Norwich Research Park
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Norwich Research Park (NRP) is a science research park located to the southwest of Norwich in East Anglia close to the A11 and the A47 roads. Set in a {{convert|568|acre|ha|abbr=off|adj=on}} area of parkland, it is one of five Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded research campuses and has one of Europe's largest concentrations of researchers in the fields of agriculture, genomics, health and the environment. It is the only site in the United Kingdom with three BBSRC funded research institutes and the focus of the community is on creating and supporting new companies and jobs based on bioscience.{{cite web |title=University of East Anglia (UEA) |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-east-anglia |work=Times Higher Education}}
It is also a partnership between the University of East Anglia, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and four independent world-renowned research institutes (John Innes Centre, Quadram Institute, Earlham Institute, and The Sainsbury Laboratory) that are linked to the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.{{cite web |title=Our Community - Norwich Research Park|url=https://www.norwichresearchpark.com/about/partners|work=Norwich Research Park}} There are over forty businesses located on the site across {{convert|100000|sqft|sqm}} of space with 12,000 people, including 3,000 researchers and clinicians with an annual research spend of £164 million.{{cite web |title=NORWICH RESEARCH PARK - OVERVIEW|url=https://eastofenglandappg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NRP-Overview-Presentation-October-2023.pdf|work=East of England}}{{cite web |date=16 October 2024 |title=World's scientists attracted to Norwich Research Park|url=https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/24596614.worlds-scientists-attracted-norwich-research-park/|work=Norwich Evening News}}
History
The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital officially opened in July 1772;{{cite web |title=Our History - Norwich Research Park|url=https://www.norwichresearchpark.com/history|work=Norwich Research Park}}{{cite web|url=http://www.takeheart.co.uk/gooch.htm|title=Benjamin Gooch, Surgeon 1708-1776 Shottesham, Norfolk, England|work=Take Heart|accessdate=9 October 2018}} it was closed in 2003 after its services had been transferred to the new Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH).{{cite web|title=Final phase of former Norwich and Norfolk hospital conversion given go-ahead|url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/final_phase_of_former_norwich_and_norfolk_hospital_conversion_given_go_ahead_1_1184680|work=Norwich Evening News|accessdate=27 November 2015|date=23 January 2012}} The earliest form of the Quadram Institute was founded in 1903 – the Long Ashton Research Station (LARS) which was an agricultural and horticultural government-funded research centre used for the cider industry.{{Cite journal|author=Barker, B. T. P. |date=1953|title=Long Ashton Research Station, 1903–1953|journal=Journal of Horticultural Science|volume=28|issue=3 |pages=149–151|doi=10.1080/00221589.1953.11513779}} The BBSRC announced in 1999 that Long Ashton was to be closed.{{cite news|work=Times Higher Education|first=Natasha|last=Loder|date=1 October 1999|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=148231§ioncode=26|title=Final harvest at Long Ashton}} It was demolished in 2003.{{cite web|last=Burden|first=Kevin|title=Long Ashton: the home of cider science|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/features/2003/02/28/long_ashton.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030402073934/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/features/2003/02/28/long_ashton.shtml|archive-date=2 April 2003|work=BBC|access-date=27 February 2013}}
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In 1904, London property developer John Innes died.{{Cite ODNB|title=Innes, John (1829–1904) |id=39431| last=West |first=Jenny}} He left his estate at Merton Park for the creation of the John Innes Horticultural Institution in 1910.{{Cite journal
| title = The New John Innes Horticultural Institution
| journal = Nature
| volume = 165
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| year = 1950
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| bibcode = 1950Natur.165..955.
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}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/services-and-products/library/history-jic.pdf |title=John Innes Centre - Corporate History|access-date=26 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716161921/http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/services-and-products/library/history-jic.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} It moved to its present site in 1967.[http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/about/history.htm John Innes Centre, History.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608131346/http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/about/history.htm |date=8 June 2009 }} Retrieved 10 August 2008. The John Innes Foundation (JIF) was also formed in 1910, which acts as a charitable foundation that sponsors graduate studentships each year and also owns a collection of archive material.{{cite web |url=http://www.johninnesfoundation.org.uk/jif-studentship-prize-winners/ |title=JIF Studentship Prize Winners |work=John Innes Foundation |access-date=2017-11-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.johninnesfoundation.org.uk/historical-collections/ |title=Historical Collections |work=John Innes Foundation |access-date=2017-11-14}} John Innes compost was developed by the institution in the 1930s, who donated the recipe to the "Dig for Victory" war effort.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/the-john-innes-centre-and-the-compost-that-bears-our-name/|title=The John Innes Centre and the compost that bears our name|work=John Innes Centre|accessdate=5 May 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Fisher |first1=Sue |title=What is John Innes compost? |url=https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/what-is-john-innes-compost/ |work=Gardener's World |access-date=17 May 2023}} During the 1980s, the administration of the John Innes Institute was combined with that of the Plant Breeding Institute and the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/161714b0| title = Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge| journal = Nature| volume = 161| issue = 4097| pages = 714| year = 1948| bibcode = 1948Natur.161R.714.| doi-access = free}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/161714c0| title = Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge: Dr. G. D. H. Bell| journal = Nature| volume = 161| issue = 4097| pages = 714–715| year = 1948| bibcode = 1948Natur.161S.714.| doi-access = free}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/170913f0| title = Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge| journal = Nature| volume = 170| issue = 4335| pages = 913| year = 1952| bibcode = 1952Natur.170V.913.| doi-access = free}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/176487a0| title = The Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge| journal = Nature| volume = 176| issue = 4480| pages = 487–488| year = 1955| bibcode = 1955Natur.176..487.| doi-access = free}} In 1994, following the relocation of the operations of other two organisations to the Norwich site, the three were merged as the John Innes Centre (JIC).
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The University of East Anglia (UEA) was set up in April 1960 for biological sciences and English studies students.{{citation |url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/university-information/history-of-uea |work=UEA |title=History of UEA}} 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.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205234849/http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/about/History |work=UEA |title=History |archive-date=5 February 2007 |access-date=29 September 2019 |url=http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/about/History}} Initially, teaching took place in the temporary "University Village", which was officially opened by the chairman of the University Grants Committee, Keith Murray, on 29 September 1963.{{cite book |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50HjSi5o8J0C&pg=PA81 |title=The History of the University of East Anglia, Norwich |author=Michael Sanderson |publisher=A&C Black |year=2002|isbn = 9781852853365}} UEA was one of the "plate glass universities" that were constructed during the decade to meet the demand for the expansion of higher education.{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YeS2BCfN3AYC&pg=PA7 |title = The Plateglass Universities |publisher=Secker & Warburg |date = 31 December 1968 |access-date=30 June 2017 |page = 7 |isbn = 9780838675502 }} UEA has a long-term partnership with the Norwich Science Festival which takes place each February at the Forum.{{cite web|url=https://www.norwichresearchpark.com/norwich-science-festival-2023|work=Norwich Research Park|title=Norwich Science Festival 2023|date=28 February 2023 |access-date=2 March 2024}}
The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was founded in 1972 as part of the university's School of Environmental sciences.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50HjSi5o8J0C&pg=PA285 |title=The History of the University of East Anglia, Norwich |author=Michael Sanderson |page=285 |year=2002 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-85285-336-5}} In 1984, the CRU moved to a new cylindrical building designed by Rick Mather.{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=50HjSi5o8J0C&pg=PA345|title = The History of the University of East Anglia, Norwich|first = Michael|last = Sanderson|page = 345|year = 2002| publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-85285-336-5}} In 2006, it was named the Hubert Lamb Building in honour of the first director.{{cite book|author-link = Fred Pearce|last = Pearce|first = Fred|title = The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming|year = 2010|publisher = Guardian Books|isbn = 978-0-85265-229-9|page = 32}}{{cite book|editor=Hulme, Michael|editor2=Barrow, Elaine|author1=Lamb, H.H.|author2=Clayton, K.M.|author3=Wigley, T.M.L.|title=Climates of the British Isles: present, past and future|chapter=The Climatic Research Unit at Twenty-five Years|page=xxvii–xxix|publisher=Routledge|year=1997|isbn=978-0-415-13016-5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZVVkhW8wL8C&pg=PR27}} In 1988, for UEA's 25th-anniversary celebrations, King Charles III visited the CRU building.{{cite book |title=The Postwar University: Utopianist Campus and College |last=Muthesius |first=Stefan |year=2000 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=0-300-08717-9 |pages=139–149}} The research park was officially launched in 1992, comprising the UEA School of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, the John Innes Centre, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) Norwich Food Science Laboratory and the British Sugar Technical Centre.{{Cite web|url=https://quadram.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AShortHistoryofFoodResearch.pdf|title=A Short History of Food Research|work=Institute of Food Research|location=Norwich|access-date=21 June 2017}} The Laboratory moved to York in 1992 while the Technical Centre closed its laboratories in 2001.{{cite book |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50HjSi5o8J0C&pg=PA81 |title=The History of the University of East Anglia, Norwich |author=Michael Sanderson |publisher=A&C Black |year=2002|isbn = 9781852853365}}
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In 1987, an agreement was signed to establish The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) as a joint venture between the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.[http://www.gatsby.org.uk/en/Plant-Science/Projects/The-Sainsbury-Laboratory-Norwich.aspx Gatsby – The Sainsbury Laboratory] In 1989, the laboratory moved into its current building which was constructed alongside the JIC. The Earlham Institute (EI) was established by the BBSRC in partnership with East of England Development Agency (EEDA), Norfolk County Council, Norwich City Council, South Norfolk Council and the Greater Norwich Development Partnership. It cost £13.5 million and was built by Morgan Sindall. It was officially opened on 3 July 2009 by John Sulston.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7655439.stm |title=Support hope for new genome unit |format= |work= BBC|date=6 October 2008}} During the COVID-19 pandemic, the institute developed a new method (Microbiolink) which connects microbial proteins with host proteins and determines how these interactions influence cellular processes in the host.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=21 May 2020|title=Novel tool helps translate complex communication between microbes and the body|url=https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200521/Novel-tool-helps-translate-complex-communication-between-microbes-and-the-body.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524095616/https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200521/Novel-tool-helps-translate-complex-communication-between-microbes-and-the-body.aspx |archive-date=2020-05-24 |access-date=9 June 2020|work=News Medical}}
The Institute of Food Research (IFR) was created in 1968, spread over four sites; the Meat Research Institute at Langford near Bristol, the Food Research Institute (FRI) at Colney in Norwich, the National Institute for Research in Dairying (NIRD) in Shinfield near Reading, and the Long Ashton Research Station (LARS). The IFR became an institute sponsored by the BBSRC in 1994. In 1999, the institute's activities were consolidated in one location (Norwich). On 28 April 2017, the IFR transitioned into Quadram Institute Bioscience in preparation for the full opening of the Quadram Institute (QI) in September 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/news/institute-of-food-research-transitions-into-quadram-institute-bioscience/|title=Institute of Food Research transitions into Quadram Institute Bioscience|work=Norwich Research Park|language=en|access-date=2017-05-13}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/in-pictures-first-look-at-how-norwich-s-81m-research-centre-will-look-1-4418427|title=In Pictures: First look at how Norwich's £81m research centre will look|last=Shields|first=Mark|work=Eastern Daily Press|access-date=2017-05-13|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2016/160215-pr-quadram-institute-new-food-health-research-centre/|title=The Quadram Institute, a new £75M food and health research centre|work=BBSRC|language=en|access-date=2017-05-13}}{{Cite web|last=Scott|first=Geraldine|title=Countdown is on to opening of £81m research and health hub|url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/quadram-institute-months-to-go-1-5377643|access-date=2020-07-01|work=Eastern Daily Press|date=5 February 2018|language=en}} The institute combines research teams from the partners with a regional gastrointestinal endoscopy unit and a clinical trials facility.{{Cite news|url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/first-patients-to-be-treated-at-new-endoscopy-centre-for-norfolk-and-norwich-university-hospital-1-5811178|title=First patients to be treated at new endoscopy centre for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital|work=Eastern Daily Press|last=Grimmer|first=Dan}}
Facilities
- The John Innes Centre (JIC), founded in 1910, an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/202337e0 | title = The John Innes Institute | journal = Nature | volume = 202 | issue = 4930 | pages = 337–338| year = 1964 | bibcode = 1964Natur.202U.337. | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Humphries | first1 = E. C. | title = The John Innes Institute | doi = 10.1038/204232a0 | journal = Nature | volume = 204 | issue = 4955 | pages = 232 | year = 1964 | bibcode = 1964Natur.204..232H | doi-access = free }} In 2017, it was given a gold Athena SWAN Charter award which recognises good practices in higher education and research institutions towards the advancement of gender equality.{{cite web |url=http://www.jic.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2017/10/gold-standard-john-innes-centre-receives-athena-swan-gold-award/ |title=The Gold Standard: John Innes Centre receives Athena SWAN Gold award |work=John Innes Centre |access-date=2017-11-14}}{{Citation|last=Barnard|first=Sarah|title=The Athena SWAN Charter: Promoting Commitment to Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions in the UK|date=2017|url=https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56659-1_8|work=Gendered Success in Higher Education: Global Perspectives|pages=155–174|editor-last=White|editor-first=Kate|place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/978-1-137-56659-1_8|isbn=978-1-137-56659-1|access-date=2021-09-19|editor2-last=O'Connor|editor2-first=Pat}}
- The University of East Anglia (UEA), founded in 1963, a public plate glass research university and one of the nation's most-cited research institutions worldwide.{{cite web |title=Succcess in Times Higher Education rankings sees UEA rise to five-year high|url=https://www.norwichresearchpark.com/succcess-in-times-higher-education-rankings-sees-uea-rise-to-five-year-high-2|work=Norwich Research Park}} Consisting of four faculties and twenty-six schools of study, it ranks in the Top 1% worldwide according to Times Higher Education,{{cite web|url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/new-rankings-place-uea-in-world-top-150|title=New rankings place UEA in world top 150|work=UEA|access-date=19 August 2016}} and within the world Top 100 for research excellence in the Leiden Ranking with UEA "often out-performing Russell Group universities".{{cite web|url=https://portal.uea.ac.uk/arm/publications/endorsements-and-key-messages/league-tables-uni-guide/current|title=League Table & Uni Guide|work=UEA|access-date=19 August 2016|archive-date=21 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921183354/https://portal.uea.ac.uk/arm/publications/endorsements-and-key-messages/league-tables-uni-guide/current|url-status=dead}}
- The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), founded in 1988, a research institute that carries out fundamental biological research and technology development on aspects of plant tissue culture and transformation, bioinformatics and computational biology, proteomics, and synthetic biology in plants.{{Cite web |title=About TSL |url=https://www.tsl.ac.uk/about-tsl |access-date=2023-03-08 |work=The Sainsbury Laboratory |language=en}}
- The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), founded in 2001, a large National Health Service academic teaching hospital and is a partner with the University of East Anglia in the delivery of courses. It is one of the largest hospitals in the United Kingdom in terms of in-patient capacity.{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020919004815/http://comm.uea.ac.uk/press/release.asp?id=137|title=A New Era in Medicine|work=wwwcomm@uea.ac.uk}}
- The Earlham Institute (EI), founded in 2009, a life science research institute focused on analysing plant, microbial, fish and farm animal genomes.{{cite web|title=Earlham Institute – Decoding living systems for a better world|url=http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/people-skills-training/2016/160627-n-earlham-institute-decoding-living-systems/|work=BBSRC|accessdate=30 June 2016}}
- The Quadram Institute (QI), founded in 2018, a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research centre which combines expertise in food science, microbiology, and genomics with a gastrointestinal endoscopy unit and an NNUH clinical trials facility to promote health and prevent disease.{{Cite web|url=https://quadram.ac.uk/our-science/research-areas/|title=Research Areas Archive - Quadram Institute Bioscience|website=Quadram Institute Bioscience|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-05-13}}{{Cite web|last=Faulkner|first=Doug|title=Go with your gut – how biology is big business|url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/go-with-your-gut-how-biology-is-big-business-1-4914436|access-date=2020-07-01|work=Eastern Daily Press|date=3 March 2017|language=en}}
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |last1=Dormer |first1=P. |title=Concrete and Open Skies: Architecture at the University of East Anglia, 1962–2000 |last2=Muthesius |first2=S. |publisher=Unicorn Press |year=2002 |isbn=9780906290606 |oclc=45766111}}
- {{Cite book |last=Sanderson |first=M. |title=The History of the University of East Anglia, Norwich |publisher=Hambledon Continuum |year=2002 |isbn=9781852853365 |oclc=59431664}}
External links
{{Commons category|University of East Anglia}}
- [https://www.norwichresearchpark.com/ Norwich Research Park]
- [https://www.jic.ac.uk/ John Innes Centre]
- [https://www.uea.ac.uk University of East Anglia]
- [https://www.tsl.ac.uk/ Sainsbury Laboratory]
- [https://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/our-services/our-hospitals/norfolk-and-norwich-university-hospital/ Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital]
- [https://www.earlham.ac.uk/ Earlham Institute]
- [https://quadram.ac.uk/ Quadram Institute]
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