University_of_East_Anglia

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a 320-acre (130-hectare) campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of study. The university is a leading 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. It is one of five BBSRC funded research campuses with thirty businesses, four independent research institutes (John Innes Centre, Quadram Institute, Earlham Institute, and The Sainsbury Laboratory) and a teaching hospital (Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital) on site.UEA is recognised for the quality of its research with it being in the Top 20 nationwide for research quality. It is also one of the nation’s most prominently cited research-intensive institutions worldwide. The postgraduate Master of Arts in creative writing, founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970, has been regarded as the most prestigious in the United Kingdom with admission to the programme being extremely competitive and the course having gone on to produce a number of distinguished authors. The annual income of UEA for 2022–23 was £315 million, of which £34.2 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £312.2 million.UEA alumni and faculty include three Nobel Prize winners, a co-discoverer of the Hepatitis C and Hepatitis D genomes as well as the small interfering RNA, a co-inventor of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, one President of the Royal Society, three Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences and forty-eight Fellows of the Royal Society. Alumni also include multiple business founders and CEOs, one current monarch and former prime minister, two de facto heads of state, one vice president, one deputy prime minister, and two former leaders of the House of Lords along with two Lasker Award winners, three Booker Prize winners, eleven Costa Book Award winners, and three Caine Prize winners.