University of Northampton

The University of Northampton (UON) is a public university in Northampton, the county town of Northamptonshire in the English East Midlands, about 100 kilometres north-west of London.北安普顿大学（University of Northampton，简称 UON）是英国东米德兰兹郡北安普顿郡郡治北安普顿的一所公立大学，位于伦敦西北约 100 公里处。

It traces its line to Northampton Technical College of 1924 and was created in 1975 as Nene College of Higher Education, taking university status in 2005 after the repeal of a 1265 royal ban on universities in the town.该校渊源可上溯至 1924 年的北安普顿技术学院，1975 年合并为尼恩高等教育学院，2005 年在 1265 年王室禁令被撤销后取得大学资格。

It enrolled 12,060 students in 2024/25 across three faculties, teaches from the 330 million pound Waterside Campus opened in 2018, and is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2024/25 学年该校三个学院共有 12,060 名学生，教学集中于 2018 年启用的水畔校区（造价 3.3 亿英镑），在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201-1400 区间。

History

• Northampton had a university between 1261 and 1265, founded by royal charter with the approval of Henry III, the third in England after Oxford and Cambridge and the twenty-second in Europe.北安普顿在 1261 至 1265 年间曾拥有一所大学，经亨利三世批准以王室特许状设立，是英格兰继牛津、剑桥之后的第三所、欧洲第二十二所大学。
• In 1265 Henry III dissolved it on the advice of bishops and magnates who argued that it threatened Oxford, and signed a decree forbidding any university in the town, a prohibition that stood for 740 years.1265 年，亨利三世在主教与贵族的建议下解散该校，理由是它威胁到牛津，并签署法令禁止在该镇设立大学，这道禁令延续了 740 年。
• Northampton Technical College opened at St George's Avenue in 1924 on the site later known as the Avenue Campus, and a new building for it was formally opened by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1932.北安普顿技术学院于 1924 年在圣乔治大道开办，此地后来称为林荫校区；1932 年，为其新建的大楼由约克公爵夫妇正式揭幕。
• A School of Art opened in 1937, and art teaching there later produced the architect Will Alsop and the illustrator Denys Watkins-Pitchford.艺术学院于 1937 年开办，此处的美术教育后来培养了建筑师威尔·阿尔索普与插画家德尼斯·沃特金斯—皮奇福德。
• At the start of the 1970s Northamptonshire was one of the few English counties without a teacher-training college, and a college in Liverpool that had lost its home was transferred to what became the Park Campus.1970 年代初，北安普顿郡是英格兰少数没有师范学院的郡之一，一所失去校舍的利物浦学院被迁至后来的公园校区。
• The College of Education was opened in 1972 by Margaret Thatcher, then Secretary of State for Education and Science, and four years later became one of the three institutions merged into the new college.1972 年，时任教育与科学大臣的玛格丽特·撒切尔为教育学院揭幕；四年后，该院成为合并组建新学院的三所机构之一。
• In 1975 the College of Education amalgamated with the Colleges of Technology and Art to form Nene College of Higher Education, named after the River Nene that runs through the town.1975 年，教育学院与技术学院、艺术学院合并，成立以流经该镇的尼恩河命名的尼恩高等教育学院。
• In 1978 Nene College integrated the Leathersellers College from London, acquiring a leather-working tradition that matched Northampton's historic shoe and leather industry.1978 年，尼恩学院并入伦敦的皮革商行学院，由此承继的制革传统与北安普顿历史上的制鞋与皮革工业相互呼应。
• In 1993 the college incorporated St Andrew's School of Occupational Therapy and was granted undergraduate degree-awarding powers, the legal step that turned it into a higher-education institution proper.1993 年，学院并入圣安德鲁职业治疗学校，并获得本科学位授予权，这一法律步骤使其真正成为高等教育机构。
• It took in the Sir Gordon Roberts College of Nursing and Midwifery in 1997, the origin of its present nursing and midwifery provision.1997 年，学院接收戈登·罗伯茨爵士护理与助产学院，这成为其今日护理与助产教育的源头。
• Nene College's degrees were validated by the Council for National Academic Awards until that body was dissolved in 1992, after which the college awarded degrees through partner universities until it won its own powers.尼恩学院的学位原由全国学术资格委员会（CNAA）认证，该机构于 1992 年撤销，此后学院一度通过伙伴大学授予学位，直至获得自主授予权。
• The Park Campus in Kingsthorpe took shape in the early 1970s around the transferred Liverpool college and grew into the university's largest site until its closure in 2018.金斯索普的公园校区在 1970 年代初围绕迁来的利物浦学院形成，此后长期是学校最大的校区，直至 2018 年关闭。
• In 1999 it became University College Northampton, and in 2005 it gained full university status after convincing the Privy Council to repeal Henry III's decree of 1265.1999 年，学院升格为北安普顿大学学院；2005 年，在说服枢密院废除亨利三世 1265 年法令后，正式获得大学资格。
• University status also brought the power to validate its own research degrees, previously awarded through the University of Leicester, and in July 2006 seven students received the first doctorates validated by Northampton.取得大学资格的同时，学校获得自主授予研究学位的权力，此前该类学位由莱斯特大学认证；2006 年 7 月，七名学生获得北安普顿首批自主认证的博士学位。
• Baroness Falkner of Margravine was appointed the first chancellor on 10 February 2008, and the BBC radio presenter Richard Coles succeeded her in July 2017.2008 年 2 月 10 日，玛格拉文男爵夫人福克纳出任首任校监；2017 年 7 月，BBC 电台主持人理查德·科尔斯接任。
• In January 2010 the School of Applied Sciences was renamed the School of Science and Technology and moved into the refurbished Newton Building, which Princess Anne opened in September 2010.2010 年 1 月，应用科学学院更名为科学与技术学院并迁入翻新后的牛顿楼，该楼于 2010 年 9 月由安妮公主揭幕。
• In May 2012 the university announced a new riverside campus on the disused Northampton Power Station site, on the south bank of the Nene inside the Northampton Waterside Enterprise Zone.2012 年 5 月，学校宣布在尼恩河南岸、北安普顿水畔企业区内的废弃北安普顿发电站地块建设新的河畔校区。
• The Waterside Campus opened to students in September 2018, and the functions of the Park and Avenue campuses were transferred to it, ending nearly a century of teaching at St George's Avenue.水畔校区于 2018 年 9 月向学生开放，公园校区与林荫校区的功能整体迁入，圣乔治大道近百年的教学历史就此结束。
• In December 2023, during Anne-Marie Kilday's vice-chancellorship, the university announced the closure of the Institute for Creative Leather Technologies, which had carried the town's leather tradition.2023 年 12 月，在安妮—玛丽·基尔代任校长期间，学校宣布关闭创意皮革技术研究所，该所曾延续本镇的制革传统。
• Northampton was the first university in the United Kingdom to be designated a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U, in recognition of its teaching in social innovation and entrepreneurship.北安普顿是英国第一所获阿育王 U 计划认定为「变革者校园」的大学，以表彰其在社会创新与创业方面的教学。
• By 2024/25 the university had consolidated into three faculties and 12,060 students, after several years in which student numbers and course portfolios were reshaped around the Waterside site.到 2024/25 学年，学校已整合为三个学院、12,060 名学生，此前数年其学生规模与专业结构均围绕水畔校区重新调整。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in three faculties: Business and Law, Education, Arts, Science and Technology, and Health, Sport and Behavioural Sciences.教学由三个学院承担：商业与法律学院，教育、艺术、科学与技术学院，以及健康、运动与行为科学学院。
• The Faculty of Business and Law covers accounting and finance, business management, marketing, events management, law and international relations, and is the university's largest faculty by enrolment.商业与法律学院涵盖会计与金融、工商管理、市场营销、会展管理、法律与国际关系，是全校招生规模最大的学院。
• The Faculty of Education, Arts, Science and Technology trains teachers and covers English, history, journalism, computing, engineering and environmental science.教育、艺术、科学与技术学院承担师资培养，并开设英语、历史、新闻、计算机、工程与环境科学等专业。
• The Faculty of Health, Sport and Behavioural Sciences teaches nursing, midwifery, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and sport science, most of it leading to professional registration.健康、运动与行为科学学院开设护理、助产、职业治疗、物理治疗、心理学与运动科学，多数专业通向职业注册资格。
• The university offers foundation degrees, honours degrees, postgraduate taught courses and research degrees up to PhD level, with flexible and part-time routes for mature students.学校提供基础学位、荣誉学士学位、授课型研究生课程以及直至博士的研究学位，并为成人学生设有灵活与业余学习路径。
• It enrolled 12,060 students in 2024/25, a figure that includes a substantial proportion of mature and local students who study while living at home.2024/25 学年在读学生为 12,060 人，其中相当比例是仍住在家中就读的成人学生与本地学生。
• The Waterside Campus was designed for active blended learning, with small-group seminar rooms, flipped classrooms and digital resources replacing the large lecture theatres of the older sites.水畔校区按「主动混合式学习」设计，以小班研讨室、翻转课堂与数字资源取代旧校区的大讲堂。
• Research at Northampton is concentrated in lift engineering and technology, health and wellbeing, social innovation and education, and the university uses the town's National Lift Tower for elevator research.该校研究集中于电梯工程与技术、健康与福祉、社会创新与教育，并利用本镇的国家电梯塔开展升降设备研究。
• The lift engineering group is one of the few academic teams in Europe working on vertical-transport technology, and it advises manufacturers on safety and energy use.电梯工程团队是欧洲少数研究垂直运输技术的学术团队之一，并就安全与能耗问题为制造商提供咨询。
• The Institute for Creative Leather Technologies, closed in 2023, had grown out of the town's footwear industry and worked with tanneries and car-makers on leather finishing.2023 年关闭的创意皮革技术研究所源自本镇的制鞋业，曾与制革厂及汽车制造商合作研究皮革整饰工艺。
• Changemaker teaching, introduced after the 2013 Ashoka U designation, embeds social innovation projects with community partners in many undergraduate programmes.2013 年获阿育王 U 认定后引入的「变革者」教学，把与社区伙伴合作的社会创新项目嵌入许多本科专业。
• The university is an academic sponsor of two university technical colleges opened in September 2013, Daventry UTC for engineering and Silverstone UTC for motorsport engineering and event management.该校是 2013 年 9 月开办的两所大学技术学院的学术主办方：达文特里技术学院侧重工程，银石技术学院侧重赛车工程与会展管理。
• Postgraduate research is supervised within faculty research groups, and the university awards its own PhDs following the research-degree powers granted in 2005.研究生科研由各学院的研究团队指导，学校依据 2005 年获得的研究学位授予权自行颁发博士学位。
• Learning services are concentrated in the Learning Hub, which keeps a 24-hour library, study-support desks and group-study rooms open throughout term.学习服务集中于学习中心，学期内提供 24 小时图书馆、学习支持台与小组研讨室。
• The university runs widening-participation programmes with schools across Northamptonshire, including campus visits, subject taster days and mentoring by current students.学校与北安普顿郡各地的中小学合作开展扩大招生计划，包括校园参观、学科体验日与在读学生导师辅导。
• The university validates programmes for partner institutions in Britain and overseas, a power it has held since it won taught-degree awarding powers in 1993.学校为国内外的合作院校认证课程，这项权力可追溯至其 1993 年获得授课型学位授予权之时。

Campus

• Northampton lies on the River Nene in the East Midlands, roughly 100 kilometres from London, 80 from Birmingham and 90 from Cambridge, with the M1 motorway running past the town.北安普顿位于东米德兰兹的尼恩河畔，距伦敦约 100 公里、伯明翰约 80 公里、剑桥约 90 公里，M1 高速公路从镇旁经过。
• The Waterside Campus occupies about 58 acres of brownfield land on the former power station site, a short walk from the town centre and the railway station.水畔校区占地约 58 英亩，位于旧发电站地块的棕地上，步行即可到达镇中心与火车站。
• It cost about 330 million pounds and was the largest capital project in the university's history, replacing two ageing campuses with a single town-centre site.校区造价约 3.3 亿英镑，是校史上最大的基建项目，以一处紧邻市中心的校园取代了两处老旧校区。
• The Learning Hub forms the centre of the campus, combining the library, IT support, study spaces and a cafe under one roof and opening around the clock.学习中心构成校园核心，将图书馆、信息技术支持、学习空间与咖啡馆集于一体，并全天候开放。
• The student village provides halls named after Francis Crick, Margaret Bondfield, John Clare and Charles Bradlaugh, while the 464-room St John's Halls near the town centre opened in 2014 for international and postgraduate students.学生村设有以弗朗西斯·克里克、玛格丽特·邦德菲尔德、约翰·克莱尔与查尔斯·布拉德劳命名的宿舍楼；市中心附近 464 间房的圣约翰宿舍于 2014 年启用，主要接待国际学生与研究生。
• The Students' Union occupies the Engine Shed, a converted building on the campus that doubles as a daytime cafe and events venue.学生会设于校园内的「机车库」改建建筑，白天兼作咖啡馆与活动场地。
• The campus sits within walking distance of Northampton railway station, with direct trains to London Euston, and the Grand Union Canal's Northampton arm runs along the eastern edge of the town.校区距北安普顿火车站步行可达，有直达伦敦尤斯顿的列车；大联盟运河的北安普顿支渠沿镇东边缘流过。
• The town centre holds the Guildhall, the Royal and Derngate theatres, the market square and the 127-metre National Lift Tower, which dominates the skyline north of the river.镇中心有市政厅、皇家与德恩盖特剧院、集市广场，以及高 127 米、雄踞河北岸天际线的国家电梯塔。
• Trains reach London Euston in about an hour, and Luton and Birmingham airports lie within 80 kilometres, making the campus accessible for commuter and international students.火车约一小时可达伦敦尤斯顿站，卢顿与伯明翰机场均在 80 公里范围内，便于通勤学生与国际学生往来。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place the University of Northampton in the 1201-1400 band, its position in the current global table.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将北安普顿大学列入 1201-1400 区间，这是其在当前全球榜单中的位次。^[1]
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place Northampton in the 1601-1800 band, at the lower end of the global table.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将北安普顿列入 1601-1800 区间，处于全球榜单的后段。
• The university is not included in the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027, and therefore carries no US News world position.该校未被列入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名，因此没有相应的世界名次。
• It does not appear in the main table of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, which ranks on research output rather than teaching-intensive profiles.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜以科研产出为主要依据，而非以教学为主的办学定位。
• Northampton's reputation rests more on teaching and social impact than on research volume, and it was the first UK university designated a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U in 2013.北安普顿的声誉更多建立在教学与社会影响而非科研体量之上；2013 年它成为英国第一所获阿育王 U「变革者校园」认定的大学。
• At the time of its designation Northampton joined a network of 21 other Changemaker Campuses worldwide, most of them in the United States, and it remains the only one in the United Kingdom.获得认定时，北安普顿加入了由全球另外 21 所「变革者校园」组成的网络，其中多数位于美国，而它至今仍是英国唯一的一所。
• OpenAlex records 6,920 works and 175,753 citations for the university, with concentrations in health sciences, education, engineering and business.OpenAlex 收录该校 6,920 项成果与 175,753 次引用，主要集中在健康科学、教育、工程与商科领域。
• Its lift engineering research gives it a niche international profile, and the National Lift Tower in the town is used as a full-scale test facility by the industry.电梯工程研究赋予该校独特的国际辨识度，镇上的国家电梯塔被业界用作全尺寸试验设施。
• Northampton is the principal university in a county of some 750,000 people and supplies teachers, nurses and social workers to local public services.北安普顿是人口约 75 万的北安普顿郡的主要大学，为当地公共服务输送教师、护士与社会工作者。
• Its graduates' outcomes are measured through the national Graduate Outcomes survey rather than through research rankings, and the university publishes employment data by faculty each year.该校毕业生表现主要通过全国毕业生去向调查而非科研排名衡量，学校每年按学院公布就业数据。

Student life

• The university has no Latin motto, and its stated purpose is supporting aspiration, creating opportunities and delivering impact, a phrase used across its publications.该校没有拉丁文校训，其公开表述的宗旨是「支持抱负、创造机会、产生影响力」，这一表述见于学校各类出版物。
• The Students' Union is led by five full-time sabbatical officers, supported by an elected team of part-time officers and almost 200 student and career staff.学生会由五名全职带薪干部领导，另有当选的兼职干部团队以及近 200 名学生与专职人员提供支持。
• It runs 35 sports clubs and enters 24 teams in the Wednesday BUCS leagues, under a policy of free sports membership that removes fees for all clubs.学生会运营 35 个体育俱乐部，每周三派出 24 支队伍参加英国高校体育联赛（BUCS），并实行体育会费全免政策。
• Since the 2018-19 academic year the Students' Union has contested an annual Varsity against the University of Bedfordshire, with the host alternating between the two institutions.自 2018/19 学年起，学生会每年与贝德福德大学进行校际对抗赛，主办方在两校之间轮换。
• Around 60 societies are affiliated, ranging from eSports, anime and crochet to the Christian Union and the Hindu Society, most of them meeting in the Learning Hub or the Engine Shed.约有 60 个社团注册，涵盖电竞、动漫、钩织以及基督教联合会与印度教社团，多数在学习中心或机车库活动。
• Town life centres on the market square, the Royal and Derngate theatres, the Guildhall and Delapré Abbey, with Northampton Saints rugby and Northampton Town football as the main local sporting loyalties.镇上的生活以集市广场、皇家与德恩盖特剧院、市政厅与德拉普雷修道院为中心，本地体育归属主要是北安普顿圣徒橄榄球队与北安普顿镇足球俱乐部。
• The Silverstone circuit, home of the British Grand Prix, lies about 25 kilometres south-west of the town and recruits student marshals and event staff from the university.举办英国大奖赛的银石赛道位于镇西南约 25 公里处，会从该校招募学生担任赛道志愿人员与活动工作人员。
• A multi-faith chaplaincy centre occupies a former ground-floor flat in one of the halls, and the chaplaincy team runs services, discussion groups and welfare support for students of all faiths.多信仰牧灵中心设于其中一栋宿舍的旧底楼套房，牧灵团队为各信仰的学生提供礼拜、讨论小组与福利支持。
• Orientation week, society fairs and the summer graduation ceremonies at the Waterside Campus frame a student calendar that is closely tied to the town's own festival programme.迎新周、社团招新集市以及水畔校区的夏季毕业典礼构成学生年度节奏，并与本镇的节庆安排紧密相连。

Notable people

• Will Alsop (1947-2018), the modernist architect behind the Peckham Library and the Ontario College of Art and Design, studied at Northampton College of Art.威尔·阿尔索普（1947—2018）是佩克汉姆图书馆与安大略艺术设计学院的设计者，也是现代主义建筑代表人物，曾就读于北安普顿艺术学院。
• Henry Bird, who taught drawing at the Northampton art school, counted Alsop among his students and is remembered for his murals in local churches.亨利·伯德在北安普顿美术学校教授素描，阿尔索普即其学生之一，他本人以多座本地教堂的壁画闻名。
• Daniel Middleton, known as DanTDM, built one of the world's most-watched YouTube channels from Minecraft content and studied at the university before turning to video full time.丹尼尔·米德尔顿（网名 DanTDM）以《我的世界》内容打造出全球观看量最高的 YouTube 频道之一，转向全职创作前曾在该校就读。
• Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 to 2014 and MP for North Shropshire, was educated at the Leathersellers College before its merger into Nene College.欧文·帕特森于 2012 至 2014 年任英国环境、食品与农村事务大臣，并曾任北什罗普郡议员，其早年就读于皮革商行学院，该院后来并入尼恩学院。
• Bill Drummond, a founder of the KLF and later a writer and conceptual artist, is counted among the university's alumni.比尔·德拉蒙德是电子组合 KLF 的创始成员，后以作家与观念艺术家身份活动，被列为该校校友。
• Dallas Campbell, a television presenter on science and technology programmes, graduated from the university before working for the BBC and Channel 5.达拉斯·坎贝尔是科学与技术类电视节目主持人，毕业于该校，此后为 BBC 与第五频道工作。
• Denys Watkins-Pitchford, who wrote and illustrated children's books under the pen name BB, trained at the Northampton art school and is remembered for his rural writing.德尼斯·沃特金斯—皮奇福德以笔名 BB 创作并绘制儿童读物，曾就读于北安普顿美术学校，其乡野题材写作广为人知。
• Sang Heon Lee, a South Korean actor known for television dramas, is listed among the university's alumni.李尚宪是韩国电视剧演员，被列为该校校友。
• Dave Hill, a political and educational activist, was professor of education at Northampton between 2007 and 2012 and wrote on the politics of schooling.戴夫·希尔是社会与教育活动家，2007 至 2012 年任北安普顿教育学教授，著有关于学校教育政治的论著。
• Richard Coles, a former pop musician turned Church of England priest and broadcaster, has served as chancellor since July 2017 and presides over graduation ceremonies.理查德·科尔斯由流行乐手转为英格兰教会牧师与广播人，自 2017 年 7 月起任校监，主持毕业典礼。