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She assumed the position of Chancellor on 1 January 2020.<ref name =Imtaizncl>{{cite web |title=Renowned poet Imtiaz Dharker named new Chancellor |url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2019/11/chancellor/ |publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=8 January 2020 |archive-date=20 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220160137/https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2019/11/chancellor/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The vice-chancellor is [[Chris Day (hepatologist)|Chris Day]], a hepatologist and former pro-vice-chancellor of the Faculty of Medical Sciences.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Whitfield|first1=Graeme|title=Newcastle University appoints top medic as its new vice-chancellor|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/newcastle-university-appoints-top-medic-11598732|access-date=4 January 2017|work=Trinity Mirror|archive-date=5 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105083508/http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/newcastle-university-appoints-top-medic-11598732|url-status=live}}</ref> The university has an enrolment of some 16,000 undergraduate and 5,600 postgraduate students. Teaching and research are delivered in 19 academic schools,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/structure/academic/ |title=Teaching and Research |publisher=Newcastle University |year=2018 |access-date=27 June 2018 |archive-date=27 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627144231/https://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/structure/academic/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 13 research institutes and 38 research centres, spread across three Faculties: the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Faculty of Medical Sciences; and the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/research/directory |title=Research Directory |publisher=Newcastle University |year=2018 |access-date=27 June 2018 |archive-date=27 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627173522/https://www.ncl.ac.uk/research/directory/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The university offers around 175 full-time undergraduate degree programmes in a wide range of subject areas spanning arts, sciences, engineering and medicine, together with approximately 340 postgraduate taught and research programmes across a range of disciplines.<ref name="structure">{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/peoplestructures/ |title=University Structure |publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628183659/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/peoplestructures/ |archive-date=28 June 2014 }}</ref> It holds a series of public lectures called 'Insights' each year in the Curtis Auditorium in the Herschel Building. Many of the university's partnerships with companies, like [[Red Hat]], are housed in the Herschel Annex.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/global-computing-giant-joins-forces-with-newcastle-university |title=Global computing giant joins forces with Newcastle |publisher=Newcastle University |date=3 March 2010 |access-date=14 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306022117/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/global-computing-giant-joins-forces-with-newcastle-university |archive-date=6 March 2010 }}</ref> ===Chancellors and vice-chancellors=== {{For|heads of the predecessor colleges|Colleges of Durham University#Colleges in Newcastle}} {{div-col}} ====Chancellors==== *[[Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland]] (1963β1988) *[[Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley]] (1988β1999) *[[Chris Patten]] (1999β2009) *[[Liam Donaldson]] (2009β2019) *[[Imtiaz Dharker]] (2020β)<ref name=Imtaizncl /> ====Vice-chancellors==== *[[Charles Bosanquet (academic)|Charles Bosanquet]] (1963β1968) *[[Henry Miller (clinician)|Henry Miller]] (1968β1976) *[[Ewan Stafford Page]] (1976β1978, acting) *[[Laurence Martin]] (1978β1990) *Duncan Murchison (1991, acting) *[[James Wright (academic)|James Wright]] (1992β2000) *[[Christopher Edwards (clinician)|Christopher Edwards]] (2001β2007) *[[Chris Brink]] (2007β2016) *[[Chris Day (hepatologist)|Chris Day]] (2017βpresent) {{div-col-end}} ===Civic responsibility=== [[File:Old Quad, Newcastle University, 5 September 2013.jpg|alt=|right|thumb|The university Quadrangle]] The university describes itself as a civic university,<ref>{{cite web|last=Newcastle University|title=Newcastle University: A Civic University|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/values/civic/|access-date=26 November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121212232156/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/values/civic/|archive-date=12 December 2012}}</ref> with a role to play in society by bringing its research to bear on issues faced by communities (local, national or international). In 2012, the university opened the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal<ref>{{cite web|last=Newcastle University|title=Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/socialrenewal/nisr/|access-date=26 November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102121041/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/socialrenewal/nisr/|archive-date=2 November 2012}}</ref> to address issues of social and economic change, representing the research-led academic schools across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<ref>{{cite web|last=Newcastle University|title=Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hss/|access-date=26 November 2012|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111003402/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hss/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Business School. [[Mark Shucksmith]] was Director of the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal (NISR) at Newcastle University, where he is also Professor of Planning.<ref>{{cite web|last=Newcastle University|title=Director of the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/socialrenewal/director.htm|access-date=26 November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031062342/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/socialrenewal/director.htm|archive-date=31 October 2012}}</ref> In 2006, the university was granted [[fair trade]] status and from January 2007 it became a [[smoke-free]] campus. The university has also been actively involved with several of the region's museums for many years. The [[Great North Museum: Hancock]] originally opened in 1884 and is often a venue for the university's events programme.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/newcastle/museums.htm |title=Museums |publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=10 October 2010 |archive-date=25 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825050921/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/newcastle/museums.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Faculties, schools and institutes=== Teaching schools within the university are based within three faculties. Each faculty is led by a Provost/Pro-vice-chancellor and a team of Deans with specific responsibilities. The university also has research institutes based within each faculty. {{div-col}} ==== Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ==== {{main|Newcastle University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences}} ===== Schools ===== *School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape * School of Arts and Cultures * [[#Business School|Newcastle University Business School]] * School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences * School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics * School of Geography, Politics and Sociology * School of History, Classics and Archaeology * [[#Newcastle Law School|Newcastle Law School]] * [[#School of Modern Languages|School of Modern Languages]] * School X =====Institutes===== *Institute of Creative Arts Practice *Humanities Research Institute *Institute of Social Science ==== Faculty of Medical Sciences ==== ===== Schools ===== * School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences * [[Newcastle University Dental School|School of Dental Sciences]] * [[Newcastle University Medical School|School of Medical Education]] * School of Pharmacy * School of Psychology * Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology (CBCB) =====Institutes===== *Biosciences Institute *Population Health Sciences Institute *Translational and Clinical Research Institute ==== Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering ==== {{main|Newcastle University Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering}} ===== Schools ===== * School of Computing * School of Engineering * School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics * School of Natural and Environmental Sciences =====Institutes===== *Agri-Food Research and Innovation *Digital Institute {{div-col-end}} ====Business School==== [[File:Newcastle University Business School (geograph 2486131).jpg|alt=|thumb|Newcastle University Business School]] As early as the 1900/1 academic year, there was teaching in [[economics]] ([[political economy]], as it was then known) at Newcastle, making Economics the oldest department in the School.<ref>United Kingdom, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ''Reports for University Colleges participating in the Grant by Parliament for University Colleges in Great Britain'' (London: HMSO, 1901).</ref> The Economics Department is currently headed by the [[Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet|Sir David Dale]] Chair.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Economics |url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/business/economics/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=www.ncl.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> Among the eminent economists having served in the Department (both as holders of the Sir David Dale Chair) are [[1931 Birthday Honours|Harry Mainwaring Hallsworth]] and [[Stanley R. Dennison|Stanley Dennison]]. Newcastle University Business School is a [[triple accreditation|triple accredited]] business school, with accreditation by the three major accreditation bodies: [[AACSB]], [[Association of MBAs|AMBA]] and [[EQUIS]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/newcastle-university/newcastle-university-business-school |title=About Newcastle University Business School |access-date=25 August 2023}}</ref> In 2002, Newcastle University Business School established the Business Accounting and Finance or 'Flying Start' degree in association with the [[ICAEW]] and [[PricewaterhouseCoopers]]. The course offers an accelerated route towards the [[Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales|ACA Chartered Accountancy qualification]] and is the Business School's Flagship programme.<ref>{{cite web|title=Flying Start Degree Programme|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/undergrad/flyingstart/|publisher=Newcastle University|access-date=15 August 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915153451/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/undergrad/flyingstart/|archive-date=15 September 2008}}</ref> In 2011 the business school opened their new building built on the former [[Scottish and Newcastle]] brewery site next to [[St James' Park]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/15459 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721224335/http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/15459 |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 July 2012 |title=Newcastle University Business School Opens New Β£50m Building |publisher=[[Sky News]] Tyne and Wear |date=19 March 2012 |access-date=7 May 2012 }}</ref> This building was officially opened on 19 March 2012 by [[Terence Burns, Baron Burns|Lord Burns]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2012/03/20/lord-burns-opens-new-newcastle-university-business-school-building-51140-30575935/2/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501104621/http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2012/03/20/lord-burns-opens-new-newcastle-university-business-school-building-51140-30575935/2/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 May 2013 |title=Lord Burns opens new Newcastle University Business School building |work=The Journal |date=20 March 2012 |access-date=7 May 2012 }}</ref> The business school operated a central London campus from 2014 to 2021, in partnership with [[INTO University Partnerships]] until 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=London |url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/london/ |website=Newcastle University |access-date=29 November 2021 |archive-date=1 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101074914/https://www.ncl.ac.uk/london/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ====Medical School==== {{main|Newcastle University Medical School}} [[File:Medical faculty, Newcastle University, 5 September 2013 (4).jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.75|Medical faculty, Newcastle University]] The [[BMC journals|BMC Medicine journal]] reported in 2008 that medical graduates from [[Oxford University|Oxford]], [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] and Newcastle performed better in postgraduate tests than any other medical school in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7242897.stm |title=Call for medical training reform |work=BBC News |date=18 February 2008 |access-date=1 April 2008 |archive-date=8 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408225144/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7242897.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2008 the Medical School announced that they were expanding their campus to [[Malaysia]].<ref name=numed/> The [[Royal Victoria Infirmary]] has always had close links with the Faculty of Medical Sciences as a major teaching hospital. ====School of Modern Languages==== The School of Modern Languages consists of five sections: East Asian (which includes Japanese and Chinese); French; German; Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; and Translating & Interpreting Studies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/ |title=School of Modern Languages |publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=21 August 2013 |archive-date=30 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830111456/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Six languages are taught from beginner's level to full degree level β Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese β and beginner's courses in Catalan, Dutch, Italian and Quechua are also available. Beyond the learning of the languages themselves, Newcastle also places a great deal of emphasis on study and experience of the cultures of the countries where the languages taught are spoken. The School of Modern Languages hosts [[North East England]]'s only branches of two internationally important institutes: the [[CamΓ΅es Institute]], a language institute for Portuguese, and the [[Confucius Institute]], a language and cultural institute for Chinese. The teaching of modern foreign languages at Newcastle predates the [[#History|creation of Newcastle University]] itself, as in 1911 Armstrong College in Newcastle installed [[Albert George Latham]], its first professor of modern languages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/assets/documents/History.pdf |title=School of Modern Languages History |publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=23 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514084351/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/assets/documents/History.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2012 }}</ref> The School of Modern Languages at Newcastle is the lead institution in the North East [[Routes into Languages]] Consortium<ref name="routeslang">{{cite web |url=https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northeast |title=North East |publisher=Routes into Languages Consortium |access-date=21 August 2013 |archive-date=21 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721153957/https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northeast |url-status=live }}</ref> and, together with the [[Durham University]], [[Northumbria University]], the [[University of Sunderland]], the [[Teesside University]] and a network of schools, undertakes work activities of discovery of languages for the 9 to 13 years pupils.<ref name="routeslang"/> This implies having festivals, Q&A sessions, language tasters, or quizzes organised, as well as a web learning work aiming at constructing a web portal to link language learners across the region. ====Newcastle Law School==== [[File:Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, 5 September 2013 (2).jpg|thumb|Newcastle Law School]] Newcastle Law School is the longest established law school in the north-east of England when law was taught at the university's predecessor college before it became independent from Durham University.<ref>{{cite web|title=History β Newcastle Law School|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/about/history.htm|publisher=Newcastle University|access-date=20 November 2012|archive-date=9 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109045526/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/about/history.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=nuls>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/about/index.htm |title=The Newcastle Law School |publisher=Newcastle University |date=2 January 2008 |access-date=29 March 2008 |archive-date=8 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208132015/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/about/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It has a number of recognised international and national experts in a variety of areas of legal scholarship ranging from Common and Chancery law, to International and European law, as well as contextual, socio-legal and theoretical legal studies.<ref name=nuls/> The Law School occupies four specially adapted late-Victorian town houses. The Staff Offices, the Alumni Lecture Theatre and seminar rooms as well as the Law Library are all located within the School buildings.<ref name=Undergraduate>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/undergraduate/why/facilities.htm |title=The Newcastle Law School |publisher=Newcastle University |date=2 January 2008 |access-date=20 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123161744/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/undergraduate/why/facilities.htm |archive-date=23 November 2011 }}</ref> ====School of Computing==== The School of Computing was ranked in the Times Higher Education world Top 100.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/subject-ranking/computer-science#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats |title=Computer Science 2018 | Times Higher Education (THE) |date=12 September 2017 |publisher=Times Higher Education |access-date=25 March 2018 |archive-date=22 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122015247/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/subject-ranking/computer-science#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats |url-status=live }}</ref> Research areas include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and ubiquitous computing, secure and resilient systems, synthetic biology, scalable computing (high performance systems, data science, machine learning and data visualization), and advanced modelling. The school led the formation of the National Innovation Centre for Data.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/09/newnationalinnovationcenter/ |title=New National Innovation Center β Press Office β Newcastle University |publisher=Ncl.ac.uk |access-date=25 March 2018 |archive-date=19 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119165347/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/09/newnationalinnovationcenter/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Innovative teaching in the School was recognised in 2017 with the award of a National Teaching Fellowship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/08/nationalteachingfellow/ |title=National Teaching Fellow β Press Office β Newcastle University |publisher=Ncl.ac.uk |access-date=25 March 2018 |archive-date=3 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103212831/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/08/nationalteachingfellow/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Cavitation tunnel=== [[File:The Hancock Museum Newcastle September 2009.jpg|thumb|The [[Hancock Museum]], founded in 1884, is the main location of the [[Great North Museum]].]] Newcastle University has the second largest [[cavitation tunnel]] in the UK. Founded in 1950, and based in the Marine Science and Technology Department, the [[Emerson Cavitation Tunnel]] is used as a test basin for propellers, water turbines, underwater coatings and interaction of propellers with ice.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tpod.ncl.ac.uk/TPod/ECT%20History.pdf |title=Emerson Cavitation Tunnel History |publisher=Newcastle University School of Marine Science and Technology |access-date=29 August 2008 |archive-date=11 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911082331/http://tpod.ncl.ac.uk/TPod/ECT%20History.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The Emerson Cavitation Tunnel was recently relocated to a new facility in [[Blyth, Northumberland|Blyth]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thecourieronline.co.uk/2015/10/26/research-tunnel-moving-to-blyth-to-make-way-for-new-social-space/ |title=Research tunnel moving to Blyth to make way for new social space |publisher=The Courier Online |format=webpage |access-date=14 January 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118034938/http://thecourieronline.co.uk/2015/10/26/research-tunnel-moving-to-blyth-to-make-way-for-new-social-space/ |archive-date=18 January 2017 }}</ref> ===Museums and galleries=== The university is associated with a number of the region's museums and galleries, including the [[Great North Museum]] project, which is primarily based at the world-renowned [[Hancock Museum]]. The Great North Museum: Hancock also contains the collections from two of the university's former museums, the [[Shefton Museum]] and the [[Museum of Antiquities]], both now closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/greatnorthmuseum/ourhistory/ |title=Our History (Great North Museum) |publisher=[[Tyne and Wear Museums]] |year=2009 |access-date=30 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219222103/http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/greatnorthmuseum/ourhistory |archive-date=19 February 2009 }}</ref> The university's [[Hatton Gallery]] is also a part of the Great North Museum project, and remains within the Fine Art Building. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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