111-438: Andrew James Wilson (2 August 1948 – 3 July 2013), better known as Snoo Wilson , was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as Blow-Job (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy. In his later works he moved away from purely political themes, embracing a range of surrealist, magical, philosophical and madcap, darkly comic subjects. After studying literature at
222-454: A Quidditch team. The UEA Media Collective encompasses the free student newspaper Concrete , UEA:TV (previously named Nexus UTV ), and the student radio station Livewire 1350AM . Norwich Medical School also has various active medical societies, including the UEA MedSoc which offers several education and social events. The UEA Student Union hosted events like Pimp My Barrow , which
333-473: A teaching hospital ( Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital ) on site. The university is a member of Norwich Research Park , which has one of Europe's largest concentrations of researchers in the fields of agriculture , genomics , health and the environment . UEA is also one of the nation's most-cited research institutions worldwide. The postgraduate Master of Arts in creative writing , founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970,
444-591: A Play for House of Ife (Michael Workeye) 2022 – Asian Media Awards nomination - Best Stage Production for 10 Nights 2022 – Asian Media Awards nomination - Best Stage Production for Favour 2023 – Laurence Olivier Award - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for The P Word 2023 – Stage Awards - Theatre of the Year 2023 – Stage Debut Awards - Best Writer for Elephant (Anoushka Lucas) 2023 – Stage Debut Awards - Best Director for A Playlist for
555-943: A Play for Sleepova ( Bukky Bakray ) 2023 – Evening Standard Theatre Awards nomination - Most Promising Playwright for Elephant ( Anoushka Lucas ) 2023 – Evening Standard Theatre Awards nomination- Most Promising Playwright for Sleepova ( Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini ) 2023 – Asian Media Awards nomination - Best Stage Production for The P Word 2023 – Asian Media Awards nomination - Outstanding Stage Performance for The P Word (Waleed Akhtar) 2024 – Laurence Olivier Award - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for Sleepova 2024 – Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards - Most Promising Playwright for Sleepova (Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini) 2024 – Profile Awards, Theatre Critics’ Choice - Outstanding Achievement in Theatre for Red Pitch (Ali Hunter) 2024 – Laurence Olivier Award nomination - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for A Playlist for
666-533: A Wild West gunfight, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and won the John Whiting Award . Cushman wrote, "Sceptics like me have sometimes fallen foul of Mr Wilson's concern with the occult; here he makes it easy for us. Like Tom Stoppard he sets up impossible situations and explains them; and his wit in this piece has a Stoppardian exhilaration." Later that year, Wilson was appointed Henfield Fellow at
777-689: A co-inventor of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine , one President of the Royal Society , three Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences , six National Teaching Fellows , eight Fellows of the British Academy and a number of Fellows of the Royal Society . Alumni also include CEOs , one current monarch and former prime minister , two de facto heads of state, one vice president , one deputy prime minister , two former Leaders of
888-611: A collaboration with the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the research centres at Norwich Research Park. In 2003, the School of Pharmacy opened along with the Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research (ZICER). In November 2009, computer servers at the university's Climatic Research Unit were hacked and the stolen information made public . As a result, over 1,000 emails and 2,000 documents were released. Because
999-517: A distinct trans-disciplinary perspective, the options to mitigate, and the necessities to adapt to current climate change and continuing global warming , and to integrate these into the global, UK and local contexts of sustainable development ". In 2001, the Sportspark, a multi-sports facility housing an Olympic-sized pool, floodlit astro-pitches and the tallest climbing wall in Norfolk was built due to
1110-1285: A long-term partnership with the Norwich Science Festival which is an annual event that takes place each February at the Forum in Norwich where organisations from Norwich Research Park hold workshops and exhibit science activities for the public. The university hosted its inaugural literary festival in 1991 and has welcomed notable speakers including Madeleine Albright , Martin Amis , Martin Bell , Alan Bennett , Cherie Blair , Melvyn Bragg , Eleanor Catton , Richard Dawkins , Alain de Botton , Sebastian Faulks , Niall Ferguson , Stephen Fry , Frank Gardner , Richard E. Grant , Germaine Greer , Seamus Heaney , Clive James , P. D. James , Doris Lessing , Mario Vargas Llosa , Hilary Mantel , Iris Murdoch , Rageh Omaar , Michael Palin , Jeremy Paxman , Harold Pinter , Stephen Poliakoff , Terry Pratchett , Salman Rushdie , Simon Schama , Will Self , John Simpson , Zadie Smith , Paul Theroux , Peter Ustinov , Shirley Williams and Robert Winston . Sciences alumni include
1221-411: A mentally disturbed former soldier, who, while on a Lincolnshire pig farm, believes that pigs are about to take over the world. Dusty Hughes called it "a vivid and emetic portrait of rural change and urban corruption". Critic Michael Billington described it as a "savage and disenchanted portrait of rural life". Blow-Job is a political exploration of urban violence during which a quantity of raw meat
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#17330845264041332-763: A new lectureship in the field awarded from the British Film Institute. It is also the home of the East Anglian Film Archive which collects and preserves film and videotape primarily from the Eastern counties. In 2005, UEA in partnership with the University of Essex , Suffolk County Council , the East of England Development Agency , Ipswich Borough Council and the Learning and Skills Council , secured £15m funding from
1443-455: A number of free and subsidised theatre tickets to local people. In March 2017, following a landmark year of taking plays into the communities of West London, the Bush Theatre returned home following a £4.3m revitalisation of the venue. The year-long redevelopment was driven by the aim of realising Younis’ vision for a theatre that reflected the diversity and vibrancy of London. Upon reopening,
1554-526: A number of other services within Union House which underwent a refurbishment in 2015 after a £6m investment. UEA offers many free public events, both on-and-off campus, alongside public access to the Sainsbury Centre, Sportspark and open campus spaces. The university's lecture theatres regularly host film screenings, discussions, lectures and presentations for the public to attend. The university also has
1665-562: A previous vote of no-confidence by the UCU branch of East Anglia, and a "scathing" letter written to the UEA Council by the professoriate demanding change, led to the immediate resignation of vice-chancellor David Richardson on 17 February 2023, who had been in the role for ten years. Questions were asked about the university's sudden crisis in Parliament, with the local MP Clive Lewis talking of
1776-456: A result of any changes" to accommodation. In April 2024, Dame Jenny Abramsky (previously the BBC's most senior female employee; Director of Audio and Music) was appointed as the university's chancellor. She succeeded Dame Karen Jones , who had been in the role since 2016. In August 2024, it was announced that contractor Mace was going to carry out a four-phase strip-back-to-frame refurbishment of
1887-582: A second one-act play, Between the Acts , was first produced in Canterbury , at the University of Kent . In 1969, Wilson embarked on a writing career. Together with Tony Bicat and David Hare , Wilson founded the Portable Theatre Company , a touring company concentrating on experimental theatre, and was its associate director from 1970 to 1975. His plays from these years included four one-act works, Charles
1998-574: A very humorous way the play is also asking: What if God does exist, and put the fossils in the rocks?" A departure from Wilson's usual theatrical genres was in 1986, when he wrote a new libretto for Offenbach 's Orpheus in the Underworld for the English National Opera . The reviews concentrated on the production designs, which strongly divided opinion; Wilson's work escaped the sharp censure directed at his colleagues, and his device of turning
2109-642: A £14.5m grant from the Sport England Lottery Fund and was formally opened by Princess Anne . That same year, UEA alumnus Sir Paul Nurse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine which he shared jointly with Timothy Hunt and Leland Hartwell "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle". In 2002, the Norwich Medical School opened as part of the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice with over 110 students enrolled as
2220-585: Is a dramatic treatment of a racial murder in South Africa and the ensuing cover-up by the police and the press. A white woman has an affair with a Black lover and then shoots him. It is "possibly [Wilson's] masterpiece". In 1978, The Glad Hand , in which a South African tycoon employs a troupe of actors and sails an oil tanker through the Bermuda Triangle , hoping to conjure up the Anti-Christ and kill him in
2331-459: Is affiliated to the National Union of Students , and also campaigns on a wide range of issues, as directed by the democratic processes. The UEA Student Union has over 200 clubs and societies; sports teams include men's and women's football clubs , a British Universities American Football League (BUAFC) Premier South Division American Football Team, The UEA Pirates, a cheerleading society and
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#17330845264042442-457: Is competitive and has produced several distinguished authors. The annual income for 2022/23 was £315m (£34.2m from research grants and contracts) with a £312.2m expenditure and a £559m gross contribution to the regional economy. UEA's alumni , faculty and researchers, include three Nobel Prize winners, co-discoverers of the Hepatitis C and D genomes, as well as the small interfering RNA ,
2553-709: Is held within the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at the University of East Anglia . University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia ( UEA ) is a public research university in Norwich , England. Established in 1963 on a 360-acre (150-hectare) campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of study. It is one of five BBSRC funded research campuses with forty businesses, four independent research institutes ( John Innes Centre , Quadram Institute , Earlham Institute and The Sainsbury Laboratory ) and
2664-502: Is involved in several Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) and Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), including AgriFoRwArdS (collaboration with the University of Cambridge and the University of Lincoln which focuses on robotics within the agricultural sector), SENSS (partnership promoting social science research training with City, University of London , Cranfield University , University of Essex , Goldsmiths, University of London , University of Lincoln , Middlesex University and
2775-529: Is located in the Passmore Edwards Public Library , Shepherd's Bush , in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham . It was established in 1972 as a showcase for the work of new writers. On Thursday 6 April 1972, the Bush Theatre was established above The Bush public house on the corner of Goldhawk Road and Shepherd's Bush Green , in what was once the dance studio of Lionel Blair . It
2886-403: Is only asked by passive incredulous individuals who cannot swallow the idea that perception is an act." Nevertheless, while Wilson's "work is non-naturalistic and largely fantastical, it is based on concrete principals (sic) about the way we live." Wilson often sought to fuse social criticism with a surrealistic, comic style. He said in 1978, "I think, well, you have to laugh, don't you? With all
2997-538: Is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. In 2011, the university won its second Queen's Anniversary Prize for its distinguished creative writing programme. This bolstered the region's reputation as a literary hub and helped Norwich to achieve its status as England's first UNESCO City of Literature in 2012. In 2009, UEA's School of International Development had previously been awarded in recognition of sustained responses to environmental change and world poverty. In 2013,
3108-576: Is situated nearby an area within the southwestern suburbs known as the Golden Triangle which has been dubbed the Norwich version of London's Notting Hill . Experimental novelist Alan Burns was the university's first writer-in-residence . The university library is home to the British Archive for Contemporary Writing, which is an archive of material from a range of classical and contemporary writers, including Doris Lessing , Lee Child and Naomi Alderman . Between September 2022 and November 2023,
3219-477: Is thrown on stage to simulate the corpse of an Alsatian dog that has just been blown up. With some reservations, Irving Wardle praised the piece in The Times for its "authentic sense of horror … its intermingling of physical outrage and savage farce." In Wilson's 1973 full-length play, The Pleasure Principle , comedy, politics and social comment were again combined, but to less savage effect. Billington wrote, "On
3330-429: Is visited on the eve of his death by his fascistic sister Elizabeth, her feckless husband Bernard, a dominatrix Mary Magdalene , the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche , and Jesus in the guise of a wisecracking Irish bicyclist who seduces Darwin's wife, Emma. Meanwhile, a mammoth Ark breaks through the lawn of Darwin's backyard. The director Simon Stokes commented that there is a serious message behind such extravagances: "In
3441-1091: The African Development Bank ), Uganda ( Syda Bbumba ), Thailand ( Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech ) and Venezuela ( Pedro Rosas Bravo ); Foreign Ministers of Iceland ( Össur Skarphéðinsson ) and The Gambia ( Ousman Jammeh ); Defence Minister of The Maldives Adam Shareef ; current Mongolian Culture Minister Nomin Chinbat and Democratic Republic of the Congo Budget Minister Aimé Boji ; and former Cabinet Ministers of Cyprus ( Marios Demetriades ), Peru ( Gino Costa ), South Sudan ( Agnes Kwaje Lasuba ), Kenya ( Hassan Wario ), Egypt ( Gamal El-Araby ), Tanzania ( Juma Ngasongwa ), Rwanda ( Daphrose Gahakwa ), Ethiopia ( Sinknesh Ejigu and Junedin Sado ), Seychelles ( Rolph Payet and Peter Sinon ), Turkey ( Cüneyd Düzyol ), Brunei ( Suyoi Osman and Adanan Yusof ) and Yemen ( Yahya Al-Mutawakel ). Alumni in national politics include
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3552-819: The Caine Prize winners Binyavanga Wainaina (MPhil, 2010), Helon Habila (PhD, 2008) and Henrietta Rose-Innes (PhD). Other alumni include Tracy Chevalier (Creative Writing, 1994), John Boyne (Creative Writing, 1996), Neel Mukherjee (Creative Writing, 2001), Mick Jackson (Creative Writing, 1992), Trezza Azzopardi (Creative Writing, 1998), Paul Murray (Creative Writing, 2001), James Scudamore (Creative Writing, 2006), Mohammed Hanif (Creative Writing, 2005), Richard House (PhD, 2008), Sebastian Barker (English Literature, 1970), Clive Sinclair (BA, 1969; PhD, 1983), Kathryn Hughes (Creative Writing, 1986), Peter J. Conradi and Craig Warner (Creative Writing, 2014). Alumni in international politics and government include
3663-725: The Higher Education Funding Council for England for the creation of a new campus in the Waterfront area of Ipswich , called University Campus Suffolk (UCS). It opened in September 2007; in May 2016, it became independent of UEA and was renamed the University of Suffolk . In 2008, INTO University Partnerships opened a £35m six-storey building named INTO University of East Anglia (INTO UEA) with 415 en-suite study-bedrooms and classroom space for 600 students. The institution focuses on
3774-555: The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) showed that UEA has one of the highest proportions of First Class and Upper Second Class degrees achieved by students with more than Oxford and Cambridge . Only three universities in the United Kingdom have been awarded a higher proportion of First Class degrees than UEA between the academic years 2014/15 and 2017/18. There is a concern about grade inflation with
3885-563: The Norfolk Broads and increased the number of rooms available to new students. That same year, vice-chancellor David Richardson unveiled a "2030 vision" which included a £300m investment in campus – refurbishing existing buildings as well as creating new teaching and learning spaces in order to help UEA become a major global university. In 2019, Norwich Business School received an Athena SWAN Bronze award which recognises good practices in higher education and research institutions towards
3996-621: The RAF Horsham St Faith to the south of Norwich International Airport housed approximately half of the university's first-year students. Other features include the UEA Broad and the Square (a central outdoor meeting place). There are also three statues by sculptor Sir Antony Gormley which were placed on campus in 2017. The work drew controversy due to the fact that the figures resembled people balancing on high ledges. Accommodation blocks on
4107-675: The River Yare . It is one of the few Broads produced by gravel extraction rather than peat digging. In 1978, the gift of tribal art and 20th-century paintings and sculptures by artists such as Francis Bacon and Henry Moore from Sir Robert Sainsbury resulted in the construction of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts , one of the first major public buildings to be designed by the architects Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman . The building became Grade II* listed in December 2012. In 1984,
4218-666: The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Everest Hotel (1975) for Bush Theatre , which he also directed. In the 1970s, Wilson's plays fell from favour with theatre producers who were looking for more commercial projects. Wilson was successful with screenplays and teleplays in the 1970s, including Sunday for Seven Days (1971), The Good Life (1971), More About the Universe (1972), Swamp Music (1973), The Barium Meal (1974), The Trip to Jerusalem (1974), Don't Make Waves (1975) and A Greenish Man (1979). In 1975 and 1976, he
4329-588: The University of California at San Diego (1987). He taught scriptwriting at the National Film School and returned to UEA as writer in residence. Of his non-theatre works, his 1984 novel, Spaceache , was described by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer as "a dystopian fantasy of a grim and ruthless high-technology low-competence future". John Melmoth, the reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement , wrote that Wilson scored in his "nearness to
4440-410: The University of East Anglia , Wilson began his writing career in 1969. He began to build his reputation with a series of plays and screenplays in the early 1970s and was a founder of Portable Theatre Company , a touring company concentrating on experimental theatre. In the mid-1970s, he served as dramaturge to the Royal Shakespeare Company and produced one of his best-regarded plays, The Soul of
4551-517: The University of Hong Kong . UEA had the joint twenty-fifth highest average entry qualification for undergraduates of any UK university in 2015, with new students averaging 407 UCAS points, equivalent to ABBbc in A-Level grades. In 2014, the ratio of applications to acceptances was 5.9 to 1. According to the 2017 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, approximately 10.5% of East Anglia's undergraduates come from independent schools. Data from
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4662-478: The University of Roehampton ), ARIES (partnership offering environmental science research with University of Essex , University of Kent , University of Plymouth and Royal Holloway University ), as well as CHASE (collaboration providing humanities training with Birkbeck, University of London , Goldsmiths, University of London , The Courtauld Institute of Art , The Open University , SOAS, University of London , University of Essex , University of Kent and
4773-947: The University of Sussex ). Internationally, UEA has multiple international partner institutions where there are formal agreements for student exchange, research collaborations, staff and faculty mobility and study abroad schemes (semester or year) including: University of California ( Berkeley , Davis , Irvine , Los Angeles , Merced , Riverside , San Diego , San Francisco , Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz ), Georgetown University , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , University of Arizona , Temple University , University of Colorado Boulder , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , University of Notre Dame , Middlebury College , Bennington College , University of British Columbia , University of Calgary , Australian National University , Monash University , University of Melbourne , University of Sydney , Nanyang Technological University , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and
4884-474: The " Ziggurats " and were designed by Lasdun to recall "vineyards in France or a rocky outcrop on a slope". In 1968, Lasdun was replaced as the university's consultant architect by Sir Bernard Feilden , who completed both the wall and the library. He also created an arena-shaped square as a new social space. They would later receive Grade II* listed status. In 1963, the University of East Anglia Boat Club (UEABC)
4995-764: The 1929 play by Vladimir Mayakovsky , and a musical about the short and dramatic life of soldier-composer Felix Powell . Sabina (1998) "remains the best drama about Carl Jung 's relationship with a young female mental patient, and later his student, Sabina Spielrein ". In 2010, one of Wilson's last plays to be staged was Reclining Nude with Black Stockings , about the 1912 rape trial of Austrian painter Egon Schiele . Wilson taught literature and theatre at various institutions both in Britain and America later in life. His academic posts included those of US Bicentennial Fellow in Playwriting (1981–82) and Associate Professor of Theatre at
5106-1074: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate and former President of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse (PhD, 1973); the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winning co-discoverer of the Hepatitis C and D genomes Sir Michael Houghton (Biological Sciences, 1972); vaccinologist Dame Sarah Gilbert (Biological Sciences, 1983) who designed the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine ; Darwin Medal , Darwin–Wallace Medal and Erwin Schrödinger Prize winning evolutionary biologist Nick Barton (PhD, 1979); Potamkin Prize winning pathologist Karen Duff (Biological Sciences, 1987); climate scientists Tim Lenton , Chris Turney , Neil Adger , Benjamin D. Santer , Timothy Osborn , Keith Briffa , Sarah Raper , and Peter Thorne ; and
5217-503: The Bush Theatre celebrated 20 years at the frontier of new writing. "What has held the Bush together for 20 years? Blind faith, youthful commitment and a tenacious belief in new writing: above all, perhaps, the conviction that new work deserves the highest standards in acting, direction and design", The Guardian . The Bush won The Empty Space Award for the year's work, which included Billy Roche 's Bush plays A Handful Of Stars , Poor Beast in
5328-408: The Bush Theatre filmed several of its productions and offered them to online viewers. Following the 2016/17 redevelopment, the Bush Theatre has two performance spaces: The building also contains an Attic rehearsal space and Writer's Room , along with a Café Bar, garden terrace and playtext library, which is the largest public theatre reference library in the United Kingdom. The redevelopment of
5439-563: The CRU was a major repository for data regarding man-made global warming , the release, which occurred directly prior to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference , attracted international attention and led to calls for an inquiry, with the controversy gaining the nickname "climategate". As a result, eight investigations were launched in both the United Kingdom and the United States, but none found evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct, and
5550-717: The Derby Day trophy from 2013 to 2018. The UEA Student Union organises gigs and club nights at the Lower Common Room in Union House. The union also runs the Waterfront venue, off campus in Norwich's King Street, which was awarded a Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) award in 2018 for engagement with alumni. Acts that have performed at these venues include Captain Beefheart , The Cure , Coldplay , Pere Ubu , U2 , Haim , The Smiths , Sparks , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Radiohead and Iron Maiden . The union operates
5661-1142: The Fellows of the Royal Society James Barber , Keith Beven , Mervyn Bibb , Lucy Carpenter , Ken Carslaw , Richard Flavell , Don Grierson , Louise Heathwaite , Brian Hemmings , Giles Oldroyd , Terence Rabbitts , William Sutherland , and Nick Talbot . Literary alumni include the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Creative Writing, 1980), renowned German writer W. G. Sebald (PhD, 1973), Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan (Creative Writing, 1971), and Anne Enright (Creative Writing, 1988); Costa Book Award winners Dame Rose Tremain (Creative Writing, 1967), Andrew Miller (Creative Writing, 1991), David Almond (English Literature, 1993), Tash Aw (Creative Writing, 2003), Emma Healey (Creative Writing, 2011), Susan Fletcher (Creative Writing, 2002), Adam Foulds (Creative Writing, 2001), Avril Joy (History of Art, 1972) and Christie Watson (Creative Writing, 2009); and
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#17330845264045772-592: The House of Lords , along with winners of the Lasker Award , Booker Prize , Caine Prize and Costa Book Award . Attempts to establish a university in Norwich were made in 1919 and 1947, but due to a lack of government funding on both occasions the plans had to be postponed. The University of East Anglia was eventually set up in April 1960 for biological sciences and English studies students. Initially, teaching took place in
5883-588: The Lasdun Wall buildings due to potential architectural risks and failings. The £88m project includes both new research and teaching space in an extended Building 3, while existing facilities will continue to operate within Buildings 4, 5 and 6. It will also provide an 86% betterment in thermal performance, aligning it with UEA's net zero emission targets. Features of the UEA campus include Earlham Hall, which now accommodates
5994-611: The Liberal Democrat peer Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market (European Studies, 1999). UEA is also the alma mater of the former Crossbench peer Timothy Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland (History of Art, 1975); and the former MPs Douglas Carswell (History, 1993), Judith Chaplin , Tony Colman (International Development), Caroline Flint (American Literature, History and Film, 1983), Jon Owen Jones (Ecology, 1975), Tess Kingham (Education), and Ivor Stanbrook (Law, 1995). Bush Theatre The Bush Theatre
6105-401: The Martyr (1970), Device of Angels (1970), Pericles, The Mean Knight (1970) and Reason (1972), most of which dealt with overtly political subjects. Wilson's first full-length works to attract notice were Pignight and Blow-Job , both produced in 1971, in which "Horror and farce sat side by side." Pignight , the first of his own plays that Wilson directed, is a nightmarish fantasy about
6216-574: The Queen's Building, which hosts classes within the School of Health Sciences. In 1995, the Elizabeth Fry Building was opened, providing new facilities for almost 800 students. In 2000, UEA's reputation within the field of environmental research led to the government choosing the university as the site for the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The centre, named after the 19th-century scientist John Tyndall , brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists from eight partner institutions to "research, assess and communicate from
6327-404: The Rain and Belfry playing in repertory as The Wexford Trilogy , which toured to Wexford Opera House and the Abbey Theatre , Dublin. In November 2010, the Bush Theatre announced it would be leaving its home of nearly forty years and moving to the former Passmore Edwards Public Library building, round the corner from its first home, on Uxbridge Road. The relocation took place in 2011 and
6438-485: The Revolution (Emily Ling Williams) 2023 – Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards- Most Promising Playwright for Red Pitch (Tyrell Williams) 2023 – SME Greater London Enterprise Awards - Most Outstanding Local Theatre 2023 – Laurence Olivier Award nomination - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for Paradise Now! 2023 – Stage Debut Awards nomination - Best Writer for August in England ( Lenny Henry ) 2023 – Stage Debut Awards nomination - Best Performer in
6549-1809: The Rookie 2005 – Meyer-Whitworth Award to Stephen Thompson for Damages 2006 – Susan Smith Blackburn Award to Amelia Bullmore for Mammals 2007 – Susan Smith Blackburn Award to Abbie Spallen for Pumpgirl 2018 – Laurence Olivier Award nomination - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for The B*easts 2019 – Stage Awards - London Theatre of the Year 2019 – Laurence Olivier Award nomination - Best New Play for Misty 2019 – Laurence Olivier Award nomination - Best Actor for Misty ( Arinzé Kene ) 2020 – Laurence Olivier Award – Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for Baby Reindeer 2020 – Stage Debut Awards - Best Writer for The High Table (Temi Wilkey) 2022 – Laurence Olivier Award - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for Old Bridge 2022 – Laurence Olivier Award nomination - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre for 10 Nights 2022 – Evening Standard Theatre Awards - Most Promising Playwright for Red Pitch (Tyrell Williams) 2022 – Stage Debut Awards - Best Writer for Red Pitch (Tyrell Williams) 2022 – Susan Smith Blackburn Prize - Benedict Lombe for Lava 2022 – George Devine Award - Tyrell Williams for Red Pitch 2022 – Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards - Most Promising Playwright for Old Bridge (Igor Memic) 2022 – Evening Standard Theatre Awards nomination - Most Promising Playwright for The P Word (Waleed Akhtar) 2022 – Evening Standard Theatre Awards nomination - Most Promising Playwright for Old Bridge (Igor Memic) 2022 – Evening Standard Theatre Awards nomination - Best Play for Red Pitch 2022 – Stage Debut Awards nomination - Best Designer for Favour (Liz Whitbread) 2022 – Stage Debut Awards nomination - Best Performer in
6660-702: The Sainsbury Centre at UEA was used for filming several scenes in Avengers: Age of Ultron , Ant-Man , Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming . In 2015, "Britain's Greenest Building" (The Enterprise Centre) opened on campus using low-carbon local materials; it was featured in an exhibition at COP26 as one of the most exemplary sustainable building projects in the world. Also, Earlham Park played host between 23 and 24 May to BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015 where acts such as Fall Out Boy , Muse , Foo Fighters and Taylor Swift performed. In late-September 2016, two new accommodation blocks opened; Barton House and Hickling House were named after two of
6771-454: The School of Environmental Sciences, has been an early centre of work for climate change research. The school was also stated to be "the strongest in the world" by the chief scientific adviser to the British government , Sir David King , during a lecture at the John Innes Centre in 2005. The university was one of the first in the United Kingdom to establish Film Studies as a serious academic discipline, with developmental funding to support
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#17330845264046882-430: The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and jointly helped to establish their creative writing course at masters level in 1970, which was then a groundbreaking initiative in the United Kingdom. In 1972, the Centre for Climatic Research opened in the School of Environmental Sciences; the founder and first director was climatologist Hubert Lamb . That same year, UEA's consultant architect Bernard Feilden helped
6993-413: The Top 20 by The Times , The Sunday Times , The Guardian and The Complete University Guide . In April 2013, the university was ranked first for student experience according to the Times Higher Education Magazine . It currently ranks third for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey when ranking mainstream English universities. UEA is the only institution to have ranked within
7104-444: The Top 5 since the survey began. In 2022, UEA was ranked first for "UK University Job Prospects" by students in the Student Crowd Survey. In 2017, the university was rated "gold" by the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) for quality of teaching. In the 2023 TEF assessment, UEA's award was revised to "silver". The university offers over 300 courses in its four faculties, which contain twenty-six schools of study: All students at
7215-425: The UEA Law School first moved to Earlham Hall which dates back to 1580 and was the seat of the Gurney family . Social reformer Elizabeth Fry grew up there and Prince William Frederick was once a regular guest. In 1984, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) moved to a new cylindrical building designed by Rick Mather . In 2006, this was named the Hubert Lamb Building in honour of the first director. In 1988, for
7326-449: The UEA Law School; the Sainsbury Centre at the western end of the main wall, designed by Norman Foster to house the art collection of Sir Robert Sainsbury , whose daughter attended UEA; the Sportspark, a multi-sports facility; and the Enterprise Centre, a supportive hub for start-up companies. The campus also includes Norwich Research Park and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Until 1994, former RAF accommodation blocks at
7437-402: The Union Pub and Bar, a 24-hour library, a concert venue (Lower Common Room), a canteen (Campus Kitchen), a café (The Blend), a bar (Unio), a graduate bar (The Scholar's Bar) and The Street with a 24-hour launderette, the Union Shop and a coffee shop (Ziggy's). Other establishments include Café 57 and the Bio Cafe. There is also the Medical Centre and Dental Practice located on the eastern side of
7548-475: The University of East Anglia. Wilson's style grew away from the overtly political manner of his contemporaries David Hare and Howard Brenton , and he often wrote about the arcane, the occult, and the irrational, whether in the Gothic intrigues of Vampire (1973), the space aliens of Moonshine (1999), or the duelling wizards of The Number of the Beast (1982). Commenting on his interest in magical subjects, Wilson said, "It's only because people like to think that
7659-423: The White Ant . In 1978, his surrealist play The Glad Hand attracted favourable notice, as did his 1994 play, Darwin's Flood , among others. He continued to write plays and screenplays until the end of his life, including for the Bush Theatre . He also wrote several novels and held teaching positions. Wilson was born in Reading , the son of two teachers: Leslie Wilson and his wife Pamela Mary née Boyle. Snoo
7770-435: The academics were subsequently fully exonerated. In 2011, an analysis of temperature data by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature group concluded that the CRU's "studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change sceptics did not seriously affect their conclusions". In 2010, the Thomas Paine Study Centre was opened by playwright Trevor Griffiths . It became Norwich Business School which
7881-423: The advancement of gender equality . During the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, the university gave empty student accommodation to NHS staff, allowing them to isolate from at-risk family members and to avoid commuting. In June 2021, plans for a BBC film documenting the 2009 CRU email controversy were announced, featuring Jason Watkins playing the role of climatologist Phil Jones. The film ( The Trick )
7992-591: The bossy character "Public Opinion" into a parody of the then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher , was favourably remarked upon. Wilson's only play to have a production in the West End was HRH , concerning the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in exile. His television movies included Shadey , an ESP-themed piece for Channel 4 (1986) and Eichmann , about the interrogation of the eponymous character (2007). Two musicals, aimed at youth theatre, were Bedbug: The Musical , an adaptation of
8103-578: The building was to be more sustainable and entirely accessible, with a new entrance, front-of-house area and exterior garden terrace to the main street. Lynette Linton became Artistic Directory in January 2019, following Younis' appointment as Creative Director at the Southbank Centre . That same year, the theatre was named London Theatre of the Year by The Stage . In response to the COVID-19 pandemic ,
8214-782: The campus include Constable Terrace, Nelson Court, with Britten, Paston, Colman, Victory, Kett and Browne Houses, in addition to the University Village. The residences are named after Horatio Nelson , John Constable , Benjamin Britten , Jeremiah Colman , Nelson's ship HMS Victory , Robert Kett , Sir Thomas Browne and the Paston family (authors of the Paston Letters ). UEA's newest residences (Crome, Hickling and Barton Houses) offer en suite accommodation with shared kitchens and communal lounge areas. Facilities located on campus include
8325-597: The campus. The campus is linked to Norwich city centre and railway station by frequent buses, operated by First Eastern Counties , via Unthank Road or Earlham Road. Other transport links include First Buses to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and to Bowthorpe , as well as Konectbus services to Watton , Dereham and also Costessey via park and ride . National Express provides coach services to London and Megabus also operates both low cost intercity and long-distance travel to cities including Cambridge , Birmingham , Bristol and Cardiff . The university
8436-654: The current King of Tonga Tupou VI (Development Studies, 1980) who also served as Prime Minister from 2000 to 2006 and Foreign Minister from 1998 to 2004; Governor General of Grenada Sir Carlyle Glean (Education, 1982); Governor of Gibraltar Sir Robert Fulton (Social Sciences, 1970) who was formerly Commandant General Royal Marines ; Kiribati Vice President Teima Onorio (Education, 1990); Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Murat Karayalçın (Development Economics, 1977) who also served as Foreign Minister; Finance Ministers of Australia ( Mathias Cormann ), South Africa ( Tito Mboweni ), Rwanda ( Donald Kaberuka , later President of
8547-535: The current MPs Rachael Maskell (Physiotherapy, 1994), Brian Mathew (Development Studies, 1983), Manuela Perteghella , Adrian Ramsay , Connor Rand (History, 2014), Sam Rushworth , and Karin Smyth (Politics, 1988); former Leaders of the House of Lords Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos (Applied Research in Education, 1978) and Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde (Modern Languages and European Studies, 1982); and
8658-498: The degrees awarded by English universities , with the University of East Anglia awarding 35.7% First Class degrees, 52.1% Upper Seconds (2:1), 11.2% Lower Seconds (2:2) and 1% Third Class degrees in 2016/17. The results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework , published on 12 May 2022, showed that over 91% of the university's research activity was deemed to be "world leading" or "internationally excellent" with more than 47% having
8769-476: The dreadful, dreadful things going on I think of that as my way of keeping a grasp on my own sensibilities. In fact, it's the only way I have." He wrote some of his later plays for the Bush Theatre in Shepherd's Bush , including More Light (1987) and Darwin's Flood (1994). The first "convened Giordano Bruno with Elizabeth I, Doctor Dee and a female Shakespeare in heaven in 1600". In Darwin's Flood , Charles Darwin
8880-402: The financial year 2023/24 and had predicted that there would be £45m yearly losses by 2026/27. The university's teaching block, also known as the Lasdun Wall, urgently required major repairs; its condition was described as "deteriorating fast" and it was said that if repairs were not done it might have "to be closed permanently" and would be "unusable by 2025". The financial turmoil alongside
8991-541: The first buildings did not open until late-1966. Lasdun moved the teaching and research functions into a single 460-metre (1,510-foot) long concrete block following the contour of the site, with facilities for resident tutors. Alongside this teaching wall a walkway was built, giving access to the various entrances of the wall, with frontage roads beneath. Attached to the southern side of the walkway, six linked blocks of terraced accommodation residences were constructed to appear as one structure. The residences became known as
9102-584: The highest category of 4* of World Leading Research, significantly higher than the national average of 41%. UEA was ranked thirteenth in the UK for the quality of its research outputs and twentieth overall amongst all mainstream British institutions – a rise of nine places since the last assessment in 2014. The university ranks in the Top 1% worldwide according to the Times Higher Education world rankings, and within
9213-584: The institution being in a "death spiral". Professor David Maguire , formerly vice-chancellor at the University of Greenwich , was appointed as the new vice-chancellor on 22 May 2023. According to a UEA press release, Maguire "will lead UEA through a significant period of transformation and change as it works to secure its future financial stability, and continue its success as a world-leading teaching and research University for future generations of students and staff". In practice this meant job cuts and threats of compulsory redundancy (113 staff posts were lost over
9324-460: The knuckle … a quirky, unpleasant and emetic sense of humour." Wilson also reviewed plays under the pseudonym Andy Boyle. Wilson died of a heart attack in Ashford, Kent , on 3 July 2013, aged 64. The Times called Wilson, "the wild man of the theatre, a playwright of extravagant and idiosyncratic talent who broke most of the rules and never settled for the safe and ordinary." Wilson's literary archive
9435-626: The library also worked on a project entitled "Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive", which has included hosting four Poets in Residence: Joelle Taylor , Jay Bernard , Anthony Vahni Capildeo and Gail McConnell. The German émigré novelist W. G. Sebald taught at the School of Literature and Creative Writing and founded the British Centre for Literary Translation. The Climatic Research Unit, founded in 1972 by Hubert Lamb in
9546-406: The material world is at base solid that they have to think of magic as a separate category of events. … The stage is very near magic in what it does and it's also composed of finally the same thing, which is sort of people and tinsel, which is all magic really is." On another occasion, Wilson commented, "I prefer to write for theatre because it can create the oldest magic. The question of its relevance
9657-578: The new venue opened with the " Sixty-Six Books " project. This was a celebration of the anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible , which used 66 writers, many of whom were veterans of the Bush. That same year, Artistic Director Josie Rourke announced her departure from the Bush to take up the position of Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse . The Board appointed Madani Younis as her successor from January 2012. In 2013, he programmed
9768-551: The one hand it is a strenuous indictment of ownership, property, greed and personal exploitation: on the other, it is a madhouse extravaganza that operates on the good old comic principle of always putting a bomb under the audience's expectations." In The Observer , Robert Cushman wrote, "This is one of the best plays of the seventies' heartless school; Coward 's Design for Living is a fount of charity by comparison." Other full-length plays of this period were Vampire (1973) written for Paradise Foundry, The Beast (1974), staged by
9879-457: The permanent campus. The site chosen was on the western edge of the city, on the south side of Earlham Road. The land, formerly part of the Earlham Hall estate was at that time occupied by a golf course. Lasdun presented a model and an outline plan at a press conference in April 1963, but it took another year to produce more detailed plans, which diverged considerably from the model. As a result,
9990-541: The provision of foundation courses for international students , including English language for academic purposes. Nationally, UEA is also involved in a number of partnerships including the Nexus Network (with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and the University of Sussex ) which fosters research and practical collaborations across the domains of energy and the environment. Additionally, UEA
10101-724: The summer). In September 2023, it was announced that some of the university's student accommodation would be temporarily closed, due to government guidance on the unsafe nature of the building material RAAC . The dwellings affected were the Ziggurats (including both Norfolk and Suffolk Terrace), visiting person accommodation at Broadview Lodge and the top floor levels of both Constable Terrace and Nelson Court. Students were moved to alternative accommodation either on campus or off-campus. Vice-chancellor Professor Maguire noted that they would be closed "until we can be certain that they are safe" and that there would be "no additional costs to students as
10212-523: The temporary "University Village", which was officially opened by the chairman of the University Grants Committee , Keith Murray , on 29 September 1963. Sited on the opposite side of the Earlham Road to the present campus, this was a collection of prefabricated structures designed for 1,200 students, laid out by the local architectural firm Feilden and Mawson . There were no residences with
10323-458: The theatre's most successful season to date, which saw the theatre play to 99% capacity. In Spring 2016, the Bush Theatre relocated its plays to found spaces around Shepherd's Bush and Notting Hill, as the former library building closed for the largest capital project in the theatre's history. Borrowing new and iconic spaces with their own histories and tales of the local community, this season of work welcomed new audiences and residents by offering
10434-401: The university and INTO UEA automatically become members of the union but do have the right to opt out of membership. Membership confers the ability to take part in the union's activities such as clubs and societies and being involved in the democratic processes of the union. The union is a democratic organisation run by its members via an elected student officer committee and student council. It
10545-491: The university celebrated its 50th-anniversary, ranking No. 1 in the Times Higher Education Magazine Student Experience league table. UEA also launched its first free Massive open online course (MOOC) in partnership with Future Learn . In 2014, UEA opened an environmentally friendly accommodation block (Crome Court) which has won a number of awards for sustainability. In the mid-2010s,
10656-495: The university to win a Civic Trust Award for the design of the main campus social area (The Square). In the mid-1970s, the School of Computing Sciences first opened at UEA and the university started offering postgraduate and undergraduate education degrees from Keswick Hall , a manor and country house that previously served as a residence of the Gurney family and housed the former Norwich Teacher Training College. The property
10767-496: The university's 25th-anniversary celebrations, King Charles III visited the CRU building. It has become one of the leading institutions worldwide concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change . Also in 1988, ten years after the Sainsbury Centre opened, all of the cladding had to be replaced with the aluminium panels having deteriorated beyond repair. In 1989, the British Centre for Literary Translation
10878-639: The venue was 'Cultural Project of the Year' finalist at the AJ Architecture Awards 2017, and 'Highly commended Cultural Building' at the AJ Retrofit Awards 2017, and selected by the Hammersmith Society as winner of their Conservation Award for 2017. The Literary Department at the Bush Theatre is committed to discovering the best new plays from playwrights from the widest range of backgrounds and therefore seek unsolicited submissions throughout
10989-463: The vice-chancellor and administration being based in nearby Earlham Hall . UEA was one of the " plate glass universities " that were constructed during the decade to meet the demand for the expansion of higher education. In 1961, the first vice-chancellor, Frank Thistlethwaite , had approached architect Denys Lasdun , an adherent of the " New Brutalist " trend in architecture, who was at that time building Fitzwilliam College , to produce designs for
11100-490: The world Top 100 for research excellence in the Leiden Ranking , with UEA "often out-performing Russell Group universities". In 2022, UEA was ranked within the Top 50 globally for research citations by the Times Higher Education world rankings. In 2012, UEA was named the tenth best university in the world under 50-years-old and third best within the United Kingdom. In national league tables, UEA has been ranked within
11211-1623: The year in dedicated script windows. The Bush is a proud champion of playwrights, with a keen interest in those voices not often heard, and reflecting the contemporary culture of London, the UK and beyond. The Department receives nearly 2000 scripts a year from new and established playwrights, all of which are read and considered for production or development at the Bush. 1977 – George Devine Award to Robert Holman for German Skerries 1979 – George Devine Award to Jonathan Gems for The Tax Exile 1982 – Samuel Beckett Award for Coming Clean by Kevin Elyot 1986 – Laurence Olivier Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement to Robert Holman for Making Noises Quietly 1989 – John Whiting Award for Handful of Stars by Billy Roche 1993 – Laurence Olivier Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement to Billy Roche for The Wexford Trilogy 1993 – Susan Smith Blackburn Award to Jane Coles for Backstroke In A Crowded Pool 1993 – John Whiting Award for The Clearing by Helen Edmundson 1994 – John Whiting Award for Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey 1995 – Laurence Olivier Award Nomination for Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey 1996 – Susan Smith Blackburn Award to Naomi Wallace for One Flea Spare 1997 – Meyer-Whitworth Award to Conor McPherson for This Lime Tree Bower 1998 – George Devine Award to Helen Blakeman for Caravan 1998 – Meyer-Whitworth Award to Daragh Carville for Language Roulette 1999 – George Devine Award to Mark O'Rowe for Howie
11322-632: Was dramaturge to the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and in 1976 he married the journalist Ann McFerran, a theatre critic, with whom he had two sons, Patrick and David, and a daughter, Jo. In the same year, he became script editor of the BBC television anthology drama series, Play for Today . A play that year, The Soul of the White Ant , starring Simon Callow , was first produced at the Soho Poly. It
11433-504: Was a childhood nickname. He was educated at Bradfield College , where his father taught, and the University of East Anglia (UEA), graduating with a degree in American and English Literature in 1969. At UEA, he was a student of Lorna Sage and Malcolm Bradbury . Wilson's early plays, the one-act Girl Mad as Pigs and the two-act Ella Daybellfesse's Machine , were first produced at UEA in, respectively, June and November 1967. Two years later,
11544-472: Was an annual fundraising event for the Big C Cancer Charity and ran from 2006 to 2019. Students acquired a wheelbarrow and decorated it in accordance with their team's theme. They were then paraded around the local area, via a selection of local pubs and with a wheelbarrow race through Eaton Park . The annual Derby Day sports event involves UEA taking on the University of Essex in approximately 40 sports. UEA won
11655-839: Was appointed music adviser for UEA and in 1967, he conducted the UEA Choir in a performance of his composition War Requiem . In the early-1970s, UEA:TV (under the name of Nexus UTV ) was formed and created student-made television with it operating for two hours a day over lunchtime. The monthly student newspaper Concrete officially launched in 1973, replacing Mandate from 1965; issues have included interviews with Tony Blair , Nick Clegg , Paul McCartney , Coldplay , Stephen Fry , Michael Palin , Harrison Ford , Greg James , Charles Clarke and Max Mosley . Additional university publications included Phoenix , Can Opener , Mustard Magazine and Kett before Concrete re-launched in 1992. Authors Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson both founded
11766-511: Was established by a maverick actor, Brian McDermott, who used to tour the Fringe. The venue, despite its fame and massive output, was intimate, with a maximum audience of approximately 80. The first production was an adaption of The Collector by John Fowles , directed by John Neville and starring Annette Andre and Brian McDermott; it had previously played at the King's Head Theatre . Throughout 1992,
11877-520: Was founded in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing by W. G. Sebald , who taught European Literature. In 1987, the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies was set up to facilitate the study of the United States. Miller later spent his 85th-birthday at UEA when he was made an honorary graduate in 2000. In 1990, the student radio station Livewire1350AM launched, completing UEA's Media Collective of print, television and radio. It
11988-547: Was founded; it currently has 60 members and rows year-round on the Yare River from September to July. The club has a boathouse and also has use of the UEA Sportspark on campus. In 1964, Arthur Miller 's The Crucible became the first drama production to be staged at UEA with John Rhys Davies , the drama society's first president and one of the first 105 students admitted to the university. In 1965, composer Benjamin Britten
12099-696: Was opened by Radio 1 DJ John Peel (who was awarded an honorary MA degree from UEA) and is now one of the longest running student radio stations in the country. In 1993, the Union of UEA Students took over the management of the Waterfront , a music venue and nightclub located on the bank of the River Wensum which has hosted bands and artists including Pulp , Radiohead , Nirvana , The Verve , Arctic Monkeys , The Prodigy , Amy Winehouse , Stereophonics , Paul Weller , Buzzcocks , MGMT , Travis , Moby , Ellie Goulding and Foals . In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II opened
12210-451: Was shot on location at the university and aired in October 2021. In 2023, the university entered a financial crisis when it made a £74m loss in the financial year ending on 31 July 2022. The university's income was £295m, but it spent £370m: 48% staff costs, 16% pension scheme provision, 26% other costs, 8% depreciation and 2% interest on loans. The university expected to make a £34m loss in
12321-432: Was sold off in 1981 after the college's amalgamation with the university due to an enforced closure. The UEA Broad was developed by Atlas Aggregates in conjunction with the university between August 1973 and June 1978. The project involved excavating an 18-acre (7.3-hectare) area of gravel and was arranged as part of a "no money" deal where the aggregate company took the material leaving a landscaped body of water fed by
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