Brunel University London

Brunel University London is a public research university in Uxbridge, west London, named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and it received its royal charter on 9 June 1966, making it one of the younger universities in the United Kingdom.布鲁内尔大学（Brunel University London）是位于伦敦西部阿克斯布里奇的一所公立研究型大学，以维多利亚时代工程师伊桑巴德·金德姆·布鲁内尔命名，1966 年 6 月 9 日获颁皇家特许状，是英国较为年轻的大学之一。

It grew out of Acton Technical College and Brunel College, was designated a College of Advanced Technology in 1962, and in October 2024 it joined the University of London as its seventeenth member.它由阿克顿技术学院与布鲁内尔学院发展而来，1962 年被定为高级技术学院，并于 2024 年 10 月作为第十七名成员加入伦敦大学。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 353rd, the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking places it in the 401-450 band, the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking places it 524th and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities puts it in the 701-800 band, while it enrolls more than 16,000 students on a single campus.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中它位列第 353，2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名将其列入 401 至 450 区间，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球排名位列第 524，2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列入 701 至 800 区间，其一体化校区在读学生逾 16,000 名。

History

• The university traces its origin to Acton Technical College, which opened in 1928 in west London and trained engineers, technicians and draughtsmen for the industry of the surrounding boroughs.该校的前身是 1928 年在伦敦西部开办的阿克顿技术学院，为周边各区的工业培养工程师、技术员与制图人员。

• In 1956 the college was divided into two institutions, and the following year its advanced work was reorganised as Brunel College and named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.1956 年该学院被拆分，次年其高等层次的教育重组为布鲁内尔学院，并以维多利亚时代工程师伊桑巴德·金德姆·布鲁内尔命名。

• In 1962 Brunel College was designated a College of Advanced Technology, then the highest tier of technical education in England outside the universities, a status that allowed it to award its own diplomas.1962 年布鲁内尔学院被定为高级技术学院，当时这是英格兰大学之外技术教育的最高层次，这一地位使其得以自行颁发文凭。

• In 1964 the college bought about sixty acres of former railway land at Uxbridge in west London, and construction of a new single campus on the site began in the following year.1964 年，学院购得伦敦西部阿克斯布里奇约六十英亩旧铁路用地，次年新的校区在此动工。

• A royal charter granted on 9 June 1966 founded Brunel University, one of the colleges of advanced technology that were raised to full university status during the 1960s.1966 年 6 月 9 日颁授的皇家特许状使布鲁内尔大学成立，它是 1960 年代由高级技术学院升格为完全大学的院校之一。

• The university closed its original Acton site in 1971 and concentrated all teaching and research on the new Uxbridge campus, which has remained its only site since then.1971 年，学校关闭了最初的阿克顿校区，把全部教学与研究集中于新的阿克斯布里奇校区，此后该校区一直是其唯一校址。

• Also in 1971 the newly built Uxbridge campus was used as a filming location for Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange, giving the institution an unusual place in British cinema history.同样在 1971 年，新建的阿克斯布里奇校区成为斯坦利·库布里克电影《发条橙》的取景地，使这所学校在英国电影史上留下独特一笔。

• In 1980 the university merged with Shoreditch College of Education, acquiring a campus at Runnymede that was used for teacher training before it was later closed.1980 年，学校与肖尔迪奇教育学院合并，获得兰尼米德校区，该校区曾用于师资培训，后来关闭。

• In 1983 Heinz Wolff, an emeritus professor of bioengineering, founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering, which became one of the university's best-known research units and a centre for medical device design.1983 年，生物工程名誉教授海因茨·沃尔夫创办了布鲁内尔生物工程研究所，它后来成为该校最知名的研究单位之一，也是医疗器械设计的一个中心。

• In 1995 the university merged with the West London Institute of Higher Education, gaining campuses at Osterley and Twickenham and adding a wide range of arts and health programmes.1995 年，学校与西伦敦高等教育学院合并，获得奥斯特利与特威克纳姆两处校区，并增设了广泛的文科与健康类课程。

• In 1996 the university awarded an honorary degree to the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a decision that drew protests from students and staff and was widely reported.1996 年，学校向前首相玛格丽特·撒切尔授予荣誉学位，此举引发师生抗议并被广泛报道。

• In the late 1990s the university closed its departments of physics, chemistry and materials, choosing to concentrate instead on engineering, design and health-related subjects.1990 年代后期，学校关闭物理、化学与材料等系，转而集中发展工程、设计与健康相关学科。

• In 1999 students entered the Formula Student competition for the first time, and in 2002 the university's team won the United Kingdom Class 1 championship, an achievement it has often cited.1999 年学生首次参加「大学生方程式」赛事，2002 年该校车队夺得英国一级组冠军，这一成绩常被学校提及。

• A major academic restructuring completed in 2004 reorganised the university into larger schools and closed its geography and earth sciences programmes as part of the change.2004 年完成的大规模学科重组把学校整合为若干较大的学院，并作为改革的一部分停办了地理与地球科学专业。

• Julia Buckingham served as vice-chancellor from 2012 to 2021, a period in which the university expanded its health and engineering provision and joined national research partnerships.朱莉娅·白金汉自 2012 年至 2021 年任校长，任内学校扩充了健康与工程方面的教学并加入多个全国性研究合作。

• A supplemental charter granted on 16 July 2014 changed the university's name to Brunel University London, confirming the single-word brand it had used informally since the 1960s.2014 年 7 月 16 日颁授的补充特许状将校名改为伦敦布鲁内尔大学，确认了它自 1960 年代以来非正式使用的这一简称。

• The university marked its fiftieth anniversary in 2016 with events on campus, reunions and a public history of the institution written for its alumni.2016 年学校以校园活动、校友重聚与一部为校友撰写的公开校史纪念建校五十周年。

• Andrew Jones became vice-chancellor in 2021, having previously served as a deputy vice-chancellor at a number of British universities and as an academic in engineering.安德鲁·琼斯于 2021 年出任校长，此前曾在多所英国大学担任副校长，并以工程学者的身份工作。

• On 1 October 2024 the university joined the University of London as its seventeenth member and adopted the trading name Brunel University of London.2024 年 10 月 1 日，学校作为第十七名成员加入伦敦大学，并采用伦敦大学布鲁内尔作为对外名称。

• In 2025 Baroness Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astronomer who co-discovered pulsars and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, was installed as chancellor of the university.2025 年，共同发现脉冲星并分享 1974 年诺贝尔物理学奖的天文学家乔斯林·贝尔·伯内尔男爵夫人就任该校校监。

• Throughout its history the university has been closely tied to engineering and applied science, a legacy of its origins as a technical college serving the industry of west London.纵观其历史，这所大学始终与工程及应用科学紧密相连，这是它源于服务伦敦西部工业的技术学院所留下的遗产。

• The line of vice-chancellors runs from James Topping and Stephen Bragg through Michael Sterling and Steven Schwartz to Christopher Jenks, Julia Buckingham and Andrew Jones.其校长一脉先后包括詹姆斯·托平、斯蒂芬·布拉格、迈克尔·斯特林、史蒂文·施瓦茨、克里斯托弗·詹克斯、朱莉娅·白金汉与安德鲁·琼斯。

Academics

• The university is organised into three colleges, covering business, arts and social sciences, engineering, design and physical sciences, and health, medicine and life sciences.学校设有三个学院，分别涵盖商业、艺术与社会科学，工程、设计与物理科学，以及健康、医学与生命科学。

• Brunel Business School and Brunel Law School form part of the college of business, arts and social sciences, teaching management, economics, accountancy and law.布鲁内尔商学院与布鲁内尔法学院隶属商业、艺术与社会科学学院，负责管理学、经济学、会计学与法学的教学。

• The university lists five research institutes, among them the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering, the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies and the Institute of Energy Futures.学校列出五个研究所，其中包括布鲁内尔生物工程研究所、环境健康与社会研究所与能源未来研究所。

• Around 16,000 students study at the university, supported by more than 2,000 academic and professional staff spread across the three colleges and central services.约有 16,000 名学生在校学习，由分散于三个学院与中央部门的 2,000 余名学术与专业人员提供支持。

• The university's income was about 271 million pounds in the 2021-22 academic year, drawn largely from tuition fees, research grants and funding council income.学校在 2021 至 2022 学年的收入约为 2.71 亿英镑，主要来自学费、科研拨款与拨款委员会经费。

• A hallmark of Brunel teaching is the professional placement, and many undergraduate degrees can be taken as a thick sandwich course with a year spent working in industry.布鲁内尔教学的一大特色是专业实习，许多本科学位可作为「三明治」课程修读，其中一年在企业工作。

• Engineering and design courses are accredited by professional bodies, which is why the university emphasises its links with industry and its record of graduate employment.工程与设计类课程获得专业机构认证，因此学校强调与产业界的联系及其毕业生就业表现。

• The university's research covers engineering, design, materials, health sciences, sports science, environmental studies and the social sciences, often in collaboration with industry.学校的研究涵盖工程、设计、材料、健康科学、运动科学、环境研究与社会科学的领域，且多与产业界合作开展。

• The Institute of Energy Futures researches sustainable energy technologies, and the Institute of Materials and Manufacturing works on advanced materials and production methods.能源未来研究所研究可持续能源技术，材料与制造研究所则从事先进材料与制造方法的研究。

• The university library is held in the Bannerman Centre, which opened in 1973 with a collection of about 400,000 books and about 1,500 study spaces for students.学校图书馆设于班纳曼中心，该中心 1973 年启用，藏书约 40 万册，并设有约 1500 个学生自习座位。

• The library runs extended opening hours during term and its resources include databases, journals and specialist collections supporting research in all three colleges.图书馆在学期内延长开放时间，其资源包括支持三个学院研究的数据库、期刊与专门馆藏。

• Teaching is delivered on a single campus, which allows shared laboratories, workshops, design studios and simulation facilities to serve students across the colleges.教学在同一校区进行，使共享的实验室、工坊、设计工作室与仿真设施能够服务各学院的学生。

• The university runs foundation, undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research programmes, including professional doctorates and degree apprenticeships in engineering.学校开设预科、本科、授课型与研究型研究生课程，其中包括专业博士项目与工程类学位学徒项目。

• Staff have included the writer and critic Will Self and the Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, both professors of creative writing at Brunel.师资中包括作家兼评论家威尔·塞尔夫与布克奖得主伯纳丁·埃瓦里斯托，二人均为布鲁内尔的创意写作教授。

• The university has hosted the poets Daljit Nagra and Hannah Lowe and the former creative writing professor Fay Weldon, giving it a strong reputation in contemporary writing.学校曾聘有诗人达利特·纳格拉与汉娜·洛，以及荣休的创意写作教授费伊·韦尔登，在当代写作领域享有良好声誉。

• The academic year is organised into two terms, and the three colleges share a common undergraduate admissions office and central student support services.学年分为两个学期，三个学院共用统一的本科招生办公室与中央学生服务。

• The university also teaches sport, health and exercise science, fields in which it maintains collaborations with professional sport and with health providers.学校还教授运动、健康与锻炼科学，并在这些领域与职业体育界及医疗服务机构保持合作。

Campus

• The university occupies a single campus at Uxbridge, west London, about twenty-five kilometres from central London and close to the M25 and M40 motorways.学校位于伦敦西部阿克斯布里奇的一体化校区，距伦敦市中心约二十五公里，邻近 M25 与 M40 高速公路。

• The campus buildings were designed by the architects Richard Sheppard, Robson and Partners in a brutalist style, and the lecture centre is a Grade II listed building.校园建筑由建筑师理查德·谢泼德·罗布森事务所设计，属粗野主义风格，其讲堂中心是二级登录建筑。

• The Bannerman Centre library, opened in 1973, forms the academic heart of the campus and is one of its largest buildings.1973 年启用的班纳曼中心图书馆构成校园的学术核心，也是其中最大的建筑之一。

• The university provides 34 self-catering halls of residence with about 4,549 rooms, many of them named after famous bridges such as Clifton, Saltash and Chepstow.学校提供 34 座自炊式学生宿舍，约 4549 个房间，其中许多以克里夫顿、索尔塔什、切普斯托等著名桥梁命名。

• The campus includes sports facilities, catering outlets and a students' union building that serves as the focus of much student activity.校园内设有体育设施、餐饮网点以及作为许多学生活动中心的学生活动楼。

• Uxbridge is served by the London Underground Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines and by buses, linking the campus to central London and Heathrow Airport.阿克斯布里奇有伦敦地铁大都会线与皮卡迪利线及公交线路服务，把校区与伦敦市中心及希思罗机场相连。

• The Runnymede and Osterley sites inherited from mergers were later given up, leaving the single Uxbridge campus as the university's home.合并所得的兰尼米德与奥斯特利校区后来相继退出使用，阿克斯布里奇一体化校区成为学校唯一所在地。

• The campus has been developed in phases since the 1960s, and newer buildings have added teaching space and student accommodation alongside the original brutalist stock.校园自 1960 年代以来分阶段开发，新建楼宇在原有粗野主义建筑之外增加了教学空间与学生住宿。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Brunel University London is placed 353rd.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，布鲁内尔大学位列第 353。

• The 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings place it in the 401-450 band, a position reflecting its profile as a modern, applied university.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 401 至 450 区间，这一名次反映了它作为应用型新兴大学的定位。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 524th.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 524。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 701-800 band.2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列入 701 至 800 区间。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 51,772 research works attracting 3,308,876 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 51,772 项研究成果，累计被引用 3,308,876 次。

• Its Formula Student team's national title and its engineering courses give the university a reputation in automotive and design engineering.其大学生方程式车队的全国冠军与工程课程，使学校在汽车与设计工程方面获得声誉。

• Bernardine Evaristo's joint Booker Prize win in 2019, alongside other creative writing successes, raised the university's profile in the arts.伯纳丁·埃瓦里斯托于 2019 年共同获得布克奖，加之其他创意写作方面的成绩，提高了学校在艺术领域的影响力。

• The university is known for widening participation, recruiting a large share of students from London and from groups under-represented in higher education.该校以扩大教育参与著称，其生源中来自伦敦以及高等教育中代表性不足群体的学生占很大比例。

• Membership of the University of London from 2024 associates Brunel with a federation of colleges that includes several of the country's leading institutions.2024 年加入伦敦大学使布鲁内尔与一个包含多所全国领先院校的联邦式学院联盟联系起来。

• By income, student numbers and research output the university stands among the larger modern universities in London, though it is not a research-intensive institution.就收入、学生规模与科研产出而言，该校属于伦敦较大的新兴大学之列，但并非研究密集型院校。

Student life

• Students live in 34 self-catering halls of residence with about 4,549 rooms, most of them on the single Uxbridge campus.学生住在 34 座自炊式宿舍中，约 4549 个房间，大部分位于阿克斯布里奇一体化校区内。

• The students' union runs societies, sports clubs and volunteering, and represents students both to the university and nationally through the student movement.学生会组织社团、体育俱乐部与志愿活动，并代表学生与校方沟通，也通过学生运动在全国层面发声。

• Student media include The Brunel Times, formerly called Le Nurb and Route 66, and the Hillingdon Herald, launched in October 2021.学生媒体包括前身为《Le Nurb》与《Route 66》的《The Brunel Times》，以及 2021 年 10 月创办的《Hillingdon Herald》。

• Brunel Racing, the Formula Student team, builds and races a single-seater car each year as a student engineering project.大学生方程式车队布鲁内尔赛车每年建造并驾驶一辆单座赛车，作为学生的工程项目。

• The university has a long tradition of placement years, and students often spend a year in industry between their second and final years of study.学校有实习年的悠久传统，学生常在二年级与毕业年级之间到企业实习一年。

• The campus is compact enough to walk across, and its bars, cafes and sports facilities form the focus of student social life.校区紧凑，步行即可穿越，其酒吧、咖啡馆与体育设施构成学生社交生活的中心。

• The students' union dates its origins to the years after the 1966 charter, and it has campaigned on fees, accommodation and student welfare.学生会的渊源可追溯到 1966 年获特许状之后的年代，它曾在学费、住宿与学生福利等议题上发声。

• Many students commute from across London and the south-east of England, reflecting the university's role as a local and regional institution.许多学生从伦敦及英格兰东南部各地通勤上学，反映出学校作为地方与区域院校的角色。

• Clubs and societies cover sport, culture, faith and academic subjects, and the union also organises volunteering in the surrounding boroughs.俱乐部与社团涵盖体育、文化、宗教与学科等领域，学生会还在周边各区组织志愿活动。

Notable people

• Jo Brand, a comedian, writer and former psychiatric nurse who studied social sciences in 1982, is among the university's best-known alumni.喜剧演员、作家、曾任精神科护士的乔·布兰德 1982 年在该校攻读社会科学，是学校最知名的校友之一。

• Lee Mack, the stand-up comedian and actor, is an alumnus and received an honorary doctorate from the university in 2012.单口喜剧演员兼演员李·麦克是该校校友，并于 2012 年获授荣誉博士学位。

• Archie Panjabi, an Emmy Award-winning actress who studied business management in 1996, is also an alumna.曾于 1996 年修读商业管理、后获艾美奖的女演员阿奇·潘贾比也是该校校友。

• Cathy Tyson, the actor known for the film Mona Lisa, received an honorary doctorate from the university for her contribution to the arts.以电影《蒙娜丽莎》知名的演员凯茜·泰森因对艺术的贡献获授该校荣誉博士学位。

• Meesha Turner, an alumna of drama and English from 2012, has performed in the West End musical SIX.2012 年戏剧与英语专业校友米莎·特纳曾在西区音乐剧《SIX》中演出。

• Bernardine Evaristo, professor of creative writing, won the Booker Prize in 2019 and is one of the university's most prominent academic figures.创意写作教授伯纳丁·埃瓦里斯托 2019 年获得布克奖，是学校最杰出的学术人物之一。

• Will Self, professor of modern thought, is a novelist and essayist associated with the university.现代思想教授威尔·塞尔夫是与该校相关的小说家与随笔作家。

• Heinz Wolff, an emeritus professor, founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering in 1983 and was a well-known science broadcaster.名誉教授海因茨·沃尔夫 1983 年创办布鲁内尔生物工程研究所，也是知名的科普主持人。

• Benjamin Zephaniah, the poet, was a former professor of creative writing at the university.诗人本杰明·泽法尼亚曾任该校创意写作教授。

• Brian Cantor, professor of materials and an advisor to the university's advanced materials centre, was formerly vice-chancellor of the universities of Bradford and York.材料学教授、该校先进材料中心的顾问布赖恩·坎托曾任布拉德福德大学与约克大学校长。

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who co-discovered pulsars, became chancellor of the university in 2025.共同发现脉冲星的乔斯林·贝尔·伯内尔于 2025 年出任该校校监。

• The university's vice-chancellors have included Michael Sterling, later vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham, and Steven Schwartz.该校历任校长包括后来出任伯明翰大学校长的迈克尔·斯特林以及史蒂文·施瓦茨。