London South Bank University

London South Bank University (LSBU) is a public university in Elephant and Castle within the London Borough of Southwark, on the South Bank of the River Thames from which it takes its name.伦敦南岸大学（LSBU）是位于英国伦敦萨瑟克区大象与城堡一带的一所公立大学，地处泰晤士河南岸，校名即源于此。

It was founded in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic Institute, gained university status in 1992 under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, and adopted its present name in 2003.该校1892年以「伯勒工艺学院」之名创立，1992年依据《继续教育与高等教育法》取得大学地位，2003年改用现名。

It now teaches some 16,840 students with about 1,700 staff across seven schools, and its motto, drawn from Ecclesiastes, reads "Do it with thy Might".学校现有学生约16840人、教职员约1700人，下设七个学院，校训取自《传道书》的「当尽力而行」。

History

• In 1888 Edric Bayley, a solicitor and member of the London School Board, set up the South London Polytechnics Committee, whose backers included the Lord Mayor of London, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery.1888年，律师兼伦敦教育委员会成员埃德里克·贝利发起成立南伦敦工艺学院委员会，其支持者包括伦敦市长、坎特伯雷大主教、索尔兹伯里勋爵与罗斯伯里勋爵。

• The Charity Commissioners pledged to match public donations up to 200,000 pounds, and a public meeting at Mansion House raised enough by 1891 to found polytechnics at Battersea and at Borough Road in Southwark.慈善委员会承诺按募款额配套资助、上限达20万英镑，市政厅大会到1891年募足款项，得以在巴特西与萨瑟克区伯勒路各设工艺学院。

• In 1890 the former buildings of Joseph Lancaster's British and Foreign School Society were bought for the institute, and the South London Polytechnics Institutes Act of that May gave it its governing structure and aims.1890年，学校购入约瑟夫·兰卡斯特所办英国国内外学校协会的旧校舍，同年5月通过的南伦敦工艺学院法案确立了其治理架构与办学宗旨。

• The aims settled for the new institute in 1891 were the promotion of the industrial skills, general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and women, together with instruction suited to those intending to emigrate.1891年为新学院定下的宗旨，是提升青年男女的工业技能、普通知识、健康与福祉，并为打算移居海外者提供合适的教学。

• Edric Bayley became the first chair of governors, C. T. Millis the first headmaster, W. M. Richardson clerk to the governing body and Helen Smith lady superintendent.埃德里克·贝利出任首任校董会主席，米利斯为首任校长，理查森任管理委员会书记，海伦·史密斯任女监学。

• Lord Rosebery officially opened the Borough Polytechnic Institute on 30 September 1892, the gala drawing wide press coverage for his speech urging a ban on smoking in the new building.罗斯伯里勋爵于1892年9月30日正式为伯勒工艺学院揭幕，他在新厦内禁烟的演说引发报章广泛报道。

• The institute taught trades rooted in the neighbourhood, including leather tanning, typography, metalwork, electrical engineering, laundry, baking and boot-making, and hosted public lectures by George Bernard Shaw, J. A. Hobson, Henry M. Stanley and Ralph Vaughan Williams.学院开设贴近本地行业的课程，如皮革鞣制、排版、金工、电机、洗衣、烘焙与制鞋，并曾举办萧伯纳、霍布森、斯坦利与沃恩·威廉斯等名流的公开讲座。

• On 10 October 1894 the National School of Bakery and Confectionery opened with 78 pupils, later becoming the National Bakery School.1894年10月10日国家烘焙与糖果学校开办，首批学生78名，后来发展为国立烘焙学校。

• In 1897 the polytechnic was let to sightseers wishing to watch the Diamond Jubilee parade of Queen Victoria and again in 1902 for the coronation parade of King Edward VII, after which a donation from Edric Bayley funded Edric Hall in 1908 together with the Lancaster Street extension, supplying new bakery rooms, a gymnasium, workshops and the triangular campus site.1897年学院曾出租场地给观看维多利亚女王钻禧巡游的观众，1902年又为爱德华七世加冕巡游再度出租，此后埃德里克·贝利的捐款促成1908年贝利堂与兰卡斯特街扩建，增设烘焙教室、体育馆、工场，并奠定三角校区格局。

• In 1911 the governors commissioned Roger Fry to design seven murals on the theme "London on Holiday", painted with Duncan Grant, Frederick Etchells, MacDonald Gill and others, and the cycle was sold to the Tate Gallery in 1931.1911年校董会委托罗杰·弗莱设计以「假日伦敦」为题的七幅壁画，由他与邓肯·格兰特、弗雷德里克·埃奇尔斯、麦克唐纳·吉尔等绘制，1931年这套作品售予泰特美术馆。

• During the First World War the institute made munitions and gas masks and ran courses for the army, and after the war engineering courses were opened to women in the 1920s.第一次世界大战期间，学院为战争制造弹药与防毒面具并开设军方课程，战后于1920年代向女性开放工程课程。

• Bispham became principal in 1922 as C. T. Millis retired, class numbers rose to 8,682 students by 1927, and the Duke of York opened new buildings on 20 February 1930.1922年米利斯退休、比斯帕姆接任校长，到1927年注册学生增至8682人，约克公爵于1930年2月20日为新厦揭幕。

• Ingall took over as principal in 1933, when farriery was dropped as too impractical for bringing horses into the building and a sports ground was obtained at Turney Road in Dulwich.1933年英高医生接任校长，因把马带入校舍不便而停办钉蹄课程，并在德威特尼路取得运动场。

• In the Second World War the Blitz destroyed or damaged about a third of the campus, Southwark was bombed seven times and its population halved, yet the institute served hundreds of meals a day to local homeless people.第二次世界大战期间闪电战摧毁或损坏校区约三分之一，萨瑟克遭轰炸七次、人口减半，但学院仍每天为当地无家可归者供应数百份餐食。

• The painter David Bomberg taught art between 1945 and 1953 and in 1946 formed the Borough Group of artists with his pupils.画家大卫·邦伯姆于1945年至1953年间在此教授艺术，并于1946年与学生共同创立「伯勒画派」。

• The institute was designated a Regional College of Technology in 1956, and Prince Philip opened the 1969 extension buildings and Tower Block.学院1956年被评为地区技术学院，爱丁堡亲王菲利普于1969年为扩建楼与塔楼揭幕。

• In 1970 the Brixton School of Building, a City of Westminster College and the National College of Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan Engineering merged to form the Polytechnic of the South Bank, with Margaret Thatcher as guest speaker at its 1971 designation service.1970年，布里克斯顿建筑学院、威斯敏斯特城市学院与国家暖气通风制冷及风机工程学院合并为南岸理工学院，玛格丽特·撒切尔出席1971年的定名典礼并发表演讲。

• A purpose-built Wandsworth Road site opened in 1972 for its Faculty of the Built Environment, then the largest in Europe for surveying, town planning, architecture and civil engineering, followed by the London Road building in 1975 and the merger with Battersea College of Education in 1976.1972年落成的旺兹沃思路校区供建筑环境学院使用，当时是欧洲最大的测量、城市规划、建筑与土木工程教学单位，1975年伦敦路大楼启用，1976年又并入巴特西教育学院。

• Renamed South Bank Polytechnic in 1987, the college gained research-degree accreditation in 1990 and in 1991 absorbed the Central Catering College at Waterloo and South West London College.学校1987年改名南岸理工学院，1990年获得授予研究学位的资格，1991年又并入滑铁卢中央餐饮学院与西南伦敦学院。

• In 1992 the Further and Higher Education Act granted it university status, the name became South Bank University, and Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, who had become director in 1987, became its first vice-chancellor.1992年依据《继续教育与高等教育法》取得大学地位，改名南岸大学，1987年出任院长的保利娜·佩里即南岸的佩里女男爵，成为首任副校长。

• That year the new university marked its centenary and adopted the slogan "the University without Ivory Towers", and in 1993 the Centenary Library was renamed the Perry Library.同年新大学庆祝创校百年并提出「无象牙塔的大学」口号，1993年百年纪念图书馆更名为佩里图书馆。

• Redwood College of Health Studies and Great Ormond Street School of Nursing merged with the university in 1995, leading to satellite health campuses at Havering and Whipps Cross that closed in 2011.1995年红杉健康研究学院与大奥蒙德街护理学院并入，促成黑弗灵与威普十字的分科校区，二者于2011年关闭。

• Gerald Bernbaum became vice-chancellor in 1993 and Deian Hopkin in 2001, the same year the Wandsworth Road site was sold.杰拉尔德·伯恩鲍姆于1993年任副校长，迪安·霍普金于2001年接任，同年旺兹沃思路校区被出售。

• On 1 September 2003 the name changed again to London South Bank University, the Keyworth Centre opened that year, Martin Earwicker became vice-chancellor in 2009 and Dave Phoenix took the post on 1 January 2014.2003年9月1日校名再度改为伦敦南岸大学，同年基沃思中心启用，2009年马丁·埃尔威克接任副校长，戴夫·菲尼克斯于2014年1月1日就任。

Academics

• The university is organized into seven schools, for the applied sciences, the arts and creative industries, the built environment and architecture, business, engineering, health and social care, and law and social sciences.学校下设七个学院，分别为应用科学、艺术与创意产业、建筑环境与建筑、商学、工程、健康与社会科学照护、以及法律与社会科学学院。

• The School of Health and Social Care is housed in the Grimshaw-designed K2 building opened in 2009, which also contains skills laboratories for the university's nursing students.健康与社会科学照护学院设于2009年落成、由格里姆肖设计的K2大楼，楼内并配有供护理学生使用的技能实验室。

• The Centre for Efficient and Renewable Energy in Buildings, known as CEREB, opened with K2 in 2009 and focuses its research on energy-efficient and renewable building technology.建筑高效与可再生能源研究中心简称CEREB，与K2大楼同步于2009年启用，专注节能与可再生建筑技术研究。

• Its teaching of the built environment traces back to the 1972 Wandsworth Road faculty, then Europe's largest centre for surveying, town planning, architecture and civil engineering.其建筑环境教学可追溯到1972年的旺兹沃思路院系，当时是欧洲最大的测量、城市规划、建筑与土木工程教学中心。

• Several strands of today's teaching come from merged colleges with their own histories, the Brixton School of Building having been founded in 1904, a City of Westminster College in 1918 and the National College of Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan Engineering in 1947.今天的若干教学脉络来自并入的学院，布里克斯顿建筑学院创办于1904年、一所威斯敏斯特城市学院创办于1918年、国家暖气通风制冷及风机工程学院创办于1947年。

• The National Bakery School, descended from the 1894 bakery and confectionery school, preserves the institute's long vocational tradition.国立烘焙学校源自1894年的烘焙与糖果学校，延续了学院悠久的职业教育传统。

• After the First World War the institute took up the National Certificate system and handed its printing classes to Morley College, where they continued to run.第一次世界大战后学院采用国家证书制度，并把印刷课程移交莫利学院继续开办。

• In 2007 LSBU established the first Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine, run together with its Chinese partner institutions.2007年学校设立首个中医孔子学院，与中方合作机构共同运营。

• London South Bank University works in partnership with institutions across the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia, running joint teaching abroad as well as at home.伦敦南岸大学与英国、欧洲、非洲、美洲与亚洲的机构开展合作，在海外和本土同时开设联合课程。

• Its Chinese partners include the Beijing Institute of Technology, Hunan University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Northwestern Polytechnical University and the National Academy of Education Administration.其中国伙伴包括北京理工大学、湖南大学、北京邮电大学、西北工业大学与国家教育行政学院。

• Collaborative undergraduate and postgraduate programmes with those Chinese partners have been running for more than ten years.与上述中方伙伴合办的本科与研究生课程已持续十余年。

• LSBU is a post-1992 university, its degree-awarding powers deriving from the act of that year rather than from an ancient royal charter.伦敦南岸大学属1992年后成立的大学，其学位授予权源自当年法案而非古老皇家特许状。

• In April 2021 the university announced it would not admit students to study history or human geography in 2021, part of a contraction of some arts subjects.2021年4月学校宣布当年不再招收历史与人文地理专业学生，属部分人文学科的收缩。

• In the inaugural 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework the university was awarded a Silver rating and it maintained that rating in the 2023 assessment.在2017年首次教学卓越框架评估中获得银级评定，并在2023年的评估中维持银级。

• Around 16,840 students and about 1,700 staff make up its academic community across the seven schools.约16840名学生与约1700名教职员工构成七大学院共同体的规模。

• Research strengths lie chiefly in applied fields such as engineering, health, the built environment and business.研究实力主要集中在工程、健康、建筑环境与商学等应用学科。

• LSBU sponsored the University Academy of Engineering South Bank, a school sixth form in Walworth that opened in September 2014 with room for 150 students aged 11 to 19.学校还创办南岸大学工程学院，这是一所位于华威斯路的中学第六学级，2014年9月开学，可容纳11至19岁学生150名。

Campus

• The main campus occupies a triangular block of roads in Southwark just north of Elephant and Castle, bounded by Borough Road, London Road and Southwark Bridge Road, with St George's Circus at its northwest corner.主校区占据萨瑟克大象与城堡以北的一块三角地块，北界伯勒路、西界伦敦路、东界萨瑟克桥路，西北角为圣乔治环岛。

• Its name recalls the South Bank of the Thames, a short tube or bus journey from Waterloo and London Bridge stations.校名取意泰晤士河南岸，乘地铁或巴士到滑铁卢与伦敦桥站只需片刻。

• Original Borough Polytechnic Institute buildings front onto Borough Road, where the main entrance still faces the street.伯勒工艺学院的原建筑临伯勒路，主入口至今朝向该街。

• Campus development in the 2010s added a new Student Centre in 2012, an Enterprise Centre in 2013 and the Elephant Studios media centre in 2016.2010年代的校园建设先后于2012年增设学生中心、2013年增设创业中心，并在2016年启用大象工作室媒体中心。

• The National College Wing opened in 1961, and an earlier rebuilding scheme had already given the original Borough Road structure a new facade.国家学院侧楼于1961年启用，更早的一次重建计划则已为伯勒路原建筑加上新立面。

• The Borough Road Gallery opened in 2012, and a hall of residence, David Bomberg House, carries the painter's name with some of his works on display.伯勒路画廊于2012年开放，校内宿舍大卫·邦伯姆楼以画家命名，并陈列其部分作品。

• The 1976 merger with Battersea College of Education, known from 1948 to 1965 as the Battersea College of Domestic Science, brought suburban sites at Manresa House in Roehampton and Manor House near Clapham Common.1976年并入的巴特西教育学院曾于1948年至1965年称巴特西家政学院，它为大学带来罗汉姆普的玛拿西楼与克拉普汉姆公园旁的庄园楼两处郊区场地。

• A central Croydon campus opened in October 2021 at Electric House on Wellesley Road.2021年10月学校在威尔斯利路的电力大厦设立克罗伊登中部分校。

• The South Bank Technopark on London Road opened in 1985 and later hosted a campus of Schiller International University, which closed in August 2011 under stricter United Kingdom student-visa rules.伦敦路上的南岸科技园区1985年启用，曾容纳席勒国际大学校区，因英国收紧学生签证而于2011年8月关闭。

• Lambeth College has been set to merge with the university, extending its reach across South London.兰贝斯学院计划与该校合并，将其影响拓展到南伦敦。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 London South Bank University is placed in the 901-950 band.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，伦敦南岸大学位列第901至950名区间。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university sits in the 701-800 band.在2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列701至800名区间。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places London South Bank University at 1147 in the world.2026至2027年度US News全球最佳大学排名将伦敦南岸大学列为世界第1147名。

• The university was not included in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking Academic Ranking of World Universities main list of the thousand institutions ranked.该校未进入2026年软科世界大学学术排名主榜的千所上榜机构之列。

• In November 2016 LSBU was named Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards.2016年11月，学校在泰晤士高等教育大奖中获年度创业型大学称号。

• In The Guardian's 2018 teaching league table it ranked 92nd out of 121 British institutions, while The Sunday Times placed it 120th on a composite of teaching, research and employment.在《卫报》2018年教学质量排行榜上，该校于121所英国院校中名列第92，《星期日泰晤士报》依教学、研究与就业综合指标将其列为第120名。

• On the subject dimension The Guardian rated London South Bank University joint 13th for law students, a standing well above its overall position.在学科层面，《卫报》将该校法律学生评为并列第13名，远高于其综合名次。

• OpenAlex attributes to the institution 15,080 scholarly works and 479,142 citations, the measurable core of its research output.OpenAlex数据库记录该校学术著作15080篇、被引用479142次，是其科研产出的可量化内核。

• The university has produced no Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate, its honours resting instead on the 2016 entrepreneurial award and the Teaching Excellence Framework Silver rating.该校未产生诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其荣誉主要来自2016年创业型大学奖与教学卓越框架银级评定。

Student life

• About 70 percent of the UK students at London South Bank University are Londoners, drawn mainly from the South London boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth, Lewisham and Croydon and from Newham in East London.在伦敦南岸大学的英国学生中约七成来自伦敦，多来自南伦敦的萨瑟克、兰贝斯、刘易舍姆与克罗伊登以及东伦敦的纽汉。

• Around 12 percent of students come from overseas, more than 3,000 people from over 130 countries.约12%的学生来自海外，逾3000人、来自130多个国家。

• Some 56 percent of the student body belongs to ethnic minorities and more than 80 percent are classified as mature, aged 21 or over when they begin their course.学生中约56%属少数族裔，超过80%被列为成年学生，即入学时已年满21岁或以上。

• At the outbreak of the Second World War the boys and girls of the institute's trade schools were evacuated to Exeter, yet the campus kept feeding the homeless of Southwark through the bombing years.第二次世界大战爆发时，学院实业学校的男女学生被疏散到埃克塞特，但校园在轰炸年代仍继续为萨瑟克的无家可归者供食。

• The British Youth Opera, founded in 1987, makes its home on the Southwark campus, giving students a professional operatic setting.1987年成立的英国青年歌剧团以南萨瑟克校区为基地，为学生提供专业歌剧演出环境。

• During Freshers' week in 2014 officials removed a poster of the Flying Spaghetti Monster put up by the South Bank Atheist Society, an act the British Humanist Association condemned as petty censorship.2014年新生周，校方撤下南岸无神论者协会张贴的飞天意面怪物海报，英国人文主义协会批评此举是吹毛求疵的审查。

• Student facilities centre on the 2012 Student Centre, the Borough Road Gallery opened the same year and halls of residence such as David Bomberg House.学生活动以2012年启用的学生中心、同年开放的伯勒路画廊以及大卫·邦伯姆楼等宿舍为核心。

• The university markets itself under the slogan "the University without Ivory Towers", adopted at its 1992 centenary to signal an open and non-elite character.学校以1992年百年校庆提出的「无象牙塔的大学」为口号，标榜开放与非精英的办学定位。

Notable people

• Long-serving principals shaped the institute, among them J. E. Garside, installed when it became a Regional College of Technology in 1956 and succeeded in 1965 by Vivian Pereira-Mendoza.历任校长塑造了学院的发展，其中包括1956年学院获评地区技术学院时上任的加赛德，以及1965年接任的维维安·佩雷拉-门多萨。

• Edric Bayley, the solicitor who founded the South London Polytechnics Committee in 1888, served as the first chair of governors of the institute.律师埃德里克·贝利在1888年发起南伦敦工艺学院委员会，并出任学院首任校董会主席。

• David Bomberg, a leading British modernist painter, taught art from 1945 to 1953 and founded the Borough Group of artists with his students.英国现代主义画家大卫·邦伯姆于1945至1953年任教艺术，并与学生创立伯勒画派。

• Roger Fry, the artist and critic, designed the seven London murals commissioned in 1911 and painted "The Zoo" himself.艺术家兼评论家罗杰·弗莱设计了1911年受托的七幅伦敦壁画，其中《动物园》出自他本人之手。

• Duncan Grant and Frederick Etchells, artists linked to the Bloomsbury group, contributed murals to the student dining room.与布鲁姆斯伯里圈子相关的艺术家邓肯·格兰特与弗雷德里克·埃奇尔斯，也为学生餐厅绘制了壁画。

• George Bernard Shaw and Ralph Vaughan Williams were among the public lecturers at the young polytechnic.萧伯纳与拉尔夫·沃恩·威廉斯是这所新建工艺学院早期的公开讲座主讲人之一。

• Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, and the economist John Atkinson Hobson likewise lectured there in the institute's first decades.探险家亨利·斯坦利与经济学者约翰·阿特金森·霍布森亦曾在学院初创年代前来讲学。

• Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, became director in 1987 and the university's first vice-chancellor in 1992, steering its conversion from polytechnic to university.保利娜·佩里即南岸的佩里女男爵，1987年任院长，1992年成为该校首任副校长，主导其由理工学院转型为大学。

• Margaret Thatcher spoke at the 1971 designation service of the Polytechnic of the South Bank while rising in national politics.玛格丽特·撒切尔在1971年南岸理工学院定名典礼上发表演讲，彼时她正崭露头角于全国政坛。

• Archibald Primrose, Lord Rosebery, opened the institute in 1892 and became prime minister of the United Kingdom two years later, while other backers of the founding committee included the scientist and education reformer Sir Lyon Playfair and Lord Salisbury, who also served twice as prime minister.阿奇博尔德·普里姆罗斯即罗斯伯里勋爵于1892年为学院揭幕，并于两年后出任英国首相，创办委员会的其他支持者还包括科学家兼教育改革者莱昂·普莱费尔勋爵，以及同样两度拜相的索尔兹伯里勋爵。