University of Lincoln

[11] The university developed a new campus to the southwest of Lincoln city centre, championed as a key regeneration policy by the new coalition administration of Lincolnshire Council, on a site overlooking the Brayford Pool.Economists estimate that the university has created at least 3,000 new jobs in Lincoln and generates more than £250 million a year for the local economy – doubling previous local economic growth rates, which Robert Parker who led the council that pushed the redevelopment project through, cited facilitating the university campus as his greatest achievement in politics.[17] On 28 October 2004, the National Centre for Food Manufacturing at Holbeach was reopened by John Hayes, Member of Parliament for South Holland and the Deepings, after redevelopment as a specialist food-science technology park.Bishop Burton College has now moved into a new, purpose-built site at the Lincolnshire Showground with only limited use of the Riseholme Campus which has now mainly reverted to the University of Lincoln from 2021 onwards.The Isaac Newton Building, designed by Architects Allies and Morrison, incorporates Siemens Industrial Turbo-machinery Lincoln as a co-located its product-training facility.The National Centre for Food Manufacturing is located at the Holbeach campus, with microbiology labs, product development kitchens and sensory suites.The School of Sports and Exercise Science is based in the Human Performance Centre which houses labs containing treadmills and ergometers, gas and lactate measuring equipment, motion detection, impact analysis, and an endless pool.[29] The School of Architecture and the Built Environment offers Royal Institute of British Architects accredited programmes.The Lincoln International Business School (LIBS), based in the David Chiddick Building, offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral-level programmes.[51] In 2023, the university was awarded the Queens Anniversary Prize for its work in supporting the UK's food and farming industries through innovations in research, education and technology.[52] The University of Lincoln's official logo from 2001 to 2012 was the head of Minerva, an Ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and knowledge.From July 2012 this was changed to incorporate the university's coat of arms,[53][54] which features swans, fleur de lys and textbooks.It was converted into a library by the university's in-house team of architects and was formally opened in 2004 by the chief executive of the UK's Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.In 2005, the conversion won gold and silver for conservation and regeneration at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Regional Awards in Leicester.It was reconstituted in 2007 as a company limited by guarantee, and registered as a charity, introducing a more conventional governance structure for students' unions.[64] The decision was taken to formally leave the NUS in December, but a second referendum was held after approaches from students who opposed the first vote.The university owns and operates the Student Village, including the Lincoln Courts and Cygnet Wharf, a waterfront complex situated on the Brayford Pool Campus.The site has a range of facilities, with a total of 1,037+ bedrooms available including apartments specifically designed for students with disabilities.