The University of Hull (UofH) was founded in 1927 – originally as University College Hull. The foundation stone was laid the following year by the Duke of York (later King George VI, of The King’s Speech fame) and they opened for business with 39 students and 14 ‘one-man’ departments. They came a long way since then. The University now has more than 16,000 students and around 2,500 employees, including more than 1,000 academic staff. The University of Hull has been changing the way people think for 90 years. Their motto, Lampada Ferens, translates as ‘carrying the light of learning’, and over the years, they have shared that light with thousands of people from across the world. As England’s 14th-oldest university, UofH have a proud heritage of academic excellence, and a history of creating and inspiring life-changing research. And they have no plans to stop helping to build a better world.