Cardiff University () is a

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. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the

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in 1893. It was renamed University College, Cardiff in 1972 and merged with the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in 1988 to become University of Wales College, Cardiff and then University of Wales, Cardiff in 1996. In 1997 it received degree-awarding powers, but held them in abeyance. It adopted the operating name of Cardiff University in 1999; this became its legal name in 2005, when it became an independent university awarding its own degrees. Cardiff University is the only Welsh member of the

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of research-intensive British universities. Academics and alumni of the university have included four heads of state or government and two Nobel laureates. the university's academics include 17 fellows of the Royal Society, 11 fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, seven fellows of the British Academy, 21 fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences and 32 fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.

History

University college

The foundation of the university college in

that was to become Cardiff University was part of the Welsh university movement of the second half of the 19th century, which also led to the foundation of the colleges at Aberystwyth and Bangor (now

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and Bangor universities) and the federal

. The movement began at a meeting in London in 1854 called by Hugh Owen, including leaders of Welsh theological colleges and members of parliament. This meeting discussed establishing university colleges in Wales along the same lines as the Queen's Colleges established the previous decade in

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, and produced a formal proposal, the "Outline of Constitution for Proposed Welsh Queen's Colleges". Discussions on the founding of a university college in

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were revived in 1879, when a group of Welsh and English MPs urged the government to consider the poor provision of higher and intermediate

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and "the best means of assisting any local effort which may be made for supplying such deficiency." In August 1880,

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's government appointed a departmental committee to conduct "an enquiry into the nature and extent of intermediate and higher education in Wales", chaired by the 1st Baron Aberdare and consisting of Viscount Emlyn, the Reverend Prebendary H. G. Robinson,

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and

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. The Aberdare Report, as it came to be known, took evidence from a wide range of sources and over 250 witnesses and recommended a college each for North Wales and South Wales, the latter to be located in

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and the former to be the established University College of Wales in Aberystwyth (now

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). The committee cited the unique Welsh national identity and noted that many students in Wales could not afford to travel to University in England or Scotland. It advocated a national degree-awarding university for Wales, composed of regional colleges, which should be non-sectarian in nature and exclude the teaching of theology. Transcribed by the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown, Bishop of Malaita, Church of the Province of Melanesia, 2008. Statue of John Viriamu Jones

After the recommendation was published, Cardiff Corporation sought to secure the location of the college in Cardiff, and on 12 December 1881 formed a University College Committee to aid the matter. There was competition to be the site between

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and Cardiff. On 12 March 1883, after arbitration, a decision was made in Cardiff's favour. This was strengthened by the need to consider the interests of

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, at that time not legally incorporated into Wales, and the greater sum received by Cardiff in support of the college, through a public appeal that raised £37,000 and a number of private donations, notably from the 3rd Marquess of Bute and Lord Windsor. In April, Lord Aberdare was appointed as the college's first president. The possible locations considered included

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, Cathedral Road, and Moira Terrace,

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, before the site of the Old Royal Infirmary buildings on Newport Road was chosen. The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire opened on 24 October 1883 with courses in biology, chemistry, English, French, German, Greek, history, Latin, mathematics and astronomy, music, Welsh, logic and philosophy, and physics. It was incorporated by

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the following year; this was the first charter in Wales to allow the enrolment of women and to specifically forbid religious tests for entry. John Viriamu Jones was appointed as the college's first principal at the age of 27. As the college was not an independent university and could not award its own degrees, it prepared its students for the examinations of the

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or for further study at

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. In 1888 the university college at Cardiff and the University College of North Wales (now

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) proposed to the University College Wales at Aberystwyth joint action to gain a university charter for Wales, modelled on that of the

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in 1893, with the colleges becoming members of the new university. The position of operational head would rotate among heads of the colleges. In 1885, Aberdare Hall opened as the first hall of residence, allowing women access to the college. This moved to its current site in 1895, but remains a single-sex hall. In 1904 the college appointed the first female associate professor in the UK, Millicent Mackenzie, who in 1910 became the first female full professor at a fully chartered UK university. In 1901, John Viriamu Jones persuaded Cardiff Corporation to give the college a five-acre site in

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(instead of selling it as they would have done otherwise). Soon after, in 1905, work on a new building commenced under the architect W. D. Caröe. Money ran short for the project, however, and although the side-wings were completed in the 1960s the planned great hall was never built. Caroe sought to combine the charm and elegance of his ''alma mater'' (

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) with the picturesque balance of many

colleges. On 14 October 1909 the "New College" building in Cathays Park (now Main Building) and the "Drapers' Library" (now the Science Library) was opened in a ceremony involving a procession from the "Old College" in Newport Road. In 1931, the medical school, founded as part of the college in 1893 along with the departments of anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology, was split off to form the Welsh National School of Medicine, renamed the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1984. The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire was renamed University College, Cardiff in 1972.

1988 merger

In 1988, University College Cardiff ran into financial difficulties and a declaration of insolvency was considered. This led to a merger with the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) to form the University of Wales College of Cardiff. The principal of the new institution was Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson, who had been the principal of UWIST. After changes to the constitution in 1996, its name was changed to the University of Wales, Cardiff. In the early 1990s, the university's computer systems served as the home for

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Independence and 2004 merger

The college was granted degree-awarding powers by the Privy Council in 1997 although, as a member of the University of Wales, it did not use them at that time. In 1999, the public name of the university was changed to Cardiff University. In 2002, ideas were floated to re-merge Cardiff with the University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM), after the publication of the Welsh Assembly Government's review of higher education in Wales. This set in train a series of constitutional reforms. On 1 August 2004, Cardiff University ceased to be a member of the University of Wales and became an independent "link institution" affiliated to the federal university. The process of the merger with UWCM was completed on 1 December 2004, when the Act of Parliament transferring UWCM's assets to Cardiff University received royal assent. On 17 December it was announced that the Privy Council had given approval to a new supplemental charter for the keys institution. This was sealed on 11 March 2005, granting university status to Cardiff and legally changing the name of the institution to Cardiff University. Cardiff awarded University of Wales degrees to students admitted before 2005, but has subsequently awarded its own degrees. Cardiff University Graduation Ceremony

In 2005, Wales College of Medicine, as part of the university, launched the North Wales Clinical School in

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, in collaboration with the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham, the

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, and the National Health Service in Wales. This received funds of £12.5 million from the

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and trebled the number of trainee doctors in clinical training in Wales over a four-year period. The university also has a Centre for

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, which has been teaching a wide range of courses for over 125 years. However, in July 2009, the university announced it was ending over 250 humanities courses at the centre, making over 100 staff redundant. The university has since reintroduced a number of humanities courses for a trial period beginning in 2010. In June 2010, the university launched three new research institutes, each offering a new approach to a major modern research issue. The Neurosciences and Mental Health Research Institute and the Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute are housed in the purpose-built Hadyn Ellis Building and in the Sustainable Places Research Institute. Another part of the Science and Development Campus, the

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(CUBRIC), opened in June 2016 for

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research.

Workload controversy

On 19 February 2018, Malcolm Anderson, a university lecturer committed

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at age 48 by jumping off a university building. The inquiry determined that Anderson's suicide was the result of a high-pressure workload. In 2020, Grace Krause, a PhD student employed at Cardiff University started experiencing

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s and

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after lengthy work at a computer. She

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that "Staff are marking hundreds of essays in an impossibly short time. It is exhausting. Everyone is in crisis mode. Stressed, moody, morose, everyone feels like they’re drowning." Soon after, an email from the university was sent to all PhD students asking for these comments to be deleted, in order to avoid negative media attention, which sparked a debate about

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between employers and employees.

2025 cost-cutting measures

Cardiff University announced in January 2025 that it had an operating deficit of £31.2 million for 2023–24 and announced a three-month consultation on plans to reduce its academic workforce by approximately 400 full-time equivalent positions, representing around 7 per cent of its total staff, as well as discontinuing programs in ancient history, modern languages and translation, music, nursing, and religion and theology, and merging other academic departments. The Arts and Humanities are expected to suffer most severely, with the remaining workforce to be reduced by approximately 120 full-time equivalent positions, which is around half. The university had around £500 million in unrestricted reserves according to its accounts for 2023–24, which the Universities and Colleges Union said should be partially used to give a longer period for the university's finances to recover. However, the university said that "unrestricted reserves" was not the same as cash available to spend. The university's accounts contain the statement that "Of the University’s £426m of cash and investments as at 31 July 2024, £41m is freely available to spend." A document circulated internally but leaked to the press revealed that further job losses in non-academic staff were expected on top of the 400 academic staff posts and outlined plans for a smaller but higher-quality student intake in future. It also revealed that the projected deficit for 2024–25, if no action was taken, was £65 million, double the deficit for 2023–24, with the cuts designed to reduce the deficit to £28 million. In May, the university announced that it would reduce the impact of its cuts by continuing to offer some courses that were previously due to be cancelled, including Nursing, Music, and Modern Languages. The university also agreed to not make any compulsory redundancies in 2025, following a deal with the UCU to drop plans industrial action in the summer. The university's deficit is part of the wider financial challenges in the UK higher education sector, where universities are facing budget deficits due to factors such as tuition fee caps, rising operational costs, and fluctuations in student enrolment. Other institutions, have also announced staff reductions and course closures. The proposed cuts at Cardiff also led to protests at the

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, where the

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said that there was no more money available for higher education despite universities across Wales suffering financial crises and implementing job cuts and campus closures.

Vice chancellors and principals

List of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of Cardiff University and its predecessors (shown in brackets): *1883–1901 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): John Viriamu Jones *1901–1918 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): Ernest Howard Griffiths *1918–1929 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): A.H. Trow *1929–1949 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): Frederick Rees *1949–1966 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): Anthony Steel *1966–1972 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): C. W. L. Bevan *1972–1987 (University College Cardiff): C. W. L. Bevan *1968–1988 (University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology): Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson *1988–1993: Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson *1993–2001: Brian Smith *2001–2012: David Grant *2012–2023: Colin Riordan *2023–present: Wendy Larner

Campus

Academic facilities

The university's academic facilities are centred around

in central Cardiff, which contains the university's grade II* listed main building, housing administrative facilities and the science library, previously called the Drapers' library; the grade II listed

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, which contains the

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, the grade I listed

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, which houses the Cardiff Schools of Planning and Geography and Social Sciences, the

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(named in 1979 after the Redwood Family of Boverton near Llantwit Major by a 1978 suggestion by J. D. R. Thomas), which houses the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; the law building which houses the Cardiff Law School; and the biosciences building, which provides facilities for both biosciences and medical teaching. The

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and School of Physics and Astronomy are located in the Queen's Buildings, off Newport Road, the Schools of Computer Science of Informatics and Mathematics at the Abacws Building, and the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at 2 Central Square. A number of university academic facilities are located at the Heath Park campus, based at the

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. This covers the

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, the School of Dentistry, the School of Healthcare Sciences, and the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences.

Athletics facilities

Most of the university's sports facilities are located at the sports training village in the Talybont Halls complex. This includes facilities for football, badminton, basketball, tennis, hockey and gym. Additional gym facilities and squash courts are located at the university fitness and squash centre, near the city centre campus at

. Extensive playing fields for

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, football and

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are located at the university playing fields near

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. The university also utilises the nearby

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for rugby fixtures such as the annual varsity tournament.

Organisation

Schools and colleges

The 26 academic schools of the university are divided into three colleges: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; and Physical Sciences. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences *

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*English, Communication and Philosophy *Geography and Planning *History, Archaeology and Religion * Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies * Law and Politics *Modern Languages *

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*Social Sciences *Welsh College of Biomedical and Life Sciences *Biosciences *Dentistry *Healthcare Sciences *

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*Optometry and Vision Sciences *Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences *Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (Wales Deanery) *Psychology College of Physical Sciences and Engineering *

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*Chemistry *Computer Science & Informatics *Earth and Environmental Sciences *Engineering *Mathematics *Physics and Astronomy Cardiff also has a Doctoral Academy, that brings together the work of four previous discipline-based Graduate Schools and the postgraduate research activity of the university's Graduate Centre.

Finances

In the financial year ending 31 July 2024, Cardiff had a total income of £638 million (2022/23 – £627.2 million) and total expenditure of £500.4 million (2022/23 – £603 million). Key sources of income included £328.3 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2022/23 – £310.6 million), £83.2 million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £90.2 million), £126.6 million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £133.6 million), £11.5 million from investment income (2022/23 – £9.6 million) and £4.5 million from donations and endowments (2022/23 – £1.4 million). At year end, Cardiff had endowments of £53.1 million (2023 – £46.2 million) and total net assets of £852.6 million (2023 – £679 million).

Academic profile

Rankings and reputation

Cardiff University is a highly renowned for several subjects in its department. Cardiff has produced two Nobel Laureates on its staff, Sir

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and

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. A number of Cardiff University staff have been elected as

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, these include Graham Hutchings FRS, professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry, Ole Holger Petersen, MRC Professor and Director of Cardiff School of Biosciences. and John M. Pearce, Professor of Psychology. In 2013, Cardiff University was ranked as one of the best UK universities for supporting

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students, by the charity Stonewall in its annual ''Gay by Degree'' guide. The university was one of only two in the UK and the only one in Wales to achieve top marks in a Stonewall checklist of priorities for LGBT+ students. Cardiff University was ranked joint 168th in Best Global Universities by

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in 2021. It was ranked 164th among universities around the world by

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Admissions

According to the 2017 ''Times'' and ''Sunday Times'' Good University Guide, approximately 15 per cent of Cardiff's undergraduates come from independent schools. In the 2016–2017 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 76:5:19 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 59:41.

Student life

Student accommodation

The university maintains 15 student halls and a number of student houses throughout the city of Cardiff; providing a total of 5,362 student places in accommodation. They are in a variety of architectural styles and ages, from the Gothic Aberdare Hall, built in 1895, to the modern Talybont Gate Building, completed in 2014. All first-year students are guaranteed a place in university owned and managed halls. The Cardiff University Halls are: *Aberconway Hall * Aberdare Hall *Cartwright Court *Clodien House *Colum Hall *Hodge Hall *Gordon Hall *Roy Jenkins Hall *Senghennydd Court *Senghennydd Hall *The Talybont 'Student Village' (Including Talybont North, South, Court and Gate Halls) *University Hall *Houses in Colum Road and Colum Place *Student Village Houses

Students' Union

The Cardiff University Students' Union is a student-run organisation aiming to promote student interests within the university and further afield. The Cardiff University Students' Union building is near

, next to

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. It has shops, a night club and the studios of Xpress Radio and Gair Rhydd, the student newspaper. It is democratically controlled by the student body through the election of seven full-time officers, who manage the running of the Union. The Union provides a range of services, including a number of cafes, bars and shops, as well as advice, training and representation. The Union is an affiliated member of the National Union of Students.

Groups and societies

The students' union supports over 200 societies across a wide range of interests as well as 70 sports clubs through the athletic union.

Student activism

Student activism at Cardiff University has included protests about the university's investments in arms companies in 2009, as part of a larger student movement in the UK at that time, and participating in the

2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses escalated from April 2024 until the summer, spreading List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024, in the United States and List of pro-Palestinian p ...

. An encampment was established outside the Cardiff University Main Building on 14 May 2024 by students from Cardiff University,

Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff Metropolitan University () is a public university located in Cardiff, Wales. Formerly known as the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC; , ) which was established in 1996. The university offers degree courses in a variety of d ...

, the

University of South Wales The University of South Wales (USW) () is a public university in Wales, with campuses in Cardiff, Newport and Pontypridd. It was formed on 11 April 2013 from the merger of the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales, Newport. The ...

and the

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama () is a conservatoire located in Cardiff, Wales. It has three theatres: the Richard Burton Theatre, the Bute Theatre, and the Caird Studio. It also includes one concert hall, the Dora Stoutzker Hall, and ...

, joining the Cymru Students For Palestine umbrella group that also included protestors at

Swansea University Swansea University () is a public university, public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it chang ...

and

. The encampment dispersed on 17 July 2024 after the university confirmed that it already met some demands and committed to address some of the others.

Media

The Union provides facilities and support for several student media groups, including: '' Gair Rhydd'', an award-winning, free student newspaper that is released every Monday of term; ''Quench'', a monthly arts and lifestyle magazine that specialises in the local music scene as well as original investigative feature articles; and CUTV, the student television channel. Xpress Radio is the

student radio Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced ...

station. It broadcasts daily during term from studios in the Students' Union building, with programming such as comedy panel shows, new music showcases, local music showcases, and film reviews.

Athletics

The Cardiff University Athletic Union is the body that supports student sport at Cardiff, it oversees more than 60 competitive and non-competitive sports clubs, many of which compete in the

British Universities and Colleges Sport British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS; ) is the sports governing body, governing body for higher education sport in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2008, BUCS is responsible for organising 54 inter-university sports in the United King ...

league. The university's

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team, the Cardiff Redhawks (which also recruits players from other Welsh universities) competes in the British Universities Ice Hockey Association leagues. The university's sports teams also take part in the annual Welsh Varsity against

, which includes the Welsh Boat Race, and several other sporting competitions. The Welsh Varsity rugby match has been described as "probably... the second biggest Varsity Game next to Oxford vs Cambridge". Cardiff participates in British Universities and Colleges Sport which manages a sporting framework of competitive fixtures and events for over 150 institutions around the UK. Cardiff registers nearly 100 teams in the various leagues and competitions each year and sees students travelling around the country to represent Cardiff University. In 2013 Cardiff team achieved 15th position overall across the 50 different sports hosting events.

Insignia and other representations

Motto

Cardiff University's motto is ''Gwirionedd, Undod a Chytgord''. The Welsh motto translates as ''Truth, Unity and Concord'' or ''Truth, Unity and Harmony''. It is taken from the prayer for the

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as it appears in the 1662 ''Book of Common Prayer''.

Coat of arms

Cardiff University's current

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...

was granted by the

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in 1988 following the merger of University College Cardiff and the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology. The coat of arms incorporates features from the

heraldry Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, Imperial, royal and noble ranks, rank and genealo ...

of both former institutions. The three

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are derived from the arms of the

de Clare The House of Clare was a prominent Anglo-Norman noble house that ruled the Earldoms of Pembroke, Hertford and Gloucester in England and Wales throughout its history, playing a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland. They were desce ...

lords of Glamorgan Lords may refer to: * The plural of Lord Places *Lords Creek, a stream in New Hanover County, North Carolina *Lord's, English Cricket Ground and home of Marylebone Cricket Club and Middlesex County Cricket Club People *Traci Lords (born 19 ...

. The open book signifies learning; on it are the

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and annulet, marks of cadence that indicate that University College Cardiff was the second of the University of Wales' institutions, and that the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology was the fifth. A notable feature of the arms are the

supporters In heraldry, supporters, sometimes referred to as ''attendants'', are figures or objects usually placed on either side of the Escutcheon (heraldry), shield and depicted holding it up. Historically, supporters were left to an individual's fr ...

, which in heraldry are rarely granted to universities. The supporters are an angel from University College Cardiff and a

Welsh Dragon The Welsh Dragon (, meaning 'the red dragon'; ) is a heraldic symbol that represents Wales and appears on the national flag of Wales. Ancient leaders of the Celtic Britons that are personified as dragons include Maelgwn Gwynedd, Mynyddog Mwynf ...

from the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology. The crest is a Welsh dragon in the stance of a lion; it stands on the

helmet A helmet is a form of protective gear worn to protect the head. More specifically, a helmet complements the skull in protecting the human brain. Ceremonial or symbolic helmets (e.g., a policeman's helmet in the United Kingdom) without protecti ...

. Both the dragon and the helmet are distinguished by being front-facing rather than in profile as is more usually found in Welsh heraldry.

Notable alumni and academics

Heads of state and government

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, President of Iraq, former prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and former deputy prime minister of the Iraqi federal government * Faisal Al-Fayez, Prime Minister of Jordan *

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, First Minister of Wales *

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, First Minister of Wales

Politics

* Lord Jenkins, former

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and Chancellor of the University of Oxford (did not graduate) *

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, MS and leader of

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, State Minister of Finance for Planning in the

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, MS for

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and Welsh Government Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty *

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, MP for

and UK Shadow

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, Shadow Minister for Defence Procurement and Shadow Minister for the Armed Forces *

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, MS for

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and former Welsh Government Minister for Rural Affairs *

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, Gambian Minister for Women's Affairs, Children and Social Welfare *

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, MEP and

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Minister *

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, MP for

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and for

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, Leader of the Labour Party,

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, Indian politician and president of the

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, MP for Cardiff East and Minister for Health. * Robert Minhinnick, co-founder of

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(Cymru) *

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, MS and former leader of Plaid Cymru * David Rees, MS for

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and Deputy Presiding Officer of the Senedd Cymru. *

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, MP for Cunninghame North and Minister of State.

Academia

* Martin J. Ball, emeritus Professor of Linguistics at

, Cymru/Wales *

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, Professor of French at the

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, professor *

Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer (; 6 April 1926 – 18 October 2024) was a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the The Holocaust, Holocaust. He was a professor of Holocaust studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew Univer ...

, Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the

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, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge *

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, pioneer of scientific method in medicine * Peter Coles, Professor of

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, Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007 * John S. Fossey, Professor of synthetic chemistry at the

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* Burt Goldberg, university professor, microbiologist *

, Professor of

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, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1988 * John Loughlin, Professor of Politics *

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, Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the

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* Patrick Minford, Professor of Applied Economics *

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– American lawyer and theologian; Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought at

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. * Keith Peters, Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge *Leighton Durham Reynolds, emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature,

*Henry Tanner (mathematician), H. W. Lloyd Tanner, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy (1883–1909) *Pamela Taylor, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry since 2004 *Keith Ward, philosopher, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Gresham College *Chandra Wickramasinghe, mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist, Professor of Applied Mathematics *Rheinallt Nantlais Williams, professor of the philosophy of religion, principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth

Business

*Spencer Dale, Chief economist, Bank of England *Andrew Gould (businessman), Andrew Gould, chairman and former CEO, Schlumberger *Philip Jansen, CEO, BT Group *Mary Perkins, Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder, Specsavers *John Pettigrew (businessman), CEO, National Grid plc *Lorenzo Simonelli (manager), Lorenzo Simonelli, CEO, Baker Hughes Company

Religion

*Phil Ashey, Diocese of Western Anglicans, Bishop of Western Anglicans *Gregory Cameron, Bishop of St Asaph *Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross *Dominic Walker (bishop), Dominic Walker, Bishop of Monmouth

Sport

*Nathan Cleverly, professional boxer and former World Boxing Organization, WBO light heavyweight List of light heavyweight boxing champions, world champion *Gareth Davies (rugby union, born 1955), Gareth Davies, former Wales national rugby union team, Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player, and former chief executive of Cardiff RFC, Cardiff Rugby Football Club *Gerald Davies, former Wales national rugby union team, Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player *Alex Gough (squash player), Alex Gough, Squash player *Mike Hall (rugby union), Mike Hall, former Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player *Heather Knight (cricketer), Heather Knight, English cricketer *Steven Outerbridge, Bermudian cricketer *Jamie Roberts, Wales national rugby union team, Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player *James Tomlinson, English cricketer *Bradley Wadlan, Welsh cricketer

Arts and journalism

*Paul Atherton, television and film producer and director *Matt Barbet, journalist and television presenter *Manish Bhasin, journalist and television presenter *Nick Broomfield, documentary filmmaker and receiver of the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Documentary *Philip Cashian, composer *Suw Charman-Anderson, journalist and social software consultant. *Adrian Chiles, television presenter *Gillian Clarke, poet and receiver of the Queen's gold medal for Poetry *Huw Edwards, journalist and BBC newsreader *Ken Elias, artist and painter *Brian J. Ford, author, scientist and broadcaster *Max Foster, anchor of ''CNN Today'' *M. A. Griffiths, poet *Julia Hartley-Brewer, journalist and television presenter *Jiang Heping, executive director of the China Central Television, CCTV Sports Programming Centre and Controller of CCTV-5 *Tim Hetherington, photo-journalist and co-director of Academy Award-nominated ''Restrepo (film), Restrepo'' *Elis James, stand-up comedian and actor *Alun Hoddinott, composer *Sioned James (1974–2016), choral conductor *Karl Jenkins, composer *Alan Johnston, journalist *Riz Khan, journalist and television interviewer *Bernard Knight, crime writer *Simon Lane, co-founder and Director (business), Creative director of The Yogscast Ltd *Gwilym Lee, actor *Siân Lloyd, television presenter *Los Campesinos!, six piece indie pop band *Philip Madoc, actor *Paul Moorcraft, writer *Sharon Morgan, actress *Joanna Natasegara, documentary producer, Academy Award winner for Netflix documentary ''The White Helmets (film), The White Helmets'' *Siân Phillips, actress *Susanna Reid, journalist and television presenter *James Righton, musician *Leo Rowlands, Welsh musical composer, Catholic priest *Arlene Sierra, composer *Ron Smerczak actor *Mari Strachan, novelist and librarian *Richard Tait, former BBC governor and BBC BBC Trust, trustee *Matt Taylor (meteorologist), Matt Taylor, BBC Weather Presenter *Craig Thomas (author), Craig Thomas, author *Alex Thomson (journalist), Alex Thomson, journalist and television presenter *Vedhicka, Indian actress *Grace Williams, composer

Law and Justice

* Victoria Starmer, former solicitor for Hodge Jones & Allen, wife of Sir Keir Starmer

References

External links

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