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Lichfield Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west o ...
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Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
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Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement ...
and four other campuses; in
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Lichfield Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west o ...
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Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
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History

In 1901, industrialist Alfred Bolton acquired a site on what is now College Road and in 1906 mining classes began there. In 1907, pottery classes followed, being transferred from Tunstall into temporary buildings, and in 1914 the building now known as the Cadman Building was officially opened as the Central School of Science and Technology by J. A. Pease, President of the Board of Education. A frieze over the entrance depicts potters and miners. In 2013, the Library Conference room in the Cadman Building was renamed the Alfred Bolton Room. In 1915, a department was established for the commercial production of Seger cones used to measure and control the temperatures of ceramic furnaces, based upon research completed by the principal, Joseph Mellor. Grants from the
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in 1924 were used to develop the ceramics library and in 1926 the name of the institution was changed to North Staffordshire Technical College. By 1931 extensions to the Cadman Building ran along Station Road and housed the Mining Department. A grant was awarded from the Miners’ Welfare Fund to fund the building work. The new extension also housed the library, which by now had 35,000 volumes. By 1934 the college consisted of four departments: Engineering (nearly 800 students), Pottery (just over 600 students), Mining (just under 500 students), and Chemistry (under 300 students). In 1939, new engineering workshops were occupied for the first time and the land opposite the Cadman Building was purchased. By 1950 Victoria Road had been renamed College Road and the site now extended over . The Mellor Building and Experimental Production Block (now Dwight Building) were constructed for the North Staffordshire College of Technology by 1960. Various faculty movements and further building work resulted in North Staffordshire Polytechnic being formed in 1970 with the merger of
Stoke-on-Trent College of Art The Stoke-on-Trent Regional College of Art was one of three colleges that were merged in 1971 to form North Staffordshire Polytechnic (later renamed as Staffordshire Polytechnic and now Staffordshire University). The College of Art achieved Regio ...
, North Staffordshire College of Technology (both based in Stoke-on-Trent), and Staffordshire College of Technology in
Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...
. In 1977, the polytechnic absorbed Madeley College of Education, formerly County of Stafford Training College, a teacher training facility in
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specialising in physical education. The polytechnic developed traditional strengths of the component institutions, e.g. ceramics (Stoke-on-Trent), computing (Stafford) and sports education (Madeley). The mining department closed as result of the decline of
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in the 1980s. New subjects were developed. North Staffordshire Polytechnic was among only a handful of third-level institutions in the UK to offer International Relations as a dedicated degree. The 1992 UK government
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placed the International Relations Department as the highest-rated in the institution. In 1988, the institution changed its name to Staffordshire Polytechnic. In 1992, it became Staffordshire University, one of the
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Campuses

The university has one main campuses, and four other campuses in Stafford, London, Lichfield and Shrewsbury,and extensive links with National, European and transnational academic institutions.


Stoke-on-Trent

The main campus is in
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, Stoke-on-Trent, and primarily offers law, business, sciences, applied computing, engineering, arts, design, games, journalism and media production courses. These are split into two areas, one on College Road (on the site of the former County Cricket Ground), and the other on Leek Road. A Science Centre was opened in 2012 as part of a major redevelopment adjacent to Stoke-on-Trent railway station. In 2022, the University opened a new £42 million building on the Leek Road site - The Catalyst. This 8,800 sqm, four storey building, brought together the delivery of apprenticeships and skills, to meet employer demand, in flexible, high-quality, digitally enabled space. The Stoke campus also features its own student nightclub called LRV (Leek Road Venue). This nightclub hosts a variety of student nights on various days of the week but its main open nights are on a Wednesday and Friday. A public film theatre is situated on the side of the Flaxman building on College Road, which shows mainstream and independent films on a regular basis to an audience of up to 180 people, as well as being used for large lectures. In 2006, a TV studio facility was opened by former BBC Director General
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in the Arts, Media and Design faculty building on College Road, Stoke. The £1 million development features up-to-date technology and industry specification equipment. The Stoke-on-Trent campus is also home to the Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre. Named after Stoke City player and football legend, Sir Stanley Matthews CBE, the sports centre is located on Leek Road campus and is open to students, staff and the public.


Staffordshire University London: Digital Institute

Located at Here East in East London, the Digital Institute opened in 2019 and is a state-of-the-art facility focused on new and emerging technology, primarily based around Games and Computing courses, key specialisms of the University since the 1960s. It houses studio-style learning environments with a fully-equipped control room and other high-tech facilities including a dedicated esports arena. In 2021, the university invested £3.5m to increase its footprint to 31,133 sq feet, and allow the provider to expand the range of courses it has on offer for 2022.


Stafford and Shrewsbury

Nursing, midwifery, operating department practice and paramedic science courses are taught at the "Centre of Excellence" in Stafford on Blackheath Lane and at the "Centre for Health Innovation" in Shrewsbury which is situated at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. In March 2022, the university opened the £5.8 million state-of-the-art Centre for Health Innovation. Featuring the most advanced health simulation technology, the Centre offers a series of flexible and immersive simulation spaces designed to enhance clinical competency and the learning experience for students. The new Centre was part-funded by Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) via the Government’s Getting Building Fund. The LEP allocated £2.89m to the scheme to help bring forward the pioneering facility and generate further opportunity for learners and businesses in the area. The facility was officially opened by Professor Mark Radford CBE, Chief Nurse for Health Education England and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England and honorary Doctor of Staffordshire University. As well as being the study base for more than 2,000 student nurses, midwives, operating department practitioners and paramedics, the Centre also offers a platform for new collaborations with local business and healthcare and technology industries.


Lichfield

In 1998, in partnership with Tamworth and Lichfield College, the university opened a newly built campus in Lichfield.


Shrewsbury, Telford, and Oswestry

This part of the university is mainly for nursing and midwifery courses, and is still part of the university despite all three settlements being located in the neighbouring county of
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.


Overseas

The university has many overseas students studying for Staffordshire University awards in Belgium, China, Vietnam, France, Greece, India, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, Spain, and Sri Lanka. The university also conducts a twinning programme with
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in George Town,
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. Staffordshire University offers programmes in Hung Yen, Ecopark Township, Vietnam through the British University Vietnam. The university has a strong partnership with the
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, Belgium.


Halls of residence

The university offers guaranteed accommodation for all first-year students, provided the university is their firm
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choice. All accommodation is situated close to all teaching, sporting, and Union venues.


Stafford

The Stafford campus has its own halls of residence, Stafford Court, comprising over 264 en-suite single study bedrooms and 290 single study bedrooms with shared facilities. The various houses take their names from villages in Staffordshire: Brocton, Derrington,
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, Haughton, Knightley,
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, Ranton, Staffordshire">Ranton, Shugborough and Weston, Staffordshire, Weston. A separate block of larger flats, named after the village of Yarlet, Staffordshire, Yarlet (previously Beckett Hall), is also on the same site. This comprises an additional 51 single-study bedrooms over three floors, each accommodating 17 residents, who share a kitchen, dining room and four shower rooms. All of these halls are directly opposite the Stafford campus buildings on Weston Road. By September 2016 only the midwifery, nursing, paramedic science, operation department practitioners and other allied and public health courses will remain at the Blackheath Lane site (Stafford) with the rest moved to Stoke.The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015, accessed 15 October 2015


Stoke

At Stoke, halls of residence are primarily situated on the Leek Road campus. The shared-bathroom accommodation was sponsored by various local potteries, and halls are therefore named after them, for example
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Mintons Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, ...
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, Aynsley and
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halls. The on-campus en-suite accommodation is contained within Clarice Cliff Court, comprising seven halls, each of about 30 students over three floors, each hall named after female ceramicists: Rachel Bishop, Eve Midwinter,
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, Charlotte Rhead, Jessie Tait, Millicent Taplin and Star Wedgwood. Along with the halls and en-suite, the university also offers 32 houses, known as the Leek Road Houses, each of which accommodates up to 6 people each. Carlton House, Etruscan House, Caledonia Road, Queen Anne Street Flats, Cromwell Court, Church Street and Sovereign House are situated off campus. They are all within of the Stoke Campus, and are reserved for postgraduate and returning (second and third year) students. The Shelton area of Stoke is where many students choose to live after their first year. The proximity of Shelton to the university and the large quantity of student accommodation has effectively turned it into a mini-student village. Alternatively, there are also the College Court Halls, which are privately run but operate in a similar way to university-run halls. They are situated opposite Hanley Park and are close to the university.


Organisation

The university restructured in 2021 and has now three academic schools, alongside the Institute of Education and Staffordshire University London. * School of Digital, Technology and Arts * School of Health, Science and Wellbeing * School of Justice, Security and Sustainability * Institute of Education * Staffordshire University London


Staffordshire University Services

As of 1st April 2021, all new academic and professional services staff are employed by Staffordshire University Services - which the University describes as 'a wholly owned subsidiary company of Staffordshire University'. Staff employed by Staffordshire University Services have no access to the defined benefit Teachers' Pension Scheme and instead join a new defined contribution scheme that does guarantee a set level of income in retirement. The University and College Union claimed that this would create a "two tier workforce".. In March 2022, Almost three-quarters (70 per cent) of staff backed strike action over the matter.


Academic profile

The School of Computing was originally situated at Blackheath Lane on the edge of Stafford in GEC's former Nelson Research Laboratory. It offered one of the first
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courses in computing in the United Kingdom and its first major computer was a second hand
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. The School of Computing later moved to a purpose-built building on the Beaconside campus, the Octagon, constructed in 1992 when university status had been achieved. The university was the first institution to introduce a single honours degree in Film, Television and Radio Studies in 1990. A new Media Centre was opened by
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in 2005, comprising radio studios, television news desk and broadcast journalist suite. Courses in print, broadcast and sports journalism are nationally accredited by the
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and the Broadcast Journalism Training Council. The Forensic Science degrees (Forensic Science, Forensic Science and Criminology and Forensic Science and Psychology) were accredited by the
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(FSC) in 2007, one of four universities whose courses have been acknowledged for teaching services and high academic quality. The Forensic theme is continued with a specialist Forensic Biology degree and on the Stafford Campus the Faculty of Computing Engineering and Technology was one of the first university faculties in the UK to offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the new field of Forensic Computing.


League table rankings

The university's world ranking is 1,354 in 2010, according to webometrics.info.


Student life


Students' Union

Staffordshire University Students' Union aims to represent students at the university. Constitutionally it is governed by the student body, who annually elect a student council which is responsible for the organisation of the Union. The day-to-day operation of the union is handled by four
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and four student trustees, who are held to account by the Council. All officer positions, bar the four sabbatical officers, work on a part-time basis. The union is active enough and dedicated for the students’ welfare from the freshers’ week to Alumni night. Stoke-on-Trent, the main campus is surrounded by industrial heritage and creative artistic flair.


Sports

Since 2007, Staffordshire University (Stoke Campus) and
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have engaged in an annual
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. In 2013 Staffordshire University (Stafford Campus) and
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engaged in an annual varsity match. In 2021, the university tied up with
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club
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under the later's Education and Community partnership Program


Notable alumni


Academia and Science

* David Bolt, Academic specialising in literature and disability * Paul Reilly, Computer scientist * Zhengxu Zhao, Scientist of space mission visualisation and control.


Arts and Media

* Peter Bebb, special effect artist * Ian Clark, film director and screenwriter * Jim Davies, Guitarist for
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and
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*
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, Film Director and music producer *
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, green energy pioneer and boss of Ecotricity * John Robb, journalist and musician *
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, artist * Raimi Gbadamosi, Conceptual artist * Dave Gorman, English author, comedian, and television presenter * Michael Greco, Soap actor *
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, Stuckist artist * Emma Jones, Tabloid journalist *
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, Drummer for rock band
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* David Leach, Studio potter *
Russell Leetch Russell Jonathan Leetch (born 5 March 1982) is the bass guitarist for Birmingham-based indie rock band Editors. He studied music technology at Staffordshire University where he met his fellow Editors band members. He went to secondary school at ...
, Bass guitarist for rock band
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* Ian McMillan, Poet * Tom Smith, Lead singer for rock band
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*
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, Lead Guitarist for rock band
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Politics and Service

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, Chief Minister of Sabah (Malaysian Constitution) *
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, Prime Minister of Kosovo *
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, Minister of the Economy of the
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, UKIP Member of the National Assembly for Wales * Jane Kambalame, Malawi High Commissioner to Zimbabwe and Botswana *
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, Founder of the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line * Mike O'Brien, Former Labour MP and
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for Health Services * Jared O'Mara, Former Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam *
David Kwaku Ziga David Kwaku Ziga was a Ghanaian politician and potter. He was a member for parliament for the Afadzato constituency from 1965 to 1966, he was also the managing proprietor of Ziga Pottery and Ceramic Works. Early life and education Z ...
, Ghanaian potter and politician


Sports

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Jermaine Allen Jermaine Allen (born November 30, 1983) is an American Football running back who plays for the London Warriors of the BAFA National Leagues. He has previously played in the NFL for Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Sa ...
, American football running back *
Matt Baker Matthew James Baker (born 23 December 1977) is a British television presenter. He co-presented the children's television show ''Blue Peter'' from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's ''Countryfile'' since 2009 and ''The One Show'' from 2011 to 2020, wit ...
, Professional footballer *
Chris Beardsley Christopher Kellan Beardsley (born 28 February 1984) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the fitness coach at club Burton Albion. Beardsley played youth football with Mickleover Sports and Derby Count ...
, Professional footballer * James Beaumont, Professional footballer * George Berry, Professional footballer and Welsh international * Kate Dennison, Pole vaulter and current British record holder *
Josh Gordon Joshua Caleb Gordon (born April 13, 1991) is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent. He previously played for the Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Kansas City Chiefs, and the Tennessee Titans. Nicknamed ...
, Professional footballer *
John Mayock John Paul Mayock (born 26 October 1970, in Barnsley) is a retired male English middle distance runner. Athletics career Mayock has competed at three Olympic Games, at the 1996 games in Atlanta and the 2000 games in Sydney in the 1500 m and a ...
, Athlete and olympian *
Scott Minto Scott Christopher Minto (born 6 August 1971) is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit. As a player he was as a left back who played in the Premier League for Chelsea and West Ham United and in Portugal for Ben ...
, Professional footballer and sports broadcaster *
Fabrice Muamba Fabrice Ndala Muamba (born 6 April 1988) is an English former professional footballer who played for Arsenal, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers as a central midfielder. Born in Zaire, Muamba moved to England at the age of 11 and subsequently ...
, Professional footballer * Graham Shaw, Professional football *
Sam Stockley Samuel Joshua Stockley (born 5 September 1977) is an English football coach and former professional player who is now the first-team manager and sporting director at USL League One club Lexington SC. A youth player at Southampton, he made his ...
, Professional footballer * Gavin Strachan, Professional footballer *
Andrew Triggs Hodge Andrew Triggs Hodge (born 3 March 1979) is a British former rower - a three time Olympic champion and four time world champion. In the British coxless four in 2012 he set a world's best time which still stood as of 2021. Education Born in Hal ...
, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion rower *
Mark Wallace Mark David Wallace (born December 31, 1967) is an American businessman, former diplomat and lawyer who has served in a variety of government, political and private sector posts. He served in several positions during the administration of Presi ...
, Cricketer


Arts alumni

Many famous artists produced by the former art schools of Stoke-on-Trent can be regarded as alumni, as the university is the successor institution. *
Burslem School of Art Burslem School of Art was an art school in the centre of the town of Burslem in the Potteries district of England. Students from the school played an important role in the local pottery industry. Pottery was made on the site of the school from th ...
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William Bowyer William Bowyer may refer to: Politicians * William Bowyer (15th century MP), in 1411 MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme * William Bowyer (died 1602), MP for Stafford * William Bowyer (Keeper of the Records), MP for Westminster and Keeper of the Records in ...
, Artist **
Clarice Cliff Clarice Cliff (20 January 1899 – 23 October 1972) was an English ceramic artist and designer. Active from 1922 to 1963, Cliff became the head of the factory creative department. Early life Cliff's ancestors moved from the Eccleshall area ...
, Ceramic artist ** Susie Cooper, Ceramic artist ** Jessie Tait, Ceramic artist **
Sidney Tushingham Sidney Tushingham (1884–1968) was a painter and etcher who specialised in rustic scenes of villages and small-town life. He was born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, where he started his artistic career as a china painter. He attended B ...
, Artist and etcher *Fenton School of Art ** Charlotte Rhead, Ceramic artist *Stoke School of Art **
Arnold Machin Arnold Machin OBE, R.A., FRSS (; 30 September 1911 – 9 March 1999) was a British artist, sculptor, and coin and postage stamp designer. Life Machin was born Stoke-on-Trent in 1911. He started work at the age of 14 as an apprentice china pai ...
, Coin and stamp designer


See also

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Armorial of UK universities The armorial of British universities is the collection of coats of arms of universities in the United Kingdom. Modern arms of universities began appearing in England around the middle of the 15th century, with University of Oxford, Oxford's bei ...
* List of universities in the UK *
Post-1992 universities In the UK, a post-1992 university, synonymous with new university or modern university, is a former polytechnic or central institution that was given university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, or an institution that ...


References


External links


Staffordshire University website
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