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- Lincolnshire is located in east-central Jefferson County. It is bordered to the northeast by St. Regis Park, to the southeast by Cambridge, and otherwise by consolidated Louisville /Jefferson County. Downtown Louisville is 8 miles (13 km) to the northwest.
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Lincolnshire is located in east-central Jefferson County. It is bordered to the northeast by St. Regis Park, to the southeast by Cambridge, and otherwise by consolidated Louisville /Jefferson County. Downtown Louisville is 8 miles (13 km) to the northwest.
The following is a list of colleges and universities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Kentucky also has two early entrance to college programs, for academically gifted high school juniors and seniors, that allows the students to take college credits while finishing high school.
Situated in a historic city on the beautiful Brayford Pool Waterfront, the University of Lincoln is proud of putting students at the heart of everything it does.
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19th and 20th centuries
The University of Lincoln developed out of several educational institutions, including Hull School of Art (1861), Hull Technical Institute (1893), the Roman Catholic teacher-training Endsleigh College (1905), Hull Central College of Commerce (1930), and Kingston upon Hull College of Education (1913). These merged in 1976 into Hull College of Higher Education, with a change of name to Humberside College of Higher Education in 1983, absorbing several courses with international reputations and r...
21st century
With another change of name to the University of Lincolnin October 2001, the university moved its main campus from Hull to Lincoln in 2002. On 28 October 2004, the National Centre for Food Manufacturing at Holbeach was reopened by John Hayes, Member of Parliament for South Holland and the Deepings, after redevelopment as a specialist food-science technology park. The consolidation involved the University of Lincoln acquiring the Leicester-based De Montfort University's schools in Lincolnshire...
Academic Colleges and schools
The University of Lincoln is structured as a college and school-based system, with each college headed by a pro vice chancellor. There are two colleges (changed from four on 1 August 2023) involved in research and teaching.
The College of Health and Science
The College of Science is located across the Brayford, Riseholme and Holbeach campuses. The College offers subjects including agri-food technology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, food manufacturing, geography, biomedical and life sciences, mathematics, medicine, nursing and other health disciplines, pharmacy, physics, psychology, sport and exercise science, and social work and social care. The School of Engineering became the first such school founded in the UK for over 20 years, o...
College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities undertakes research and has a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including Architecture, Design, Media, Journalism, Performing Arts, History, English, Business, Education, Law and Social Science. The college is the home to Siren Radio, a community radio station broadcasting on 107.3 FM and online, and the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, a 446 seat venue, which opened in 2008. The School of Film, Media and Journalism is home t...
Vice-chancellors
Professor Neal Juster was installed as vice-chancellor of the university in October 2021, having previously served as deputy vice chancellor at the University of Glasgow. His background is in mechanical engineering where he was pro vice-principal, dean of the faculty of engineering at the University of Strathclyde and senior lecturer in the department of mechanical engineering, University of Leeds. The following have served as vice-chancellor of the university: 1. 1989–2001: Professor Roger K...
Chancellors
The current Chancellor, The Rt. Hon Professor the Lord Ajay Kakkar KBE, was installed in September 2023. Lord Kakkar is Chair of King's Health Partners, the Academic Health Science Centre, Director of the Thrombosis Research Institute,London, and lectures and publishes widely on his specialism. He has worked with the NHS on its strategy to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE). The following have served as Chancellor of the university: 1. 1994–2000: Dr Harry Hooper CBE TD 2. 2000–2007: Dame El...
Pro-chancellors
Two pro-chancellors assist the chancellor in their ceremonial duties. The current pro-chancellors are Dame Diane Lees CBE, as the current chair of the board of governors, and Mr Haydn Biddle as the immediate past chair.The following have served as pro-chancellor and chair of the board of governors of the university: 1. 2009–2012: Mr Graham Secker 2. 2012–2018: Mr Haydn Biddle 3. 2018–present: Dame Diane Lees CBE
Reputation and rankings
The university's Strategic Plan 2022-2027 sets out targets of being among the top 15 of universities in the UK. Lincoln was ranked 17th by The Guardian in 2020, its highest to date. In 2017, it ranked 8th in Agriculture and Forestry and 2nd in Business and Economics in The Complete University Guide rankings. More than half its submitted research was rated as internationally excellent or world-leading in the UK's last nationwide assessment of university research standards, the 2014 Research Ex...
Identity
The University of Lincoln's official logo from 2001 to 2012 was the head of Minerva, an Ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and knowledge. From July 2012 this was changed to incorporate the university's coat of arms, which features swans, fleur de lysand textbooks.
Libraries
The university Libraries and Learning Skills department has three libraries: the main University Library, a Library at the Holbeach Campus which is part of the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, and the Ross Library for Biomedical and Health Sciences at the Lincoln Medical School. The University Library occupies the Great Central Warehouse (GCW) building, a renovated industrial railway-goods warehouse.It opened in December 2004 on the Brayford campus. In total it houses over 300,000 book...
Live music
Built in 1874 by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, the Engine Shed was the one surviving four-track, dead-end railway building in Lincolnshire. It opened as a refitted entertainment venue in September 2006 as the region's largest live music venue.It consists of the Engine Shed, the Platform and Tower Bar, which combined can accommodate up to 2,000 people. In 2014 the university transferred control of The Engine Shed to the Students' Union.
Lincoln Arts Centre
The Lincoln Arts Centre (LAC) holds a 450-seat multi-purpose auditorium designed for live arts performances, conferences and film screenings. Its events are designed to complement, rather than compete with those of neighbouring venues.[citation needed]
According to the university, over 100 national groupings appear among the student population at the Brayford Pool campus. Based on the available 2019/20 academic year data, the total student population was 14,095 undergraduates and 2,330 postgraduates.
Academics
1. Jane Chapman– Professor of Communications 2. Carenza Lewis– Professor for the Public Understanding of Research 3. Stephen McKay– Professor of Social Research 4. Daniel Mills (biologist)- Professor of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine 5. Mark Gussy - Global Professor in Rural Health and Social Care 6. Ananda Breed - Professor in Theatre 7. Nigel Allinson MBE - Distinguished Professor of Image Engineering 8. Mini Rai - Global Chair in Robotic Engineering 9. Mark Macklin - Distinguished Profess...
Alumni
1. Gordon Baldwin– potter 2. David Firth– animator and visual artist 3. Jonathan Foyle– architectural historian 4. Andrea Jenkyns – MP for Morley and Outwood 5. Tom Marshall– photo colouriser and model maker 6. Paul Noble– visual artist 7. Vicki Phillips – educator and director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 8. Chris Rankin– film actor 9. Thomas Ridgewell– YouTube video creator 10. Jayne Sharp– broadcaster 11. Martin Vickers – MP for Cleethorpes 12. Juan Watterson – MHK for Rushen and...
Honorary Graduates
1. Michael Parkinson 2. Sidney McFarlane 3. Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam 4. Sir Stuart Peach 5. Michael Betton 6. Sophie Wells 7. Sir John Hegarty 8. David Ross 9. Reginald D Hunter 10. Willi Meixner 11. Najam Kidwai 12. Deborah Bull 13. Camilla Carlbom Flinn 14. Danny and Nicky Cowley 15. George "Johnny" Johnson 16. Robert Webb 17. Professor James Kakalios 18. The Rt. Hon. the Lord Malloch-Brown 19. Professor James Fenton 20. Ela Gandhi 21. Tony Garnett 22. Maureen Kavanagh 23. Professor J...
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