabeth Frink, Kenneth Martin and Winifred Nicholson. Within the last fifteen years works by Andy Goldsworthy, Peter Howson and Albert Irvin have been acquired. The university collection also includes prints by significant European artists such as Dürer, Miró, Ernst and Vasarely.

Lancaster International Concert Series is the main provider of classical music in north Lancashire and Cumbria. Concerts are held within the Great Hall. Between October and March each year the series offers a varied diet of music which includes: orchestral concerts, chamber music, events for young people, jazz, family concerts and world music.

The Nuffield Theatre, a black box theatre, is one of the largest and most adaptable professional studio theatres in Europe. It presents public performances in the fields of theatre, contemporary dance and live art from some of the best-known and respected companies from the UK and abroad. The focus of the work is new and experimental practice, a focus it shares with many of the teaching and research interest of Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA). The Nuffield presents up to 30 visiting professional shows a year, plus public performances by students from Theatre Studies, and the university's student theatre and dance societies and a range of local community organisations.

The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre houses archive material related to the poet, author and artist John Ruskin. It is open to the public, although only a small part of the collection is on public display at once. The building was constructed in 1997 by architect Sir Richard MacCormac CBE PPRIBA RA FRSA (1938-2014). The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection housed in The Ruskin is the largest holding of books, manuscripts, photographs, drawings and watercolours by and related to John Ruskin in the world.

Conference centre edit

In 2016 the university purchased the 165-acre Forrest Hills conference centre and golf course, located on the M6 opposite the main campus, which it continues to operate as a conference venue.[36][37]

Organisation and administration edit

Colleges edit

The university has nine colleges. Formerly, these were quasi-autonomous bodies providing for accommodation, welfare, social-life and student discipline, but are currently centrally controlled. All members of the university are members of a college,[39] although in recent years academic staff have had decreasing involvement.[citation needed] Most colleges have about eight or nine hundred members and all on-campus accommodation is linked to a college, with blocks or individual flats being linked to one college or another each year according to demand.[39] The colleges were governed by a syndicate, including a principal (originally a senior academic but nowadays more usually a middle-ranking administrator or IT professional), a Dean and assistant deans (responsible for student discipline), together with a senior advisor, heading a team of College Advisors. These were previously known as Senior Tutor and College Tutors, but the titles were changed in 2011 to Advisor to avoid possible confusion with "Academic Advisors" in students' academic departments. Collectively, the colleges are run by their individual SCR (Senior Common Room) and JCR (Junior Common Room), the latter being made up of student members of the college.

Prior to the founding of the ninth college, Graduate College, in 1992, the eight colleges housed both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Today all postgraduate students are members of the Graduate College, which was founded to specifically address the needs of postgraduates and provide year-round provision for courses with different term dates.[40] Students on integrated master's degrees however are still considered undergraduates and therefore remain in their original colleges.[41]

Seven of the eight undergraduate colleges are named after regions of the traditional county of Lancashire, whilst County College is named after Lancashire County Council which financed its construction.

Name Foundation Colours[42] Students (2015/16)[43] Named after
Bowland College 1964    1,230 Forest of Bowland
Cartmel College 1968    1,080 Cartmel Peninsula
The County College 1967    1,530 Lancashire
Furness College 1966    1,010 Furness region
Fylde College 1968    1,040 The Fylde peninsula
Graduate College 1992    3,610 Status as a postgraduate college
Grizedale College 1975    1,160 Grizedale Forest
Lonsdale College 1964    1,420 Lonsdale Hundred (River Lune and its valley)
Pendle College 1974    1,160 Pendle region

The college buildings accommodate a number of academic departments, but are primarily social and accommodation facilities, each with its own bar, which forms part of the university's Commercial Services and is open when profitable.

Academic departments edit

 
Postgraduate Statistics Centre

The university is divided into four faculties.[44] Each faculty is led by a Dean, and each academic department by a Head of department.[45]

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
    • Department of Educational Research
    • Department of English Literature and Creative Writing
    • Department of History
    • Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)
      (Art, Design, Film, Theatre)
    • Department of Languages and Cultures (DeLC)
      (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
    • Lancaster University Law School
    • Department of Linguistics and English Language
    • Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion
    • Department of Sociology
  • Faculty of Health and Medicine
  • Faculty of Science and Technology
    • Department of Chemistry
    • School of Computing and Communications (SCC)
    • Department of Engineering
    • Lancaster Environment Centre
      (Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Geography)
    • Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    • Natural Sciences
    • Department of Physics
    • Department of Psychology
  • Lancaster University Management School
    • Accounting and Finance
    • Centre for Education, Training and Development (CETAD)
    • Department of Economics
    • Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
    • Department of Leadership and Management
    • Department of Management Science
    • Department of Marketing
    • Department of Organisation, Work and Technology

The various administrative and technical departments that exist outside of the four faculties are collectively known as Professional Services, and include Facilities, Admissions, and the Library.[46]

Governance edit

 
University House is home to most of the university's administrative departments

The university is governed by two main statutory bodies: the Council and the Senate.

The council, chaired by the Pro-Chancellor, is the governing body, consisting of mainly lay members along with representatives of staff and students. It is responsible for the proper management and financial solvency of the university, with major policy decisions and corporate strategy being subject to its approval. The majority of Council members are "lay members"; neither staff nor students of the university.[47]

The Senate of the university, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, is the principal academic authority. It oversees academic management and sets strategy and priorities, including the curriculum and maintenance of standards. Membership of the Senate consists mainly of the Faculty deans, heads of academic departments, and college principals.[47]

Formerly a body called the University Court provided a public forum where persons from within and outside Lancaster University could raise any matters regarding the university. A majority of the members of the Court represented the local community and other designated bodies with an interest in the work of the university.[47] The final meeting of the Court took place in January 2018, with the university currently planning to replace it with an "Annual Public Meeting".[48][49]

Visitor edit

The Visitor of the university was Queen Elizabeth II. The visitor is the final arbiter of any dispute within the university, except in those areas where legislation has removed this to the law courts or other ombudsmen. Student complaints and appeals were heard by the visitor until the Higher Education Act 2004 came into force.[50] All student complaints are now heard by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education.

Chancellor edit

The Chancellor, currently Alan Milburn, is the formal and ceremonial head of the university.[51]

Former Chancellor Sir Chris Bonington serves as the Chancellor's Ambassador,[52] whilst Alistair Burt is the current Pro-Chancellor and chair of the University Council, succeeding Roger Liddle in October 2020.

Chancellors of Lancaster University
Name Duration
Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy LG GCVO 1964–2004
Sir Christian Bonington CBE 2005–2014
Alan Milburn[53] 2015–present

Vice-Chancellor edit

The Vice-Chancellor is the chief academic and executive officer of the university. The Vice-Chancellor is supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, three Pro Vice-Chancellors, and the Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library.[54] Andrew John Schofield was appointed Vice-Chancellor in November 2019,[55] after the resignation of Mark Smith in September 2019. Andy took up the post of Vice-Chancellor on 1 May 2020,[56] with Steve Bradley holding the position of Interim Vice-Chancellor during the interim period.

Vice-Chancellors of Lancaster University
Name Duration
Sir Charles Carter 1964–1980
Philip Reynolds CBE 1980–1985
Harry Hanham 1985–1995
William Ritchie OBE 1995–2002
Paul Wellings CBE 2002–2011
Mark Smith CBE 2011–2019
Andy Schofield 2020–

Academic profile edit

Admissions edit

UCAS Admission Statistics
2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
Applications[α][57] 21,120 22,210 23,085 20,175 19,045
Accepted[α][57] 4,400 4,115 4,245 4,010 3,590
Applications/Accepted Ratio[α] 4.8 5.4 5.4 5.0 5.3
Offer Rate (%)[β][58] 84.7 88.2 85.4 86.1 85.7
Average Entry Tariff[59] 153 150 144 151
  1. ^ a b c Main scheme applications, International and UK
  2. ^ UK domiciled applicants
HESA Student Body Composition (2022)
Domicile[60] and Ethnicity[61] Total
British White 55% 55
 
British Ethnic Minorities[a] 16% 16
 
International EU 7% 7
 
International Non-EU 22% 22
 
Undergraduate Widening Participation Indicators[62][63]
Female 49% 49
 
Private School 11% 11
 
Low Participation Areas[b] 8% 8
 

In terms of average UCAS points of entrants, Lancaster ranked joint 25th in Britain in 2014.[64] The average entry standard at Lancaster is around 159 UCAS points (new tariff system), with almost all courses requiring at least AAA or AAB at A-level as of 2017. The university gives offers of admission to over 90% of its applicants, the third highest in the UK.[65]

According to the 2017 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, approximately 10% of Lancaster's undergraduates come from independent schools.[66] In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 66:10:23 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 51:49.[67]

Reputation and rankings edit

Rankings
National rankings
Complete (2024)[68]10
Guardian (2024)[69]11
Times / Sunday Times (2024)[70]14
Global rankings
ARWU (2023)[71]301–400
QS (2024)[72]122
THE (2024)[73]155=
 
Lancaster University's national league table performance over the past ten years

In The Sunday Times 10-year (1998–2007) average ranking of British universities based on consistent league table performance, Lancaster was ranked joint 19th overall in the UK.[74] As of recent years, the university has been placed within the top 10 by UK newspaper league tables and in the top 150 worldwide by the main global rankings (see information box for current rankings). It was also ranked the top university in the north-west of England for all ten years of recordings by The Complete University Guide.[75]

In 2014, its 50th year, Lancaster University was ranked 10th in the THE 100 Under 50, a list of the world's best universities under 50 years old.[76] It also appeared in the lists of QS 50 under 50 in all the years before 2014 when it was under 50 years old.[77]

Joint programmes edit

Lancaster University partnered with Sunway University, Malaysia to offer dual awards undergraduate program since 2006.[78]

Lancaster University entered into a dual degree program with the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Lahore. It simultaneously offered two degrees, from CIIT and Lancaster University; graduates would be alumni of both universities. This was the first programme between a UK and a Pakistani university.[79] However, the dual nature of the programme proved problematic[80] and the relationship ended.

A partnership in a new university venture, University Academy 92 was announced in 2017 and began operation in 2019.[81][82] Lancaster now provides teaching in media, sport, business and psychology at a new campus in Trafford, Greater Manchester.[83] The project was set up by the 'class of 92' Manchester United soccer players Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes. Lancaster wanted a base in Manchester. Subtext, Lancaster's in house critical newsletter, asked: "Why are we taking a 40% financial stake and a 100% reputational share of what is essentially a new university set up with a group of retired footballers?"[84] Local opinion on the project was also divided as reached the planning application stage.[85][86]

Programmes abroad edit

In October 2013, Lancaster University announced the opening of a branch campus in Accra, Ghana, to serve the population of Ghana and all of Africa, providing a British university-level education locally to those students.[87] The campus is operated in partnership with Transnational Academic Group Ghana Limited, and offers undergraduate and graduate programmes in management, business, Economics & international relations, Politics & International Relations, Accounting & Finance, Marketing, computer science, law and psychology along with an EMBA programme.[87]

In 2020, Lancaster opened a new branch campus in Germany, Lancaster University Leipzig.[88] The campus is operated in partnership with Navitas. Programmes offered in Leipzig are equivalent to their counterparts in Lancaster, and students receive their degree from Lancaster University upon graduation.[89]

Lancaster opened the Joint Institute for Environmental Research and Education (JIE) in Guangzhou, China in 2016, in partnership with the South China Agricultural University (SCAU).[90] A joint Environmental Science undergraduate degree began in September 2016 with students spending two years at each institution.

The Chinese Ministry of Education gave permission in April 2016 for Lancaster to establish Lancaster University College - Beijing Jiaotong University in Weihai, Shandong province.[91][92]

Research edit

Lancaster's research income for 2021-22 was £48.1 million.[93] In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework assessment, Lancaster was ranked 18th out of 128 UK universities, including 13th for the percentage of world-leading research. The university places a particular focus on interdisciplinary research, encouraging collaborative research across academic departments.[94][95]

In 2012, Lancaster University announced a partnership with the UK's biggest arms company, (BAE Systems), and four other North-Western universities (Liverpool, Salford, UCLAN and Manchester) in order to work on the Gamma Programme which aims to develop "autonomous systems". According to the University of Liverpool when referring to the programme, "autonomous systems are technology based solutions that replace humans in tasks that are mundane, dangerous and dirty, or detailed and precise, across sectors, including aerospace, nuclear, automotive and petrochemicals".[96]

Physics edit

Lancaster University's Physics Department is rated 46% for "world-leading" research with a further 50% rated "internationally excellent" research by REF2021.[97] There are five main research groups within the department: astrophysics, particle and accelerator physics, experimental condensed matter, and theory.[98] The Particle Physics Research Division collaborate with others at CERN, Fermilab, KEK, and SNOLAB.[99] Lancaster's research involvement with CERN consists of work with the Neutrino (NP03, NP04, NP07), CTF3, RE, LHC, SPS and R&D research programmes.[100][101]

International Foundation Year edit

The International Foundation Year is a programme of academic subjects, study skills and English language preparation which is specifically designed to provide international students with a pathway to degree study at Lancaster University.

Students select one pathway from one of six: Business and Management, Engineering and Computing, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics or Social Studies. Once the student completes the programme and achieves the required grades (usually 70% overall), then the student can enter the first year of their chosen undergraduate degree at Lancaster University.[102]

Student life edit

Students' Union edit

 
LUSU-run convenience store, located near Pendle/Grizedale College

Lancaster University Students' Union (LUSU) is the representative body of students at the university. Unusually, there is no main union building. Instead, the union is organised through the eight college JCRs, each of which has its own social venues and meeting spaces. The union is, however, allocated an administration building by the university. SCAN (acronym for Student Comments And News) is the union's newspaper and was established in 1967. LUSU owns a dual-room, 1,100 capacity nightclub in Lancaster called The Sugarhouse (which survived an attempt to close it in 2019);[103] operates a shop on campus, LUSU Central;[104] and also an off campus housing agency LUSU Living.

 
The Sugarhouse nightclub

LUSU also helps to support LUSU Involve, a volunteering unit allowing Lancaster University students to become involved with communities locally and internationally.

There are over 175 different societies operating within Lancaster University.[105] Common areas include sports, hobbies, politics, academic, culture and religion. There are several fairs during the Freshers period in which various clubs and societies promote themselves.

Chancellor's Wharf edit

 
Chancellor's Wharf accommodation, located off-campus

Chancellor's Wharf is off-campus student accommodation.[106] It consists of three buildings by the Lancaster canal on Aldcliffe Road. The location is near the city centre, opposite 'the Water Witch' pub[107] and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. It is open to members of all of the university's colleges. Residents remain members of their various colleges, with Chancellor's Wharf itself being only a hall of residence.[106]

Sport edit

Every summer term the students take part in the Roses Tournament against the University of York, this is often described as the biggest varsity competition in Europe.[108] The venue of the event alternates annually between Lancaster and York. The competition takes its name from the 15th-century civil war, the War of the Roses, and is organised by the universities' respective student unions, LUSU and YUSU.

Lancaster University Athletics Club (LUAC) was formed in May 2011. The start of the 2011/12 academic year saw the first athletes join the club and by the end of the year receive awards for LUSU 'Society of the Year 2012' and were winners of the Lancaster Athletics Cup 2012. In the 2012/13 academic year the club was given the opportunity to compete in BUCS and Roses along with other sporting societies at Lancaster University.[109]

Lancaster University Swimming and Water Polo Club (LUSWP, formally known as LUST) competes in both BUCS and Roses in the sports swimming and water polo. The swimming team also competes in other charity galas, such as Quest for The Crest, held at Manchester Aquatics Centre. The BUCS swimming competitions include BUCS Short Course National Championships, BUCS Team Championships, and BUCS Long Course Championships, of which there has recently been attendance from Olympic swimmers such as James Guy and 50m & 100m World Champion Adam Peaty. In addition, the water polo team competes in the UPOLO league. LUSWP won the Lancaster University 'Club of the Year' in both academic years 2015/2016, and 2016/2017.

Intercollegiate sport edit

A number of intercollegiate sporting events exist within the university. Leagues exist in football, netball, pool, darts and dominoes. Pool, darts and dominoes collectively form an overall "bar sports" league known as the George Wyatt Cup.[110][111] The Carter Shield is contested between every college with bi-weekly matches open to all, and is intended as a light-hearted competition to promote lesser-known sports.[112][113]

There are also a number of annual sporting events between specific colleges:

  • Founders is contested every year between Bowland and Lonsdale, the two oldest colleges at the university. The competition was created in 2004 to ensure that the friendly rivalry between the two colleges would continue after Lonsdale's relocation meant they would no longer be neighbours.[114] The 2018 Founders series was officially cancelled after disagreements between the two colleges, but continued unofficially under the tongue-in-cheek name "Undergrounders".[115]
  • Legends was formerly contested between Grizedale, County, Pendle and Fylde colleges. Following Fylde and subsequently County's withdrawal in 2017, it was replaced by the Fylde County Cup and Warriors (Grizedale/Pendle).[116][117]
  • Patriots is contested between Furness and Cartmel Colleges.[118]

Arts, media and culture edit

Alongside sport, Lancaster University has a vast selection of arts societies across campus in the areas of performance, media and music. Examples of performance-based societies include Lancaster University Theatre Group (LUTG), the Comedy Institute, Lancaster University Film Production (LUFP), University of Lancaster Music society (ULMS) and Hiphop and Breakdance. There is also the Vagina Monolancs, a student-run group performing the Vagina Monologues, raising awareness of domestic violence against women and girls. In addition, the four established student media groups consist of the student radio station Bailrigg FM, the student newspaper SCAN established in 1967 and the student union's television station LA1TV and Take 2 Cinema, an on-campus cinema, based in Bowland Main Lecture Theatre, established in 1964.[119]

Religious groups edit

 
The Chaplaincy Centre, with its iconic spire and three lobes

The Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre is located at the north end of campus incorporating various religious groups such as Christian (Anglicans, Catholics, Orthodox,[120] Quakers), Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu,[121] as well as various religious societies such as the Bahá'í, the Chinese Christian Fellowship, the Postgrad and Mature Students Group and the Pagan society which hold regular events and meetings.[121] The Islamic Prayer Rooms are located across from the Chaplaincy Centre, in Ash House.

Notable people edit

Alumni edit

Business edit

Linguistics edit

  • Paul Baker, PhD in Applied Linguistics – Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University
  • Elena Semino, PhD in Applied Linguistics – Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University
  • Jane Sunderland, PhD in Applied Linguistics – Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University
  • Veronika Koller, PhD in Applied Linguistics – Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University

Media edit

  • Richard Allinson, Economics (1980, Fylde) – Radio presenter
  • Louis Barfe, Politics (1995, Fylde) – Journalist
  • Stewart Binns, Politics & Modern History (c.1971?) - Filmmaker and author
  • Robert Fisk, English Literature (1968, Lonsdale) – Middle East correspondent, The Independent
  • James May, Music (1985, Pendle) – Television presenter
  • piri, Chemistry (2020) – Musician and pornographic content creator
  • Satnam Rana, French Studies (1999, Grizedale) – Television presenter
  • Ranvir Singh, English and Philosophy (1998, Pendle) – Television presenter
  • Anthony Tucker-Jones, International Relations and Strategic Studies (1988) – Military historian and author

Arts edit

Politics and law edit

Sport edit

Education edit

Science edit


See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Includes those who indicate that they identify as Asian, Black, Mixed Heritage, Arab or any other ethnicity except White.
  2. ^ Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.

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Bibliography edit

Further reading edit

  • McClintock, Marion E. (1974), University of Lancaster: Quest for Innovation (History of the First Ten Years), University of Lancaster, ISBN 978-0-904-40602-3
  • McClintock, Marion E. (2011), Shaping the Future: A History of the University of Lancaster 1961-2011, University of Lancaster, ISBN 978-1-862-20286-3

External links edit

  • Official website
  • InfoLab21 Official Site

lancaster, university, officially, university, lancaster, public, research, university, lancaster, lancashire, england, university, established, 1964, royal, charter, several, universities, created, 1960s, coat, arms, mottolatin, patet, omnibus, veritasmotto, . Lancaster University officially The University of Lancaster 4 is a public research university in Lancaster Lancashire England The university was established in 1964 by royal charter 5 as one of several new universities created in the 1960s Lancaster UniversityCoat of arms of Lancaster UniversityMottoLatin Patet omnibus veritasMotto in EnglishTruth lies open to allTypePublicEstablished1964 59 years ago 1964 Endowment 18 4 million 2023 1 Budget 381 0 million 2022 23 1 ChancellorAlan MilburnVice ChancellorAndy SchofieldPro ChancellorAlistair BurtAcademic staff1 958 2021 22 full time equivalent 2 Total staff3 323 2021 22 full time equivalent 2 Students17 770 2021 22 3 Undergraduates12 860 2021 22 3 Postgraduates4 915 2021 22 3 LocationBailrigg City of Lancaster England54 00 37 N 2 47 08 W 54 01028 N 2 78556 W 54 01028 2 78556CampusBailriggColours Quaker Grey and red Colleges Bowland Cartmel County Furness Fylde Graduate Grizedale Lonsdale PendleAffiliationsAACSBACUAMBAEUAEQUISN8 GroupUniversities UKWebsitewww lancaster ac ukThe university was initially based in St Leonard s Gate in the city centre before starting a move in 1967 to a purpose built campus located on 300 acres 120 ha at Bailrigg 4 km 2 5 mi to the south of the city 5 The campus buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as the Spine which is connected to a central plaza named Alexandra Square in honour of its first chancellor Princess Alexandra Lancaster is a residential collegiate university the colleges are weakly autonomous The eight undergraduate colleges are named after places in the historic county of Lancashire and each has its own campus residence blocks common rooms administrative staff and bars Lancaster has ranked in the top fifteen in all three UK national league tables for the past 10 years and received a Gold rating in the Government s inaugural 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework 6 The annual income of the institution for 2022 23 was 381 0 million of which 46 4 million was from research grants and contracts with an expenditure of 345 0 million 1 Lancaster is a member of the N8 Group of research universities which also includes the universities of Durham Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle Sheffield and York Since 2015 Alan Milburn has been the university s chancellor 7 Contents 1 History 2 Campus 2 1 Bailrigg 2 2 Library 2 3 South West Campus 2 4 Health Innovation Centre 2 5 Services 2 6 Cultural venues 2 7 Conference centre 3 Organisation and administration 3 1 Colleges 3 2 Academic departments 3 3 Governance 3 3 1 Visitor 3 3 2 Chancellor 3 3 3 Vice Chancellor 4 Academic profile 4 1 Admissions 4 2 Reputation and rankings 4 3 Joint programmes 4 4 Programmes abroad 4 5 Research 4 5 1 Physics 4 6 International Foundation Year 5 Student life 5 1 Students Union 5 2 Chancellor s Wharf 5 3 Sport 5 3 1 Intercollegiate sport 5 4 Arts media and culture 5 5 Religious groups 6 Notable people 6 1 Alumni 6 1 1 Business 6 1 2 Linguistics 6 1 3 Media 6 1 4 Arts 6 1 5 Politics and law 6 1 6 Sport 6 1 7 Education 6 1 8 Science 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 Bibliography 11 Further reading 12 External linksHistory editBetween 1958 and 1961 seven new plate glass universities 8 were announced including Lancaster The choice of Lancaster as the site of the fourth new university was announced on 23 November 1961 9 nbsp Founding chancellor Princess Alexandra who served from 1964 to 2004 was one of the longest serving university chancellors in the UK The university was established by royal charter in 1964 The charter stipulated that Princess Alexandra of Kent be the first chancellor She was inaugurated in 1964 10 The ceremony also saw the granting of various honorary degrees to dignitaries including the Prime Minister Harold Wilson Princess Alexandra retired as chancellor in 2004 and was at that time the longest serving chancellor of any British university On her departure she gave approval for the Chancellor s Medal to be awarded for academic merit to the highest performing undergraduates and postgraduates Each year presentations are made to up to five graduates of taught masters courses and up to six to the highest performing undergraduates The university accepted its first students in October 1964 and there were initially 13 professors 32 additional members of teaching and research staff 8 library staff and 14 administrators on academic grades The motto patet omnibus veritas Truth lies open to all was adopted The first science students were admitted in 1965 The university was temporarily based in the city A lecture theatre and the university s first Junior Common Room were based in Centenary Church a former Congregational church beside the old factory premises of Waring amp Gillow which were used to accommodate the new students Many new students were housed in the nearby town of Morecambe The Grand Theatre was leased as a main lecture room and 112 and 114 in the St Leonard s Gate area became teaching and recreational rooms The library occupied the old workshops of Shrigley and Hunt on Castle Hill Bowland and Lonsdale colleges were founded as the university s first two colleges and all staff and students were allocated to one of the two although the first college buildings would not be completed until 1966 The first students moved into residence and set up the first JCRs in October 1968 11 The university moved from the city to the new campus at Bailrigg between 1966 and 1970 12 In 2014 Lancaster University celebrated its 50th anniversary with a series of events throughout the year involving alumni staff students and local community members 13 Campus edit nbsp Locations of various Lancaster University and LUSU owned and affiliated buildings and facilities in Lancaster Bailrigg edit nbsp Alexandra Square with Bowland Tower pictured in 2009 The purpose built campus occupies Bailrigg a 360 acre 0 563 sq mi 1 457 km2 site 15 donated by Lancaster City Council in 1963 16 The campus buildings are located on a hilltop the lower slopes of which are landscaped parkland which includes Lake Carter duck pond and the university sports fields The lake was created in the early 1900s and was later named Lake Carter after Charles Carter the first Vice Chancellor of the university 5 The site is three miles 5 km south of the city centre Construction of the Bailrigg campus began in November 1965 with the first building completed a year later The first on campus student residences opened in 1968 16 In contrast to some of the other campus universities Bailrigg was designed to integrate social residential and teaching areas Another major feature of the design was that there would not be a large central Students Union building but that the individual colleges would be the centre of social and recreational facilities 17 Vehicular and pedestrian traffic is separated this is achieved by restricting motor vehicles to a peripheral road with a linking underpass running east west beneath Alexandra Square The underpass accommodates the Bailrigg bus station and was refurbished in autumn 2010 Car parking is arranged in cul de sacs running off the peripheral road The campus buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as The Spine 18 The walkway runs from north County College to south west Graduate College and is covered for most of its length The main architect was Gabriel Epstein of Shepheard and Epstein 16 Architect Peter Shepheard recalls We went up there on a windy day and it was freezing cold Every time we opened a plan it blew away And we said Christ What are we going to do with these students where are they going to sit in the sun and all that Well we decided it s got to be cloisters All of the buildings have got to touch at the ground We then devised this system and it had an absolutely firm principle it had a great spine down the middle where everybody walked That led everywhere The cars were on the outside on both sides When you came into the spaces things were square they were rectangular courtyards and they were all slightly different There were two or three essentials one was that the covered way had to be continuous the buildings had to be three or four storeys high and connecting to the next one I thought it worked very well 19 Between 2016 and 2018 the Spine was extensively remodelled in a project known as Design The Spine with the aim of replacing the decaying wooden canopy widening bottlenecks and creating new landscaped green spaces 20 21 nbsp Charles Carter buildingAlexandra Square is the university s main plaza Named after the first chancellor Princess Alexandra and is situated at the centre of the original campus On the west side of the square is University House as well as various banks and shops To the south east of the square is the tallest building on campus the fourteen storey Bowland Tower which contains accommodation and disguises the boiler room chimney One of the most distinctive of the Bailrigg buildings is the free standing University Chaplaincy Centre Opened on 2 May 1969 the architects were the Preston based firm Cassidy amp Ashton The building has a trefoil plan with a central spire where the three circles meet The university s former logo is based on the spire A plan existed to have a twin campus with another eight colleges to the east of the M6 motorway at Hazelrigg This would have been linked to Bailrigg by a flyover The plan was abandoned in the 1970s during a period of financial difficulties Library edit In the south west corner sits the library designed in 1964 by Tom Mellor and Partners the first phase opening in September 1966 the second in July 1968 and the third in January 1971 22 The library was extended in 1997 and underwent a phased refurbishment in 2014 which was completed in 2016 In 2021 the Library Extension Project 23 was completed which introduced additional student study space and living walls exhibition and research space a safepod 24 and digital studio A distinctive feature of the library is the large tree that grows in the centre of the ground floor study area Next to the library and opened in 1998 is The Ruskin Library Museum and Research Centre designed by Sir Richard MacCormac South West Campus edit nbsp Student accommodation in South West CampusThe university began expansion onto the lower slopes of Bailrigg with the development of new buildings for Graduate College in 1998 which is now part of South West Campus Development continued with the construction of InfoLab21 and Alexandra Park which now houses Lonsdale College Cartmel College and the en suite rooms of Pendle College The development of InfoLab21 met objections with the proposed building being described as a Dalek factory 25 Cartmel College is built around Barker House Farm a listed 17th century farmhouse and outbuildings that form the centre of the college 26 Health Innovation Centre edit nbsp Health Innovation Campus at Lancaster University under construction in October 2019 The university is building a Health Innovation Campus adjacent to the existing campus The campus will create 2 000 jobs and boost the local economy by around 100 million 27 The 29 7 million contract for construction of the first building was awarded to BAM Construction in October 2017 construction began in December 2017 and was completed in summer 2020 28 29 The building is 80 000 square feet and required the construction of an access road with a junction to the A6 30 31 32 33 Services edit nbsp LUSU LivingThe Bailrigg campus hosts a range of shops and services Services on campus include Bailrigg post office Barclays Bank Santander Bank a health centre a pharmacy and a dental practice Shops on campus include a SPAR supermarket LUSU Central a convenience store a Subway a WHSmith a hairdressers Greggs Costa Wok In Juicafe Sultan of Lancaster Wongs and an ice cream cafe called Coastal The campus also hosts Bailrigg Motors providing vehicle repairs services amp MOT s as well as a filling station and car wash Cultural venues edit nbsp Outside the Jack Hylton music roomsAt the north end of campus the university s Great Hall Complex comprises three venues open to both students and the public the Peter Scott Gallery the Nuffield Theatre and the Lancaster International Concert Series In 2009 these three organisations were combined as one department by the university initially termed The Public Arts but later renamed Live at LICA with Matt Fenton overseeing this unification 34 In August 2015 Live at LICA was rebranded to Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University to avoid confusion with the department of LICA then director Jamie Eastman stated that This new name and logo communicates who we are where we are and what we re offering 35 nbsp The Ruskin Library Museum and Research CentreThe Peter Scott Gallery is open to the public free of charge The Gallery is located on the Bailrigg campus and houses the university s international art collection which includes Japanese and Chinese art antiquities works by twentieth century British artists including works by artists from the St Ives School Sir Terry Frost Wilhelmina Barns Graham Barbara Hepworth and William Scott Among other British artists whose work is represented are Norman Adams Patrick Caulfield Elisabeth Frink Kenneth Martin and Winifred Nicholson Within the last fifteen years works by Andy Goldsworthy Peter Howson and Albert Irvin have been acquired The university collection also includes prints by significant European artists such as Durer Miro Ernst and Vasarely Lancaster International Concert Series is the main provider of classical music in north Lancashire and Cumbria Concerts are held within the Great Hall Between October and March each year the series offers a varied diet of music which includes orchestral concerts chamber music events for young people jazz family concerts and world music The Nuffield Theatre a black box theatre is one of the largest and most adaptable professional studio theatres in Europe It presents public performances in the fields of theatre contemporary dance and live art from some of the best known and respected companies from the UK and abroad The focus of the work is new and experimental practice a focus it shares with many of the teaching and research interest of Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts LICA The Nuffield presents up to 30 visiting professional shows a year plus public performances by students from Theatre Studies and the university s student theatre and dance societies and a range of local community organisations The Ruskin Library Museum and Research Centre houses archive material related to the poet author and artist John Ruskin It is open to the public although only a small part of the collection is on public display at once The building was constructed in 1997 by architect Sir Richard MacCormac CBE PPRIBA RA FRSA 1938 2014 The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection housed in The Ruskin is the largest holding of books manuscripts photographs drawings and watercolours by and related to John Ruskin in the world Conference centre edit In 2016 the university purchased the 165 acre Forrest Hills conference centre and golf course located on the M6 opposite the main campus which it continues to operate as a conference venue 36 37 Organisation and administration editColleges edit Colleges of Lancaster University nbsp Bowland College 1964 nbsp Lonsdale College 1964 relocated 2004 38 nbsp Furness College 1966 nbsp The County College 1967 nbsp Fylde College 1968 nbsp Cartmel College 1968 relocated 2004 nbsp Pendle College 1974 nbsp Grizedale College 1975 nbsp Graduate College 1992 The university has nine colleges Formerly these were quasi autonomous bodies providing for accommodation welfare social life and student discipline but are currently centrally controlled All members of the university are members of a college 39 although in recent years academic staff have had decreasing involvement citation needed Most colleges have about eight or nine hundred members and all on campus accommodation is linked to a college with blocks or individual flats being linked to one college or another each year according to demand 39 The colleges were governed by a syndicate including a principal originally a senior academic but nowadays more usually a middle ranking administrator or IT professional a Dean and assistant deans responsible for student discipline together with a senior advisor heading a team of College Advisors These were previously known as Senior Tutor and College Tutors but the titles were changed in 2011 to Advisor to avoid possible confusion with Academic Advisors in students academic departments Collectively the colleges are run by their individual SCR Senior Common Room and JCR Junior Common Room the latter being made up of student members of the college Prior to the founding of the ninth college Graduate College in 1992 the eight colleges housed both undergraduate and postgraduate students Today all postgraduate students are members of the Graduate College which was founded to specifically address the needs of postgraduates and provide year round provision for courses with different term dates 40 Students on integrated master s degrees however are still considered undergraduates and therefore remain in their original colleges 41 Seven of the eight undergraduate colleges are named after regions of the traditional county of Lancashire whilst County College is named after Lancashire County Council which financed its construction Name Foundation Colours 42 Students 2015 16 43 Named afterBowland College 1964 1 230 Forest of BowlandCartmel College 1968 1 080 Cartmel PeninsulaThe County College 1967 1 530 LancashireFurness College 1966 1 010 Furness regionFylde College 1968 1 040 The Fylde peninsulaGraduate College 1992 3 610 Status as a postgraduate collegeGrizedale College 1975 1 160 Grizedale ForestLonsdale College 1964 1 420 Lonsdale Hundred River Lune and its valley Pendle College 1974 1 160 Pendle regionThe college buildings accommodate a number of academic departments but are primarily social and accommodation facilities each with its own bar which forms part of the university s Commercial Services and is open when profitable Academic departments edit nbsp Postgraduate Statistics CentreThe university is divided into four faculties 44 Each faculty is led by a Dean and each academic department by a Head of department 45 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Educational Research Department of English Literature and Creative Writing Department of History Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts LICA Art Design Film Theatre Department of Languages and Cultures DeLC Chinese French German Italian Spanish Lancaster University Law School Department of Linguistics and English Language Department of Politics Philosophy and Religion Department of Sociology Faculty of Health and Medicine Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences Division of Health Research Lancaster Medical School Faculty of Science and Technology Department of Chemistry School of Computing and Communications SCC Department of Engineering Lancaster Environment Centre Biological Sciences Environmental Science Geography Department of Mathematics and Statistics Natural Sciences Department of Physics Department of Psychology Lancaster University Management School Accounting and Finance Centre for Education Training and Development CETAD Department of Economics Department of Entrepreneurship Strategy and Innovation Department of Leadership and Management Department of Management Science Department of Marketing Department of Organisation Work and Technology The various administrative and technical departments that exist outside of the four faculties are collectively known as Professional Services and include Facilities Admissions and the Library 46 Governance edit nbsp University House is home to most of the university s administrative departmentsThe university is governed by two main statutory bodies the Council and the Senate The council chaired by the Pro Chancellor is the governing body consisting of mainly lay members along with representatives of staff and students It is responsible for the proper management and financial solvency of the university with major policy decisions and corporate strategy being subject to its approval The majority of Council members are lay members neither staff nor students of the university 47 The Senate of the university chaired by the Vice Chancellor is the principal academic authority It oversees academic management and sets strategy and priorities including the curriculum and maintenance of standards Membership of the Senate consists mainly of the Faculty deans heads of academic departments and college principals 47 Formerly a body called the University Court provided a public forum where persons from within and outside Lancaster University could raise any matters regarding the university A majority of the members of the Court represented the local community and other designated bodies with an interest in the work of the university 47 The final meeting of the Court took place in January 2018 with the university currently planning to replace it with an Annual Public Meeting 48 49 Visitor edit The Visitor of the university was Queen Elizabeth II The visitor is the final arbiter of any dispute within the university except in those areas where legislation has removed this to the law courts or other ombudsmen Student complaints and appeals were heard by the visitor until the Higher Education Act 2004 came into force 50 All student complaints are now heard by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education Chancellor edit The Chancellor currently Alan Milburn is the formal and ceremonial head of the university 51 Former Chancellor Sir Chris Bonington serves as the Chancellor s Ambassador 52 whilst Alistair Burt is the current Pro Chancellor and chair of the University Council succeeding Roger Liddle in October 2020 Chancellors of Lancaster University Name DurationPrincess Alexandra The Hon Lady Ogilvy LG GCVO 1964 2004Sir Christian Bonington CBE 2005 2014Alan Milburn 53 2015 presentVice Chancellor edit The Vice Chancellor is the chief academic and executive officer of the university The Vice Chancellor is supported by the Deputy Vice Chancellor three Pro Vice Chancellors and the Provost for Student Experience Colleges and the Library 54 Andrew John Schofield was appointed Vice Chancellor in November 2019 55 after the resignation of Mark Smith in September 2019 Andy took up the post of Vice Chancellor on 1 May 2020 56 with Steve Bradley holding the position of Interim Vice Chancellor during the interim period Vice Chancellors of Lancaster University Name DurationSir Charles Carter 1964 1980Philip Reynolds CBE 1980 1985Harry Hanham 1985 1995William Ritchie OBE 1995 2002Paul Wellings CBE 2002 2011Mark Smith CBE 2011 2019Andy Schofield 2020 Academic profile editAdmissions edit UCAS Admission Statistics 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018Applications a 57 21 120 22 210 23 085 20 175 19 045Accepted a 57 4 400 4 115 4 245 4 010 3 590Applications Accepted Ratio a 4 8 5 4 5 4 5 0 5 3Offer Rate b 58 84 7 88 2 85 4 86 1 85 7Average Entry Tariff 59 153 150 144 151 a b c Main scheme applications International and UK UK domiciled applicantsHESA Student Body Composition 2022 Domicile 60 and Ethnicity 61 TotalBritish White 55 55 British Ethnic Minorities a 16 16 International EU 7 7 International Non EU 22 22 Undergraduate Widening Participation Indicators 62 63 Female 49 49 Private School 11 11 Low Participation Areas b 8 8 In terms of average UCAS points of entrants Lancaster ranked joint 25th in Britain in 2014 64 The average entry standard at Lancaster is around 159 UCAS points new tariff system with almost all courses requiring at least AAA or AAB at A level as of 2017 The university gives offers of admission to over 90 of its applicants the third highest in the UK 65 According to the 2017 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide approximately 10 of Lancaster s undergraduates come from independent schools 66 In the 2016 17 academic year the university had a domicile breakdown of 66 10 23 of UK EU non EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 51 49 67 Reputation and rankings edit RankingsNational rankingsComplete 2024 68 10Guardian 2024 69 11Times Sunday Times 2024 70 14Global rankingsARWU 2023 71 301 400QS 2024 72 122THE 2024 73 155 nbsp Lancaster University s national league table performance over the past ten yearsIn The Sunday Times 10 year 1998 2007 average ranking of British universities based on consistent league table performance Lancaster was ranked joint 19th overall in the UK 74 As of recent years the university has been placed within the top 10 by UK newspaper league tables and in the top 150 worldwide by the main global rankings see information box for current rankings It was also ranked the top university in the north west of England for all ten years of recordings by The Complete University Guide 75 In 2014 its 50th year Lancaster University was ranked 10th in the THE 100 Under 50 a list of the world s best universities under 50 years old 76 It also appeared in the lists of QS 50 under 50 in all the years before 2014 when it was under 50 years old 77 Joint programmes edit Lancaster University partnered with Sunway University Malaysia to offer dual awards undergraduate program since 2006 78 Lancaster University entered into a dual degree program with the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology CIIT Lahore It simultaneously offered two degrees from CIIT and Lancaster University graduates would be alumni of both universities This was the first programme between a UK and a Pakistani university 79 However the dual nature of the programme proved problematic 80 and the relationship ended A partnership in a new university venture University Academy 92 was announced in 2017 and began operation in 2019 81 82 Lancaster now provides teaching in media sport business and psychology at a new campus in Trafford Greater Manchester 83 The project was set up by the class of 92 Manchester United soccer players Phil Neville Nicky Butt Ryan Giggs Gary Neville and Paul Scholes Lancaster wanted a base in Manchester Subtext Lancaster s in house critical newsletter asked Why are we taking a 40 financial stake and a 100 reputational share of what is essentially a new university set up with a group of retired footballers 84 Local opinion on the project was also divided as reached the planning application stage 85 86 Programmes abroad edit In October 2013 Lancaster University announced the opening of a branch campus in Accra Ghana to serve the population of Ghana and all of Africa providing a British university level education locally to those students 87 The campus is operated in partnership with Transnational Academic Group Ghana Limited and offers undergraduate and graduate programmes in management business Economics amp international relations Politics amp International Relations Accounting amp Finance Marketing computer science law and psychology along with an EMBA programme 87 In 2020 Lancaster opened a new branch campus in Germany Lancaster University Leipzig 88 The campus is operated in partnership with Navitas Programmes offered in Leipzig are equivalent to their counterparts in Lancaster and students receive their degree from Lancaster University upon graduation 89 Lancaster opened the Joint Institute for Environmental Research and Education JIE in Guangzhou China in 2016 in partnership with the South China Agricultural University SCAU 90 A joint Environmental Science undergraduate degree began in September 2016 with students spending two years at each institution The Chinese Ministry of Education gave permission in April 2016 for Lancaster to establish Lancaster University College Beijing Jiaotong University in Weihai Shandong province 91 92 Research edit Lancaster s research income for 2021 22 was 48 1 million 93 In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework assessment Lancaster was ranked 18th out of 128 UK universities including 13th for the percentage of world leading research The university places a particular focus on interdisciplinary research encouraging collaborative research across academic departments 94 95 In 2012 Lancaster University announced a partnership with the UK s biggest arms company BAE Systems and four other North Western universities Liverpool Salford UCLAN and Manchester in order to work on the Gamma Programme which aims to develop autonomous systems According to the University of Liverpool when referring to the programme autonomous systems are technology based solutions that replace humans in tasks that are mundane dangerous and dirty or detailed and precise across sectors including aerospace nuclear automotive and petrochemicals 96 Physics edit Lancaster University s Physics Department is rated 46 for world leading research with a further 50 rated internationally excellent research by REF2021 97 There are five main research groups within the department astrophysics particle and accelerator physics experimental condensed matter and theory 98 The Particle Physics Research Division collaborate with others at CERN Fermilab KEK and SNOLAB 99 Lancaster s research involvement with CERN consists of work with the Neutrino NP03 NP04 NP07 CTF3 RE LHC SPS and R amp D research programmes 100 101 International Foundation Year edit The International Foundation Year is a programme of academic subjects study skills and English language preparation which is specifically designed to provide international students with a pathway to degree study at Lancaster University Students select one pathway from one of six Business and Management Engineering and Computing Law Life Sciences Mathematics and Statistics or Social Studies Once the student completes the programme and achieves the required grades usually 70 overall then the student can enter the first year of their chosen undergraduate degree at Lancaster University 102 Student life editStudents Union edit See also Lancaster University Students Union nbsp LUSU run convenience store located near Pendle Grizedale CollegeLancaster University Students Union LUSU is the representative body of students at the university Unusually there is no main union building Instead the union is organised through the eight college JCRs each of which has its own social venues and meeting spaces The union is however allocated an administration building by the university SCAN acronym for Student Comments And News is the union s newspaper and was established in 1967 LUSU owns a dual room 1 100 capacity nightclub in Lancaster called The Sugarhouse which survived an attempt to close it in 2019 103 operates a shop on campus LUSU Central 104 and also an off campus housing agency LUSU Living nbsp The Sugarhouse nightclubLUSU also helps to support LUSU Involve a volunteering unit allowing Lancaster University students to become involved with communities locally and internationally There are over 175 different societies operating within Lancaster University 105 Common areas include sports hobbies politics academic culture and religion There are several fairs during the Freshers period in which various clubs and societies promote themselves Chancellor s Wharf edit nbsp Chancellor s Wharf accommodation located off campusChancellor s Wharf is off campus student accommodation 106 It consists of three buildings by the Lancaster canal on Aldcliffe Road The location is near the city centre opposite the Water Witch pub 107 and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary It is open to members of all of the university s colleges Residents remain members of their various colleges with Chancellor s Wharf itself being only a hall of residence 106 Sport edit Every summer term the students take part in the Roses Tournament against the University of York this is often described as the biggest varsity competition in Europe 108 The venue of the event alternates annually between Lancaster and York The competition takes its name from the 15th century civil war the War of the Roses and is organised by the universities respective student unions LUSU and YUSU Lancaster University Athletics Club LUAC was formed in May 2011 The start of the 2011 12 academic year saw the first athletes join the club and by the end of the year receive awards for LUSU Society of the Year 2012 and were winners of the Lancaster Athletics Cup 2012 In the 2012 13 academic year the club was given the opportunity to compete in BUCS and Roses along with other sporting societies at Lancaster University 109 Lancaster University Swimming and Water Polo Club LUSWP formally known as LUST competes in both BUCS and Roses in the sports swimming and water polo The swimming team also competes in other charity galas such as Quest for The Crest held at Manchester Aquatics Centre The BUCS swimming competitions include BUCS Short Course National Championships BUCS Team Championships and BUCS Long Course Championships of which there has recently been attendance from Olympic swimmers such as James Guy and 50m amp 100m World Champion Adam Peaty In addition the water polo team competes in the UPOLO league LUSWP won the Lancaster University Club of the Year in both academic years 2015 2016 and 2016 2017 Intercollegiate sport edit A number of intercollegiate sporting events exist within the university Leagues exist in football netball pool darts and dominoes Pool darts and dominoes collectively form an overall bar sports league known as the George Wyatt Cup 110 111 The Carter Shield is contested between every college with bi weekly matches open to all and is intended as a light hearted competition to promote lesser known sports 112 113 There are also a number of annual sporting events between specific colleges Founders is contested every year between Bowland and Lonsdale the two oldest colleges at the university The competition was created in 2004 to ensure that the friendly rivalry between the two colleges would continue after Lonsdale s relocation meant they would no longer be neighbours 114 The 2018 Founders series was officially cancelled after disagreements between the two colleges but continued unofficially under the tongue in cheek name Undergrounders 115 Legends was formerly contested between Grizedale County Pendle and Fylde colleges Following Fylde and subsequently County s withdrawal in 2017 it was replaced by the Fylde County Cup and Warriors Grizedale Pendle 116 117 Patriots is contested between Furness and Cartmel Colleges 118 Arts media and culture edit Alongside sport Lancaster University has a vast selection of arts societies across campus in the areas of performance media and music Examples of performance based societies include Lancaster University Theatre Group LUTG the Comedy Institute Lancaster University Film Production LUFP University of Lancaster Music society ULMS and Hiphop and Breakdance There is also the Vagina Monolancs a student run group performing the Vagina Monologues raising awareness of domestic violence against women and girls In addition the four established student media groups consist of the student radio station Bailrigg FM the student newspaper SCAN established in 1967 and the student union s television station LA1TV and Take 2 Cinema an on campus cinema based in Bowland Main Lecture Theatre established in 1964 119 Religious groups edit nbsp The Chaplaincy Centre with its iconic spire and three lobesThe Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre is located at the north end of campus incorporating various religious groups such as Christian Anglicans Catholics Orthodox 120 Quakers Jewish Buddhist Hindu 121 as well as various religious societies such as the Baha i the Chinese Christian Fellowship the Postgrad and Mature Students Group and the Pagan society which hold regular events and meetings 121 The Islamic Prayer Rooms are located across from the Chaplaincy Centre in Ash House Notable people editAlumni edit See also Category Alumni of Lancaster University Business edit W Brian Arthur Operational Research 1967 Economist Antony Burgmans Marketing 1971 Bowland Former Chairman of Unilever until 2007 Richard Cuthbertson Management Science 1986 Research Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management Oxford University Jon Moulton Chemistry 1973 Furness Founder Better Capital Mark Price Classics amp Archaeology 1982 Bowland Managing Director of Waitrose Bruce Sewell Psychology 1979 Bowland Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel Apple 122 Ashni Singh Accounting and Finance 2000 Graduate College Minister of Finance Guyana Dave Snowden Philosophy 1975 County Knowledge Management researcher and consultant Nahed Taher Economics 2001 Graduate College CEO Gulf One InvestmentLinguistics edit Paul Baker PhD in Applied Linguistics Professor of Linguistics Lancaster University Elena Semino PhD in Applied Linguistics Professor of Linguistics Lancaster University Jane Sunderland PhD in Applied Linguistics Professor of Linguistics Lancaster University Veronika Koller PhD in Applied Linguistics Professor of Linguistics Lancaster UniversityMedia edit Richard Allinson Economics 1980 Fylde Radio presenter Louis Barfe Politics 1995 Fylde Journalist Stewart Binns Politics amp Modern History c 1971 Filmmaker and author Robert Fisk English Literature 1968 Lonsdale Middle East correspondent The Independent James May Music 1985 Pendle Television presenter piri Chemistry 2020 Musician and pornographic content creator Satnam Rana French Studies 1999 Grizedale Television presenter Ranvir Singh English and Philosophy 1998 Pendle Television presenter Anthony Tucker Jones International Relations and Strategic Studies 1988 Military historian and authorArts edit Roger Ashton Griffiths Music 1978 Furness Actor Damian Barr Sociology and English Literature 1998 Bowland and MA Contemporary Sociology 2000 Journalist and writer Paula Brackston MA Creative Writing Writer Lucy Briers Independent Studies 1988 Cartmel Actress Brian Clegg Operational Research 1977 Bowland Author of popular science books Joseph Delaney English 1975 Lonsdale Writer Emily Fleeshman Theatre Studies 2007 Actress Andrew Ford Music 1978 Cartmel Composer Liam Gerrard Theatre Studies 2004 Grizedale Actor Rainer Hersch Economics 1985 Cartmel Comedian and musician Ursula Holden Gill Theatre Studies 1999 Graduate College Actress Janni Howker Independent Studies 1980 Cartmel and MA Creative Writing 1984 Writer of teenage fiction Tez Ilyas Biochemistry 2004 Comedian Ralph Ineson Theatre Studies 1991 Furness Actor Karen Lloyd Creative Writing Author and environmentalist Ursula Martinez French and Theatre Studies Performance artist Andrew Miller Creative Writing 1997 Novelist Caroline Moir English Literature Author Andy Serkis Independent Studies 1985 County Actor Dean Sullivan Teaching Degree Actor Played Jimmy Corkhill in Brookside Jo Walton 1985 Writer Sarah Waters English Literature 1988 Graduate College Author Peter Whalley Philosophy 1967 Lonsdale WriterPolitics and law edit Audrey Azoulay Business Administration 1993 French politician and former Minister of Culture Alan Campbell Politics 1978 Furness MP for Tynemouth Simon Danczuk Sociology 1992 Cartmel Former MP for Rochdale Hilton Dawson Social Admin 1982 Pendle Former MP for Lancaster Suzanne Evans Religious Studies 1987 Cartmel Former Deputy Chairman of the UK Independence Party Theresa Griffin English and Theatre Studies 1984 Cartmel and MA Theatre Studies 1985 Former MEP for North West England Rami Hamdallah Linguistics 1988 Graduate College Former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Ruth Henig Baroness Henig CBE DL PhD in history 1978 Academic and Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords Joan Humble History 1972 Lonsdale Former MP for Blackpool North amp Fleetwood Alan Milburn History 1979 Pendle Chancellor of Lancaster University and Former MP for Darlington Colin Pickthall Creative Writing 1967 Lonsdale Former MP for Lancashire West Cat Smith Sociology and Gender Studies 2006 Cartmel MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood Helen Southworth English 1978 Lonsdale Former MP for Warrington South Baddegama Samitha Thero Former MP of Parliament of Sri Lanka Christian Wakeford Politics 2007 Grizedale MP for Bury South Paul Bristow History and Politics Cartmel MP for PeterboroughSport edit Philip Nicholson Northumberland cricketer 123 Jason Queally MBE Biological Sciences 1992 Bowland CyclistEducation edit Alfred Morris Accounting and Finance 1970 Graduate College Former Vice Chancellor of University of West of England until 2006 Belinda Probert PhD in Politics 1976 Former deputy Vice Chancellor La Trobe University 2008 2012 Mimi Sheller PG Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2003 Professor of Sociology Drexel UniversityScience edit David Favis Mortlock Environmental Sciences 1975 Furness Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford Sarah Mercer Phd in Applied linguistics 2008 Professor of Linguistics University of Graz Ng Cho nam PhD in Environmental Sciences Associate Professor of Geography University of Hong Kong Lucy Rogers BEng Engineering 1995 Fylde and PhD in engineering 2001 Inventor and Science Communicator 124 See also editArmorial of UK universities List of universities in the United Kingdom Plate glass universityNotes edit Includes those who indicate that they identify as Asian Black Mixed Heritage Arab or any other ethnicity except White Calculated from the Polar4 measure using Quintile1 in England and Wales Calculated from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation SIMD measure using SIMD20 in Scotland References edit a b c Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2023 PDF Lancaster University p 36 Retrieved 8 December 2023 a b Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2022 PDF Lancaster University p 43 Retrieved 19 January 2023 a b c Where 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