Year: 2016

The University of Lincoln has risen to its highest ever position in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.

In the latest edition of the guide, published this weekend, Lincoln has jumped 11 places to 51st position in the overall rankings out of 128 higher education institutions listed.

The University has improved in nearly all categories of the table but most significantly in the areas of teaching quality and student experience, where it is ranked in the top 10 nationally on both measures.

It follows the institution’s success in the latest National Student Survey, in which it was placed in the top 10 in the UK for overall student satisfaction* with several of its courses ranked number one for their subject areas.

The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 is intended for students and parents making choices about undergraduate courses for entry in the 2017/18 academic year.

Lincoln’s rise in the latest edition comes days after the University was placed in the top 800 in the world for all universities in the prestigious THE World University Rankings 2016-17, a clear indication that Lincoln’s reputation is growing globally.

To read more, visit: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2016/09/1270.asp

An online resource charting the history of Feminism in the late 18th century to the early 20th century has been launched, providing the perfect starting point for those wanting to research the topic.

Created with researchers and students in mind, the Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism pulls together a wealth of articles, chapters, books and journals focusing on the long Nineteenth Century of feminism (1776-1928).

It features thousands of chapters of primary source materials, digitised for the first time, alongside 1,000 chapters of secondary book content and 100 journal articles from a range of Taylor and Francis journals. It also includes 16 newly commissioned thematic essays by experts in the field, including Women’s Movements and Ideologies in the long 19th Century by Professor Krista Cowman from the School of History & Heritage.

Images from the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Women’s Library help to bring the resource to life as well as creating a fully comprehensive resource of this much studied era of gender history.

Famous Pokémon characters can be caught at the University of Lincoln this week at ‘Pokéstops’ in six different spots across campus.

Lures which attract more of the Pokémon creatures to the six stops will be set during Thursday afternoon. The game, which allows players to fight, capture and train virtual monsters, already features the campus, so the lures are hoped to bring more characters during 12 noon and 4pm.

The game works by various characters popping up on the virtual Pokémon Go landscape, which uses a smartphone’s GPS and detect where you are and make Pokémon appear “around you” as you look at the world through the phone’s camera.

As players move around, characters start to appear depending on the time of day and where they are. Players must toss a Pokéball to capture them, with some much harder to trap than others.

Six locations will be used for the lures: outside the library; Minerva Building; pedestrian area outside the Media, Humanities and Technology (MHT) building; near One Campus Way at the Student Village; and outside Witham House.

ICT and Finance will be based at the Minerva Building, while the School of Psychology, which came up with the idea, is manning a stand at MHT along with Student Services. The Chaplaincy team stand will be based at Witham house.

Use hashtags #PokemonGo and #FreshLincoln to follow the action online and post your own Pokémon Go pictures.

The map with all Pokéstop locations can be found here: PokemonGo Campus Map PDF

The Chief Executive of Siemens UK, Juergen Maier, was special guest at a ceremony to officially open the newly expanded engineering facilities at the University of Lincoln.

The event at the Engineering Hub on the University’s main Brayford Campus on Thursday 8th September 2016 celebrated the award-winning partnership between the University and Siemens.

Lincoln’s School of Engineering was the first dedicated facility of its kind to be created in the UK in more than two decades, welcoming its first students in 2011. The result of a pioneering collaboration between University of Lincoln and Siemens, it has won a series of national awards and accolades as an example of how industry and academic can work together, including a prestigious Lord Stafford Award.

The expansion of the Engineering Hub provides additional training spaces and offices for Siemens, as well as new academic spaces for staff and students. The shared facilities further consolidate the unique partnership between the University of Lincoln and Siemens.

To read more, visit: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2016/09/1264.asp

Draft Programme timetables are now available to be viewed by returning students. Please use this link.

It is important to note that these timetables are DRAFT and subject to change.  Complete individual timetable will be published on Friday 16 September 2016.

New students will not receive their timetable until the close of business on Friday 23 September 2016.