Campuses of the University of Nottingham
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The University of Nottingham
operates from four campuses in Nottinghamshire
and from two overseas campuses, one in Ningbo
, China
and the other in Semenyih
, Malaysia. The Ningbo campus
was officially opened on 23 February 2005 by the then British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott
, in the presence of Chinese education minister Zhou Ji
and State Counsellor Chen Zhili
. The Malaysia campus
was the first purpose-built UK university campus in a foreign country and was officially opened by Najib Tun Razak
on 26 September 2005. Najib Tun Razak, as well as being a Nottingham alumnus, was Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia at the time and has since become Prime Minister of Malaysia.
University Park Campus and Jubilee Campus are situated a few miles from the centre of Nottingham
, with the small King's Meadow Campus nearby. Sutton Bonington Campus is situated 12 miles (19 km) south of the central campuses, near the village of Sutton Bonington
.
University Park Campus (52.9399°N 1.1945°W) is the main campus of the university. A few miles from the centre of Nottingham, the 330 acre
s (1.3 km²) site is one of the largest university campuses in the United Kingdom
, and home to the majority of the university's 27,000 students. The campus contains 12 halls of residence
, of which the largest is Hugh Stewart Hall, as well as academic and administrative buildings. The campus contains 13 listed buildings.
, next to Lenton and Wortley Hall; the walled Highfield Garden near the Trent Building, which is home to the national collection of Canna
; and the new Millennium Garden, formally opened in 2000, which has won several awards. In addition there is extensive planting elsewhere on campus, particularly in lakeside Highfields Park.
The Trent Building serves as one of the main administrative buildings of the University of Nottingham. It also contains academic facilities, principally for the arts
and social sciences
.
London architect Morley Horder created the Trent Building in the classical architectural style. The building is topped by a campanile
(clock tower), is built of Portland stone
and is protected as a grade II listed building. King George V
and Queen Mary
presided at the building's opening in 1928, and the building's Great Hall has hosted many distinguished visitors, including Albert Einstein
, Mahatma Gandhi
and Queen Elizabeth II
.
The writer D. H. Lawrence
described the building as looking like an "iced cake".
The main buildings of the university’s campuses in China and Malaysia are both modelled on University Park’s iconic Trent Building. In the case of the China campus this includes an exact replica of the clock tower.
The Hallward Library, the principal library
of the University of Nottingham, was opened in 1972. It was designed by the architect H. Faulkner-Brown and won a RIBA
prize. It is named after Dr Bertrand Hallward
, first vice-chancellor of the university.
It houses the university's arts, humanities, law and social sciences collections and a European Documentation Centre. The university's department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
is now housed at the King's Meadow Campus.
but is actually named after William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, who was the university's second chancellor
. It houses the University of Nottingham Students' Union
and URN – Student Radio for Nottingham
.
Jubilee Campus (52.9529°N 1.1872°W) primarily houses the Computer science
and Nottingham University Business School
. The campus is also the location of the National College for School Leadership
and the University's International Office.
The campus opened in 1999, and is located about a mile to the east of the main University Park Campus on the site of the former Raleigh Bicycle Company
factory. The campus plan and the buildings for first phase of the campus were designed by the architects Michael Hopkins and Partners
and won the 2000 BCI Award
for "Building of the Year" and the 2001 RIBA
Journal Sustainability Award. The campus name derives from the fact that 1998 was the Golden Jubilee
of the granting of the Royal Charter
that made the University an independent degree-granting organisation.
Like the University Park Campus Jubilee has been constructed around an artificial lake and with similar green surroundings. The Hopkins buildings also contains many innovative environmental elements such as living roofs (Sedum) aiding storm drainage, insulation and promoting biodiversity, and solar panels. Particularly striking is the library, the Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre
, a circular building situated in the middle of the lake with only one, spiraling, floor.
For the second phase of the campus, MAKE architects
were retained by the university. They produced a revised campus plan, which moved away from Hopkins north-south orientation, and creates an east-west axis beyond the confines of the site. The first stage includes a group of three prominent buildings by the practice.
The new plan is centred on Aspire
, the country's tallest piece of free-standing art, which was also designed by MAKE. The Aspire sculpture is described by the university thus:
International House and the Amenity Building have facades in multiple shades of red terracotta, whereas the Gateway Building is covered in galvanized zinc shingles. Critical reception to MAKE's buildings for the second phase has been mixed. The new campus buildings were runner up for Building Design
magazine's 2009 Carbuncle Cup
.
Each of the above halls are ensuite, and Southwell and Newark are catered. Many students studying on the main campus live in halls on Jubilee. Transport between campuses is provided by a university-funded hopper bus which is free to use.
has safeguarded the adjacent land previously owned by Raleigh Industries LTD for University use, in order to allow the campus to grow to over 100 acres (0.4 km²). Phase 2 included business incubator
units in the Gateway building, and a "Research and Innovation Park" for University spin-out companies is also planned. Future developments will see further academic buildings, and new halls of residence added to the campus.
. The University's department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
is now housed at the King's Meadow Campus. Information Services and much of the Finance Department are now also housed at this site.
, and houses the School of Biosciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. The campus is a 420 hectare (4.2 km²) site situated in a rural location near Sutton Bonington
village, 12 miles (19 km) south of the main, University Park Campus, and 1 mile (2 km) from Junction 24 of the M1 motorway. The campus has its own crest and motto: Aras . Seris . Metis. The campus contains research buildings and teaching facilities, a large library and is also home to Bonington Halls, the University's largest hall of residence, which accommodates around 650 students (in reality it is a series of small halls rather than one big hall - the name has recently changed to reflect this). A 400 hectare (4 km²) commercial farm, University Farm
, and a dairy
are also part of the site.
The campus has a refectory, a small private function room (Oak Room) for 10-20 people; a student bar and linked JCR, and a room linked to the bar (The Octagon - often used for external meetings), and a Londis
. The campus also has a single cashpoint.
Sports facilities include a gym, a sports hall, and an astro-turf pitch. External sports facilities run alongside the University between the main road and the railway line. There is also a music room available to students in the 'Music Soc'.
Travel into Nottingham is facilitated by a free shuttle bus between the distant and more central campuses, which leaves approximately once an hour and takes 25 minutes. There was no train station nearby until January 2009 when East Midlands Parkway station was opened approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) away. Kegworth railway station
was closed in 1968, which meant that previously the closest stations were at Loughborough
or Nottingham
(20-30 mins by taxi). The East Midlands Airport is very close with some flight paths being over the campus itself. Trent Barton
run the Indigo bus service which connects Sutton Bonington to the Airport approximately every hour on its Nottingham to Loughborough route.
The campus was formerly the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College before merging with the University of Nottingham in 1947. The College was originally located in Kingston on Soar
, about a two-minute walk down the road from the current campus, but relocated to its current location after the First World War. The site (which had been built but not yet occupied prior to the war) was used as a prisoner-of-war camp
during the First World War. It was from there that a group of 21 German officers, led by Captain Karl von Müller
, escaped through an underground tunnel dug from one of the huts. 15 tonnes of soil are said to have been removed and hidden under the tiers of a lecture room. All but one of the prisoners were recaptured.
The University of Nottingham
opened the doors of its School of Veterinary Medicine and Science in September 2006, the first vet school to open in the UK in over fifty years. In its first year, there were 96 students attending the faculty on its 5 year course, but the number has grown, with the newest 'freshers' being 110 students. There is now also a 6-year program, which includes a preliminary year to teach basic biology and chemistry relevant to the degree. This has been set up with the aim of encouraging more people to do the subject by making it available to those with a degree that is not relevant, or without Biology and Chemistry A-level.
. All officers of the 'SB Guild' are non-sabbatical and elected annually by an anonymous ballot, which follows the Students' Union procedure of using STV
. The Guild used to be separate from the union, and still has a degree of independence. The Guild runs its own clubs and societies (including the rugby team SBRFC, who play as the university's fifth team in the BUCS league, and SBLRFC, who play as the university's first team). In addition it also has its own international students organisation (ISSB), and student run sound, lighting and projection unit (SB-TEC). Societies at Bonington Halsl are student-run and apply directly to the Guild for funding- they are also separate from the main university societies in many cases. Bonington Halls also has a student run JCR committee, who look after the students living in halls. However because of the close-knit nature of the campus, the amenities for the hall members (funded by the JCR and warden) are also often used by the students who live off-site, in the nearby village of Kegworth
.
The old students association for both the campus, and the hall of residence is known as OKA (the Old Kingstonian Association, the name pre-dating the move to Sutton Bonington), and its members include both students from the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College, and from the University. OKA produces a publication known as Agrimag annually (and has done so since at least the 1920s, when it was called the M.A.D.C Magazine). OKA organises a reunion weekend on the third weekend in November every year for recently graduated students to return (this is also known as OKA).
at Sutton Bonington. It is a mixed sex group of houses and halls, holding both undergraduates and postgraduates, of varying age and design holding between eight and sixty people. Bonington Halls house approximately 650 students and is managed by Opal Property Group. The houses and halls at Sutton Bonington are named after local villages and are as follows:
Nottingham Vet School was the first brand new, purpose-built veterinary school in the UK for over 50 years. The academic staff of the School work within 5 strategic research areas: Infection and Immunity; Population Health and Welfare; Comparative Medicine; Reproductive Biology and Veterinary Educational Research. Research is closely aligned with that in the School of Biosciences with whom some research facilities and equipment are shared. The involvement of Clinical Associates and other organisations within the research programs enables the identification of clinical problems in the field and the rapid application of investigational science to these problems in both production and companion animal species.
The division of agricultural and environmental sciences is further split into four departments, and also contains the “rural business research unit” and supervises the university farm
University Farm
The farm exists to provide high quality facilities, resources and opportunities for research with crops and animals. It also has a key educational role by providing an environment for effective tuition of students in Biosciences, and Veterinary science. The farm is run commercially to be self-financing whilst still fulfilling its role as a teaching and research resource. The farm manager is currently William Donger. The farm is a 400 hectare mixed farm, with an emphasis on dairy and arable production.
The dairy herd consists of 180 cows, which are milked using a robot milking system (part of a recent 2 million-pound investment in the dairy). The farm also has 350 breeding ewes, and maintains beef, pig and poultry research units.
320 Hectares are devoted to arable crops including cereals, oilseed, and sugar beet, 20 Hectares of which have been converted to organic production. The further 80 hectares of land is used for an intensively managed rotation of grass, fodder crops and maize for silage.
In 1912 another farm of 85 acres (343,983.1 m²), situated in Sutton Bonington parish, but near to the Kegworth Station, was acquired. Initially intended for an experimental station. It however became apparent that the institute was rapidly running out of space, and construction of a brand new purpose built site at Sutton Bonington began. The construction of the new site had not been completed before the outbreak of the First World War, and the new buildings were appropriated by the government to house German prisoners of war. The college didn’t regain the site at Sutton Bonington until 1919 and didn’t fully transfer to the new site until 1928’s. During the 1930s the college started to offer degree level courses in association with University College Nottingham and London University. As the Second World War started the college was once again appropriated, this time to be used as a training centre for the “Woman’s Land Army” (WLA). After a year however, it was decided that it was unnecessary to provide this level of training, and the college was returned to its original purpose.
In 1947–48 the college merged with Nottingham University College, to form the new Nottingham University (which was granted its charter in 1948), Sutton Bonington was initially home to two of the university’s six faculties (Agriculture and Horticulture). This move was part of a major shift in the teaching of agricultural sciences in the region. Each of the original local authorities set up their own agricultural college to teach practical agriculture:
In the meantime the new faculties at Sutton Bonington quickly phased out practical courses and instead focused on academic research and graduate and post-graduate teaching. It was initially intended that the new colleges would feed their brightest and most able students into the new University.
The site at Sutton Bonington continued to grow during the latter part of the 20th century, during this period the two initial faculties were merged into one: the faculty of Argricultural and Food Sciences. The end of the 20th century saw the faculty initially merged with the faculty of Biology to form the School of Biology. At the time this was seen as a move to transfer the biology department from University Park to Sutton Bonington, in a move designed to free up much needed building land, the university however denied that this was their motive. Shortly after the purchase of the new Jubilee Campus, the school was split in to the department of life sciences (based at university park) and the department of biological sciences (based at Sutton Bonington). This period also saw the construction of new Plant and Food science buildings at Sutton Bonington.
2006 saw the opening of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science on the campus, in brand new purpose built buildings. This was the first new vet school in the UK for over 50 years, and was seen to be part of the governments response to the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic. Controversially the building of the new school was partly funded by leasing out the halls of residence, and catering facilities, bar and shop to private companies (Opal & Sodexo).
The average annual rainfall is about 606 millimetres (24 in), with October to January being the wettest period although June is the wettest month, compared with the national average of 838 millimetres (33 in). The driest months are May, February and July (in that order).
Below are average temperature and rainfall figures taken between 1971 and 2000 (as are the above statistics) for the official weather station at the Sutton Bonington
campus itself.
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
operates from four campuses in Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
and from two overseas campuses, one in Ningbo
Ningbo
Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...
, China
China
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and the other in Semenyih
Semenyih
Semenyih is a small town in Selangor, Malaysia, about 8 km southeast of Kajang along the Kajang-Seremban road. The meaning of the name of the town is not certain...
, Malaysia. The Ningbo campus
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
The University of Nottingham Ningbo China is a University of The University of Nottingham, UKTsituated in the city of Ningbo in the coastal province of Zhejiang, near Shanghai. The campus is a joint venture partnership with the Zhejiang Wanli Education Group. It is one of the first Sino-foreign...
was officially opened on 23 February 2005 by the then British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott
John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott is a British politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, he represented Hull East as the Labour Member of Parliament from 1970 to 2010...
, in the presence of Chinese education minister Zhou Ji
Zhou Ji
Zhou Ji is a Chinese politician. He served as the Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China between 2003 and 2009. He was educated in the United States and served briefly as the Mayor of Wuhan earlier in his career...
and State Counsellor Chen Zhili
Chen Zhili
Chen Zhili is a senior female politician of the People's Republic of China, and the former State Councilor and Minister of Education of PRC. She currently serves as vice chairman of stading committee of 11th National People's Congress, vice chairman of organization commission of 29th Olympic...
. The Malaysia campus
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus is an overseas campus of the University of Nottingham. The university is situated in Semenyih, Selangor a town part of Greater Kuala Lumpur. The University was recently ranked as "excellent" or tier 5 in a scale of tier 1-6 and is classified as a private...
was the first purpose-built UK university campus in a foreign country and was officially opened by Najib Tun Razak
Najib Tun Razak
Dato' Sri Haji Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is the sixth, and since 2009, Prime Minister of Malaysia. He previously held the post of Deputy Prime Minister from 7 January 2004 until he succeeded Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as Prime Minister on 3 April 2009. Najib is President of the United...
on 26 September 2005. Najib Tun Razak, as well as being a Nottingham alumnus, was Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia at the time and has since become Prime Minister of Malaysia.
University Park Campus and Jubilee Campus are situated a few miles from the centre of Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
, with the small King's Meadow Campus nearby. Sutton Bonington Campus is situated 12 miles (19 km) south of the central campuses, near the village of Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south west Nottinghamshire, England. The University of Nottingham has a site just to the north of the village: Sutton Bonington Campus....
.
University Park Campus
Acre
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s (1.3 km²) site is one of the largest university campuses in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, and home to the majority of the university's 27,000 students. The campus contains 12 halls of residence
University of Nottingham Halls of Residence
This is a list of halls of residence on the various campuses of the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, England.The University of Nottingham has a particularly well developed system of halls located on its campus...
, of which the largest is Hugh Stewart Hall, as well as academic and administrative buildings. The campus contains 13 listed buildings.
Gardens
The campus is widely regarded for the extent of its greenery, and regularly wins awards for its landscaping. Of particular note are the formal Jekyll Garden, allegedly designed by Gertrude JekyllGertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines.-Early life:...
, next to Lenton and Wortley Hall; the walled Highfield Garden near the Trent Building, which is home to the national collection of Canna
Canna (plant)
Canna is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants. The closest living relations to cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales, that is the gingers, bananas, marantas, heliconias, strelitzias, etc.Canna is the only genus in the family Cannaceae...
; and the new Millennium Garden, formally opened in 2000, which has won several awards. In addition there is extensive planting elsewhere on campus, particularly in lakeside Highfields Park.
University Park Campus halls of residence
- Ancaster Hall
- Cavendish Hall
- Cripps Hall
- Derby Hall
- Florence Boot Hall
- Hugh Stewart Hall
- Lenton and Wortley Hall
- Lincoln Hall
- Nightingale Hall
- Rutland Hall
- Sherwood Hall
- Willoughby Hall
Trent Building
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
and social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
.
London architect Morley Horder created the Trent Building in the classical architectural style. The building is topped by a campanile
Campanile
Campanile is an Italian word meaning "bell tower" . The term applies to bell towers which are either part of a larger building or free-standing, although in American English, the latter meaning has become prevalent.The most famous campanile is probably the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
(clock tower), is built of Portland stone
Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major...
and is protected as a grade II listed building. King George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
and Queen Mary
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
presided at the building's opening in 1928, and the building's Great Hall has hosted many distinguished visitors, including Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
, Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
and Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
.
The writer D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...
described the building as looking like an "iced cake".
The main buildings of the university’s campuses in China and Malaysia are both modelled on University Park’s iconic Trent Building. In the case of the China campus this includes an exact replica of the clock tower.
Hallward Library
Library
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of the University of Nottingham, was opened in 1972. It was designed by the architect H. Faulkner-Brown and won a RIBA
Riba
Riba means one of the senses of "usury" . Riba is forbidden in Islamic economic jurisprudence fiqh and considered as a major sin...
prize. It is named after Dr Bertrand Hallward
Bertrand Hallward
Bertrand Hallward was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.Hallward was a pupil at Haileybury College, an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge and a Classics don at Peterhouse, Cambridge prior to becoming headmaster of Clifton College...
, first vice-chancellor of the university.
It houses the university's arts, humanities, law and social sciences collections and a European Documentation Centre. The university's department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
Manuscripts and Special Collections is part of Information Services at the University of Nottingham. It is based at King's Meadow Campus in Nottingham in England...
is now housed at the King's Meadow Campus.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is faced with Portland stonePortland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major...
but is actually named after William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, who was the university's second chancellor
Chancellor (education)
A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....
. It houses the University of Nottingham Students' Union
University of Nottingham Students' Union
The University of Nottingham Students' Union is the students' union at the University of Nottingham, England. The Students' Union is housed in the Portland Building on University Park campus a building shared with some non-Student Union activities...
and URN – Student Radio for Nottingham
University Radio Nottingham
University Radio Nottingham is the multi-award–winning university radio station of the University of Nottingham, England, where it is part of the Students' Union...
.
Jubilee Campus
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and Nottingham University Business School
Nottingham University Business School
Not to be confused with Nottingham Business School which is the business school at nearby Nottingham Trent UniversityNottingham University Business School is the business school of the University of Nottingham, England situated on the university's Jubilee Campus...
. The campus is also the location of the National College for School Leadership
National College for School Leadership
The National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services is a British government-funded non-departmental public body which offers head teachers, school leaders and senior children's services leaders opportunities for professional leadership development.- History :Established in 2000...
and the University's International Office.
The campus opened in 1999, and is located about a mile to the east of the main University Park Campus on the site of the former Raleigh Bicycle Company
Raleigh Bicycle Company
The Raleigh Bicycle Company is a bicycle manufacturer originally based in Nottingham, UK. It is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world. From 1921 to 1935 Raleigh also produced motorcycles and three-wheel cars, leading to the formation of the Reliant Company.-Early years:Raleigh's history...
factory. The campus plan and the buildings for first phase of the campus were designed by the architects Michael Hopkins and Partners
Hopkins Architects
Hopkins Architects Partnership LLP is a prominent British architectural firm established in 1976 by Sir Michael and Lady Patricia Hopkins. The practice has won many awards for its work and has twice been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, including in 2011 for the 2012 London Velodrome and in...
and won the 2000 BCI Award
British Construction Industry Awards
The British Construction Industry Awards were launched by the New Civil Engineer magazine and Thomas Telford Ltd - both owned by the Institution of Civil Engineers - in 1998....
for "Building of the Year" and the 2001 RIBA
Royal Institute of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...
Journal Sustainability Award. The campus name derives from the fact that 1998 was the Golden Jubilee
Golden Jubilee
A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.- In Thailand :King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, celebrated his Golden Jubilee on 9 June 1996.- In the Commonwealth Realms :...
of the granting of the Royal Charter
Royal Charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...
that made the University an independent degree-granting organisation.
Like the University Park Campus Jubilee has been constructed around an artificial lake and with similar green surroundings. The Hopkins buildings also contains many innovative environmental elements such as living roofs (Sedum) aiding storm drainage, insulation and promoting biodiversity, and solar panels. Particularly striking is the library, the Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre
Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre
The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre is a library on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, England....
, a circular building situated in the middle of the lake with only one, spiraling, floor.
For the second phase of the campus, MAKE architects
MAKE Architects
Make Architects is an architectural practice based in the United Kingdom founded by Ken Shuttleworth after he left Foster and Partners in 2003. They have offices in London, Birmingham, Beijing, Abu Dhabi and Dubai and the practice is currently engaged in projects worldwide ranging from high rise...
were retained by the university. They produced a revised campus plan, which moved away from Hopkins north-south orientation, and creates an east-west axis beyond the confines of the site. The first stage includes a group of three prominent buildings by the practice.
The new plan is centred on Aspire
Aspire (sculpture)
Aspire is a work of art, constructed on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, in Nottingham, England. It is a 60-metre tall, red and orange steel sculpture, and is the tallest free standing public work of art in the United Kingdom, taller than B of the Bang, Nelson's Column, the Angel...
, the country's tallest piece of free-standing art, which was also designed by MAKE. The Aspire sculpture is described by the university thus:
Aspire stands for the aspirations of the city and people of Nottingham. Aspire stands for the ambition, knowledge and world leading innovation of The University of Nottingham. Above all, Aspire stands as a towering affirmation of optimism for the future.
International House and the Amenity Building have facades in multiple shades of red terracotta, whereas the Gateway Building is covered in galvanized zinc shingles. Critical reception to MAKE's buildings for the second phase has been mixed. The new campus buildings were runner up for Building Design
Building Design
Building Design is one of the leading architectural magazines in the United Kingdom.According to ABC , the magazine's circulation for the year ending June 2008 was 22,848. The publishing company is UBM Built Environment, a division of United Business Media, which also publishes Building and...
magazine's 2009 Carbuncle Cup
Carbuncle Cup
The Carbuncle Cup is an architecture prize, given annually by the magazine Building Design to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months". The award was based on an idea created by the Scottish architecture magazine Prospect, which has run the Carbuncle Awards since...
.
Jubilee Campus halls of residence
- Newark Hall – undergraduate, 400 students
- Southwell Hall – undergraduate, 200 students
- Melton Hall – postgraduate
Each of the above halls are ensuite, and Southwell and Newark are catered. Many students studying on the main campus live in halls on Jubilee. Transport between campuses is provided by a university-funded hopper bus which is free to use.
Future development
The Jubilee Campus has extensive enlargement plans, which will see gradual implementation towards 2015. Nottingham City CouncilNottingham City Council
Nottingham City Council is the non-metropolitan district council for the unitary authority of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire. It consists of 55 councillors, representing a total of 20 wards, elected every four years. It is led by Jon Collins, of the majority Labour Party. The deputy leader of the...
has safeguarded the adjacent land previously owned by Raleigh Industries LTD for University use, in order to allow the campus to grow to over 100 acres (0.4 km²). Phase 2 included business incubator
Business incubator
Business incubators are programs designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services, developed and orchestrated by incubator management and offered both in the incubator and through its network of contacts...
units in the Gateway building, and a "Research and Innovation Park" for University spin-out companies is also planned. Future developments will see further academic buildings, and new halls of residence added to the campus.
King's Meadow Campus
King's Meadow Campus (52.9386°N 1.1719°W) is a 16 acres (64,750 m²) campus that was formerly the East Midlands studios of Carlton CentralCentral Independent Television
Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central is the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting...
. The University's department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
Manuscripts and Special Collections is part of Information Services at the University of Nottingham. It is based at King's Meadow Campus in Nottingham in England...
is now housed at the King's Meadow Campus. Information Services and much of the Finance Department are now also housed at this site.
Sutton Bonington Campus
The Sutton Bonington Campus (52.8302°N 1.2524°W) is a site of the University of NottinghamUniversity of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
, and houses the School of Biosciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. The campus is a 420 hectare (4.2 km²) site situated in a rural location near Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south west Nottinghamshire, England. The University of Nottingham has a site just to the north of the village: Sutton Bonington Campus....
village, 12 miles (19 km) south of the main, University Park Campus, and 1 mile (2 km) from Junction 24 of the M1 motorway. The campus has its own crest and motto: Aras . Seris . Metis. The campus contains research buildings and teaching facilities, a large library and is also home to Bonington Halls, the University's largest hall of residence, which accommodates around 650 students (in reality it is a series of small halls rather than one big hall - the name has recently changed to reflect this). A 400 hectare (4 km²) commercial farm, University Farm
University Farm (Nottinghamshire)
University Farm is a 400 hectare commercial research farm attached to the Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham, England. It lies across the parishes of Sutton Bonington and Kingston on Soar.-Facilities:...
, and a dairy
Dairy
A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a dedicated dairy farm or section of a multi-purpose farm that is concerned...
are also part of the site.
The campus has a refectory, a small private function room (Oak Room) for 10-20 people; a student bar and linked JCR, and a room linked to the bar (The Octagon - often used for external meetings), and a Londis
Londis
Londis is the name for two convenience store franchises operating in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The stores form a symbol group and are all owned on a franchise basis.-Great Britain:...
. The campus also has a single cashpoint.
Sports facilities include a gym, a sports hall, and an astro-turf pitch. External sports facilities run alongside the University between the main road and the railway line. There is also a music room available to students in the 'Music Soc'.
Travel into Nottingham is facilitated by a free shuttle bus between the distant and more central campuses, which leaves approximately once an hour and takes 25 minutes. There was no train station nearby until January 2009 when East Midlands Parkway station was opened approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) away. Kegworth railway station
Kegworth railway station
Kegworth Railway Station was a station serving the village of Kegworth in Leicestershire, England. It was located nearer to the smaller village of Sutton Bonington however, and situated in Nottinghamshire....
was closed in 1968, which meant that previously the closest stations were at Loughborough
Loughborough
Loughborough is a town within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and is home to Loughborough University...
or Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
(20-30 mins by taxi). The East Midlands Airport is very close with some flight paths being over the campus itself. Trent Barton
Trent Barton
Trent Barton is one of the very small number of significant independent bus operators in the United Kingdom. It was formed as the result of merging Derbyshire's Trent Buses with Nottinghamshire's Barton Transport....
run the Indigo bus service which connects Sutton Bonington to the Airport approximately every hour on its Nottingham to Loughborough route.
The campus was formerly the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College before merging with the University of Nottingham in 1947. The College was originally located in Kingston on Soar
Kingston on Soar
Kingston on Soar is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. It has a population of 239, as of the 2001 census.It has 4 centres of population: the Village, Kingston Hall, New Kingston and Kingston Fields....
, about a two-minute walk down the road from the current campus, but relocated to its current location after the First World War. The site (which had been built but not yet occupied prior to the war) was used as a prisoner-of-war camp
Prisoner-of-war camp
A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of combatants captured by their enemy in time of war, and is similar to an internment camp which is used for civilian populations. A prisoner of war is generally a soldier, sailor, or airman who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or...
during the First World War. It was from there that a group of 21 German officers, led by Captain Karl von Müller
Karl von Müller
Karl Friedrich Max von Müller was Captain of the famous German commerce raider, the light cruiser SMS Emden during World War I.- Early life and career :The son of a cracking Colonel, he was born in Hanover...
, escaped through an underground tunnel dug from one of the huts. 15 tonnes of soil are said to have been removed and hidden under the tiers of a lecture room. All but one of the prisoners were recaptured.
The University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
opened the doors of its School of Veterinary Medicine and Science in September 2006, the first vet school to open in the UK in over fifty years. In its first year, there were 96 students attending the faculty on its 5 year course, but the number has grown, with the newest 'freshers' being 110 students. There is now also a 6-year program, which includes a preliminary year to teach basic biology and chemistry relevant to the degree. This has been set up with the aim of encouraging more people to do the subject by making it available to those with a degree that is not relevant, or without Biology and Chemistry A-level.
Student organisations
The Sutton Bonington Campus is the home of the Sutton Bonington Student Guild, an association of the University of Nottingham Students' UnionUniversity of Nottingham Students' Union
The University of Nottingham Students' Union is the students' union at the University of Nottingham, England. The Students' Union is housed in the Portland Building on University Park campus a building shared with some non-Student Union activities...
. All officers of the 'SB Guild' are non-sabbatical and elected annually by an anonymous ballot, which follows the Students' Union procedure of using STV
Single transferable vote
The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...
. The Guild used to be separate from the union, and still has a degree of independence. The Guild runs its own clubs and societies (including the rugby team SBRFC, who play as the university's fifth team in the BUCS league, and SBLRFC, who play as the university's first team). In addition it also has its own international students organisation (ISSB), and student run sound, lighting and projection unit (SB-TEC). Societies at Bonington Halsl are student-run and apply directly to the Guild for funding- they are also separate from the main university societies in many cases. Bonington Halls also has a student run JCR committee, who look after the students living in halls. However because of the close-knit nature of the campus, the amenities for the hall members (funded by the JCR and warden) are also often used by the students who live off-site, in the nearby village of Kegworth
Kegworth
Kegworth is a large village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England....
.
The old students association for both the campus, and the hall of residence is known as OKA (the Old Kingstonian Association, the name pre-dating the move to Sutton Bonington), and its members include both students from the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College, and from the University. OKA produces a publication known as Agrimag annually (and has done so since at least the 1920s, when it was called the M.A.D.C Magazine). OKA organises a reunion weekend on the third weekend in November every year for recently graduated students to return (this is also known as OKA).
Bonington Halls
Bonington Halls is the name given by the university to the University's halls of residenceUniversity of Nottingham Halls of Residence
This is a list of halls of residence on the various campuses of the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, England.The University of Nottingham has a particularly well developed system of halls located on its campus...
at Sutton Bonington. It is a mixed sex group of houses and halls, holding both undergraduates and postgraduates, of varying age and design holding between eight and sixty people. Bonington Halls house approximately 650 students and is managed by Opal Property Group. The houses and halls at Sutton Bonington are named after local villages and are as follows:
- Kingston
- Normanton
- Wymeswold
- Ratcliffe
- Rempstone
- Kegworth
- Dishley
- Hathern
- Lockington
- Zouch
- Stanford
- Barton
- Costock
- Thrumpton
School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
School of Biosciences
The School of Biosciences has 65 academic staff, 700 undergraduate students and 270 post-graduate students, The school houses five divisions:- Division of Plant Sciences, incorporating NASC (Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock CentreNottingham Arabidopsis Stock CentreThe Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre provides seed and information resources to the International Arabidopsis Genome Project and the wider research community...
) and CPIB (Centre for Plant Integrative BiologyCentre for Plant Integrative BiologyThe Centre for Plant Integrative Biology at the University of Nottingham, UK, is one of six UK centres for integrative systems biology supported by BBSRC and EPSRC. It is located at the University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus, just south of Nottingham itself...
) - Division of Nutritional Science
- Division of Food Science, incorporating NCMH (National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics)
- Division of Animal Physiology, incorporating the Multi-disciplinary Centre for Integrative Biology and the Centre for Applied Bioethics
- Division of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The division of agricultural and environmental sciences is further split into four departments, and also contains the “rural business research unit” and supervises the university farm
- Animal Production
- Crop Science, incorporating TCRU (Tropical Crop Research Unit) and UNACRA (University of Nottingham/ADAS Centre for Research in Agronomy)
- Environmental Science
- Management and Economics
University FarmUniversity Farm (Nottinghamshire)University Farm is a 400 hectare commercial research farm attached to the Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham, England. It lies across the parishes of Sutton Bonington and Kingston on Soar.-Facilities:...
The farm exists to provide high quality facilities, resources and opportunities for research with crops and animals. It also has a key educational role by providing an environment for effective tuition of students in Biosciences, and Veterinary science. The farm is run commercially to be self-financing whilst still fulfilling its role as a teaching and research resource. The farm manager is currently William Donger. The farm is a 400 hectare mixed farm, with an emphasis on dairy and arable production.The dairy herd consists of 180 cows, which are milked using a robot milking system (part of a recent 2 million-pound investment in the dairy). The farm also has 350 breeding ewes, and maintains beef, pig and poultry research units.
320 Hectares are devoted to arable crops including cereals, oilseed, and sugar beet, 20 Hectares of which have been converted to organic production. The further 80 hectares of land is used for an intensively managed rotation of grass, fodder crops and maize for silage.
History
The first foundations of the current site at Sutton Bonington date back to the founding of the Midland Dairy Institute in the mid-19th century. The institute gave lectures and short coursers in such subjects as butter and cheese production, the institute had no fixed home but instead toured the various agricultural shows in the area. University College Nottingham was founded in 1877, and in 1892 co-operated with Nottingham County Council in establishing an Agricultural Department. Then in 1895 the Midland Dairy Institute in conjunction with the five County Councils of Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Kesteven and Lindsey, agreed to join forces, in an effort to provide both theoretical and practical instruction in Agriculture, and especially Dairying. Lord Belper leased, to the united body his Fields Farm at Kingston, consisting of 176 acre (0.71224736 km²) of land, half being in permanent grass, and half arable, to act as a permanent base for the institute. In 1900 the agricultural department of Nottingham University College was combined with the Dairy institute at Kingston, and additional buildings were erected shortly afterwards. In 1905 the Institute changed its name to the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College.In 1912 another farm of 85 acres (343,983.1 m²), situated in Sutton Bonington parish, but near to the Kegworth Station, was acquired. Initially intended for an experimental station. It however became apparent that the institute was rapidly running out of space, and construction of a brand new purpose built site at Sutton Bonington began. The construction of the new site had not been completed before the outbreak of the First World War, and the new buildings were appropriated by the government to house German prisoners of war. The college didn’t regain the site at Sutton Bonington until 1919 and didn’t fully transfer to the new site until 1928’s. During the 1930s the college started to offer degree level courses in association with University College Nottingham and London University. As the Second World War started the college was once again appropriated, this time to be used as a training centre for the “Woman’s Land Army” (WLA). After a year however, it was decided that it was unnecessary to provide this level of training, and the college was returned to its original purpose.
In 1947–48 the college merged with Nottingham University College, to form the new Nottingham University (which was granted its charter in 1948), Sutton Bonington was initially home to two of the university’s six faculties (Agriculture and Horticulture). This move was part of a major shift in the teaching of agricultural sciences in the region. Each of the original local authorities set up their own agricultural college to teach practical agriculture:
- Brackenhurst College, Nottinghamshire (now part of Nottingham Trent University)
- Broomfield College, Derbyshire (now part of Derby College)
- Brooksby College, Leicestershire (now part of Brooksby-Melton College)
- Caythorpe College, Kesteven (closed 2001)
- Riseholme College, Lindsey (now part of Lincoln University),
In the meantime the new faculties at Sutton Bonington quickly phased out practical courses and instead focused on academic research and graduate and post-graduate teaching. It was initially intended that the new colleges would feed their brightest and most able students into the new University.
The site at Sutton Bonington continued to grow during the latter part of the 20th century, during this period the two initial faculties were merged into one: the faculty of Argricultural and Food Sciences. The end of the 20th century saw the faculty initially merged with the faculty of Biology to form the School of Biology. At the time this was seen as a move to transfer the biology department from University Park to Sutton Bonington, in a move designed to free up much needed building land, the university however denied that this was their motive. Shortly after the purchase of the new Jubilee Campus, the school was split in to the department of life sciences (based at university park) and the department of biological sciences (based at Sutton Bonington). This period also saw the construction of new Plant and Food science buildings at Sutton Bonington.
2006 saw the opening of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science on the campus, in brand new purpose built buildings. This was the first new vet school in the UK for over 50 years, and was seen to be part of the governments response to the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic. Controversially the building of the new school was partly funded by leasing out the halls of residence, and catering facilities, bar and shop to private companies (Opal & Sodexo).
Climate
The warmest months are July and August, with average highs of just over 21 °C, whilst the coldest month is January, with a temperature range of 1.2 °C to 6.9 °C. Maximum and minimum temperatures throughout the year are around the England average. The highest temperature recorded at Sutton Bonington was 34.8 °C on 3 August 1990, a temperature that was unbeaten in the heatwave of 2003. Frost occurs typically between November and April, with an average of 48 days a year with frost recorded. The sunniest months are July, August and May (in that order).The average annual rainfall is about 606 millimetres (24 in), with October to January being the wettest period although June is the wettest month, compared with the national average of 838 millimetres (33 in). The driest months are May, February and July (in that order).
Below are average temperature and rainfall figures taken between 1971 and 2000 (as are the above statistics) for the official weather station at the Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south west Nottinghamshire, England. The University of Nottingham has a site just to the north of the village: Sutton Bonington Campus....
campus itself.
See also
- University of Nottingham Medical SchoolUniversity of Nottingham Medical SchoolThe University of Nottingham Medical School is a medical school in the city of Nottingham, UK. It was the first new medical school to be set up in the 20th century in the country, with the first intake of 48 students graduating in 1975...
- University of Nottingham Medical School at DerbyUniversity of Nottingham Medical School at DerbyThe University of Nottingham Medical School at Derby was opened in September 2003 by Dr John Reid, then Secretary of State for Health. It is part of the University of Nottingham and is located in the nearby city of Derby in the East Midlands of England...