Brunel University London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 Brunel University London and named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In June 1966, Brunel College of Advanced Technology was awarded a royal charter and became Brunel University. The university is often described as a British plate glass university.
Brunel is organised into three colleges and three major research institutes, a structure adopted in August 2014 which also changed the university's name to Brunel University London. Brunel has over 12,900 students and 2,500 staff, and had a total income of £200.7 million in 2014/15, of which 25% came from grants and research contracts. Brunel has three constituent Academic Colleges: College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences and College of Health and Life Sciences. The university won the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2011. Brunel is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, and Universities UK. The university is ranked as one Arms of Brunel University London of the top 400 universities in the world by QS World University Type Public Rankings 2021 and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021. Established 1966 – gained University Status by Royal charter History 1962 – Brunel
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universities which Technical College were established in 1902 – Shoreditch the 1960s following College of the Robbins Report Education on higher 1878 – Maria Grey education. It is sometimes described as a "plate glass university". College The university's origins lie in Acton Technical College, which 1798 – Borough was split into two in 1957: Acton Technical College continued to Road College cater for technicians and craftsmen, and the new Brunel College of Technology (named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Endowment £2.0 million (at 31 British engineer) was dedicated to the education of chartered July 2015) engineers. Chancellor Sir Richard Sykes The campus buildings were designed in the Brutalist style of Vice-Chancellor Julia Buckingham architecture by Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners, Architects. Students 14,790 (2018/19) Undergraduates 11,125 (2018/19)
Universities European University Association Website www.brunel.ac.uk (https://www.brunel. ac.uk)
Campus
In the late 1990s Brunel devised a 10-year, £250 million masterplan for the campus. This involved selling off campus sites at Runnymede, Osterley and Twickenham and using the revenue from the sales to renovate and update the buildings and facilities on the Uxbridge campus. Works carried out included a library extension, a state-of-the- art sports complex, renovated students' union facilities, a new Health Sciences teaching centre, and the construction of more halls of residence.
The Brunel campus (especially those buildings in the 1960s 'Brutalist' Part of the main Brunel campus architectural style) has appeared in several films, most famously in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, large parts of which were filmed on campus. It has also featured in several UK .
Rankings
Rankings
Brunel performed well in the annual rankings of UK universities National rankings produced by The Guardian and The Times, in part due to its strong Complete (2021) performance in the Teaching Quality Assessment (where Brunel 84 received a score of 20/24 or better for every subject assessed). The Guardian (2021) 110 Guardian and The Times ceased using the TQA to compile their Times / Sunday Times 88 rankings (they use the National Student Survey results instead) and (2021) therefore Brunel had fallen in both rankings. However, the university regained its league position in 2012 partly due to improved student Global rankings satisfaction and spending on students. As a result, it was ranked 39th in ARWU (2020) 401– the Sunday Times University Guide. In the 2013 Guardian University 500 Guide, the university's national ranking rose to 44th. In the 2014/15 THES world university rankings, Brunel ranked 226-250 (shared), CWTS Leiden (2020) 260 representing a sharp rise in rankings. Brunel was ranked as the 93rd QS (2021) 332 best university worldwide in the field of engineering and technology, 32nd among European institutions and 11th among British institutions THE (2021) 351- according to THES world rankings.[31] In August 2014, Brunel re- 400 entered the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) British Government assessment Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings after a four-year absence at number 409 globally, and 34 in the UK. Also, in 2015 Brunel was ranked 25th in Teaching Excellence Silver Times Higher Education's 100 under 50 ranking of the Framework.
Notable academics
Professor of Creative Writing Bernardine Evaristo, was joint winner of the Booker Prize 2019 2012 to present Will Self: Professor of Modern Thought Professor Heinz Wolff: Emeritus professor at Brunel University London founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering in 1983
Vice-Chancellors of Brunel University
1990 to 2001: Michael Sterling 2002 to 2006: Steven Schwartz 2006 to 2012: Christopher Jenks 2012 to present: Julia Buckingham
Chancellors of Brunel University
1998 to 2012: John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham
2013 to present: Sir Richard Sykes Chancellor (John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham) and Vice- Chancellor (Christopher Jenks) of Brunel in 2012
Oreke Mosheshe, (Management and Law), actor, television presenter and model Archie Panjabi, (Management Studies 1996), actor Nathaniel Peat, (Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing Systems), social entrepreneur, reality TV winner Claire Phillips, (Mechanical Engineering 1986), portrait artist Amber Rose Revah (Contemporary Performance), actress, House of Saddam and The Punisher (TV series) Bindya Solanki, (Drama), actor Beverly Naya, Nigerian Actress, stars in the No.1 Telenovela/Soap Opera in Africa, Tinsel (TV series) Lucy Verasamy, (Geography), weather forecaste.