Keele University

Keele University is a public research university in the village of Keele in Staffordshire, England, established in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire and granted university status through a Royal Charter in 1962.基尔大学是英国斯塔福德福德郡基尔村的一所公立研究型大学，1949 年以「北斯塔福德福德郡大学学院」之名创办，1962 年经皇家特许状授予大学地位。

The university pioneered the dual honours degree system in the United Kingdom, occupies landscaped grounds around the Grade II listed Keele Hall, and celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2024.该校首创英国双荣誉学位制度，校园环绕列为二级登录建筑的基尔府展开，2024 年庆祝创校 75 周年。

With three faculties and twelve schools it teaches more than fifteen thousand students, is one of a handful of British universities to host both a medical and a veterinary school, and reached the highest Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework of 2017 and 2023.该校设三个学部、12 所学院，在校生逾 15,000 人，是英国少数同时设有医学院与兽医学院的大学之一，并在 2017 与 2023 年教学卓越框架评估中取得最高等级金奖。

History

• Extension lectures organised by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford had reached the Staffordshire Potteries since the 1890s, yet these ran outside any organised educational framework or established institution.自 1890 年代起，牛津与剑桥两校的校外讲学已进入斯塔福德福德郡的陶器产区，但这些讲授并不属于任何有组织的教育建制或固定机构。

• In 1904 funds were raised by local industrialists to support teaching through a proposed North Staffordshire College, but without the backing of the Staffordshire County Council the project was abandoned.1904 年当地实业家曾为筹办北斯塔福德福德郡学院募捐支持教学，但因未获斯塔福德福德郡议会背书，这一计划最终被搁置。

• By the late 1930s the Staffordshire towns of Longton, Fenton, Burslem and Hanley had grown into the largest conurbation in Britain without any university provision, and Stoke demanded graduates for its pottery and mining industries.到 1930 年代后期，朗顿、芬顿、伯斯勒姆与哈利这几座斯塔福德福德郡城镇已连成英国最大、却没有大学的重镇群，特伦特河畔斯托克则为陶器与采矿业呼唤受过高等教育的毕业生。

• A. D. Lindsay, Professor of Philosophy and Master of Balliol College, Oxford, advocated working-class adult education and put forward a people's university in an address to the North Staffordshire Workers' Educational Association in 1925.牛津大学贝利奥尔学院院长、哲学教授 A. D. 林赛一直倡导工人阶级成人教育，并在 1925 年对北斯塔福德福德郡工人教育协会的演说中提出创办一所「人民的大学」。

• Appointed to the House of Lords, Lindsay helped produce the Foreign Office report University Reform in Germany, which held that no institution deserved the name university unless it combined teaching and research.进入上议院后，林赛参与撰写外交部报告《德国大学改革》，其核心主张是：除非一所机构把教学与研究结合在一起，否则就配不上「大学」之名。

• On 13 March 1946 Lindsay wrote to Sir Walter Moberly, chair of the University Grants Committee, proposing a college on new lines, and Moberly spoke of overcoming the division between arts and sciences, which he called the evil of departmentalism.1946 年 3 月 13 日，林赛致函大学拨款委员会主席沃尔特·莫伯利爵士，建议创办一所「走新路子」的学院；莫伯利则称必须克服文理割裂、也就是他所言的「院系主义之弊」。

• Lindsay wished to get rid of the London external degree and to found a college with its own degree-awarding power and syllabus, tentatively approaching the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford for sponsorship.林赛希望摆脱伦敦大学的外部学位制度，创办一所有自授学位与自订课程权的学院，并就此试探性地向牛津大学副校长寻求挂靠支持。

• Having secured public funding from the University Grants Committee in January 1948, an exploratory committee of Stoke-on-Trent City Council acquired Keele Hall and much of the Sneyd estate, together with prefabricated army structures, for thirty-one thousand pounds.1948 年 1 月获得大学拨款委员会的公共资助后，斯托克市议会的筹建委员会以 3.1 万英镑购入基尔府及斯尼德庄园大部分土地，并连同战时陆军搭建的活动板房一并接管。

• With Lindsay installed as its founding principal, the University College of North Staffordshire was formally granted the right to award its own degrees in August 1949, opening the way to an independent curriculum.林赛就任创校院长后，北斯塔福德福德郡大学学院于 1949 年 8 月正式获准自授学位，从此得以独立设置课程。

• Teaching began in October 1950 with an initial intake of one hundred fifty-nine students, of whom one hundred forty-nine lived on campus, since the college was founded as a wholly residential experimental community.教学于 1950 年 10 月开学，首届招收 159 名学生，其中 149 人住校，因为学院在建校之初被定位为一所全寄宿式的实验社区。

• The first graduate was George Eason, who had read mathematics at Birmingham University and gained a BSc in 1951, taking his Keele MSc in 1952, while in 1954 Margaret Boulds became the first student to graduate wholly at Keele, with a dual honours degree in philosophy and English.第一位毕业生是乔治·伊森，他早年在伯明翰大学攻读数学并于 1951 年获理学学士，1952 年在基尔取得理学硕士；1954 年玛格丽特·博尔兹成为全程在基尔就读的第一位毕业生，获哲学与英语双荣誉学位。

• Growing steadily to about 1,200 students, the college was granted university status in 1962, receiving a new royal charter that January and adopting the name University of Keele.学生规模稳步增至约 1,200 人后，学院于 1962 年获得大学地位，同年 1 月领受新皇家特许状，定名「基尔大学」。

• Alternatives such as the University of Stoke were rejected because the estate lies in Newcastle-under-Lyme, making Keele, named after the nearby village, the only institution of higher education in Britain to take a village name.「斯托克大学」等备选名因校址实际位于沃尔特河畔纽卡斯尔而被否决，取邻近村落之名的基尔由此成为英国唯一以村庄命名的大学。

• Together with Reading, Nottingham, Southampton, Hull, Exeter and Leicester, all founded around the First World War, Keele was identified in the Robbins Report as one of the younger civic universities.与雷丁、诺丁汉、南安普顿、赫尔、埃克塞特、莱斯特这些创立于第一次世界大战前后的院校一样，基尔在罗宾斯报告中被点名为「较年轻的市民大学」之一。

• HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, served as Chancellor of the university from 1962 to 1986, a tenure still the longest in Keele's history.玛格丽特公主（斯诺登伯爵夫人）自 1962 年担任该校校长至 1986 年，这一任期至今仍是基尔大学史上最长。

• The 1968 Todd Report of the Royal Commission on Medical Education weighed establishing a medical school at Keele but found that a minimum intake of 150 students each year would be needed, which the small university could not yet support.1968 年皇家医学教育委员会发布的托德报告曾考虑在基尔设立医学院，但结论是每年至少需招收 150 名学生方能使医学院运转，而当时规模尚小的基尔无力承担。

• Keele's Department of International Relations was founded in 1974 by Alan James as one of the first in Britain to offer a full degree in the subject, with the associated Keele World Affairs Group following in 1980 and the first female professor appointed to the Chair of Social Work in 1976.基尔国际关系学系由艾伦·詹姆斯于 1974 年创立，是英国最早授予该学科完整学位的学系之一；与之相关的基尔世界事务小组于 1980 年成立，1976 年又任命首位女教授主持社会工作教席。

• In late 1985, after cuts in university funding, Keele briefly considered merging with North Staffordshire Polytechnic, which then held some 6,000 students against Keele's 2,700, but the negotiations collapsed after the MP Edwina Currie remarked that a university below 3,000 students simply was not big enough.1985 年末，在高教经费削减之下，基尔一度考虑与当时约有 6,000 名学生、而基尔仅 2,700 人的北斯塔福德福德郡理工学院合并；但因保守党议员埃德维娜·柯里直言学生不足 3,000 人的大学「规模实在太小」，谈判最终破裂。

• The Keele University Science and Business Park was opened in 1987, partly to generate and diversify alternative sources of income for a university that had long depended on public grant.基尔大学科学与商务园于 1987 年开园，其目的之一正是为长期依赖公共拨款的大学开辟并多元化新的收入来源。

• In 1994 the Oswestry and North Staffordshire School of Physiotherapy merged with Keele to become its Department of Physiotherapy Studies, and in August 1995 the university merged with the North Staffordshire College of Nursing and Midwifery to form a new School of Nursing and Midwifery.1994 年奥斯韦斯特里与北斯塔福德福德郡物理治疗学院并入基尔，成为其物理治疗学系；1995 年 8 月大学又与北斯塔福德福德郡护理助产学院合并，组建新的护理与助产学院。

• In 1998 and 1999 controversy followed the decision to sell the Turner Collection of printed mathematical books, some annotated by Isaac Newton, to a private buyer for roughly one million pounds in order to fund improvements to the university library.1998 至 1999 年间，校方为筹措图书馆改造经费、将包括牛顿批注本在内的特纳数学印刷珍本藏书以约 100 万英镑卖给私人藏家，此举在学界引发持续争议。

• Standard three-year degrees were introduced in 1973, and in 2001 Keele was awarded an undergraduate medical school in partnership with Manchester University, its own School of Medicine opening in 2007 with the first cohort graduating in 2012.三年制标准学位于 1973 年引入；2001 年基尔获准与曼彻斯特大学合办本科医学院，其自有医学院于 2007 年成立，首批学生于 2012 年毕业。

Academics

• Keele's academic activity is organised into three faculties divided among twelve schools, and all undergraduate courses except Medicine and Pharmacy are modular, with the academic year split into two semesters broken at Christmas and Easter.基尔的学术建制分为三个学部、下辖 12 所学院，除医学与药学外所有本科课程均采模块化，学年分为两个学期，并在圣诞与复活节之间安排假期。

• The university keeps a high-contact teaching model of roughly fourteen students to every member of academic staff, a ratio that ranks among the more favourable in the United Kingdom.该校保持高接触教学，师生比约为 14 比 1，这一比例在英国处于较为优越之列。

• The founding curriculum required every student to study two principal subjects to honours level alongside subsidiary subjects, with an added rule that at least one subject be taken from each of the Arts, Sciences and Social Sciences groupings.创校课程体系要求每位学生将两门主修读至荣誉水平并兼修辅助科目，另规定须在人文、理科与社会科学三大组别中各至少选一门。

• The cross-disciplinary ideal was reinforced by the Foundation Year, under which all students in the four-year programmes spent their first year on a common course of interdisciplinary foundation studies, prompting Michael Brawne in 1966 to call Keele the nearest thing in Britain to a small liberal-arts college in the United States.交叉学科理想由「基础年」制度加以巩固，四年制项目的所有学生第一年均修读共同的跨学科基础课程；1966 年迈克尔·布劳恩据此称基尔是英国最接近美国小型文理学院的地方。

• Almost ninety percent of current undergraduates read dual honours, combining two available subjects from a choice of more than five hundred degree courses, and the university offers a study-abroad semester to most students.如今近九成本科生修读双荣誉学位，可从 500 余个专业中任选两门组合，学校还为多数学生提供一学年的海外交换机会。

• The School of Pharmacy was created in 2006 with the launch of MPharm degree programmes, adding a regulated professional route to the university's existing science and health offerings.药学院于 2006 年随 MPharm 药学学位课程的开设而组建，在既有理科与健康学科之外增添了一条受行业监管的专业培养路径。

• Harper and Keele Veterinary School opened in 2020 as a joint venture with Harper Adams University, offering a five-year BVetMS degree, with a new teaching building and clinics on campus completed in October 2021.哈珀与基尔兽医学院于 2020 年作为与哈珀·亚当斯大学的合作项目开办，设五年制 BVetMS 学位，其校内教学楼与诊所于 2021 年 10 月建成。

• In July 2025 the veterinary school's pioneer cohort of ninety newly qualified vets graduated and it was ranked first in the United Kingdom for veterinary medicine in the National Student Survey, receiving full accreditation for its BVetMS degree from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in October 2025.2025 年 7 月该兽医学院首届 90 名新执业兽医毕业，并在全国学生调查中被评为英国兽医医学第一；同年 10 月其 BVetMS 学位获英国皇家兽医学院理事会全面认证。

• The School of Medicine places consistently high in national league tables, ranking fifth for medicine in England in the 2026 Guardian University Guide, and in 2024 Mohamed Jalloh became the two thousand and twenty-fourth medicine professional to qualify through a Keele medicine degree.医学院在全国排名中长期名列前茅，在 2026 年《卫报》大学指南中列英格兰医学第五；2024 年穆罕默德·贾洛成为经基尔医学学位培养合格的两千零二十四位医学专业人士。

• To cut costs the faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences merged in early 2001, and although the German department closed in December 2004, the university kept its physics degree and created a Language Learning Unit to teach Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.为削减开支，人文与社会科学两个学部于 2001 年初合并；德语系虽在 2004 年 12 月关闭，学校仍保留物理学位，并设立语言学习中心教授阿拉伯语、中文、法语、德语、日语、俄语与西班牙语。

• The Foundation Year was eliminated in 1998 but re-introduced in 2012 with new international and accelerated international programmes, alongside humanities, science, social science, health and general foundation years and a route for students who are visually impaired.「基础年」曾在 1998 年被取消，2012 年又以国际基础年与加速国际基础年等新项目重启，另设人文、理科、社科、健康与通用基础年，以及面向视力障碍学生的通道。

• The university reports a graduation rate above ninety percent, with about sixty-eight percent of leavers achieving a first-class or upper-second degree, and its widening-participation profile shows that some ninety percent of undergraduates are state-educated and over twenty-five percent come from working-class backgrounds.该校毕业率逾九成，约 68% 的毕业生取得一等或优等二级荣誉学位；其扩大参与的画像显示约九成本科生就读于公立中学、逾 25% 出身工人阶级家庭。

• In February 2011 a Sutton Trust report found that 3.4 percent of Keele students had received free school meals and 7.9 percent had attended private schools, figures that framed its social-mobility record against national English averages.2011 年 2 月萨顿信托基金的一份报告发现，基尔曾获免费校餐的学生占 3.4%、上过私立学校者占 7.9%，以此对照英格兰全国均值来刻画该校的社会流动表现。

• Students entering in 2016 averaged 128 UCAS points, roughly ABB at A-Level, and typical three-year courses asked for grades between AAB and BBC except Medicine, while in August 2023 the university lowered clearing demands to 64 points to fill remaining dual- and single-honours vacancies.2016 年入学新生平均持有 128 UCAS 分，约合 A-Level 的 ABB，普通三年制课程除医学外通常要求 AAB 至 BBC 之间；2023 年 8 月学校把补录门槛降至 64 分以填补剩余的荣誉学位名额。

• Results in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 showed a seventy-five percent increase in the volume of world-leading research compared with 2014, with eighty percent of Keele's research rated world-leading or internationally excellent, and the university was one of 157 UK institutions submitting evidence drawn from over 76,000 academic staff.2021 年卓越研究框架结果显示，其国际引领研究总量较 2014 年增长 75%，80% 的研究被评为国际引领或国际卓越；该校是提交材料的 157 所英国院校之一，整个评估汇集逾 76,000 名教师的成果。

• Keele sits in a so-called Golden Quadrangle of the top fifteen English universities that combine a Gold award in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework with high research intensity in the most recent Research Excellence Framework.基尔位列所谓「黄金四角」的英格兰前 15 所大学之中，这些院校既在 2023 年教学卓越框架中获金奖，又在最近一轮卓越研究框架中展现高研究强度。

• Its medical research spans the early detection of Parkinson's disease, stem-cell work on healing and links between cannabis and mental illness, and the cochlear implant was developed in the Keele Department of Communication and Neuroscience.其医学研究涵盖帕金森病早期诊断、用于创口愈合的干细胞探索以及大麻与精神疾病的关联，而人工耳蜗即诞生于该校的传播与神经科学系。

• In August 2009 university astronomers led by David Anderson discovered WASP-17b, the first planet found to orbit in the opposite direction to the spin of its star, and in 2010 Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston shared an Ig Nobel prize for confirming that swearing relieves pain.2009 年 8 月由大卫·安德森带领的校属天文团队发现 WASP-17b，这是首颗被证实逆向环绕其母恒星自转方向运行的行星；2010 年理查德·斯蒂芬斯、约翰·阿特金斯与安德鲁·金斯顿因证实「说脏话能缓解疼痛」而共获搞笑诺贝尔奖。

Campus

• The campus occupies about 625 acres of rural grounds close to the village of Keele in North Staffordshire, one of the largest in Britain, landscaped with woodlands, lakes and the Grade II listed Keele Hall.校园占地约 625 英亩，地处北斯塔福德福德郡基尔村附近，是英国最大的乡村校园之一，园内有林地、湖泊与列为二级登录建筑的基尔府。

• Coordinates place the university at latitude 53.0 and longitude minus 2.23333, a short distance west of the civil parish of Keele and near Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent.该校坐标为北纬 53.0、西经 2.23333，坐落于基尔民政教区以西不远处，紧邻沃尔特河畔纽卡斯尔与特伦特河畔斯托克。

• The estate was originally given by King Henry the Second to the Knights Templars in 1180, passed to the Knights Hospitallers after the Templars were dissolved by the Council of Vienne in 1311, and after Henry the Eighth confiscated it remained Crown land until the Sneyd family bought it and held it until 1948.这片庄园最初由亨利二世于 1180 年赐予圣殿骑士团，1311 年圣殿骑士团被维埃纳公会议解散后转入医院骑士团之手，亨利八世没收后归王室，直到斯尼德家族购入并一直持有至 1948 年。

• Keele holds one of the largest collections of flowering cherry trees in Europe, a distinction for which the university received an award from the Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom.基尔拥有欧洲最大的观赏樱花树藏园之一，为此校长还获日本驻英国大使颁赠嘉奖。

• Situated on the campus, the Keele University Science and Innovation Park is home to more than sixty companies and about a thousand employees, from start-ups to global multinationals including Michelin, and in 2025 the university announced plans for an Innovation District that could create up to five thousand four hundred jobs.坐落于校园内的基尔大学科学与创新园汇聚逾 60 家企业、约 1,000 名雇员，从初创公司到包括米其林在内的跨国巨头皆有；2025 年学校又宣布规划「创新区」，预计可创造多达 5,400 个岗位。

• Beyond academic and residential buildings the site offers an astronomical observatory, a Marriott hotel, indoor and outdoor sport facilities, a Students' Union, an arboretum, a library, a chapel, an Islamic centre, and shops, cafés and places to eat and drink.除教学与住宿建筑外，园区还设天文台、万豪酒店、室内外体育设施、学生会、树木园、图书馆、礼拜堂、伊斯兰中心以及商店、咖啡厅与餐饮场所。

• Keele University Chapel, dedicated in a ceremony attended by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, was the first religious building in the country designed for shared Christian worship, and in 2025 it marked sixty years since that dedication while serving as a Local Ecumenical Partnership of five denominations with a full-time chaplaincy team that includes a Muslim chaplain.基尔大学礼拜堂由王太后伊丽莎白与玛格丽特公主出席典礼祝圣，是全国第一座专为基督教各派共融崇拜而设计的宗教建筑；2025 年它迎来祝圣 60 周年，如今作为五个教派组成的地方共融教会运作，并配有包括一位穆斯林牧师在内的专职牧灵团队。

• Five halls of residence on the main campus, Horwood, Lindsay, Barnes, The Oaks and Holly Cross, house about seventy percent of full-time students, with the three oldest named after founding figures and a 2016 programme adding four hundred fifty-three en-suite rooms at Barnes, funded by the sale of Hawthorns.主校区有五座宿舍楼——霍伍德、林赛、巴恩斯、橡树与霍利十字——约住读 70% 的全日制学生，其中三座最老者以创校人物命名；2016 年启动的工程在巴恩斯增建 453 间带独立卫浴房间，资金来自出售霍桑斯的所得。

• The university library began in 1948 in an office above a public house in Stoke, moved into the old Sneyd Library in 1952 with 20,000 items rising to 155,000 by 1955, opened a purpose-built building in 1961 and by the early 1970s held some 600,000 books for 750 readers, later automating circulation in 1990 and adding a Health Library at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.大学图书馆 1948 年设于斯托克一处酒馆楼上的办公室，1952 年迁入旧斯尼德藏书室，馆藏从 2 万册增至 1955 年的 15.5 万册，1961 年启用专建馆舍，到 1970 年代初已为 750 个阅览座位藏约 60 万册，1990 年实现借阅自动化，并在皇家斯托克大学医院另设医学健康图书馆。

Reputation

• This entry records Keele University in the eight hundred one to eight hundred fifty band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the ranking position from which the bilingual article is written.本条目据 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将基尔大学列入第 801-850 位，本双语稿即据此档位而作。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the six hundred one to six hundred fifty band, a range that in the 2026 edition had stood at the same position and reflected its steady research-intensity profile.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中该校列第 601-650 位，此档位与上一版 2026 年榜单所记相近，反映其稳定的研究强度。

• In the 2026-2027 edition of the Best Global Universities ranking published by US News and World Report Keele is listed at position 783.在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中基尔列第 783 位。

• Keele appears in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking within the eight hundred one to nine hundred band, giving it a subject-anchored position in the global table alongside its teaching-side standing.在 2026 年上海软科世界大学学术排名中基尔位于第 801-900 档，这使它在以学科为锚的全球榜单上占有位置，与其教学端声誉相互呼应。

• By subject Keele placed fifth for medicine in England in the 2026 Guardian University Guide, and in the National Student Survey 2025 chemistry ranked first in the United Kingdom with ninety-six percent satisfaction, while veterinary medicine was likewise ranked first nationally.从学科看，基尔在 2026 年《卫报》大学指南中列英格兰医学第五；2025 年全国学生调查中化学以 96% 满意度居英国第一，兽医学同样位列全国第一。

• In May 2012 the Times Higher Education magazine listed Keele among the world's top one hundred universities fifty years old or younger, and in September 2016 it was named University of the Year for Student Experience in the annual Times and Sunday Times awards, later being voted the best in the United Kingdom in the 2022 Student Crowd Awards.2012 年 5 月《泰晤士高等教育》把基尔列入建校 50 年以下的世界百强大学；2016 年 9 月该校获《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》年度评选的「学生体验年度大学」，其后又在 2022 年全国学生众望奖中被评为英国最佳。

• The university earned the highest overall Gold rating in the Office for Students Teaching Excellence Framework in both 2017 and 2023, a teaching-quality marker it holds among a small group of English institutions that also rate highly for research.该校在学生办公室主导的教学卓越框架中于 2017 与 2023 年均获整体最高金奖，这一教学质量指标使其跻身少数教学与研究俱佳的英格兰院校之列。

• Because the OpenAlex institutional record for this entry returned no publication or citation count, its verifiable scale is reported instead through more than fifteen thousand students, a staff ratio near fourteen to one, over one hundred thousand alumni spread across 162 countries and a science park hosting sixty firms and about a thousand jobs.本条 OpenAlex 机构记录未给出论文数或被引数，故改用可核验的数字呈现其规模：在校生逾 15,000 人、师生比近 14 比 1、校友逾 10 万人遍布 162 个国家、科学园汇聚 60 家企业与约 1,000 个岗位。

• Its hardest honours are institutional and subject-level rather than Nobel-affiliated: the university received a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2009 for pioneering work with the National Health Service on early intervention in chronic pain and arthritis, and no Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for the institution.其最硬荣誉属机构与学科层面而非诺贝尔奖关联：2009 年该校因与国家医疗服务体系合作、在慢性疼痛与关节炎早期干预方面开创性工作而获女王周年奖；未见诺贝尔、图灵或菲尔兹奖级人物与之关联。

Student life

• The principal Students' Union building, designed by Stillman and Eastwick-Field with guidance from the university architect J. A. Pickavance, opened in 1962 and was completed in 1963, and its magazine Concourse, founded in 1964, is issued monthly in term time and is editorially independent of both the university and the union.学生会主楼由 Stillman 与 Eastwick-Field 事务所设计、并参考校建筑师 J. A. 皮克瓦文斯的意见，1962 年开放、1963 年完工；其刊物《Concourse》创刊于 1964 年，学期内每月出版，编辑上独立于学校与学生会。

• Princess Margaret, as Chancellor, and her husband attended the student union Christmas Ball on 7 December 1964, dancing with the president and vice-president of the students' union and staying until three in the morning.身为校长的玛格丽特公主与丈夫于 1964 年 12 月 7 日出席学生会圣诞舞会，与学生会正副主席共舞，一直留到凌晨三点。

• The ballroom inside the Students' Union has a legendary music history, hosting bands from the late 1960s through the 1980s and beyond, including Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, U2, Dire Straits, UB40, The Kinks and The Pretenders, many at the start of their careers.学生会内的舞厅有着传奇的音乐史，自 1960 年代末直至 1980 年代乃至更久，平克·弗洛伊德、杰思罗·塔尔、U2、恐怖海峡、UB40、奇想乐队与假 Pretender 等名团都曾在此演出，不少还是在事业起步之时。

• The Keele television team won the 1968 series of the quiz programme University Challenge, and the same group came runner-up to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in the 2002 Reunited special.基尔队夺得 1968 年益智问答节目《大学挑战》系列赛冠军，同一批人马又在 2002 年「重聚」特别节目中负于剑桥大学 Sidney Sussex 学院屈居亚军。

• Student sport ranges from rugby to lacrosse and dodgeball and is managed through the Athletic Union, whose on-campus centre provides a gym, sports hall, squash courts, a bouldering wall, three-generation pitches, beach-volleyball courts, running track and netball, basketball and tennis courts.学生运动从橄榄球到袋棍球、躲避球不等，由体育联合会统筹，其校内中心设有健身房、综合体育馆、壁球场、攀岩墙、人造草皮场、沙滩排球场、跑道以及网球、篮球、无板篮球场地。

• The Athletic Union contests an annual varsity multi-sport series against the neighbouring University of Staffordshire, founded as a charity football match in 2001 and expanded to a record twenty-three sports by 2017, with Keele taking the trophy in years including 2024 and 2025.体育联合会与邻近的斯塔福德福德郡大学进行一年一度的校际多项对抗赛，赛事始于 2001 年一场慈善足球赛，到 2017 年已扩至创纪录的 23 个项目；基尔在包括 2024、2025 年在内的多个年头捧杯。

• A quarter of the community is shaped by its residential culture, with about seventy percent of full-time students housed in university halls and roughly sixty-two percent resident on campus in 2011, a proportion still above the national average for a civic university.其住宿文化深刻塑造社区面貌：约 70% 全日制学生住在校内宿舍，2011 年约 62% 学生留校而居，这一比例在一所市民大学中仍高于全国均值。

Notable people

• Lord Lindsay, the founding principal A. D. Lindsay, came to Keele as Professor of Philosophy and Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and his convictions about broad, cross-disciplinary education determined the university's distinctive curriculum.创校院长 A. D. 林赛勋爵原为牛津大学贝利奥尔学院院长、哲学教授，他对广博、跨学科教育的信念塑造了基尔独具特色的课程体系。

• Sir Walter Moberly, chair of the University Grants Committee, received Lindsay's letter of 13 March 1946 and steered the funding that let Keele be built as a college on new lines.大学拨款委员会主席沃尔特·莫伯利爵士收到林赛 1946 年 3 月 13 日的来信，并主导拨款，使基尔得以按全新模式建院。

• Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, served as Chancellor from 1962 to 1986, the longest-serving in the university's history, and Sir David Weatherall, a physician and professor of clinical medicine, was named Chancellor in 2000.玛格丽特公主（斯诺登伯爵夫人）于 1962 至 1986 年任校长，是校史任期最长者；内科与临床医学教授大卫·韦瑟拉尔爵士则于 2000 年被任命为校长。

• Alan James founded the Department of International Relations in 1974, and the astronomer David Anderson led the 2009 team that discovered the retrograde-orbiting planet WASP-17b.艾伦·詹姆斯于 1974 年创立国际关系学系；天文学家大卫·安德森则带领团队在 2009 年发现逆向轨道行星 WASP-17b。

• The 2010 Ig Nobel prize went to the Keele trio Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston for their study confirming that swearing relieves pain, an experiment carried out in the university's psychology laboratories.2010 年搞笑诺贝尔奖花落基尔三人组理查德·斯蒂芬斯、约翰·阿特金斯与安德鲁·金斯顿，他们以「说脏话能缓解疼痛」的实验获奖，该实验正是在校内的心理学实验室完成。

• Notable alumni include Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, President of Namibia, and the former British Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel, together with the barrister Michael Mansfield and the television presenter AJ Odudu.知名校友包括纳米比亚总统南迪-恩代特瓦、英国前内政大臣珀蒂·帕特尔女爵士，以及大律师迈克尔·曼斯菲尔德与电视主持人 AJ·奥杜杜。

• Denise Coates, the founder of the betting technology firm behind the campus business school that bears her name, officially opened the Denise Coates Foundation Building in January 2020 alongside the entrepreneur and Keele Business School alumna Nataliey Bitature, named to Forbes Africa's list of thirty under thirty in 2018.冠名校内商学院的博彩技术公司创始人丹尼斯·科茨于 2020 年 1 月为丹尼斯·科茨基金会大楼揭幕，与她同场的是创业者、基尔商学院校友娜塔莉·比塔图雷，后者曾入选《福布斯》非洲 2018 年三十岁以下青年榜。

• Neil Baldwin, subject of the 2014 BBC biographical film Marvellous that was partly set around the university, received an honorary degree from Keele, and the campus supplied locations for the surreal BBC comedy A Very Peculiar Practice, filmed there between 1986 and 1988.2014 年英国广播公司传记片《了不起》主人公尼尔·鲍德温曾获基尔荣誉学位，校园亦为超现实喜剧《异常实践》提供外景地，该剧于 1986 至 1988 年间在此拍摄。

• Keele maintains a College of Fellows, established in 2011 to draw alumni from industry, media and public service into the university's life, an body that binds figures such as its business-school graduates and civic patrons to the campus.基尔于 2011 年设立会士学院，把来自工业、媒体与公共服务领域的校友纳入学校生活，这一机制将商学院毕业生与地方赞助者等人物与校园维系在一起。