The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and the N8 Group for research collaboration, and founded in 1881 it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic universities. The university has produced eight Nobel Prize winners and today has more than 230 first degree courses across 103 subjects, as well as an annual income of £219 million, including £75 million for research.
History
The University was established in 1881 as University College Liverpool, admitting its first students in 1882. In 1884, it became part of the federal Victoria University. In 1894 Oliver Lodge, a professor at the University, made the worlds first public radio transmission and two years later took the first surgical X-ray in the United Kingdom.
Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university with the right to confer its own degrees called the University of Liverpool. The next few years saw major developments at the university, including Sir Charles Sherrington's discovery of the synapse and Professor William Blair-Bell's work on chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. In the 1930s to 1940s Professors Sir James Chadwick and Sir Joseph Rotblat made major contributions to the development of the atomic bomb. From 1943 - 1966 Allan Downie, Professor of Bacteriology, was involved in the eradication of smallpox.
In 1994 the university was a founding member of the Russell Group, a collaboration of twenty leading research-intensive universities, as well as a founding member of the N8 Group in 2004.
The University has produced eight Nobel Prize winners, from the fields of science, medicine and peace. The Nobel laureates include the physician Sir Ronald Ross, physicist Professor Charles Barkla, the physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, physicist Sir James Chadwick, chemist Sir Robert Robinson, physiologist Professor Har Gobind Khorana, physiologist Professor Rodney Porter, and physicist Professor Joseph Rotblat. Sir Ronald Ross was also the first British Nobel laureate in 1902.
Currently Liverpool has the sixth largest financial endowment of any UK university, valued at £110m, according to the Sutton Trust. It is a member of the Russell Group of Universities and a founding member of the Northern Consortium. The University has over 23,000 registered students, with almost 18,000 full-time registered students. The University has a broad range of teaching and research in both arts and sciences, and has a large medical school, which is associated with the neighbouring Royal Liverpool University Hospital. In September 2008, Sir Howard Newby took up the post of Vice-Chancellor of the University, following the retirement of Sir James Drummond Bone.
Campus
The University is mainly based around a single urban campus approximately five minutes walk from Liverpool City Centre, at the top of Brownlow Hill and Mount Pleasant, the main site is divided into six faculties: Arts, Engineering, Medicine, Social and Environmental Sciences, Sciences and Veterinary Science. The Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Leahurst) and Ness Botanical Gardens are based on the Wirral Peninsula. There was formerly a research station at Port Erin on the Isle of Man until it closed in 2006. The Johnston Laboratories, a pathology research facility of repute during much of the 20th century, is now the biochemistry department of the university.
Academic Reputation
In the Complete University Guide 2008, published in The Independent, the University of Liverpool was ranked 42nd out of 113, based on nine measures, while The Times Good University Guide 2008 ranked Liverpool 34th out of 113 universities. The Sunday Times university guide recently ranked the University of Liverpool 27th out of 123.
Research
The University of Liverpool has been voted the second best place for post-doctoral researchers to work outside of the USA.
£200 million investment in infrastructure and state of the art facilities.
Over 2000 research projects and over 50 specialist research centres
Over 1300 leading researchers, 680 research staff, 2860 research support staff and 1480 postgraduate research students
University is ranked 5th for KTPs in the UK
The University of Liverpool is a member of the Russell Group (the UK's leading research universities)
Departments
- Archaeology Classics and Egyptology, School of (SACE)
Architecture, School of
Arts, Faculty of - Biological Sciences, School of
Biomedical Sciences, School of - Cancer Studies, School of
Chemistry, Department of
Civic Design, Department of
Clinical Sciences, School of
Combined Honours (Arts), School of
Combined Honours (SES), School of
Computer Science, Department of
Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, School of - Dental Sciences, School of
- Earth and Ocean Sciences, Department of
Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Department of
Engineering, Department of
Engineering, Faculty of
English, School of - Geography, Department of
- Health Sciences, School
History, School of - Infection & Host Defence, School of
Irish Studies, Institute of - Latin American Studies
Law, School of - Management School
Mathematical Sciences, Department of
Medical Education, School of
Medicine, Faculty of
Music, School of - Philosophy, Department of
Physics, Department of
Politics and Communication Studies, School of
Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, School of
Psychology, School of - Reproductive and Developmental Medicine,
- Science, Faculty of
Social and Environmental Studies, Faculty of
Sociology and Social Policy, School of - Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of
- Veterinary Clinical Science, Department of
Veterinary Pathology, Department of
Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, Department of
Veterinary Science, Faculty of
University of Liverpool was ranked 133 in the 2008 THES-QS World University Ranking.
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