Queen Mary, University of London (informally
Queen Mary,
QMUL or
QM) is a
publicA public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
research university located in London, United Kingdom and a
constituent collegeA collegiate university is a university in which governing authority and functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges...
of the federal
University of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
. With roots dating back to 1785, Queen Mary was formed by the merger of four historic colleges, and since joining the University of London in 1915 has grown to become one of its largest colleges.
Queen Mary's main campus is in the
Mile EndMile End is an area within the East End of London, England, and part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east-northeast of Charing Cross...
area of the
East EndThe East End of London, also known simply as the East End, is the area of London, England, United Kingdom, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Although not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries, the River Lea can be considered another boundary...
of London, with other campuses located in
HolbornHolborn is an area of Central London. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running as High Holborn from St Giles's High Street to Gray's Inn Road and then on to Holborn Viaduct...
,
SmithfieldSmithfield is an area of the City of London, in the ward of Farringdon Without. It is located in the north-west part of the City, and is mostly known for its centuries-old meat market, today the last surviving historical wholesale market in Central London...
and
WhitechapelWhitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Fashion Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and The Highway on the...
. It has around 16,000 full-time students and 3,000 staff and had a total income of £290 million in 2009/10, of which £68.5 million was from research grants and contracts, the highest research income of any UK university which is not a member of the
Russell GroupThe Russell Group is a collaboration of twenty UK universities that together receive two-thirds of research grant and contract funding in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1994 to represent their interests to the government, parliament and other similar bodies...
. Queen Mary is organised into three faculties – the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry – within which there are 21 academic departments and institutes.
In the 2008
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, Queen Mary was ranked 11th by the
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and 13th by
Times Higher Education out of the 132 UK higher education institutions assessed. In the 2010
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Queen Mary is ranked 35th in Europe and 120th in the world. Queen Mary's degree courses in English, Drama, History, Politics, Law, Linguistics and those based at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry are particularly strong, ranking in the top 10 of national academic league tables. In the 2011
Guardian University Guide, the Queen Mary School of Law is ranked 3rd in the UK. There are six Nobel Laureates amongst Queen Mary's alumni and current and former staff.
Queen Mary is a member of the
1994 GroupThe 1994 Group is a coalition of 19 top "smaller research-intensive universities" in the United Kingdom founded in 1994 to defend their interests following the creation of the Russell Group by larger research-intensive universities earlier that year...
, the
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and
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.
History
Queen Mary's origins lie in the mergers, over the years, of four older colleges:
Queen Mary College,
Westfield CollegeWestfield College was a small college situated in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, London, and was a constituent college of the University of London from 1882 to 1989. The college originally admitted only women as students and became coeducational in 1964. In 1989, Westfield College merged with Queen...
,
St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and the
London Hospital Medical College. In 1989 Queen Mary merged with Westfield College to form
Queen Mary & Westfield College. Although teaching began at the London Hospital Medical College in 1785, it did not become part of Queen Mary until 1995. In that same year the two medical schools merged together to form the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary & Westfield College, but Barts and The London has, to some extent, retained its own identity. In 2000, the college adopted its present title of
Queen Mary, University of London, but the official legal title remains
Queen Mary and Westfield College.
Formative years
Queen Mary College was founded in the mid
Victorian eraThe Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
when growing awareness of conditions in London's East End led to drives to provide facilities for local inhabitants, popularised in the 1882 novel
All Sorts of Conditions of Men – An Impossible Story by
Walter BesantSir Walter Besant , was a novelist and historian who lived largely in London.His sister-in-law was Annie Besant.-Biography:...
, which told of how a rich and clever couple from
MayfairMayfair is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster.-History:Mayfair is named after the annual fortnight-long May Fair that took place on the site that is Shepherd Market today...
went to the East End to build a "Palace of Delight, with concert halls, reading rooms, picture galleries, art and designing schools." Although not directly responsible for the conception of the People's Palace, the novel did much to popularise it.
The trustees of the Beaumont Trust, administering funds left by Barber Beaumont, purchased the site of the former Bancroft's School from the Drapers' Company. On 20 May 1885 the Drapers' Court of Assistants resolved to grant £20,000 "for the provision of the technical schools of the People's Palace." The foundation stone was laid on 28 June 1886 and on 14 May 1887
Queen VictoriaVictoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
opened the palace's Queen's Hall as well as laying the foundation stone for the technical schools in the palace's east wing.
The technical schools were opened on 5 October 1888, with the entire palace completed by 1892. When opening them, the Master of the Drapers' Company declared their aims to be "to improve the scientific and technical knowledge of apprentices and workmen engaged in industrial life". However others saw the technical schools as one day becoming a technical university for the East End. The conflicting demands of pleasure and education were identified by the Assistant Charity Commissioner as early as 1891 and for the next forty years this was to dog the People's Palace. In 1892 the Drapers' Company provided £7,000 a year for ten years to guarantee the educational side income.
Into the University of London
The classes reached a peak of 8000 tickets in 1892–1893 but fell to less than half for the following year, due to competition from the London School Board, despite the Palace's classes being more advanced. With the level of teaching growing, in 1895 John Hatton, Director of Evening Classes (1892–1896; later Director of Studies 1896–1908 and Principal 1908–1933) proposed introducing a course of study leading to the Bachelor of Science degree of the
University of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
. By the turn of the century the first degrees were awarded and Hatton, along with several other Professors, were recognised as Teachers of the University of London. In 1906 an application for Parliamentary funds "for the aid of Educational Institutions engaged in work of a University nature", led to the College being told it was "of the highest importance that there should be a School of the University in the faculties of Arts, Science and Engineering within easy reach of the very large population of the East End of London." The educational part of the People's Palace was admitted on an initial three year trial basis as a School of the University of London on 15 May 1907 as
East London College.
The first aeronautical engineering department in the UK was established at the College in 1909, boasting a ground-breaking
wind tunnelA wind tunnel is a research tool used in aerodynamic research to study the effects of air moving past solid objects.-Theory of operation:Wind tunnels were first proposed as a means of studying vehicles in free flight...
. Professor A. P. Thurston, a former student at the College gaining a first class degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 1906, was encouraged and financially supported by P. Y. Alexander, a wealthy aeronautical enthusiast and acquaintance, and J. L. Hatton, the then Principal, to start regular courses of lectures in aeronautics. Thurston gradually brought in more and more skilled aeronautical engineers, and with the newly built laboratory, started giving lectures in aeronautics ("Flying machines", "Balloons, airships and kites", "The mechanical principles of flight") and started extensive research on fundamental matters such as the characteristics of wing sections and propellers, structural and material characteristics, and the forces on struts, leading to use in military aircraft for the First World War.
In 1910 the College's status in the University of London was extended for a further five years, with unlimited membership achieved in May 1915. During this period the organisation of the governors of the People's Palace was rearranged, creating the separate People's Palace Committee and East London College Committee, both under the Palace Governors, as a sign of the growing separation of the two concepts within a single complex.
During the First World War the College admitted students from the London Hospital Medical College who were preparing for the preliminary medical examination, the first step in a long process that would eventually bring the two institutions together. After the war, the College grew, albeit constrained by the rest of the People's Palace to the west and a burial ground immediately to the east. In 1920 it obtained both the Palace's Rotunda (now the Octagon) and rooms under the winter gardens at the west of the palace, which became chemical laboratories. The College's status was also unique, being the only School of the University of London that was subject to both the Charity Commissioners and the
Board of EducationA board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level....
. In April 1929 the College Council decided it would take the steps towards applying to the
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for a
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, but on the advice of the Drapers' Company first devised a scheme for development and expansion, which recommended amongst other things to reamalgamate the People's Palace and the College, with guaranteed provision of the Queen's Hall for recreational purposes, offering at least freedom of governance if not in space.
In the early hours of 25 February 1931 a fire destroyed the Queen's Hall, though both the College and the winter gardens escaped. In the coming days discussions on reconstruction led to the proposal that the entire site be transferred to the College which would then apply for a Charter alone. The Drapers' Company obtained St Helen's Terrace, a row of six houses neighbouring the site, and in July 1931 it was agreed to give these over to the People's Palace for a new site adjacent to the old, which would now become entirely the domain of the College. Separation was now achieved. The Charter was now pursued, but the Academic Board asked for a name change, feeling that "east London" carried unfortunate associations that would hinder the College and its graduates. With the initial proposed name, "Queen's College", having already been taken by
another institutionThe Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its 18th-century architecture...
and "Victoria College" felt to be unoriginal, "Queen Mary College" was settled on. The Charter of Incorporation was presented on 12 December 1934 by
Queen MaryMary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
herself.
Under the Charter
During the Second World War the College was evacuated to
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, where it shared with
King's CollegeKing's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....
. Meanwhile the Mile End site was requisitioned for war work and was for a time used as the Municipal Offices of Stepney Borough Council. After the war the College returned to London, facing many of the same problems but with prospects for westward expansion.
The East End had suffered considerable bomb damage (although the College itself had incurred little) and consequently several areas of land near to the College site now became vacant. The former church of St Benets' to the immediate east of the College was now defunct and was demolished in 1950, with the space used to build a new block for
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, but most of the acquisitions in the immediate post war years were to the west of the college. Even the new People's Palace was no longer able to meet its needs and it was acquired by the College along with several pieces of land that together formed a significant continuous stretch along the Mile End Road. New buildings for engineering, biology and chemistry were built on the new sites, whilst the arts took over the space vacated in the original building, now renamed the Queens' Building (to reflect the support and patronage of both Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother).
Limited accommodation resulted in the acquisition of further land in
South WoodfordSouth Woodford is a suburb of north-east London in the London Borough of Redbridge, situated north-east of Charing Cross. Together with Woodford Green, Woodford Bridge and Woodford Wells it forms the area known as Woodford, the origins of which date back at least to the Saxon period...
(now directly connected to
Mile End tube stationMile End is a London Underground station in Tower Hamlets, East London, served by the Hammersmith & City, District and Central Lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.-History:...
by means of the
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's eastward extension), upon which tower blocks were established. Consequently, student numbers continued to expand. The College also obtained the Co-operative Wholesale Society's clothing factory on the Mile End Road which was converted into a building for the Faculty of Laws (and some other teaching), despite being physically separated from what was now a campus to the west.
From the mid-1960s until the mid-1980s the College was in a period of uncertainty and flux. Much planning was dominated by the "BLQ scheme" which proposed to link Queen Mary College with the London Hospital Medical College and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with a joint facility in Mile End, but the land was not yet available. Over the period land that came onto the market was purchased with the intention to consolidate as soon as possible. The Queen Mary College Act 1973 was passed "to authorise the disposal of the Nuevo burial ground in the
London Borough of Tower HamletsThe London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It is in the eastern part of London and covers much of the traditional East End. It also includes much of the redeveloped Docklands region of London, including West India Docks...
and to authorise the use for other purposes thereof..." and gave the authority to disinter and reinter most of the graves to Dytchleys. A further link with both The London and St. Bartholomew's was made in 1974 when an anonymous donor provided for the establishment of a further hall of residence in Woodford, to be divided equally between Queen Mary College students and the two medical colleges.
At the start of the 1980s changing demographics and finances caused much concern through the university sector and led to a reorganisation of the
University of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
. At Queen Mary some subjects, such as Russian and
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were discontinued, whilst the College became one of five in the University with a concentration of laboratory sciences, including the transfer of science departments from
Westfield CollegeWestfield College was a small college situated in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, London, and was a constituent college of the University of London from 1882 to 1989. The college originally admitted only women as students and became coeducational in 1964. In 1989, Westfield College merged with Queen...
,
Chelsea CollegeChelsea College of Science and Technology was established as a College of Advanced Technology on a single site on the corner of Manresa Road and King's Road, Chelsea, London as part of the University of London in 1966 and was granted its Royal Charter in 1971....
,
Queen Elizabeth CollegeQueen Elizabeth College had its origins in the Ladies' Department of King's College London, England, opened in 1885. The first King's 'extension' lectures for ladies were held at Richmond in 1871, and from 1878 in Kensington, with chaperones in attendance.In 1881, the Council resolved 'to...
and Bedford College.
From the mid 1980s onwards the College began expanding across the newly acquired land to the east, taking the campus to the
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. A part of the burial ground remains to this day but the rest of the area has been absorbed by the College's expansion. The long planned Pre Clinical Medicine building for the BLQ Scheme finally materialised in the late 1980s, further strengthening the ties between the three colleges.
1989 to present
In 1989 Queen Mary merged with
Westfield CollegeWestfield College was a small college situated in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, London, and was a constituent college of the University of London from 1882 to 1989. The college originally admitted only women as students and became coeducational in 1964. In 1989, Westfield College merged with Queen...
to form Queen Mary & Westfield College (often abbreviated to QMW). Over subsequent years, activities were concentrated on the Queen Mary site, with the Westfield site eventually sold.
In 1990, the London Hospital was renamed to the Royal London Hospital, after markings its 250th year, and a reorganisation of medical education within the University of London resulted in most of the freestanding medical schools being merged with existing large colleges to form multi-faculty institutions. In 1995 the London Hospital Medical College and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College merged together and into Queen Mary & Westfield College to form the entity now named Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
In 2000 the college changed its name for general public use to Queen Mary, University of London; however, the College's charter has not been reissued and its legal name remains Queen Mary & Westfield College. The
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is a is a 4-metre class
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at the
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in Chile that was conceived and developed by Queen Mary University, costing approximately £36m.
The Westfield Student Village opened in 2004 on the Mile End Campus, bringing over 2,000 rooms to students and a huge array of facilities, restaurants, and cafes.
The
Blizard BuildingThe Blizard Building is a building in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was designed by Will Alsop and completed in March 2005. It houses the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry...
, home to the Medical School’s Institute of Cell and Molecular Science opened at the
WhitechapelWhitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Fashion Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and The Highway on the...
campus in 2005. The award-winning building was designed by
Will AlsopWill Allen Alsop, OBE RA is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings, most in the United Kingdom. Alsop's buildings are usually distinguished by their use of bright colour and unusual forms...
, and is named after
William BlizardSir William Blizard was an English surgeon.He was born in Barn Elms, Surrey, the fourth child of auctioneer William Blizard. After an apprenticeship to a surgeon in Mortlake he went to study at the London Hospital where he was a pupil of Sir Percivall Pott and John Hunter...
, an English surgeon and founder of the London Hospital Medical College in 1785.
The year 2006 saw the refurbishment of The Octagon, the original library of the People's Palace dating back to 1888.
In 2007 parts of the School of Law – postgraduate facilities and the
Centre for Commercial Law StudiesThe Centre for Commercial Law Studies is part of the School of Law of Queen Mary, University of London. Established in 1980 by Sir Roy Goode, its mission is to develop a body of knowledge and skills in the areas of commercial law —- arbitration, intellectual property, taxation, financial law,...
– moved to premises in
Lincoln's Inn FieldsLincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, UK. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes...
in central London. The Women at Queen Mary Exhibition was staged in the Octagon, marking 125 years of Westfield College and 120 years of Queen Mary College.
In September 2009, the world's first science education centre located within a working research laboratory at the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, hoping to inspire children with school tours and interactive games and puzzles.
Queen Mary became one of the few Universities to implement a requirement of the A* grade at A-Level after its introduction in 2010 on some of their most popular courses, such as Engineering, Law, and Medicine.
Following on from the 2010 UK student protests, Queen Mary have set fees of £9,000 per year for September 2012 entry, but also offer extensive bursaries and scholarships.
Campus
The main Mile End campus contains the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the Queen's building/People's Palace/Octagon, the main college library, the student union, Draper's bar and club, several restaurants, many halls of residences, and a very popular gym. The educational and research sites of the Arts Research Centre, Computer Science, the large Engineering building, Fogg Building, Francis Bancroft Building, G. O. Jones Building, Joseph Priestley Building, Lock-keeper’s Graduate Centre, and the Mathematical Science Building, are all located within the Mile End campus.
The
WhitechapelWhitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Fashion Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and The Highway on the...
campus encompasses Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Whitechapel Medical Library, the award winning
Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular ScienceThe Blizard Building is a building in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was designed by Will Alsop and completed in March 2005. It houses the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry...
housing the largest open plan laboratories in Europe, and the
Royal London HospitalThe Royal London Hospital was founded in September 1740 and was originally named The London Infirmary. The name changed to The London Hospital in 1748 and then to The Royal London Hospital on its 250th anniversary in 1990. The first patients were treated at a house in Featherstone Street,...
.
The West Smithfield campus of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, the West Smithfield Medical Library, the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, the John Vane Science Centre, the Heart Centre and
St Bartholomew's HospitalSt Bartholomew's Hospital, also known as Barts, is a hospital in Smithfield in the City of London, England.-Early history:It was founded in 1123 by Raherus or Rahere , a favourite courtier of King Henry I...
are based in
SmithfieldSmithfield is an area of the City of London, in the ward of Farringdon Without. It is located in the north-west part of the City, and is mostly known for its centuries-old meat market, today the last surviving historical wholesale market in Central London...
.
The Centre for Commercial Law Studies and LLM teaching and postgraduate law research activities are based in
Lincoln's Inn FieldsLincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, UK. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes...
in
HolbornHolborn is an area of Central London. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running as High Holborn from St Giles's High Street to Gray's Inn Road and then on to Holborn Viaduct...
.
Nuclear reactor
From 1964 until 1982 QMC maintained a nuclear reactor, the first to be built for a UK university. Initially sited beneath Mile End Road, it was moved to the new QMC Nucleonics Laboratory in Marshgate Lane,
StratfordStratford is a place name found in many English-speaking countries. It derives from the Old English words stræt and ford...
in 1967, upgraded in 1968, and decommissioned in 1982, with the site licence surrendered in November 1983. The Marshgate Lane site became part of the
Olympic ParkThe Olympic Park in London is a new sporting complex currently under construction, adjacent to the Stratford City development in Stratford, Bow, Leyton & Homerton in East London for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics....
from 2006; in response to safety concerns about the former purpose of the site, a
GreenpeaceGreenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
spokesman was quoted as saying "In our view there's nothing to worry about."
Harold Pinter Drama Studio
On 26 April 2005,
Harold PinterHarold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
, who was to win the
Nobel Prize in LiteratureSince 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
later that year, gave a public reading and was interviewed by his official authorised biographer,
Michael BillingtonMichael Keith Billington is a British author and arts critic. Drama critic of The Guardian since October 1971, he is "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic" and the author of biographical and critical studies relating to British theatre and the arts; most notably, he is the authorised...
, in the studio named for Pinter and located as part of the Faculty of Arts (School of English and Drama) in the Mile End campus, to celebrate its refurbishment.
Academics
Queen Mary has 3,000 staff that teach and research across a wide range of subjects in Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws, in Medicine and Dentistry and in Science and Engineering, and gave away more than £2,000,000 in studentships to prospective postgraduate students for the 2011/12 academic year. Almost 17,000 students study at the 21 academic schools and institutes, with just over 30 percent coming from overseas and represent 130 different countries. The 2011 staff survey shows that staff are highly motivated, proud to work at Queen Mary, feel that Queen Mary is a good place to work, and can see constant improvements over 12 months.
Faculties and schools
| Faculty |
Number of staff |
Number of undergraduate students |
Number of postgraduate students |
Annual turnover |
| Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
400 |
4,000 |
2,300 |
£43m |
| Faculty of Science and Engineering |
600 |
3,000 |
800 |
£53m |
| Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry |
1,000 |
2,300 |
1,000 |
£110m |
The three faculties are split further into independent schools, institutes, and research centres:
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Business and Management
- School of Economics and Finance
- School of English and Drama
- Department of English
- Department of Drama
- School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
- Comparative Literature
- Film Studies
- French
- German
- Iberian and Latin American Studies
- Linguistics
- Russian
- School of Geography
- School of History
- School of Law
- Centre for Commercial Law Studies
- Department of Law
- School of Politics and International Relations
- Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
- Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Barts Cancer Institute
- The Blizard Institute
- Institute of Dentistry
- Institute of Health Sciences Education
- William Harvey Research Institute
- Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine
- The Centre of the Cell
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
- Computer Science
- Electronic Engineering
- School of Engineering and Materials Science
- Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- School of Physics and Astronomy
- Research Centre in Psychology
Research
In 2009/10, Queen Mary received a total of £68.5 million in research grants and contracts, the highest research income of any UK university which is not a member of the
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. In the UK
Research Assessment ExerciseThe Research Assessment Exercise is an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions...
results published in December 2008, Queen Mary was placed 11th according to an analysis by
The Guardian newspaper and 13th according to
The Times Higher Education SupplementThe Times Higher Education , formerly Times Higher Education Supplement , is a weekly British magazine based in London reporting specifically on news and other issues related to higher education...
, out of the 132 institutions submitted for the exercise.
The Times Higher commented "the biggest star among the research-intensive institutions was Queen Mary, University of London, which went from 48th in 2001 to 13th in the 2008 Times Higher Education table, up 35 places."
The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise classified research on a scale from 1 to 4, with 3 meaning "internationally excellent" and 4 meaning "world-leading". The areas in which Queen Mary excels are (technically, these are the areas where at least three quarters of the research output was judged as internationally excellent or world-leading):
- Cancer Studies (15% world leading plus 70% internationally excellent)
- Computer Science and Informatics (25% world leading plus 50% internationally excellent)
- Dentistry (25% world leading plus 50% internationally excellent)
- Drama, Dance and Performing Arts (50% world leading plus 40% internationally excellent)
- Economics and Econometrics (30% world leading plus 55% internationally excellent)
- Epidemiology and Public Health (30% world leading plus 50% internationally excellent)
- Geography and Environmental Studies (25% world leading plus 50% internationally excellent)
- Other Hospital Based Clinical Subjects (15% world-leading plus 65% internationally excellent)
The raw data from the Research Assessment Exercise does not rank or otherwise compare universities. Other parties interpret the raw data and compile university rankings. Queen Mary placed in the first five in UK, according to
The Guardian rankings, in the following subjects:
- Cancer Studies (rank 5–6).
- Dentistry (rank 2)
- Drama, Dance and Performing Arts (rank 2–4)
- English Language and Literature (ranked 2–4)
- Epidemiology and Public Health (rank 3)
- Geography and Environmental Studies (rank 1–5)
- Health Services Research (rank 4)
- Linguistics (rank 1)
- Pre-Clinical and Human Biological Sciences (rank 4)
Rankings
Internationally, Queen Mary was ranked 172nd in the 2011
QS World University RankingsThe QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004....
,. In 2010 it moved up 17 places to 147th from its position of 164th in the 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings (in 2010
Times Higher Education World University RankingsThe Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an international ranking of universities published by the British magazine Times Higher Education in partnership with Thomson Reuters, which provided citation database information...
and
QS World University RankingsThe QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004....
parted ways to produce separate rankings—with the new 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Queen Mary now is ranked 120th in the World). The Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2009
Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesThe Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually...
placed it in the 59 – 79 band in Europe and 152 – 200 globally, putting it level with
University of WarwickThe University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
,
Durham UniversityThe University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...
and St. Andrews. The 2007
CHEThe Bertelsmann Foundation is the largest private operating non-profit foundation in Germany, created in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn. The Bertelsmann Foundation holds 77.4 percent of Bertelsmann AG....
-ExcellenceRanking, examining the academic performance of graduate programs in natural sciences, placed Queen Mary in the European top group for biology and physics. In addition,
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Newspaper's League Tables placed Queen Mary 12th in the UK in 2005; it was placed 42nd by
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; and 28th in 2006. Queen Mary has also been ranked the sixth best UK university for student employability – with the second highest UK graduate starting salary. The NUS-supported
National Student SurveyThe National Student Survey is a survey, launched in 2005, of all final year degree students at institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
of 2011 ranked
MaterialsMaterials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It incorporates...
at Queen Mary 1st in the UK, with
Aerospace EngineeringAerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is divided into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering...
ranked 2nd and
Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
5th, with the entire School of Engineering and Materials Sciences ranked 1st in London. Overall, Queen Mary achieved student satisfaction of 88% to rank equal 2nd in London with
UCLUniversity College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
, and ahead of King’s College London,
LSEThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
and
Imperial CollegeImperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
.
Libraries
As members of a college of the
University of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, students at Queen Mary have access to Senate House Library, shared by other colleges such as Kings College London and
University College LondonUniversity College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
and are permitted to use the facilities at the University of London Union, located a 15 minute tube ride away in the academic melting pot of
Bloomsbury-Places:* Bloomsbury is an area in central London.* Bloomsbury , related local government unit* Bloomsbury, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA* Bloomsbury , listed on the NRHP in Maryland...
. Requests by students to carry out research at other College's libraries, such as the Maughan Library and the collections at SOAS, are also welcomed by member institutions.
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Queen Mary offers a joint degree programme with
Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsThe Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications was founded as The Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in 1955. It was created under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Communications Department of the General Staff Department of the People's Liberation Army...
, one of China's top engineering universities. This was the first of its kind to be approved by the PRC Ministry of Education: it is taught 50% by each institution; in English; in Beijing; by staff who fly out from Queen Mary to teach its part of the programme; and the students receive two degrees, one from each university. The programmes are in Telecommunications and Management and Ecommerce Engineering and Law. Almost 2,000 students are studying on these programmes in 2009 and the first cohort graduated in the Summer of 2008. The joint programmes have been praised by the UK Quality Assurance Agency; the PRC Ministry of Education; and the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology.
University of London Institute in Paris
Queen Mary collaborates with
Royal Holloway, University of LondonRoyal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
to help run programmes at a college of the University of London in Paris, France, known as the
University of London Institute in ParisThe University of London Institute in Paris is a college of the University of London located in Paris. It is currently the only UK University Institute in Continental Europe.-History:...
(ULIP), enabling undergraduate and graduate students to study University of London ratified French Studies degrees in France.
Queen Mary Students' Union
The Queen Mary Students' Union (QMSU) unites the various clubs and societies of Queen Mary, University of London. The students' union is split between two sites, the Blomeley Centre and the original students' union site (recently refurbished).
The union mascot is a leopard called Mary. In 1984, a cartoon of the female leopard was printed on RAG T-shirts, and it was possible to gain an impression of nipples, causing the feminist group to demand that they be destroyed. A number of T-shirts were then purchased and the offending cartoon nipples removed.
Sabbatical Officers
The elected representatives within the Union are made up of a President and four vice-Presidents. The current SU president is Sophie Richardson.
President: Responsible for the running of the Union and also the main figure head of the organisation.
Vice President Association: Also known as the Barts and the London SU President, responsible for the running of the Association and are
specifically there to make sure that the needs of the Medical and Dental Students are addressed and met.
Vice President Education, Welfare and Representation: Responsible for the course reps, elections systems, campaigning on student issues and most importantly making sure that College has appropriate services to meet the welfare needs of students.
Vice President Student Activities: Responsible for the running of clubs and societies, RAG and Provide volunteering, INTERSOC (Inter
Society Football) and coming up with innovative activities in which students can participate.
Vice President Media & Publication: Responsible for the Website, Cub Magazine and Surveys and Research.
SU facilities and publications
- QMotion (Gym/Fitness Centre)
- Drapers Bar
- Ground (Costa)
- QMessenger (Newspaper)
- CUB (Magazine)
- Quest (radio)
- QMTV (television)
Merger Cup
QMSU and BLSA sports clubs compete every year in the
Merger CupThe Merger Cup is a series of annual sporting fixtures played between Queen Mary, University of London and its medical school Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The event has taken place since the merger of the two institutions in 1995....
where many of the sports teams within both SUs compete against each other. Queen Mary claimed the cup back in 2010 but lost it again in the following year to BLSA (2011). Sporting fixtures include: Badminton, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Squash, Tennis and Rowing.
Student housing
Many QMUL students are accommodated in the college's own halls of residence or other accommodation; QMUL students are also eligible to apply for places in the
University of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
intercollegiate halls of residence, such as
Connaught HallConnaught Hall is a fully catered hall of residence owned by the University of London and situated on Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, UK. It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at constituent colleges and institutions of the University of...
.
Most students in college or university accommodation are first-year undergraduates or international students. The majority of second and third-year students and postgraduates find their own accommodation in the private sector.
Undergraduate
The College's Westfield Student Village, situated in the north-east corner of the Mile End Campus, has en-suite, self-catering housing for 1,195 students, staff and academic visitors in six contemporary buildings. A shop, laundrette, café bar, 200-seat restaurant and central reception (staffed 24 hours a day), and a communal area situated adjacent to the Regents canal, form part of the Village development. Rooms are arranged in flats and maisonettes housing between four to 11 students.
- Albert Stern House – Positioned on the western end of the campus, next to Ifor Evans.
- Sir Christopher France House – Sir Christopher France House is situated on the bank of the Regents canal, flats in this building have been built to a higher specification than the rest of the village development, being larger in size, with full en-suite facilities including a bath and access to the College's internal phone network.
- Maurice Court – Positioned at the rear of Creed and Beaumont Courts, Maurice Court is a closed mews very close to Mile End Hospital. It is a four-storey building containing 12 maisonettes and 18 flats for up to 173 first year students.
- Ifor Evans – Positioned on the western end of the campus.
- Creed Court – Positioned opposite Sir France House and adjacent to Beaumont Court, Creed Court is a four-storey building providing housing for 124 postgraduate students in 10 maisonettes and 12 flats
- Pooley House – Pooley House is an eight-storey building, located at the far end of the campus, providing housing for 378 first year, associate and foundation students in 48 flats. The largest building in the village development, it has three main entrances with lift access to all floors.
- Beaumont Court – Located opposite Sir France House and adjacent to Creed Court, Beaumont Court is a four-storey building providing housing for 167 first year, associate and foundation students in maisonettes and flats. A convenience store is located on the ground floor.
- Richard Feilden House – Opened in 2007, Richard Feilden House is the newest dwelling in the Village and situated opposite the Joseph Priestly Building. Six storeys in height, it provides housing for 200 first year, associate and foundation students. The Curve, a 200-seat restaurant, launderette and Student Union office situated on the ground floor.
- Maynard & Varey Houses – Maynard & Varey Houses are situated in Westfield Way at the eastern end of the Mile End campus directly opposite the College's new Chemistry and IT Resource Centre. The residences consist of two identical five-storey buildings, housing 200 first year undergraduate, associate and foundation students in single study bedrooms with lift access to all floors.
- Lindop House – Lindop House is a residential development situated directly opposite the Queens' Building. The seven-storey residence, offering views of Canary Wharf, provides on-campus housing for 74 first year undergraduate, mostly medics, and foundation students in single rooms in 11 six-person flats and 2 four-person flats.
Postgraduate
- Chapman, Chesney and Selincourt – Four residences situated in Westfield Way, at the eastern end of the Mile End campus adjacent to the Regents Canal. They provide 94 single en-suite rooms for final year undergraduate and new postgraduate students and are split into seventeen five-six bedrooms flats and one three bedroom flat.
- Dawson Hall – Located only yards from Barbican tube station in the City of London and set around lawns and trees on the College's Charterhouse campus, close to St Bartholomew's Hospital. This seven-storey residence with lift access to the first six floors provides single rooms for 207 medical and dental students and medical based postgraduates.
- Floyer House – Houses 145 medical and dental students and medical based postgraduates, located close to the London Hospital and Dental Institute at the College's Whitechapel campus.
- Hatton House – Situated in Westfield Way at the eastern end of the Mile End campus. A three-storey residence consisting of 34 single study bedrooms housing postgraduates with two rooms specifically designed for wheelchair disabled students. Rooms are furnished and have full en-suite facilities.
- Stocks Court - Situated just off the Mile End Road, providing housing for 125 postgraduate students. This four-storey residence is less than five minutes walk from the College's main campus at Mile End and is under a minutes' walk from Stepney Green tube station. All rooms are single.
Notable faculty and staff
- Rosemary A. Bailey
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– Professor of Statistics
- Peter Cameron
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– Professor of Mathematics
- Bernard Carr – maths and astronomy
- Roger Cotterrell
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– Professor of Legal Theory
- Toby Dodge
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– international politics
- Graham Dorrington
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– aeronautical engineer, subject of The White DiamondThe White Diamond is a 2004 documentary film by Werner Herzog. It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the forest canopies of Guyana...
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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– Professor of Global Environmental History
- Michael Green
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– Theoretical Physicist
- Peter Hennessy
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– Professor of Contemporary British History
- John Rentoul – contemporary British history
- Tristram Hunt
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– modern British historian
- Julian Jackson – Professor of History
- Lisa Jardine
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– Professor of Renaissance Studies
- Jeremy Jennings
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– Professor of Political Theory
- Colin Jones
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– Professor of History
- Gwyn Jones
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– Professor of Physics
- Peter Landin – Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
- Michael Mingos
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– chemistry (1971–1976)
- Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
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– Professor of Marketing and Communication
- Jacqueline Rose
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– Professor of English
- Miri Rubin
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– Professor of Early Modern History
- Charles Saumarez Smith
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– British art historian
- Denise Sheer
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– Professor of Human Genetics
- Quentin Skinner
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– Professor of the Humanities
- Maurice Peston, Baron Peston – Professor of Economics
- Adrian Smith
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– Statistician and former Principal
- Harold Roper Robinson
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– Professor of Physics
- Alec David Young
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– Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
- Frederick Barton Maurice
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– British General and Military Historian
- Sidney Lee
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– Professor of English
- William Ellison-Macartney
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– Governor of the People's Palace and Governor of Tasmania
- Sir Nicholas Wright
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– Professor of Investigative Medicine
- William Harvey
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– physician at Barts, discovery of circulation of blood
- James Parkinson
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– Parkinson's diseaseParkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
- Karen Vousden
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– Professor of Genetics
- Robert Winston, Baron Winston
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– Pioneer of in vitro fertilisationIn vitro fertilisation is a process by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed...
- David Drewry
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– glaciologist and geophysicist
- Michael Duff – Professor of Theoretical Physics
- Robin Ganellin
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– Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
- George Hockham
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– visiting Professor, co-pioneer of optical fibres for long distance communications systems
- Robert Watson
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– Professor of Environmental Science
Notable alumni
- Kia Abdullah
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– Novelist
- J. G. Ballard
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– Author of Empire Of The SunEmpire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story, "The Dead Time" , it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II...
and Crash amongst other works.
- Alia Bano
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– playwright
- Dr Thomas Barnardo – Children's philanthropist
- David Blanchflower
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– Economist
- Sir Malcolm Bradbury
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– Novelist
- Richard Budgett
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– Gold medal winning Olympic rower
- Philip Campbell
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– Physicist
- Lynda Chalker
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, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey – Conservative MP
- Frank Chapman
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– CEO of BG GroupBG Group plc is a global oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. It has operations in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America and produces around 680,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It has a major Liquefied Natural Gas ...
- Graham Chapman
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– Monty PythonMonty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
star
- Martin Cross
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– Gold medal winning Olympic rower
- Bruce Dickinson
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– Lead Singer of Iron MaidenIron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
- Jack Drummond
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– Biochemist and Nutritionist
- Baroness Falkender – Politician
- Romola Garai
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– Actress
- Julie Gardner
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– Television Producer responsible for Doctor Who
- Sean Gilder
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– Actor
- William Glanville
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– Civil Engineer
- Roy Goode
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– Commercial Lawyer and Author.
- W.G Grace – Cricketer
- Peter Hain
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– Labour MP, Former Secretary of State for Work and PensionsThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is a post in the British Cabinet, responsible for the Department for Work and Pensions. It was created on 8 June 2001 by the merger of the Employment part of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security.The Ministry...
and Secretary of State for WalesThe Secretary of State for Wales is the head of the Wales Office within the British cabinet. He or she is responsible for ensuring Welsh interests are taken into account by the government, representing the government within Wales and overseeing the passing of legislation which is only for Wales...
.
- Mike Hennessy
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– Olympic rower
- Jane Hill
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– Newsreader, BBC News
- Ching He Huang
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– Television chef
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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– Novelist and Academy Award winning screenwriter
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– Royalty
- Geraint F. Lewis
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-- Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney
- Sir Michael Lyons
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– Chairman of the BBC Trust
- Alasdair MacIntyre
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– philosopher
- Dr Florence Mahoney
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n woman to obtain a PhD.
- Sidhartha Mallya
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- Sir Peter Mansfield
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– Nobel Prize winning physicist
- Basil Markesinis
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– International Lawyer
- Roger Tan Kor Mee
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– senior Malaysian lawyer
- Bill O'Reilly
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on the Fox News Channel
- Jeremy Phillips
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– Intellectual Property lawyer.
- Sir Christopher Pitchford
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– Lord Justice of Appeal
- Geoffrey Robertson
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– Human Rights lawyer
- Prannoy Roy
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– Indian journalist
- Jay Sean – Singer
- Caroline Spelman
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– Current Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsThe Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a UK cabinet-level position in charge of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the successor to the positions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport...
- Martyna Snopek
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– Paralympic rower
- Sir Roy Strong
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– Historian
- David Sullivan – Pornographer and owner of the Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers
- James Theaker
- Radio :His first radio interview was aged 13 with Vibe FM in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk after winning a sponsored DJ competition. In 2004 he was interviewed on DJ Fergie's BBC Radio 1 show after finishing second in a UK Club Culture and Radio 1 sponsored DJ tournament...
– Radio DJ
- Sir John Meurig Thomas
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– Chemist
- Valanto Trifonos
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- Roger Tilling
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– Broadcaster and voice of University ChallengeUniversity Challenge is a British quiz programme that has aired since 1962. The format is based on the American show College Bowl, which ran on NBC radio from 1953 to 1957, and on NBC television from 1959 to 1970....
- Sarah Waters
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– Author of Tipping The VelvetTipping the Velvet is an historical novel written by Sarah Waters published in 1998. Set in Victorian England during the 1890s, it tells a coming of age story about a young woman named Nan who falls in love with a male impersonator, follows her to London, and finds various ways to support herself...
.
- Kate Williams
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– Broadcaster and Historian
- Pete Doherty
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– musician
- Ashley Banjo
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– choreographer
- David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone
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– former chairman of OfcomOfcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003...
and member of House of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
- Eleanor Updale
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– award-winning author
- Dame Veronica Sutherland
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– sixth President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and former ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
- Claire Price
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– actress
- Anand Ramlogan
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- The Hon. Peter Caruana, QC
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- Linda Chalker – served as Minister of State for Overseas Development at the Foreign Office
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government from 1989 to 1997
- Marcia Falkender – member of the House of Lords
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- Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
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from October 2008 to May 2010
- Martin Uden
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- Sir William Blizard
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– co-founded England’s first clinical medical school, The London Hospital Medical College
- Arthur Wint
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’s first gold medal at the 1948 London Olympics in the 400m, and a silver medal in the 800m
Nobel laureates
As of 2011, there have been 5
Nobel laureates who were either students or academics and Queen Mary.
| Name |
Prize |
Year Awarded |
Rationale |
| Sir Ronald Ross |
Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
|
1902 |
For discovering the life-cycle of the malarial parasite PlasmodiumPlasmodium is a genus of parasitic protists. Infection by these organisms is known as malaria. The genus Plasmodium was described in 1885 by Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli. Currently over 200 species of this genus are recognized and new species continue to be described.Of the over 200 known...
|
| Edgar Adrian |
Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
|
1932 |
For his work on the function of neurons |
| Sir John Vane |
Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
|
1982 |
For his work on prostaglandins |
| Professor Joseph Rotblat |
Peace The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
|
1995 |
For his lifelong devotion to nuclear abolition |
Professor Sir Peter MansfieldSir Peter Mansfield, FRS, , is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging . The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI...
|
Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
|
2003 |
For his pioneering work on Magnetic Resonance ImagingMagnetic resonance imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , or magnetic resonance tomography is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structures...
as a diagnostic technique |
Principals
Queen Mary has seen a total of 22 Principals, 11 from Westfield College, 8 from Queen Mary College, and 3 since the merger of Queen Mary, Westfield, and Barts.
Westfield College
| Name |
Held Office |
| Constance Louise Maynard |
1882–1913 |
| Agnes de Selincourt |
1913–1917 |
| Anne W Richardson |
1917–1919 |
| Bertha Surtees Phillpotts |
1919–1921 |
| Eleanor Lodge |
1921–1931 |
| Dorothy Chapman |
1931–1939 |
| Mary Stocks Mary Danvers Stocks, Baroness Stocks née Brinton, was a British writer. She was the daughter of a London Doctor. She was closely associated with the Strachey, the Wedgwood and the Ricardo families...
|
1993-1951 |
| Kathleen Chesney |
1951–1962 |
| Pamela Matthews |
1962–1966 |
| Dr Bryan Thwaites |
1966–1984 |
| Professor John Varey |
1984–1989 |
Queen Mary College
| Name |
Held Office |
| John Leigh Smeatham Hatton |
1908–1933 |
| Sir Frederick Barton Maurice |
1933–1944 |
| Professor Benjamin Ifor Evans |
1944–1951 |
| Sir Thomas Percival Creed |
1951–1967 |
| Sir Harry Melville |
1967–1976 |
| Sir James Woodham Mentor |
1976–1986 |
| Professor Ian Butterworth |
1986–1990 |
| Professor Graham Zellick |
1991–1998 |
Queen Mary, University of London
| Name |
Held Office |
| Professor Sir Adrian Smith |
1998–2008 |
| Professor Philip Ogden |
2008–2009 |
| Professor Simon Gaskell Simon Gaskell is the current principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He took up his post in October 2009, having previously been the vice-president of research at the University of Manchester.-Early life and career:...
|
2009–present |
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