The
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...
operates from four campuses in
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...
and from two overseas campuses, one in
Ningbo
Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
and the other in
Semenyih
Semenyih is a town and a mukim in Hulu Langat District in southeastern Selangor, Malaysia along the Kajang–Seremban road. It is southeast of downtown Kuala Lumpur and southeast of Kajang.
Etymology
The meaning of the name of the town is u ...
,
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
. The
Ningbo campus was officially opened on 23 February 2005 by the then British Deputy Prime Minister,
John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, he w ...
, in the presence of Chinese education minister
Zhou Ji and State Counsellor
Chen Zhili
Chen Zhili (; born November 1942) is a retired senior Chinese politician who served as State Councilor and Minister of Education, and a Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress. She was vice chairman of the organization commission of ...
. The
Malaysia campus was the first purpose-built UK university campus in a foreign country and was officially opened by
Najib Tun Razak
Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysi ...
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 ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...
, 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 () 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 Boni ...
.
University Park Campus
![UoN-Nightingale-1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/UoN-Nightingale-1.JPG)
University Park Campus () is the main campus of the university. A few miles from the centre of Nottingham, the
330 acre
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Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
Places
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* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
* Imp ...
s (1.3 km2) site is one of the largest university campuses in the
United Kingdom
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, and home to the majority of the university's 43,561 students. The campus contains 12
halls of residence
A dormitory (originated from the Latin word ''dormitorium'', often abbreviated to dorm) is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university s ...
, of which the largest is
Hugh Stewart Hall
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. The halls acts a microco ...
, as well as academic and administrative buildings. The campus contains 13
listed building
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s.
Gardens
Of particular note are the formal Jekyll Garden, allegedly designed by
Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll ( ; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote ...
, next to
Lenton and Wortley Hall
This is a list of dormitory, 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. The halls act ...
; the walled Highfield Garden near the Trent Building, which is home to the national collection of ''
Canna''; and the Millennium Garden, formally opened on 4 July 2000. In addition there is extensive planting elsewhere on campus, particularly in lakeside Highfields Park. The campus also has a number of
green roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage ...
s as part of the Garden in the Sky Project and University wide goal to be more sustainable. These can be found at The Orchard Hotel, Maths Building and George Green library.
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
Notable buildings
Trent Building
![University Park MMB O0 Trent Building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/University_Park_MMB_O0_Trent_Building.jpg)
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
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...
and
social sciences
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...
.
London architect
Morley Horder Morley may refer to:
Places England
* Morley, Norfolk, a civil parish
* Morley, Derbyshire, a civil parish
* Morley, Cheshire, a village
* Morley, County Durham, a village
* Morley, West Yorkshire, a suburban town of Leeds and civil parish
* M ...
created the Trent Building in the classical architectural style. The building is topped by a
campanile
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...
(clock tower), is built of
Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building sto ...
and is protected as a grade II
listed building
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.
King George V
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Born during the reign of his grandmother Que ...
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
Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
,
Mahatma Gandhi
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and
Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. She was queen ...
.
The writer
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...
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
The Hallward Library, the principal
library
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...
of the University of Nottingham, was opened in 1972. It was designed by the architect H. Faulkner-Brown and won a
RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...
prize. It is named after Dr
Bertrand Hallward
Bertrand Leslie Hallward (24 May 1901–17 November 2003) was a British educationalist who served as Headmaster of Clifton College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.[Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building sto ...]
but is actually named after
William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, (16 March 1893 – 21 March 1977), styled Marquess of Titchfield until 1943, was a British peer and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician.
Biography
Portland was the ...
, who was the university's second
chancellor
Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
. It houses the
University of Nottingham Students' Union
The University of Nottingham Students' Union (often abbreviated as UoNSU ( /ˈjɒnsuː/)) is the students' union at the University of Nottingham, England. It is a representative body that aims to represent students to both the university and t ...
,
Impact Magazine,
URN
An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or ...
and
NSTV.
Other notable buildings
*
East Midlands Conference Centre
The De Vere East Midlands Conference Centre is a commercially run conference facility on the University Park Campus, Nottingham, University Park Campus of the University of Nottingham in England.
External links
De Vere East Midlands Conference Ce ...
*
Creative Energy Homes
Jubilee Campus
Jubilee Campus () primarily houses the School of
Education
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, the School of
Computer Science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
, and the
Nottingham University Business School
Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) is the business school of the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom situated on the university's Jubilee Campus. The current dean of the business school is Professor Duncan Angwin.
The business s ...
. The campus is also the location of the
National College for School Leadership
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) (inheritor of the site and functions of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL)) was an executive agency of the Department for Education (a United Kingdom Government Ministry wh ...
and the university's Global Engagement 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
The Raleigh Bicycle Company is a British bicycle manufacturer based in Nottingham, England and founded by Woodhead and Angois in 1885. Using Raleigh as their brand name, it is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world. After being acqui ...
factory. The campus plan and the buildings for first phase of the campus were designed by the architects
Michael Hopkins and Partners following selection through an
architectural design competition
An architectural design competition is a type of design competition in which an organization that intends on constructing a new building invites architects to submit design proposals. The winning design is usually chosen by an independent panel o ...
managed by
RIBA Competitions RIBA Competitions is the Royal Institute of British Architects' unit dedicated to organising architectural and other design-related competitions.
Architectural design competitions are used by an organisation that plans to build a new building or re ...
and won the 2000
BCI Award for "Building of the Year" and the 2001
RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...
Journal Sustainability Award. The campus name derives from the fact that 1998 was the
Golden Jubilee
A golden jubilee marks a 50th anniversary. It variously is applied to people, events, and nations.
Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, golden jubilee refers the 50th anniversary year of the separation from Pakistan and is called in Bengali ''"সু ...
of the granting of the
Royal Charter
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, bu ...
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
The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre (or the Djanogly LRC) is a library on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, England.
The library houses books and resources relating to courses and research in the univers ...
, 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 is an international architecture practice headquartered in London that also has offices in offices in Hong Kong and Sydney. Founded in 2004 by former Foster + Partners architect Ken Shuttleworth. The practice has a variety of proj ...
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 the ''
Aspire'' sculpture, designed by Make Architects, which was the country's tallest piece of free-standing art until the construction of ''
Orbit
In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a p ...
'' in 2012.
International House and the Amenity Building have facades in multiple shades of red
terracotta
Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based ceramic glaze, unglazed or glazed ceramic where the pottery firing, fired body is porous.
In applied art, craft, construction, a ...
, 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
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'' magazine's 2009
Carbuncle Cup
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.
The
is the UK's first carbon neutral laboratory. The lab is built from natural materials and opened on 27 February 2017. During the construction of the lab a large fire broke out on 12 September 2014 and burnt the building down, resulting in a delay of completion.
Jubilee Campus halls of residence
* Newark Hall – undergraduate, 400 students
* Southwell Hall – undergraduate, 200 students
* Melton Hall – postgraduate, 140 students
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 bus.
King's Meadow Campus
![King's Meadow Campus MMB 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/King%27s_Meadow_Campus_MMB_01.jpg)
King's Meadow Campus () is a
16 acres (64,750 m2) campus that was formerly the East Midlands studios of
Carlton Central. The university's department of
Manuscripts and Special Collections is now housed at the King's Meadow Campus. Information Services, Human Resources and much of the Finance Department are now also housed at this site.
Sutton Bonington Campus
![Main Building Sutton Bonington 2011](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Main_Building_Sutton_Bonington_2011.jpg)
The Sutton Bonington Campus () is a site of the
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...
, and houses the School of
Biosciences
This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, ...
and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. The campus is a 420-hectare (4.2 km
2) site situated in a rural location near
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 Boni ...
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
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. The halls acts a microco ...
, 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
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are also part of the site.
![University of Nottingham School of Agriculture - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/University_of_Nottingham_School_of_Agriculture_-_geograph.org.uk_-_10399.jpg)
The Barn, a student amenities building which opened in 2014, accommodates the student bar, student service centre, refectory, Graduate School hub, faith spaces and a private dining room. There is also a cafe, 'The Mulberry Tree', shop and two cashpoint machines on campus. Joint funding from the university and
HEFCE
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has enabled the opening of a teaching laboratory named the Peter Buttery Teaching Laboratory after a former head of the Division of Nutritional Sciences.
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 renovated squash court which is now a music room available to students in 'Music Soc' and a bouldering wall available to students in 'SB Climbing'.
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 is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England.
Description
Setting
Kingston on Soar predominantly lies within the Trent Washlands character area, and partially in the Nottinghamshire ...
, about a two-minute walk down the road from the current campus, but relocated to its current location after the
First World War
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. The site (which had been built but not yet occupied prior to the war) was used as a
prisoner-of-war camp
A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured by a belligerent power in time of war.
There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps, and military prisons. P ...
during the First World War. It was from there that a group of 21 German officers, led by Captain
Karl von Müller
Karl Friedrich Max von Müller (16 June 1873 – 11 March 1923) was a German naval officer who was the captain of a commerce raider, the light cruiser SMS ''Emden'' during the First World War.
Early life and career
The son of a colonel in t ...
, escaped through a 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 campus has long been home to the School of Biosciences (previously School of Agriculture, School of Environmental and Life Sciences) which teaches students studying biological subjects encompassing animal science, food science, agriculture, nutrition and plant science and the
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...
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 five-year course, but the number has grown, with 110 students having been admitted more recently. There is now also a six-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 Students' Union Guild'', an association of the
University of Nottingham Students' Union
The University of Nottingham Students' Union (often abbreviated as UoNSU ( /ˈjɒnsuː/)) is the students' union at the University of Nottingham, England. It is a representative body that aims to represent students to both the university and t ...
. 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 run 40 of its own clubs and societies. In addition it also has its own international students organisation (ISSB). Societies at Sutton Bonington Campus are student-run and apply directly to the Guild for funding- they are also separate from the main university societies in many cases.
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.
Bonington Student Village
Bonington Student Village is the name given by the current provider to the
University's halls of residence 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 Student Village houses approximately 650 students and is managed by Campus Living Villages (CLV). 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
![Vet School Entrance Nottingham](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Vet_School_Entrance_Nottingham.JPG)
Nottingham Vet School was the first brand new, purpose-built veterinary school in the UK for over 50 years and opened in 2006.
The academic staff of the School work within 5 strategic research areas: Infection and Immunity; Population Health and Welfare;
Comparative Medicine Comparative medicine is a distinct discipline of experimental medicine that uses animal models of human and animal disease in translational and biomedical research. In other words, it relates and leverages biological similarities and differences am ...
; 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 Foundation Dean and Head of School is Professor Gary England.
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School of Biosciences
The School of Biosciences (previously School of Agriculture) predates the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science on the Sutton Bonington Campus by several decades. It has a reputation for excellence in teaching and world-leading research, particularly in food, plant and crop science. Current strengths lie in soil and root biology, plant science and dairy science. The School has 95 academic staff, 925 undergraduate students and 300 post-graduate students, The School houses five divisions:
*Division of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
* Division of Animal Science
* Division of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics
* Division of Microbiology, Brewing and Biotechnology
* Division of Plant and Crop Sciences
The Head of School is Professor Paul Wilson. Past Heads of Schools include Simon Langley-Evans, Neil Crout, Katharine Smart, Jerry Roberts, Robert Webb, Don Grierson and Peter Buttery.
University Farm
The farm exists to provide 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 Jon Clatworthy. 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 and oilseed rape, 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 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 , 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 did not regain the site at Sutton Bonington until 1919 and did not fully transfer to the new site until 1928. 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 Women's Land Army
The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the ...
(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 Agricultural 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 into the School of life sciences (based at University Park) and the School of Biosciences (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 government's 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, catering facilities, bar and shop, to private companies (CRM and Sodexo).
Weather station
Since 1908 Sutton Bonington has had an official (Met Office
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listed) automatic weather monitoring station situated on the university campus. The station is at 48m ASL
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just off Landcroft Lane at .
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.Met Office
Hot spell August 1990 Frost
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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 , with October to January being the wettest period although June is the wettest month, compared with the national average of .
The driest months are May, February and July (in that order).
Below are average temperature and rainfall figures taken between 1981 and 2010 for the official weather station at the
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 Boni ...
campus itself.
Gallery
Image:Food Sciences University of Nottingham.jpg, The Food Sciences Building
Image:Plant Sciences University of Nottingham.JPG, Plant Sciences Building
Image:Halls Sutton Bonnington Campus.JPG, Barton, Stanford and Zouch houses, part of Bonington Halls
Image:Vet School Sutton Bonnington.JPG, Vet School
See also
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University of Nottingham Medical School
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University of Nottingham Medical School at Derby
The 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 E ...
References
External links
Official website*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20111003054837/http://www.risepark.plus.com/jubilee_campus.html Jubilee Campus Nottingham — a collection of photographs and slide show
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Nottingham
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University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
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Grade II listed buildings in Nottinghamshire
Grade II listed educational buildings