Swansea University

Swansea University   (University)
Motto	Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn (Technical skill is bereft without culture)
Formation	1996
Type	Public
Home of the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law; partnership with Pfizer

Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes within the University of Wales. The title of Swansea University was formally adopted on 1 September 2007 when the University of Wales became a non-membership confederal institution and the former members became universities in their own right.

Swansea University has 8 colleges spread across its two campuses which are located on the coastline of Swansea Bay. The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of Singleton Park to the west of Swansea city centre. The £450 million Bay Campus, which opened in September 2015, is located adjacent to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea city centre which is in the Neath Port Talbot Area.

It is the third largest university in Wales in terms of number of students. It currently offers about 330 undergraduate courses and 120 post-graduate courses to Template:HESA student population undergraduate and postgraduate students.

In 2017, Hillary Rodham Clinton received an honorary doctorate at Swansea University and unveiled a commemorative stone to mark the renaming of the College of Law to the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law.

Medical School

Swansea University Medical School is ranked as the third best medical school in the UK according to the Complete University Guide 2017. It also ranked joint first in the UK for Research Environment, according to the Research Excellence Framework 2014.

Established in 2004, the Medical School works closely with government, industry and the NHS, in particular Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, over teaching, research and innovation. It also has two Institute of Life Science research centres, equipped with clinical trials, medical imaging, research and business development facilities and a Centre for NanoHealth.

In 2017, plans were announced to build a new Institute of Life Science Healthcare Technology Centre at the Singleton Campus, an Institute of Life Science 3 at Morriston Hospital and a Wellness & Life Science Village in Llanelli.

At the BioWales 2017 conference, Swansea University Medical School unveiled a new partnership with Pfizer which would involve the pharmaceutical company locating itself at the Bay Campus. This follows from the British Heart Foundation moving their Wales office from Cardiff to the Medical School's Institute of Life Science.

Notable alumni and academics

Academics

• Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE English lecturer
• Amy Brown, Professor of Child Health
• Tom Cheesman, reader in German
• Dame June Clark, Professor of Nursing
• Siwan Davies, Professor of Climate Science
• Ralph A. Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History
• C. E. M. Hansel, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology
• Julian Hopkin CBE, founder of Medical School; awarded CBE in 2011 for service to medicine
• Christine James, Professor of Welsh
• Gareth Jenkins, Director of Research of the Medical School; a "Research Leader" for Health and Care Research Wales
• Hilary Lappin-Scott, Chair in Microbiology and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Strategic Development and External Relations
• Jon Latimer, historian
• Keith Lloyd, Dean and Head of Medical School; Chair of Welsh Psychiatric Society
• Ronan Lyons, Clinical Professor of Public Health; Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research; Director of the Farr Institute Centre for the Improvement of Population Health
• Robin Milner, computer scientist
• Tavi Murray, glacioloigist
• David Olive, physicist
• Gyan Pande, Emeritus Professor
• Clive Ponting, Reader in international relations
• Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, prominent Wittgenstinian philosopher of religion
• Valerie Randle, Professor in Metallurgy
• Rush Rhees, philosopher
• Martin Sheldon, Professor of Reproductive Immunobiology; Editor of American Journal of Reproductive Immunology; Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
• John Williams CBE, led establishment of Postgraduate Medical School; founding president of Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy
• Mary Williams, Chair of Modern Languages
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher; spent six months in 1941 writing and teaching at Swansea University
• Olgierd Zienkiewicz, pioneer of computational methods for engineering
• Andrew R Barron, Ser Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment; Director & Founder of ESRI

Alumni

Academia

• Peter Cottrell, novelist and historian
• Paul Dolan, behavioural scientist
• Paul Moorcraft, Professor in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University
• D.Z. Phillips, philosopher
• Geoffrey Thomas, President of Kellogg College, Oxford
• Dame Jean Thomas, first female Master at St Catharine's College, Cambridge
• Colin H. Williams, sociolinguist
• Sir Glanmor Williams, religious historian
• Nigel Addinall, Academic author, French (Hon)Consul

Arts

• Annabelle Apsion, television and film actress
• Richey Edwards, member of rock group Manic Street Preachers
• Stuart Forster, travel journalist and photographer
• Jonathan Hill, presenter of Wales Tonight on ITV Wales
• Jason Mohammad, television/radio presenter for BBC Wales
• Mavis Nicholson, writer and television broadcaster
• Jonny Owen, Welsh actor, Shameless and Svengali Internet series
• Charlie Williams, author of The Mangel Trilogy
• Urien Wiliam, Welsh language novelist and playwright
• Nicky Wire, member of rock group Manic Street Preachers

Business

• Ron Jones, Director of Tinopolis
• Paul Pindar, Chief Executive of Capita
• Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons who serves as its chairman emeritus.

Politics

Welsh Parliament (Senedd)

• Peter Black, MS for South Wales West
• Andrew Davies, former MS for Swansea West; former Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery, Welsh Government
• Mike Hedges, MS for Swansea East
• Val Lloyd, former MS for Swansea East

Houses of Parliament

Sylvia Heal, former MP

• Lord Anderson of Swansea, former MP
• Mims Davies, MP for Eastleigh and Wales Office Minister
• Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport and Minister for Care
• Nigel Evans, MP for Ribble Valley
• Hywel Francis, former MP for Aberavon
• Sylvia Heal, former MP and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
• Sian James, former MP for Swansea East
• Anne Main, MP for St Albans
• Rod Richards, former MP for North West Clwyd; former AM for North Wales
• John Sewel, Baron Sewel, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
• Mark Tami, MP for Alyn and Deeside

International

• Shekhar Dutt, Former governor of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh
• Stanislaus A. James, Governor-General of Saint Lucia, 1988–1996
• Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice President of The Gambia
• Wictor Sajeni, Deputy Minister of Primary Education in the Malawian government

Science, engineering and technology

• Sir Jonathan Asbridge, former President of the Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Anne Borsay Chair in Medical Humanities
• Edward George Bowen CBE FRS, radiophysicist
• Alan Cox (shared with University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Linux pioneer
• Jonathan Elphick, ornithologist and zoologist
• Lyn Evans, CBE, Project Leader, Large Hadron Collider, CERN
• Andy Hopper CBE FRS, co-founder of Acorn Computers Ltd
• Lionel Kelleway, natural history broadcaster
• Sir Terry Matthews KBE, technological entrepreneur
• Colin Pillinger CBE, planetary scientist
• Graham Ryder, geologist, lunar scientist, posthumous winner of the Barringer Medal in 2003
• Sir John Meurig Thomas, chemist
• Evan James Williams, physicist

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Nationality	Summary	Description
Lorely Burt	10 September 1954	UK
Caroline Dinenage	28 October 1971	UK	Politician	British politician
Nigel Evans	10 November 1957	UK	Politician
Anne Main	17 May 1957

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