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EspañolCAMPUSES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
The University of Nottingham operates from four 'campuses' in Nottinghamshire and from two over-seas campuses, one in Ningbo, China and the other in Semenyih, Malaysia. University Park Campus and Jubilee Campus are situated a few miles from the centre of Nottingham, with the small, King's Meadow Campus nearby. Sutton Bonington Campus is situated 12 miles (19 km) south of the central campuses, near the village of Sutton Bonington.[1]
University Park Campus
The Downs, University Park.
'University Park Campus' is the main campus of the University. A few miles from the centre of Nottingham, the 330 acres (1.3 km²) site is one of the largest university campuses in the United Kingdom, and home to the majority of the University's 27,000 students. The campus contains 12 Halls of Residence, of which the oldest and largest is Hugh Stewart Hall, as well as academic and administrative buildings. The campus contains 13 listed buildings.
Gardens
Millennium Garden, University Park.
The campus is widely regarded for the extent of its greenery,[2] and regularly wins awards for its landscaping.[3][4] Of particular note are the formal Jekyll Garden, allegedly designed by Gertrude Jekyll, next to Lenton and Wortley Hall; the walled Highfield Garden near the Trent Building, which is home to the national collection of ''Canna''; and the new Millennium Garden, formally opened in 2000, which has won several awards. In addition there is extensive planting elsewhere on campus, particularly in lakeside Highfields Park.
Halls of Residence on University Park Campus
Lincoln Hall, University Park.
★ 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 on University Park Campus
★ East Midlands Conference Centre
★ Hallward Library
★ Portland Building
★ Trent Building
Jubilee Campus
Djanogly Learning Resource Centre, Jubilee Campus.
'Jubilee Campus' primarily houses the Computer science and Education schools of the University, along with Nottingham University Business School. The campus is also the location of the National College for School Leadership.
The campus opened in 1999, and is located about a mile away from the main University Park Campus. It was designed by the architects Michael Hopkins and Partners and won the 2000 BCIA award for "Building of the Year" and the 2001 RIBA Journal Sustainability Award. The campus name derives from the fact that 1998 was the Golden Jubilee of the granting of the Royal Charter that made the University an independent degree-granting organisation.
Like the University Park Campus, Jubilee Campus has been constructed around a lake (artificial) on the River Leen and contains plenty of greenery. The campus also contains many innovative environmental elements such as grass roofs and solar panels. Particularly striking is the library, the Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre, a circular building situated in the middle of the lake with only one, spiraling, floor.
Halls of Residence on the Jubilee Campus
The campus has three Halls of Residence.
★ Newark Hall - undergraduate, 400 students
★ Southwell Hall - undergraduate, 200 students
★ Melton Hall - postgraduate
Each of the above halls are ensuite and Southwell and Newark are catered. Many students studying on the main campus live in halls on Jubilee. Transport between campuses is provided by a university-funded hopper bus which is free to use.
Future development
The Jubilee Campus has extensive enlargement plans, which will see gradual implementation towards 2015. Nottingham City Council has safeguarded the adjacent land for University use, in order to allow the campus to grow to over 100 acres (0.4 km²). Phase 1, which began in 2006, will see the development of a "Research and Innovation Park" for University spin-out companies, as well as a landmark "volcano-like" building for the campus, to be designed by Ken Shuttleworth. Future developments will see further academic buildings, and new halls of residence added to the campus.
King's Meadow Campus
'King's Meadow Campus' The 16 acres (64,750 m²) campus was formerly the site of the Carlton Television studios. The University's Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections is now housed at the King's Meadow Campus.
Sutton Bonington Campus
'Sutton Bonington Campus' is a site of the University of Nottingham, and houses the School of Biosciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. The campus is a 420 Hectare (4.2 sqkm) site situated in a rural location near Sutton Bonington village, 12 miles (19 km) south of the main, University Park Campus, and 1 mile (2 km) from Junction 24 of the M1 motorway. The campus contains research buildings and teaching facilities, a large library and is also home to Bonington Hall, 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). A 400 ha (4 km²) comercial farm, University Farm, and a dairy are also part of the site.
The Campus has a refectory, a small private function room (Oak Room) for 10-20 people; a student bar and linked JCR, and a room linked to the bar (The Octagon - often used for external meetings), a small sub-branch of Natwest bank, a Londis and a Blackwells bookshop. The campus also has a single cashpoint.
Sports facilities include a gym, a sports hall, and an astro-turf pitch. External sports facilities run alongside the University between the main road and the railway line.
Travel into Nottingham is facilitated by a free shuttle bus between the distant and more central campuses, which leaves approximately once an hour and takes 25 minutes. There is no train station nearby, Sutton Bonington Station having closed in the 1960s, the closest are at Loughborough or Nottingham (20-30 mins by taxi). The East Midlands Airport is very close with some flight paths being over the campus itself.
The campus was formerly the ''Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College'' before merging with the university of Nottingham in 1947. The College was originally located in Kingston on Soar, about a two minute walk down the road from the current campus, but relocated to its current location after the First World War. The site (which had been built but not yet occupied prior to the war) was used as a prisoner-of-war camp during the First World War.[5] It was from there that a group of 21 German officers, led by Captain Karl von Müller, escaped through an underground tunnel dug from one of the huts. 15 tons 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 is also home to the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre or NASC, which is attached to the plant sciences division of the University.
Student organisations
The Sutton Bonington Campus is the home of the ''Sutton Bonington Student Guild'', an association of the University of Nottingham Students' Union. All officers of the 'SB Guild' are non-sabbatical and elected annually by an anonymous voting procedure which follows the Student Unions procedure (1,2,3 voting system). The Guild used to be separate from the union, and still has a degree of independence. The Guild runs its own clubs and societies (including the rugby team SBRFC, who play as the universities fourth team in the BURSA league, and SBLRFC, who play as th universities 2nd team). In addition it also has its own international students organisation (ISSB), and student run sound, lighting and projection unit (SB-TEC). Bonington Hall also has a student run JCR committee, however this works closely with the Guild, to such an extent that in practical terms the JCR acts as the social section of the guild.
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). OKA organises a reunion weekend on the third weekend in November every year for recently graduated students to return (this is also known as OKA).
Bonington Hall
Bonington Hall is the name given by the university to the University's halls of residence at Sutton Bonington. It is a mixed sex hall holding both undergraduates and postgraduates, and in reality it is not really a single Hall, but a number of small separate "Halls" of varying age and design holding between eight and sixty people. Bonington Hall holds approximately 650 students and is managed by Opal Property Group. The Halls at Sutton Bonington are named after local villages and are as follows: Kingston, Normanton, Wymeswold, Ratcliffe, Rempstone, Kegworth, Dishley, Hathern, Lockington, Zouch, Stanford, and Barton.
University Farm
The farm exists to provide high quality facilities, resources and opportunities for research with crops and animals. It also has a key educational role by providing an environment for effective tuition of students in Biosciences, and Veterinary science. The farm is run commercially to be self-financing whilst still fulfilling its role as a teaching and research resource. The farm manager is currently William Donger. The farm is a 400 hectare mixed farm, with an emphasis on dairy and arable production.
The dairy herd consists of 180 cows, which are milked using a robot milking system (part of a recent 2 million-pound investment in the dairy). The farm also has 350 breeding ewes, and maintains beef, pig and poultry research units.
320 Hectares are devoted to arable crops including cereals, oilseed, and sugar beet, 20 Hectares of which have been converted to organic production. The further 80 hectares of land is used for an intensively managed rotation of grass, fodder crops and maize for silage.
References
1. Maps & Directions
2. Currently a winner of the Green Flag Award
3. For example, the Britain in Bloom Public Park Award 2005
4. Nottingham University Estate Office, Awards and Accolades
5. Discovering Sutton Bonington Past and Present, , Douglas, Cluett, Sutton Bonington Local History Society, October,
★ Nottingham Evening Post article on Jubilee Campus Development
★ Nottingham City Council Jubilee Campus Development Brief
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