University of Bradford

The University of Bradford is a public research university in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and it belongs to the group of British institutions known as plate glass universities because of their 1960s foundation.布拉德福德大学是一所位于英格兰西约克郡布拉德福德市的公立研究型大学，因其创办于 1960 年代而被归入英国所谓“平板玻璃大学”之列。

It received its royal charter in 1966, becoming the fortieth university created in Britain, yet it traces its origins to the Mechanics Institute founded in the town in 1832.学校于 1966 年获得皇家特许状，成为英国创办的第 40 所大学，但其渊源可追溯至 1832 年在当地成立的机械学院。

Bradford is placed 497th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, enrolled 10,887 students in 2024/25 and reports about 156,493 alumni across 179 countries.布拉德福德大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 497，2024 至 2025 学年在校学生 10,887 人，校友约 156,493 人，分布于 179 个国家。

History

• The university's origins lie in the Bradford Mechanics Institute, founded in 1832 to give local workers the technical skills that the town's textile industry needed.布拉德福德大学的历史可追溯至 1832 年成立的布拉德福德机械学院，其目的是为当地工人提供该镇纺织业所需的技术技能。

• In 1882 the institute became Bradford Technical College, which taught applied science and technology to the city's manufacturing workforce.1882 年，学院改制为布拉德福德技术学院，向该市制造业工人教授应用科学与技术。

• In 1957 the Bradford Institute of Technology was created as a College of Advanced Technology with responsibility for running higher education courses in the city.1957 年，布拉德福德理工学院作为一所高级技术学院成立，负责在该市开办高等教育课程。

• Construction of the Richmond Building, still the largest building on the campus, began in 1963, and the Horton and Chesham buildings were later added on the opposite side of Richmond Road.至今仍是校园最大建筑的里士满大楼于 1963 年动工兴建，霍顿大楼与切舍姆大楼其后在里士满路对面陆续建成。

• The charter of incorporation was granted in 1966, creating the University of Bradford as Britain's fortieth university, and the then prime minister Harold Wilson became its first chancellor.1966 年学校获颁法人特许状，布拉德福德大学正式成立，成为英国第 40 所大学，时任首相哈罗德·威尔逊出任首任校监。

• A Research Unit in Yugoslav Studies was established at Bradford in 1965 with significant involvement from the geographer Frederick Bernard Singleton.布拉德福德于 1965 年设立南斯拉夫研究研究组，地理学家弗雷德里克·伯纳德·辛格尔顿在其中发挥了重要作用。

• In the 1970s the university became an important international centre for Yugoslav studies through its Postgraduate School of Yugoslav Studies, and AnnMarie Wolpe joined its Yugoslav department in 1963 after her exile from South Africa.1970 年代，学校凭借其南斯拉夫研究研究生院成为该领域重要的国际中心；安玛丽·沃尔佩在 1963 年离开南非流亡后加入其南斯拉夫研究系。

• Bradford created Britain's first university Department of Peace Studies in 1973, and it remains the world's largest university centre for the study of peace and conflict.布拉德福德于 1973 年创建英国首个大学和平研究系，该系至今仍是全球规模最大的大学和平与冲突研究中心。

• Expansion of the main campus in the 1970s and after added the Library and Computer Centre, the Communal Building, the Pemberton Building and the Ashfield Building.1970 年代及之后的主校区扩建陆续新增了图书馆与计算机中心、公共大楼、彭伯顿大楼与阿什菲尔德大楼。

• The Department of Physics was closed in the 1980s, and the Department of Mathematics stopped admitting new undergraduates in 1997, its remaining work being merged into computing.物理系于 1980 年代关闭，数学系于 1997 年停止招收新本科生，其余教研工作并入计算机系。

• In 1987 the university became one of the twelve founding members of the Northern Consortium, a grouping of British universities active in international education.1987 年，学校成为北部联盟的十二个创始成员之一，该联盟由一批活跃于国际教育的英国大学组成。

• In 1996 the university merged with the former Bradford and Airedale College of Health, which became its School of Health Studies.1996 年，学校与前布拉德福德及艾尔代尔健康学院合并，后者成为校内的健康研究学院。

• In 2005 the university launched its Ecoversity project alongside an 84 million pound redevelopment of the campus, and in December 2006 it became a Fairtrade University.2005 年，学校启动“生态校园”计划并投入 8,400 万英镑重建校园，又于 2006 年 12 月成为公平贸易大学。

• Redevelopment of the sports facilities was completed in summer 2009, and the student village called The Green opened in September 2011.体育设施改造于 2009 年夏完成，名为“绿色家园”的学生村于 2011 年 9 月落成启用。

• In 2013 the School of Engineering, Design and Technology and the School of Computing, Informatics and Media were merged to form the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics.2013 年，工程设计与技术学院与计算、信息学及媒体学院合并，组建工程与信息学学部。

• Bradford became a founding member of the World Technology Universities Network in 2016 and won a Queen's Anniversary Prize for its dementia care work in the same year.2016 年，学校成为世界技术大学网络的创始成员，并于同年凭失智症照护研究获得女王周年奖。

• In 2018 it became the first British university to be named a University of Sanctuary, recognising its work with refugees and asylum seekers.2018 年，学校成为英国首个获评“庇护大学”的高校，以表彰其在难民与寻求庇护者方面的工作。

• In 2019 the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences moved from its parkland site at Emm Lane to the main city-centre campus.2019 年，管理、法律与社会科学学部从埃姆巷园林校址迁至市中心主校区。

• In 2021 the university won a Queen's Anniversary Prize for its archaeology work and spent 3.5 million pounds improving the energy efficiency of its campus buildings.2021 年，学校凭考古学研究获得女王周年奖，并投入 350 万英镑提升校园建筑的能源效率。

• In 2025 the university reorganised its four academic faculties into two, the Faculty of Health and Social Care and the Faculty of Management, Sciences and Engineering.2025 年，学校将四个学术学部重组为两个，即健康与社会照护学部，以及管理、科学与工程学部。

Academics

• Bradford now teaches through two faculties, created in 2025 by merging four earlier faculties, namely Health and Social Care, and Management, Sciences and Engineering.布拉德福德大学现通过两个学部开展教学，二者由 2025 年合并原四个学部而来，即健康与社会照护学部，以及管理、科学与工程学部。

• The Faculty of Health and Social Care comprises schools of nursing, public health and healthcare leadership, of allied health professions, midwifery and social work, and of pharmacy, optometry and medical sciences.健康与社会照护学部由护理、公共卫生与医疗领导学院，专职医疗、助产与社会工作学院，以及药学、验光与医学院组成。

• Its nursing programmes are accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and teaching covers healthcare leadership, undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and public health.其护理专业获英国护理与助产委员会认证，教学涵盖医疗领导、本科与研究生护理以及公共卫生。

• The Faculty of Management, Sciences and Engineering comprises schools of management, of law and social sciences, and of computing and engineering.管理、科学与工程学部由管理学院、法律与社会科学学院，以及计算与工程学院组成。

• The School of Management holds full Economic and Social Research Council accreditation for its DBA and PhD programmes, AMBA accreditation for its MBA portfolio and EQUIS accreditation.管理学院的管理博士与博士项目获经济与社会研究委员会全面认证，其 MBA 项目获 AMBA 认证，学院并持有 EQUIS 认证。

• The university opened its Eye Clinic in 1997, providing primary eye care to the community while training final-year optometry students.学校于 1997 年开设眼科诊所，在向社区提供初级眼科保健的同时培养验光专业毕业班学生。

• Its Centre for Skin Sciences is one of the largest academic centres in Britain for fundamental and translational research on skin and hair follicles.其皮肤科学中心是英国规模最大的皮肤与毛囊基础及转化研究学术中心之一。

• The Institute of Cancer Therapeutics maintains close collaboration with other divisions of the university and has a strong reputation for research.癌症治疗研究所与校内其他部门保持密切合作，在研究方面享有良好声誉。

• Bradford has two research institutes, the Institute of Health and Social Care and the Institute of Digital and Sustainable Futures.学校设有两个研究所，即健康与社会照护研究所和数字与可持续未来研究所。

• In the 2024/25 academic year the university enrolled 10,887 students, of whom 8,037 were undergraduates, 2,562 postgraduate taught and 288 postgraduate research.2024 至 2025 学年，学校在校学生 10,887 人，其中本科生 8,037 人、授课型研究生 2,562 人、研究型研究生 288 人。

• Of those students 9,583 studied full-time, 1,304 part-time and 454 by distance learning, while 7,979 were UK residents and 2,908 came from the EU and overseas.其中全日制学生 9,583 人、非全日制 1,304 人、远程学习者 454 人，英国本地学生 7,979 人，来自欧盟与海外者 2,908 人。

• In 2023/24 the university employed 1,755 staff, comprising 645 academic and 1,110 professional and support staff.2023 至 2024 学年，学校有教职工 1,755 人，其中学术人员 645 人、专业与支持人员 1,110 人。

• International students make up about 22 per cent of the student body and come from more than 110 countries, while alumni are based in 179 countries.国际学生约占学生总数的 22%，来自 110 多个国家，校友则分布于 179 个国家。

• The university's Distance Learning MBA was ranked first in the world for value for money and second for ESG and net zero by the Financial Times in 2025.学校远程学习 MBA 项目在 2025 年《金融时报》排名中获全球性价比第一，并在 ESG 与净零方面位列第二。

• Its academic portfolio includes archaeology, forensic science, optometry, pharmacy, physiotherapy, radiography, peace studies, international development and computing.其专业体系涵盖考古学、法医学、验光学、药学、物理治疗、放射学、和平研究、国际发展与计算等领域。

• Postgraduate researchers at Bradford are organised within a Doctoral College, which coordinates doctoral training across the faculties.布拉德福德的研究生研究者归入博士学院统一管理，由其统筹各学部的博士培养。

• Chemical engineering was relaunched as an undergraduate programme in 2010 with support from the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and its first cohort completed the three-year BEng in June 2013.化学工程本科专业在化学工程师学会支持下于 2010 年重新开设，其首届三年制工学学士学生于 2013 年 6 月毕业。

Campus

• The university occupies a compact city-centre campus in Bradford, in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire in northern England.学校位于英格兰北部西约克郡布拉德福德市的市中心，校园紧凑集中。

• The Richmond Building is the largest structure on the campus, begun in 1963, and it was partly re-clad with extra insulation and a new atrium that opened in December 2006.里士满大楼是校园内最大的建筑，1963 年动工，其后部分外墙翻新并增加隔热层，新中庭于 2006 年 12 月启用。

• The new atrium's roof uses ETFE, the same material employed in the Eden Project, and was designed by the Saltaire-based architects Rance Booth and Smith.新中庭屋顶采用与伊甸园工程相同的 ETFE 材料，由位于索尔泰尔的“Rance Booth and Smith”建筑事务所设计。

• The JB Priestley Library, opened on 18 October 1975 by J.B. Priestley and the then chancellor Harold Wilson, stays open 24 hours a day for 360 days a year.J·B·普里斯特利图书馆由 J·B·普里斯特利与时任校监哈罗德·威尔逊于 1975 年 10 月 18 日揭幕，每年开放 360 天、全天 24 小时服务。

• The library holds 530,000 volumes, more than 1,100 printed periodical titles and about 60,000 electronic journals.该图书馆藏有 53 万册图书、1,100 多种印刷期刊与约 6 万种电子期刊。

• The Green, opened in September 2011, is a 40 million pound student accommodation village that achieved a BREEAM rating of 95.05 per cent, the highest ever recorded for any building.“绿色家园”于 2011 年 9 月启用，是耗资 4,000 万英镑的学生住宿村，其 BREEAM 评级达 95.05%，为所有建筑中的历史最高分。

• The campus also contains an art gallery, a theatre and music centre, and a 100-seat PC cluster used for teaching and computer-based assessment.校园内还设有美术馆、剧院与音乐中心，以及一个用于教学与机考评估的 100 座电脑机房。

• In 2024 the university invested two million pounds in its former bars and venue spaces, creating SC02 as a central hub for student social life.2024 年，学校投入 200 万英镑改造原酒吧与活动场地，打造出作为学生社交生活中心的 SC02 场馆。

• After the 2019 relocation of its management, law and social sciences teaching, the university's academic life is concentrated on the city-centre campus, and the former Emm Lane parkland site is no longer used.2019 年管理、法律与社会科学教学搬迁之后，学校的教学活动集中于市中心校区，原埃姆巷园林校址不再使用。

• The university's cancer therapeutics research centre was moved from a separate site on All Saints Road onto the main campus, and the old buildings there were demolished in February 2008.学校的癌症治疗研究中心从诸圣路的一处独立场地迁至主校区，该处原址建筑于 2008 年 2 月拆除。

Reputation

• Bradford is placed 497th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, having stood 47th in the United Kingdom and 511th in the world in the 2026 edition of the same ranking.布拉德福德大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 497；在 2026 年同一榜单中，该校位列英国第 47、全球第 511。^[1]

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it lies in the 601-650 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 1,043rd.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 601 至 650 区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1,043。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Bradford is placed in the 901-1000 band, which is the figure used here in preference to any third-party summary.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 901 至 1000 区间，此处以该榜单为准。^[2]

• The Higher Education Policy Institute named Bradford first in England on its Social Mobility Index in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.英国高等教育政策研究所在 2021、2022、2023 与 2024 年连续四年将布拉德福德列为英格兰社会流动指数第一名。

• The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 ranked it first in England and Wales for the proportion of first-generation and ethnic minority students, at 73.5 per cent of entrants.《泰晤士报与星期日泰晤士报优秀大学指南 2026》将其列为英格兰与威尔士新生中家庭第一代大学生与少数族裔学生比例最高的大学，该比例为 73.5%。

• The Daily Mail University Guide 2026 named Bradford University of the Year for Social Inclusion.《每日邮报大学指南 2026》将布拉德福德评为“社会包容年度大学”。

• OpenAlex records 34,000 scholarly works by Bradford researchers cited more than 1.45 million times, and the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise found that 80 per cent of submitted academics were producing internationally recognised research.OpenAlex 收录该校研究人员的学术成果 34,000 项，被引用逾 145 万次；2008 年英国科研评估显示，提交参评的学者中有 80% 从事国际水平研究。

• Its subject strengths include optometry, ranked second in the United Kingdom by the Complete University Guide 2027, and paramedic science, ranked third by The Guardian University Guide 2026.其优势学科包括验光学与急救医学：验光学在《完全大学指南 2027》中位列英国第 2，急救医学在《卫报大学指南 2026》中位列英国第 3。

• Bradford's chemical engineering was ranked fifth in the United Kingdom by The Guardian University Guide 2026, and its research funding placed it among England's top 50 universities in 2009-10.布拉德福德大学的化学工程在《卫报大学指南 2026》中位列英国第 5，其研究经费在 2009 至 2010 年度使其跻身英格兰前 50 所大学之列。

• The Times Good University Guide ranked Bradford seventh in the United Kingdom for graduate employment in 2005 and second in 2006, reflecting its emphasis on courses that lead to work.《泰晤士报优秀大学指南》在 2005 年将布拉德福德列为英国毕业生就业率第 7 位，2006 年更升至第 2 位，体现其重视面向就业的课程设置。

Student life

• The university's trademarked motto is Making Knowledge Work, while the inscription beneath its coat of arms reads Give Invention Light, taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 38.学校的注册商标校训为“Making Knowledge Work（让知识创造价值）”，而校徽纹章下方的铭文为“Give Invention Light（赋予发明以光明）”，语出莎士比亚第 38 首十四行诗。

• The University of Bradford Students' Union, known as UBU, grants automatic membership on enrolment and runs advice services, a radio station, societies and sports clubs.布拉德福德大学学生会（简称 UBU）在学生注册时自动授予会员资格，运营咨询服务、广播电台、各类社团与体育俱乐部。

• Its Union Council is run by six full-time sabbatical officers and nine non-sabbatical officers, and the post of union president was abolished in 2001.其学生会理事会由 6 名全职专职工部与 9 名兼职干部组成，学生会主席一职于 2001 年被撤销。

• Ramair, the union's radio station, is one of the longest-running student radio stations in the United Kingdom and hosted the Student Radio Conference in 2012.学生会下属的电台 Ramair 是英国历史最悠久的学生电台之一，并于 2012 年主办了学生电台大会。

• Student facilities include the Unique centre, with a fitness suite, a 25-metre indoor swimming pool and a climbing wall.学生设施包括“Unique”中心，内设健身房、25 米室内游泳池与攀岩墙。

• Bradford became champions of the television quiz University Challenge on 28 January 1979, defeating Lancaster University by 215 points to 160.1979 年 1 月 28 日，布拉德福德在电视问答节目《大学挑战赛》中夺冠，以 215 比 160 击败兰卡斯特大学。

• The union also runs the Bradford Student Cinema, which screens recent films free of charge to students and staff, and publishes a student newspaper.学生会还运营布拉德福德学生影院，向师生免费放映新近影片，并出版一份学生报纸。

• Most student involvement comes through the Athletics Union and the Societies Federation, which include course-related groups such as the Bradford Ophthalmic Optics Student Association.学生参与的主要渠道是体育联盟与社团联合会，其中包括布拉德福德眼科光学学生协会等与专业相关的团体。

• In 2004 Bradford returned to University Challenge and scored only 35 points, one of the joint third-lowest scores ever recorded on the programme.2004 年布拉德福德再度参加《大学挑战赛》，仅得 35 分，为该节目历史上并列第三低的成绩。

Notable people

• Harold Wilson, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976, served as Bradford's first chancellor from 1966 to 1985.1964 至 1970 年及 1974 至 1976 年两度任英国首相的哈罗德·威尔逊，于 1966 至 1985 年担任布拉德福德首任校监。

• E.G. Edwards, principal of the Bradford Institute of Technology, became the university's first vice-chancellor in 1966 and served until 1978.布拉德福德理工学院院长 E·G·爱德华兹于 1966 年出任学校首任校长，任职至 1978 年。

• Imran Khan, chancellor of the university from 2005 to 2014, later became prime minister of Pakistan, serving from 2018 to 2022.2005 至 2014 年任该校校监的伊姆兰·汗其后出任巴基斯坦总理，任期为 2018 至 2022 年。

• The British television and radio presenter Anita Rani, who was born in Bradford, was installed as chancellor in spring 2023.出生于布拉德福德的英国电视与广播主持人安妮塔·拉尼于 2023 年春就任校监。

• Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese-British telecommunications entrepreneur who founded Celtel, is an alumnus of the university.创立 Celtel 的苏丹裔英国电信企业家莫·易卜拉欣是该校校友。

• Tony O'Reilly, former chief executive of the H.J. Heinz Company and chairman of Independent News and Media, was also a Bradford graduate.曾任亨氏公司首席执行官、后又任独立新闻与传媒集团主席的托尼·奥赖利同样是布拉德福德毕业生。

• Crawford W. Beveridge, an executive vice-president and chairman of Sun Microsystems, studied at Bradford.曾任太阳微系统公司执行副总裁兼董事长的克劳福德·W·贝弗里奇曾就读于布拉德福德。

• Gavin Williamson, a Bradford graduate in social sciences, served as the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Education and Secretary of State for Defence.毕业于布拉德福德社会科学专业的加文·威廉姆森曾任英国教育大臣与国防大臣。

• The science fiction writer Charles Stross, a winner of the Hugo Award, is a Bradford graduate, as is the novelist Jon McGregor.雨果奖得主、科幻作家查尔斯·斯特罗斯是布拉德福德毕业生，小说家乔恩·麦格雷戈亦毕业于该校。

• Melih Abdulhayoglu, founder and chief executive of the cybersecurity firm Comodo, and Kate Swann, former chief executive of WH Smith, also studied at Bradford.网络安全公司科摩多创始人兼首席执行官梅利赫·阿卜杜勒哈伊奥卢，以及 WH Smith 前首席执行官凯特·斯旺，均曾就读于布拉德福德。

• Among its international alumni are Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal, a former prime minister of Mongolia, David J. Francis, Chief Minister of Sierra Leone, and Gibran Rakabuming, Vice President of Indonesia.其国际校友包括蒙古前总理林钦尼亚木·阿玛尔扎尔嘎勒、塞拉利昂首席部长戴维·J·弗朗西斯，以及印度尼西亚副总统吉布兰·拉卡布明。

• Lord Winston, the fertility pioneer, opened the university's new psychology laboratories in 2008, a year when its psychology course was rated in the United Kingdom top five with 94 per cent student satisfaction.生殖医学先驱温斯顿勋爵于 2008 年为学校新建的心理学实验室揭幕，当年其心理学课程获评英国前五，学生满意度达 94%。