University of Brighton

The University of Brighton is a public university on the south coast of England, rooted in the Brighton School of Art that opened in 1858 and granted university status in 1992 under the Further and Higher Education Act of that year.布莱顿大学是英格兰南海岸的一所公立大学，源头可追溯到 1858 年开学的布莱顿艺术学校，1992 年依据当年《继续教育与高等教育法》取得大学地位。

It teaches around 18,000 students with some 2,400 staff across three Brighton campuses, and most of the degrees it awards are also recognised by professional bodies or lead directly to a professional qualification.全校约 1.8 万名学生、约 2400 名教职员，分布在布莱顿的三个校区，所授学位大多获得专业机构认证，或直接衔接专业资格证书。

The university places within the top 100 of the QS subject rankings for Art and Design, was graded Silver in the national Teaching Excellence Framework in 2023, and appears in the 901-950 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings, with no Nobel, Turing or Fields medallist among its staff or alumni.其艺术与设计学科位列 QS 学科排名世界前 100，2023 年获全英教学卓越框架银级评定，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名位居 901-950 区间。布莱顿大学教职工与校友中没有诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主。

History

• The story begins in 1858, when the Brighton School of Art opened its doors to its first 110 students in rooms beside the kitchens of the Royal Pavilion, the former seaside palace of the Prince Regent.故事始于 1858 年，布莱顿艺术学校在皇家穹顶宫厨房旁的房间里迎接首批 110 名学生，那座穹顶宫曾是摄政王的海滨宫殿。

• In 1876 the school moved into a purpose-built home on Grand Parade, and William Gladstone, then Prime Minister, witnessed the laying of the foundation stone of the new building.1876 年，学校迁入格兰德大道上的专用新楼，时任英国首相威廉·格莱斯顿为新楼奠基仪式见证。

• Scientific and technical education arrived separately in 1897, when the Municipal School of Science and Technology opened in Brighton with 600 enrolled students.科学与技术的教育线另行起步：1897 年布莱顿市立科学与技术学校开学，注册学生 600 人。

• The Municipal Day Training College, the teacher training college that opened in 1909 in Richmond Terrace in Brighton, became Brighton College of Education and gave the later university its Falmer campus.1909 年开学于布莱顿里士满台的市立日间培训学院后来成为布莱顿教育学院，并为大学带来了法尔默校区。

• A physical education college for women opened in London in 1898 under the headship of Dorette Wilkie, running a two-year course that taught teachers how to teach, and it moved to Eastbourne in 1947.一所面向女性的体育教育学院 1898 年在伦敦开办，首任院长多雷特·威尔基，开设两年制「教教师如何教书」的课程，1947 年迁至伊斯特本。

• New buildings were constructed at Moulsecoomb in the 1960s for what had by then become the Brighton College of Technology.1960 年代，穆尔斯孔布兴建新楼，供当时已改组为布莱顿技术学院的机构使用。

• In 1970 the School of Art and the Brighton College of Technology merged to form Brighton Polytechnic, joining the art tradition of 1858 with the engineering tradition of 1897.1970 年，艺术学校与布莱顿技术学院合并为布莱顿理工学院，让 1858 年的艺术传统与 1897 年的工程传统合流。

• In 1976 the Eastbourne college merged with two other teacher training colleges, Seaford included, to form the East Sussex College of Higher Education, while in the same year Brighton College of Education merged with Brighton Polytechnic, giving the polytechnic its Falmer campus.1976 年，伊斯特本学院与另外两所教育学院（含西福德学院）合并为东萨塞克斯高等教育学院，同年布莱顿教育学院并入布莱顿理工学院，理工学院由此取得法尔默校区。

• A further merger followed in 1979, when the East Sussex College of Higher Education joined the polytechnic and created the Eastbourne campus, the institution that had begun in London in 1898 and moved to Eastbourne in 1949.1979 年再有一次合并，东萨塞克斯高等教育学院并入理工学院，形成伊斯特本校区，该机构 1898 年创于伦敦、1949 年迁到伊斯特本。

• When UK polytechnics were allowed to call themselves universities in 1992, Brighton Polytechnic became the University of Brighton under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.1992 年英国理工学院获准升格为大学，布莱顿理工学院依据《1992 年继续教育与高等教育法》成为布莱顿大学。

• In 1994 the Sussex and Kent Institute of Nursing and Midwifery became part of the university, increasing the number of students based in Eastbourne.1994 年，萨塞克斯与肯特护理助产学院并入大学，使驻伊斯特本的学生人数进一步增加。

• The Brighton and Sussex Medical School opened in 2003 as a partnership between the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex and the Universities Hospitals Trust, the first medical school in South East England outside London.布莱顿-萨塞克斯医学院 2003 年开学，由布莱顿大学、萨塞克斯大学与大学医院信托基金会合办，是伦敦之外英格兰东南部的第一所医学院。

• A Hastings campus opened in 2003, originally named University Centre Hastings, and was subsequently closed in 2019.黑斯廷斯校区于 2003 年启用，初名黑斯廷斯大学中心，2019 年关闭。

• In 2011 the Brighton International College, part of Kaplan International Colleges, opened on the Moulsecoomb campus to give international students English language courses and preparatory academic tuition for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.2011 年，隶属凯普兰国际学院的布莱顿国际学院在穆尔斯孔布校区开学，为国际学生提供英语课程与本科、研究生学位的先修教学。

• In October 2019 the university launched the Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts, the first new contemporary public arts space opened in the city since 1999, hosting public exhibitions, events and commissioned work for students and the public alike.2019 年 10 月，大学推出布莱顿当代艺术中心，这是该市自 1999 年以来首个新建的当代公共艺术空间，面向学生与公众举办展览、活动与委约创作。

• In 2023 students and staff protested against plans to make 110 staff redundant, and the protests failed to prevent the cuts, with 104 lecturers losing their posts through 82 voluntary and 22 compulsory redundancies.2023 年，校方裁撤 110 个岗位的计划引发学生与教职工抗议，抗议最终未能阻止裁员，104 名讲师离职，其中 82 人自愿裁退、22 人强制裁退。

• Also in May 2023 the university closed its Centre for Contemporary Arts, attributing the closure to rising inflation, the freeze on tuition fees and high energy costs.同在 2023 年 5 月，大学关闭了当代艺术中心，归因于通胀上升、学费冻结与高昂能源成本。

• The Eastbourne campus, which had almost 3,000 students before it closed, was shut in 2024, leaving the university with three campuses inside the city of Brighton.停办前曾有近 3000 名学生的伊斯特本校区于 2024 年关闭，大学自此只保留布莱顿市内的三个校区。

• The university's Community University Partnership Programme received an honourable mention at the 2010 Community-Campus Partnerships for Health awards and was highly commended in the Social Responsibility category at the 2009 Green Gown Awards.大学的社区大学伙伴计划在 2010 年健康社区-校园伙伴奖评选中获荣誉表彰，并在 2009 年绿袍奖的社会责任类别获高度赞扬。

• In 2018 Brighton gained a first class award in the People and Planet University League, which ranks UK universities by environmental and ethical performance.2018 年，布莱顿在「人与地球」大学排行榜中获得一等评价，该榜按环境与伦理表现排名全英大学。

Academics

• The university offers over 400 courses, with teaching spanning pharmacy, engineering, ecology, computing, art, architecture, geology, nursing, teacher training, sport science, journalism, criminology and business.学校开设 400 余门课程，教学领域涵盖药学、工程、生态、计算、艺术、建筑、地质、护理、师资培训、运动科学、新闻、犯罪学与商科。

• Academic life is organised in eight schools: Applied Sciences, Architecture Technology and Engineering, Art and Media, Business and Law, Education, Humanities and Social Science, and Sport and Health Sciences, alongside the joint Brighton and Sussex Medical School.教学科研编为八个学院：应用科学学院、建筑技术与工程学院、艺术与传媒学院、商业与法学院、教育学院、人文与社会科学学院、运动与健康科学学院，以及与萨塞克斯大学合办的布莱顿-萨塞克斯医学院。

• The Brighton and Sussex Medical School is one of four medical schools created under a UK government strategy to increase the number of qualified doctors from the UK working in the National Health Service, with Brighton supplying the professional side of the course and Sussex the biological science teaching.布莱顿-萨塞克斯医学院是英国政府为扩大 NHS 本土合格医生供给而设立的四所医学院之一，课程中执业临床环节由布莱顿负责，生物科学教学由萨塞克斯承担。

• The School of Business and Law has taught business and management courses since the 1960s, grew out of Brighton Technical College, took its current name in 1986 and moved into Elm House on the Moulsecoomb campus after a large redevelopment.商业与法学院自 1960 年代起教授商业与管理课程，前身为布莱顿技术学院系统，1986 年采用现名，大规模改建后迁入穆尔斯孔布校区的榆树楼。

• The business school is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a credential held by fewer than 6 per cent of business schools worldwide.该商学院获国际商学院促进协会认证，这一资质全球商学院中不足 6% 拥有。

• The School of Art and Media, housed on the City campus, is the direct descendant of the Brighton School of Art of 1858 and was formerly the university's Faculty of Arts.设在城市校区的艺术与传媒学院是 1858 年布莱顿艺术学校的直系后裔，前身为该校的艺术学院。

• Research groups at Falmer include the Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, the International Health Development and Research Centre, the Social Science Policy and Research Centre, the Education Research Centre and the Centre for Learning and Teaching.法尔默校区的研究机构包括护理助产研究中心、国际健康与发展研究中心、社会政策与研究中心、教育研究中心以及学习教学中心。

• The Advanced Engineering Centre is known for automotive engineering, for example developing the 2/4 SIGHT engine, and the automotive engineering course is offered jointly with the University of Sussex.先进工程中心以车辆工程著称，例如开发出 2/4 SIGHT 发动机，车辆工程课程与萨塞克斯大学合办。

• In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the automotive engineering research group had 70 per cent of its research rated internationally excellent or world-leading and 95 per cent deemed internationally recognised.2008 年研究评估考核中，车辆工程研究组 70% 的研究被评为国际优秀或世界领先，95% 获国际公认。

• The University of Brighton Doctoral College provides academic, administrative and practical support for postgraduate research students, with Doctoral College campus centres in Brighton.布莱顿大学博士学院为研究生提供学术、行政与实务支持，在布莱顿各校区设有博士学院中心。

• Brighton International College runs academic preparatory programmes for students from outside the EU, who on completing the programme with the required grades progress to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the university.布莱顿国际学院为欧盟以外学生开设学术先修课程，学生达标结业后可升入本校本科与研究生学位课程。

• The university validates degree-level courses taught at partner colleges including East Sussex College Group, Greater Brighton Metropolitan College and Plumpton College.大学为合作学院认证学位课程教学，伙伴院校包括东萨塞克斯学院集团、大布莱顿都会学院与普兰普顿学院。

• It also validates higher education courses taught at the KLC School of Design in London.学校还为位于伦敦的 KLC 设计学院认证高等教育课程。

• Most of the professional subjects carry external recognition, and the majority of degrees awarded are recognised by professional organisations or lead to professional qualifications.多数应用型专业带有外部行业认可，学校所授学位的大多获得专业机构认证或可换取执业资格。

• Laboratory teaching at Moulsecoomb runs from clinical skills and molecular biology laboratories to specialist labs for structural dynamics, geotechnics, thermal dynamics, hydraulics and avionics, backed by a flight simulator and a real-time trading room.穆尔斯孔布校区的实验实训涵盖临床技能与分子生物学实验室，以及结构动力学、岩土、热力学、液压、航空电子专用实验室，并配有飞行模拟器与实时交易室。

Campus

• The university has three campuses: Falmer about three miles from the city centre, City in the centre itself, and Moulsecoomb to the north on Lewes Road.大学现有三个校区：距市中心约三英里的法尔默、位于市中心的都市校区，以及北部刘易斯路旁的穆尔斯孔布。

• The Falmer campus houses the School of Education, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Sport and Health Sciences, along with the Brighton and Sussex Medical School.法尔默校区坐落教育学院、人文与社会科学学院、运动与健康科学学院，以及布莱顿-萨塞克斯医学院。

• Falmer railway station sits immediately adjacent to the campus, as does the Falmer Stadium, home of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, which opened in 2011.法尔默火车站与校区紧邻，法尔默体育场同样在侧，它是布莱顿-霍夫阿尔比恩足球俱乐部的主场，2011 年启用。

• Sports facilities at Falmer include a floodlit third-generation artificial turf pitch, netball and tennis courts, a fitness suite, and a sports hall with six badminton courts, with a new sports pavilion opened in 2015.法尔默的体育设施包括带照明的第三代人造草球场、篮网球与网球场、健身室，以及设 6 片羽毛球场的体育馆，新体育看台楼于 2015 年开放。

• The City campus is home to the School of Art and Media, the University of Brighton gallery and the Sallis Benney Theatre, named after E. A. Sallis Benney, a former principal of the Brighton School of Art.都市校区是艺术与传媒学院、布莱顿大学美术馆与萨利斯·贝尼剧院所在地，剧院以曾任布莱顿艺术学校校长的 E. A. 萨利斯·贝尼命名。

• Its archives include the University of Brighton Design Archives, which holds collections from the Design Council and other British and global design organisations, and the moving image archive Screen Archive South East, while the specialist humanities, art and design library sits in St Peter's House.校区档案藏有布莱顿大学设计档案馆，收纳设计委员会及英国与全球设计机构的藏品，另有活动影像档案馆「东南银幕档案」，人文艺术设计专题图书馆设于圣彼得楼。

• Moulsecoomb is the largest of the three campuses with over 8,000 students in the School of Applied Sciences, the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering and the School of Business and Law, and the students' union has its main offices in the Cockcroft Building there.穆尔斯孔布是规模最大的校区，应用科学、建筑技术工程、商业与法律三个学院共 8000 余名学生在此，学生会总部设在柯克克罗夫特大楼。

• On Moulsecoomb the university and Ricardo UK jointly opened the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories on 14 November 2006, one of the largest UK research teams dedicated to internal combustion engines, laser-based measurement, modelling and computational simulation, and the new advanced engineering building opened in September 2017 with Elm House following in 2021.2006 年 11 月 14 日，大学与里卡多英国公司在穆尔斯孔布合建里卡多爵士实验室，它是英国最大的内燃机研究团队之一，兼攻激光测量、基础建模与计算仿真，新先进工程楼 2017 年 9 月落成，榆树楼 2021 年投用。

• The university runs three libraries, Aldrich Library at Moulsecoomb, Falmer Library and the St Peter's House Library on the City campus, each typically open between 55 and 68 hours a week including evenings and weekends.大学有三座图书馆：穆尔斯孔布的奥尔德里奇馆、法尔默馆与都市校区的圣彼得楼馆，每周开放 55 至 68 小时，均含晚间与周末。

• At Eastbourne, before its closure in 2024, facilities included exercise physiology laboratories, an environmental chamber, a human movement laboratory, the Leaf Hospital podiatry and physiotherapy clinic, a Queenwood library and a 25-metre swimming pool.伊斯特本校区 2024 年关闭前设有运动生理实验室、环境舱、人体动作实验室、利夫医院足病与理疗诊所、奎因伍德图书馆和 25 米游泳池。

Reputation

• The 2027 QS World University Rankings place the University of Brighton in the 901-950 band, while the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings put it in the 701-800 range.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将布莱顿大学置于 901-950 区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名则将其列于 701-800 区间。

• US News places the university at 1049 in its 2026-2027 global best universities ranking, and it was not included in the 2026 ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities.US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名将其列在第 1049 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未收录该校。

• On the subject dimension the QS World University Rankings place Brighton within the top 100 internationally for Art and Design.学科维度上，QS 世界大学排名将布莱顿的艺术与设计学科列入世界前 100。

• OpenAlex attributes 18,583 scholarly works to the university with 741,227 citations, an output scale consistent with its focus on practical, creative and professional education.OpenAlex 收录该校学术文献 18,583 篇、被引 741,227 次，产出规模与其侧重实践、创意与专业教育的定位相称。

• The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise confirmed that 79 per cent of Brighton's research output was of international standing, comprising 15 per cent world-leading, 29 per cent internationally excellent and 35 per cent internationally recognised.2008 年研究评估考核确认布莱顿 79% 的研究成果具有国际水准，其中 15% 世界领先、29% 国际优秀、35% 国际公认。

• Brighton's RAE ranking rose from 80th in 2001 to 59th in 2008, prompting descriptions of it as a rising star among UK universities, and 65 per cent of its art and design research was classed world-leading or internationally excellent, with Research Fortnight ranking the art and design submission second in the country on volume and quality.布莱顿的 RAE 排名从 2001 年的第 80 位升至 2008 年的第 59 位，被称作英国大学中的新星，其艺术与设计研究 65% 被评为世界领先或国际优秀，《研究双周报》按提交量与质量将其艺术与设计成果列为全国第二。

• Brighton is in the top 50 universities in England for graduate prospects in the Complete University Guide league tables, measuring graduates in highly skilled employment or further study 15 months after graduating, and it gained a Silver award in the national Teaching Excellence Framework in 2023.在完整大学指南排行榜中，布莱顿的毕业生前景位居英格兰前 50，该指标统计毕业后 15 个月从事高技能工作或继续深造的毕业生比例，2023 年学校获教学卓越框架银级评定。

• No Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate has studied or taught at Brighton, the university's honours being concentrated in art and design research, professional education and environmental awards.布莱顿没有培养或聘请过诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其荣誉集中于艺术设计研究、专业教育与环保类奖项。

Student life

• Students on each campus have access to a careers advisory service, a counselling service, a student advice service, a disability and dyslexia service and a chaplaincy.各校区学生可使用职业咨询、心理辅导、学生事务咨询、障碍与诵读困难支持以及校内牧师服务。

• Brighton Students' Union is the representative body for students, constituted as a charity and headed by four full-time elected student officers.布莱顿学生会是学生自治代表组织，注册为慈善机构，由 4 名全职民选学生干事领导。

• The union uses student feedback to press for changes that make student life better and supports students with appeals, mitigating circumstances and other academic issues.学生会依据学生反馈推动改善学生生活的改革，并为学生在申诉、特殊情况减免及其他学业问题上提供支持。

• It organises societies and student media throughout the year, including Buzz Radio, a student-led campus radio station with studios in Brighton.学生会全年组织社团与学生媒体活动，其中包括学生自办的校园电台「Buzz Radio」，演播室设在布莱顿。

• A number of shops and cafes across the campuses are run by the students' union, with its main offices in the Cockcroft Building on the Moulsecoomb campus.各校区的多家商店与咖啡馆由学生会经营，其总部在穆尔斯孔布校区的柯克克罗夫特大楼。

• The Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts, opened in October 2019, is accessible to students and the general public and hosts public exhibitions, events and commissioned artwork.2019 年 10 月开放的布莱顿当代艺术中心对学生与公众同时开放，常年举办公开展览、艺术活动与委约作品展示。

Notable people

• Among figures in the arts who attended the university or its predecessor institutions are the Turner Prize winners Rachel Whiteread, awarded in 1993, and Keith Tyson, awarded in 2001, who studied at the Faculty of Arts in Brighton.曾就读于本校及其前身机构的艺术界人物包括特纳奖得主雷切尔·怀特雷德（1993 年获奖）与基思·泰森（2001 年获奖），两人均毕业于布莱顿艺术学院。

• Keith Coventry won the John Moores Painting Prize in 2010, and the photographer Ewen Spencer and the artist Alison Lapper also studied at Brighton.基思·科文特里获 2010 年约翰·穆尔绘画奖，摄影师尤恩·斯宾塞与艺术家艾莉森·拉珀也都毕业于布莱顿。

• Kate Greenaway Medal-winning picture-book authors studied at Brighton too: Emily Gravett, Raymond Briggs and Quentin Blake, alongside the children's writer-illustrator Lucy Cousins.凯特·格林纳威奖得主也出自布莱顿：绘本作家艾米莉·格雷维特、雷蒙德·布里格斯与昆廷·布莱克，另有儿童书写绘作者露西·卡曾斯。

• Contributions to modern visual culture by members of the arts and design schools include George Hardie's cover design for Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon and several series of Royal Mail stamps, Hardie being a Royal Designer for Industry, and John Vernon Lord's sleeve for Deep Purple's Book of Taliesyn.艺术与设计学院成员对当代视觉文化的贡献包括乔治·哈迪为平克·弗洛伊德专辑《月之暗面》设计的封面及其多套皇家邮政邮票——哈迪获皇家工业设计师称号——以及约翰·弗农·洛德为深紫乐队《塔列辛之书》设计的唱片封套。

• Fashion designer Barbara Hulanicki and designer Julien Macdonald, who holds an OBE, both came out of the art school tradition, and the illustrator Cliff Wright drew images for the Harry Potter books.时装设计师芭芭拉·胡拉尼基与获授 OBE 的设计师朱利安·麦克唐纳均出自艺术学校传统，插画家克利夫·赖特曾为《哈利·波特》系列图书绘图。

• The artist Helen Chadwick took the sculpture course at Brighton Polytechnic from 1973 to 1976 and later returned to teach there, sculptor Antony Gormley formerly taught at the institution, and in 2000 a group of graduates of the BA Illustration course formed the successful Peepshow Collective.艺术家海伦·查德威克 1973 至 1976 年在布莱顿理工学院修雕塑课程，后来回校执教，雕塑家安东尼·戈姆利曾在此任教，2000 年一群插画学士毕业生组成成功的「窥景集」创作团队。

• Musicians trained at Brighton include Natasha Khan, who performs as Bat for Lashes, and the electronic producer known as The Haxan Cloak, while the photographer Mark Power is a member of Magnum Photos.在布莱顿受训的音乐人包括唱作人娜塔莎·汗与电子制作人 The Haxan Cloak，摄影师马克·帕尔则加入玛格南图片社。

• Liz Aggiss, live artist, dance performer, choreographer and film maker, taught visual performance at Brighton from 1982 and became an Emeritus Professor of Visual Performance, and Alison Bruce is the university's Professor of Nuclear Physics.现场艺术家、舞蹈演员、编舞兼电影人利兹·阿吉斯自 1982 年起在布莱顿教授视觉表演，后获视觉表演荣休教授头衔，艾莉森·布鲁斯则是该校核物理学教授。

• Other alumni include Sandra Landy, a world champion bridge player, the adventurer and conservationist Holly Budge, and the sculptor and woodcarver Robert Koenig, author of the woodcarving project Odyssey, who studied the sculpture course alongside Helen Chadwick.其他校友包括桥牌世界冠军桑德拉·兰迪、探险家兼自然保护人士霍利·巴奇，以及与海伦·查德威克同学修雕塑课程的雕刻家罗伯特·克尼希，后者以木雕项目《奥德赛》闻名。

• Its vice-chancellors have been Sir David Watson from 1992 to 2005, Julian Crampton CBE from 2005 to 2015, Debra Humphris from 2015 to 2025, and Donna Whitehead since 2025.历任校长（副校长职）为：戴维·沃森爵士（1992 至 2005）、朱利安·克拉普顿（CBE，2005 至 2015）、黛布拉·汉弗里斯（2015 至 2025），2025 年起由唐娜·怀特黑德接任。