University of Portsmouth

Langstone is the smaller of the two campuses, located in Milton on the eastern edge of Portsea Island. The campus overlooks Langstone Harbour and it is home to the university's sports grounds. It also houses a restaurant for the students and provides accommodation for 565 students in three halls of residence: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM), Trust Hall and Langstone Flats.

Langstone Campus used to be home of the University's School of Languages and Area Studies, which has since moved into Park Building in the University Quarter.

The University Quarter is a collection of university buildings located around the centre of the city. This area contains most of the university's teaching facilities and nearly all of the Student Halls of residence (except the Langstone student village and two halls (Rees Hall and Burrell House) located on Southsea Terrace.

The University Library (formerly the Frewen Library) was extended in 2006 at a cost of £11 million.[14] It was opened by the crime writer P. D. James. The University has also recently invested in the Faculty of Science, in particular by renovating the aluminium-clad main building, St Michael's.

A new faculty called "Creative and Cultural Industries" was opened in September 2006.

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  Anglesea buildings
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  Greetham halls
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  James Watson building
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  Park building
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  University House
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  Sports fields
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  St Michael's building
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  Dennis Sciama building
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  Eldon building
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  Library
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  Ravelin House
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  Richmond Building

On 7 June 2013, the University of Portsmouth announced its partnership with the Military Technological College of Oman. This involves the University of Portsmouth providing academic guidance and academic accreditation for the education of 4,200 students with technical roles in armed services and a few civilian employers in the Sultanate of Oman.[15] This has been criticised by the student Amnesty International Society and by Campaign Against the Arms Trade who consider Oman an authoritarian regime, likely to use military capabilities on their own citizens or in regional conflicts.[16]

Portsmouth is formally headed by the Chancellor, currently Karen Blackett.[17] The Chancellor is largely a ceremonial role; Portsmouth is run day-to-day by the Vice-Chancellor, presently Graham Galbraith, along with a single integrated decision-making body known as the University Executive Board https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/university-executive-board. This includes Pro Vice-Chancellors, the Director of Finance and the Executive Deans of Faculties, together with the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Human Resources and the University Secretary and Clerk.[18]

The University of Portsmouth is composed of five faculties divided into 29 departments:[19]

The University of Portsmouth is worth £1.1 billion to the British economy and brings £476 million to the city, an independent assessment in 2017 has shown.[21]

Over 60% of research submitted by the University to REF2014 was rated as world-leading and internationally excellent.[24] In two subject areas respectively - Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy, and Physics - 90% and 89% of all research submitted was rated as world leading and internationally excellent.[24]

In 2015, the University of Portsmouth won a £272,000 award from the Education and Training Foundation to research how best to deliver study programmes in the UK.[25]

In 2016, Dr Victoria Wang and Professor Mark Button, of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, were awarded £299,355 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to investigate unintended consequences of data release, including those associated with issues of trust, identity, privacy and security. The project is in partnership with Swansea University's Department of Computer Science, the DVLA and other government agencies.[26]

In 2017 Alessandro Melis[27] and Steffen Lehmann created the interdisciplinary project CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. This is a £1.6 million research project funded by Horizon 2020, Belmont Forum, ESRC and other funding bodies. University of Portsmouth is leading the project. The partners are five universities from Miami, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Uppsala and Taiwan. Crunch involves universities, local authorities and small business.[28][29]

The University of Portsmouth is one of only four universities in the south east to achieve the highest Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).[37][38]

The University was ranked 21st by The Guardian University Guide 2020,[39] 51st by The Complete University Guide 2019[40] and 53rd by The Sunday Times University Guide 2018.[41]

Internationally, the University was ranked 98th in Times Higher Education's ‘100 under 50’ rankings of international modern universities 2017.[42]

Portsmouth was rated in the top 401 – 500 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017.[42]

The Union supports a range of over 150[45] student-led groups that provide extra-curricular opportunities to students, including sports clubs, societies, media groups and volunteering opportunities. Students can also create new societies with the support of the Union.

The Students' Union offers a range of sports clubs which are administered by the Athletic Union[46] The sports range from traditional team games like athletics, football, cricket, rugby union, netball, trampolining, and table tennis to octopush (a form of underwater hockey), lacrosse and pole dancing. As of October 2020 there are 38 different sports clubs .[45]

The Students' Union runs a number of volunteering projects, such as HEFCE's Volunteering Team of the Year.[47] In 2010, the Union was awarded a £15,000 grant to work with elderly residents in the city.[48]

The university has four main media outlets. The Galleon the student newspaper, Pugwash the student magazine and is the oldest student media attached to the university, Victory Studios the student television station and Pure FM, the student radio station, which works alongside local radio stations including Express FM.

• Matthew Weait, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Alessandro Melis, Professor of Architecture Innovation and curator of the Italian Pavilione at the XVII Venice Biennale
• David Wands, Professor of Cosmology at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
• Claudia Maraston, Professor of Astrophysics and winner of the 2018 Eddington Medal
• Neil Rackham, Visiting Professor at Portsmouth Business School and award-winning author

Notable students of the University of Portsmouth and its predecessor institutions include:

• Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, currently serving as the 20th Inspector General of Police of Nigeria
• Dr Paola Arlotta, Chair of the Regenerative Biology Department at Harvard University
• Simon Armitage CBE, poet, playwright and novelist who was appointed Poet Laureate in 2019[49]
• Sir John Armitt CBE, civil engineer and chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority
• The Ven. Ian Bishop, Archdeacon of Macclesfield
• Jonathan Bullock, former Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands constituency
• The Rt Hon. Lord David Chidgey, Liberal Democrat politician and former Member of Parliament for Eastleigh[50]
• The Rt Hon. Ron Davies, former Secretary of State for Wales and Member of Parliament for Caerphilly[51]
• John Flint, British banker and former Chief Executive Officer of HSBC
• Ben Fogle, broadcaster, writer and adventurer[52]
• Christine Foyer, Professor of Plant Science at Birmingham University
• Tim Godwin OBE QPM, former police officer who served as Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
• Casyo 'Krept' Johnson BEM, London-based musician and half of Krept and Konan
• Craig Jones MBE, Royal Navy officer and campaigner[53]
• Nick Kennedy, retired rugby union player and former Director of Rugby at London Irish[54]
• Rachel Lowe MBE, businesswoman and developer of the Destination board games[55]
• The Rt Hon. Baroness Diana Maddock, former President of the Liberal Democrats and Member of Parliament for Christchurch
• Ehsan Masood, science writer, journalist, broadcaster, and lecturer at Imperial College London
• The Hon. Gerard Collier, 5th Baron Monkswell, politician and hereditary peer
• Dr Darren Naish, vertebrate palaeontologist, author, science communicator, and scientific advisor to Netflix[56]
• Major Tim Peake CMG, Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut, and former International Space Station crew member[57]
• Grayson Perry CBE, contemporary artist, writer, broadcaster, and recipient of the Turner Prize[58]
• The Ven. Vernon Ross, Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness
• Carol Smart CBE, feminist sociologist and academic at Manchester University
• Lauren Steadman, Paralympic athlete who competed in three Summer Paralympics in both swimming and the paratriathlon
• Anthony Tucker-Jones, former defence intelligence officer and a widely published military expert
• Martin Whitmarsh, businessman and Chief Executive of McLaren Racing[59]