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Located on the northeast coast of England, the University of Sunderland is a dynamic and modern university with a growing reputation for teaching and research. It has national excellence ratings from the Quality Assurance Agency for teaching in biological sciences, physiology, pharmacy, media studies, history and nursing.
The University has more than 15,000 students and welcomes over 1,500 international students from nearly 70 countries. It also has a growing reputation for high quality research (based on 2001 Research Assessment exercise which reports every five years), attracting over 6 million pounds in research funding in 2004.
Partnerships with local commerce and industry is featured strongly in many courses and the University has a dedicated business development team, based in its Industry Centre, which enables companies to tap into the University’s expertise, which is branded “Solutions from the University of Sunderland”. |
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The University of Sunderland has in recent times been recognised as the “ Best New University in England” (The Guardian) as well as the “ Best New University in the UK for Research” (The Times). The Tourism Team sits within the School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, a school created in 2002 as direct response to the conception of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and paralleling its clustering of the cultural and creative industries.
The team has a wide range and depth of expertise relating to the organisation and operation of both the tourism industry and tourism as an increasingly important cultural activity. Tourism research at the University was recognised as being of a “quality that equates to attainable levels of national excellence in more than half of the research activity submitted” in the national university Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2001. As a direct result of this success, the tourism team attracted research funding for 2003/4 and 2004/5.
Current staff research projects include cultural tourism, ecotourism, heritage tourism, sustainable tourism development and tourism planning. This currently takes place in a variety of global and local settings, for example, France, Germany, Cyprus, Spain, India, the Caribbean and the UK. Current and former research students have considered such topics as food consumption, heritage interpretation and sustainable tourism transport.
Travel and Tourism is now one of the largest industries in the world and is widely predicted to become the biggest single industry in the world in the 21 st century. Asia Pacific received more than 130 million tourists, contributing US$94 billion to the economy. Together, the Travel and Tourism industry generates about 11% of the world GDP, and 200 million jobs across the global economy.
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School of Arts , Design, Media & Culture
The School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture is one of five Schools of the University proud of its constant development in programmes, teaching methods, research and the support for graduate enterprise. Student support features highly on the School’s agenda and the national student survey carried out by the Times Higher Educational Supplement rated Sunderland the best University in England for the support of students.
The teaching and research is constantly growing in this School, and it is now the largest in the University with a very dynamic and exciting profile. The School also provides courses and research opportunities in a very wide range of subjects in all the creative and cultural fields.
The School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture is arranged into three academic areas, each led by an Associate Dean with between 700 to 1000 students in each area. The teaching in the School has been rated by the national quality agency (QAA) as being extremely good, while its research (staff and students) is of national and international standing. Many major research awards have been granted to the School by Research Councils, Trusts and Charities. The School now has research centres in the following subjects: Glass, Photography, Fine Art, New Media Art, Calligraphy, North East History, Irish Studies, and Media and Cultural Studies. All these impact most positively on students as they are taught by leading scholars, artists and designers in their field.
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