Editing Cardiff University (section)

==History==
===University college===
[[File:Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare NPG.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare|Lord Aberdare]] was instrumental in the university's founding.]]

The foundation of the university college in [[Cardiff]] that was to become Cardiff University was part of the Welsh university movement of the second half of the 19th century, which also led to the foundation of the colleges at Aberystwyth and Bangor (now [[Aberystwyth University|Aberystwyth]] and [[Bangor University|Bangor]] universities) and the federal [[University of Wales]]. The movement began at a meeting in London in 1854 called by [[Hugh Owen (educator)|Hugh Owen]], including leaders of Welsh theological colleges and members of parliament. This meeting discussed establishing university colleges in Wales along the same lines as the [[Queens University of Ireland|Queen's Colleges]] established the previous decade in [[Ireland]], and produced a formal proposal, the "Outline of Constitution for Proposed Welsh Queen's Colleges".<ref>{{cite book|pages=67, 69–70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJw4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA67|title=The University of Wales and Its Constituent Colleges|author1=William Cadwaladr Davies|author2=William Lewis Jones|publisher=F. E. Robinson & Company|date=1905|access-date=2 December 2023|archive-date=2 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202220230/https://books.google.com/books?id=vJw4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA67|url-status=live}}</ref>

Discussions on the founding of a university college in [[South Wales]] were revived in 1879, when a group of Welsh and English [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MPs]] urged the government to consider the poor provision of higher and intermediate [[education in Wales]] and "the best means of assisting any local effort which may be made for supplying such deficiency."<ref>{{Cite hansard |house=House of Commons |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/18/education-wales-resolution#S3V0247P0_18790718_HOC_65 |title=Education (Wales Resolution) |date=18 July 1879 }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003233005/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/18/education-wales-resolution#S3V0247P0_18790718_HOC_65 |date=3 October 2023 }}</ref>

In August 1880, [[William Ewart Gladstone]]'s government appointed a departmental committee to conduct "an enquiry into the nature and extent of intermediate and higher education in Wales", chaired by [[Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare|the 1st Baron Aberdare]] and consisting of [[Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor|Viscount Emlyn]], the Reverend Prebendary H. G. Robinson, [[Henry Richard]], [[John Rhys]] and [[Lewis Morris (1833–1907)|Lewis Morris]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Evans |first1=W. G. |title=The Aberdare Report and education in Wales, 1881 |journal=[[Welsh History Review]] |date=1982–1983 |volume=11 |issue=1–4 |pages=150–152 |url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1073091/llgc-id:1078288/llgc-id:1078450/getText |access-date=18 September 2014}}</ref> The [[Aberdare Report]], as it came to be known, took evidence from a wide range of sources and over 250 witnesses and recommended a college each for North Wales and South Wales, the latter to be located in [[Glamorgan]] and the former to be the established University College of Wales in Aberystwyth (now [[Aberystwyth University]]). The committee cited the unique Welsh national identity and noted that many students in Wales could not afford to travel to University in England or Scotland. It advocated a national degree-awarding university for Wales, composed of regional colleges, which should be non-sectarian in nature and exclude the teaching of theology.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Evans |first1=W. G. |title=The Aberdare Report and education in Wales, 1881 |journal=Welsh History Review |date=1982–1983 |volume=11 |issue=1–4 |pages=153–155 |url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1073091/llgc-id:1078288/llgc-id:1078450/getText |access-date=18 September 2014}}</ref><ref name="A HANDBOOK ON WELSH CHURCH DEFENCE">{{Cite book|title=A HANDBOOK ON WELSH CHURCH DEFENCE|author=THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH |date=April 1894 |publisher=DENBIGH: PRINTED BY C. COTTON AND CO., VALE STREET |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/wales/edwards_defence1894/|archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193411/http://anglicanhistory.org/wales/edwards_defence1894/ |url-status=live }} Transcribed by the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown, Bishop of Malaita, Church of the Province of Melanesia, 2008.</ref>

[[File:Statue of John Viriamu Jones.jpg|thumbnail|right|John Viriamu Jones was the founding principal of the college.]]
After the recommendation was published, [[Cardiff Council|Cardiff Corporation]] sought to secure the location of the college in Cardiff, and on 12 December 1881 formed a University College Committee to aid the matter.<ref name="Cardiff Council Minutes">{{Cite book |last1=Matthews |first1=John Hobson |title='Cardiff Council Minutes: 1881-3', Cardiff Records: volume 5 |date=1905 |pages=62–84 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=48187 |access-date=18 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140710034203/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=48187 |archive-date=10 July 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> There was competition to be the site between [[Swansea]] and Cardiff. On 12 March 1883, after arbitration, a decision was made in Cardiff's favour.<ref name="Cardiff Council Minutes"/> This was strengthened by the need to consider the interests of [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]], at that time not legally incorporated into Wales, and the greater sum received by Cardiff in support of the college, through a public appeal that raised £37,000 and a number of private donations, notably from [[John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute|the 3rd Marquess of Bute]] and [[Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth|Lord Windsor]].<ref>{{Cite hansard |house=House of Commons |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1884/jun/09/instruction-to-the-committee#S3V0288P0_18840609_HOC_11 |title=Cardiff Corporation Bill |date=9 June 1884 }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003233005/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1884/jun/09/instruction-to-the-committee#S3V0288P0_18840609_HOC_11 |date=3 October 2023 }}</ref><ref name="Studies in higher education in Ireland and Wales, with suggestions for universities and colleges in the United States">{{Cite book |last1=MACLEAN |first1=GEORGE EDWIN |title=Studies in higher education in Ireland and Wales, with suggestions for universities and colleges in the United States |date=1917 |publisher=GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE |location=Washington DC |page=71 |url=https://archive.org/stream/studiesinhighere00macl/studiesinhighere00macl_djvu.txt |access-date=19 September 2014}}</ref> In April, Lord Aberdare was appointed as the college's first president.<ref name="Cardiff Council Minutes"/> The possible locations considered included [[Cardiff Arms Park]], Cathedral Road, and Moira Terrace, [[Roath]], before the site of the Old Royal Infirmary buildings on Newport Road was chosen.<ref name="Cardiff Council Minutes"/>

The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire opened on 24 October 1883 with courses in biology, chemistry, English, French, German, Greek, history, Latin, mathematics and astronomy, music, Welsh, logic and philosophy, and physics. It was incorporated by [[royal charter]] the following year; this was the first charter in Wales to allow the enrolment of women and to specifically forbid religious tests for entry.<ref name="Studies in higher education in Ireland and Wales, with suggestions for universities and colleges in the United States"/> [[John Viriamu Jones]] was appointed as the college's first principal at the age of 27. As the college was not an independent university and could not award its own degrees, it prepared its students for the examinations of the [[University of London]] or for further study at [[Oxford University|Oxford]] or [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Lists |url=http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/historic-collections/archives-manuscripts/university-of-london-student-records-1836-1931/ |publisher=Senate House Library |access-date=27 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914105055/http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/studentrecords.shtml |archive-date=14 September 2010 |df=dmy}}</ref>

In 1888 the university college at Cardiff and the University College of North Wales (now [[Bangor University]]) proposed to the University College Wales at Aberystwyth joint action to gain a university charter for Wales, modelled on that of the [[Victoria University (United Kingdom)|Victoria University]], a federal university in northern England with colleges in Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool. This led to a charter being granted to the [[University of Wales]] in 1893, with the colleges becoming members of the new university. The position of operational head would rotate among heads of the colleges.<ref name="Studies in higher education in Ireland and Wales, with suggestions for universities and colleges in the United States"/>

In 1885, [[Aberdare Hall]] opened as the first hall of residence, allowing women access to the college. This moved to its current site in 1895, but remains a single-sex hall. In 1904 the college appointed the first female associate professor in the UK, [[Millicent Mackenzie]], who in 1910 became the first female full professor at a fully chartered UK university.

In 1901, John Viriamu Jones persuaded Cardiff Corporation to give the college a five-acre site in [[Cathays Park]] (instead of selling it as they would have done otherwise).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Poulton |first1=Edward |title=John Viriamu Jones and other Oxford Memories |url=https://archive.org/details/johnviriamujone00poulgoog |date=1911 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/johnviriamujone00poulgoog/page/n180 156] }}</ref> Soon after, in 1905, work on a new building commenced under the architect [[W. D. Caröe]]. Money ran short for the project, however, and although the side-wings were completed in the 1960s the planned 
great hall was never built. Caroe sought to combine the charm and elegance of his ''alma mater'' ([[Trinity College, Cambridge]]) with the picturesque balance of many [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] colleges. On 14 October 1909 the "New College" building in Cathays Park (now Main Building) and the "Drapers' Library" (now the Science Library) was opened in a ceremony involving a procession from the "Old College" in Newport Road.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Opening of the New College |work=Cap and Gown |issue=7 |publisher=University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire |date=14 October 1909}}</ref>

In 1931, the medical school, founded as part of the college in 1893 along with the departments of anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology, was split off to form the Welsh National School of Medicine, renamed the [[University of Wales College of Medicine]] in 1984.

The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire was renamed University College, Cardiff in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hefcw.ac.uk/about_he_in_wales/higher_education_institutions/cardiff_university.aspx |title=Cardiff University |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727105306/http://www.hefcw.ac.uk/about_he_in_wales/higher_education_institutions/cardiff_university.aspx |archivedate=27 July 2013 |publisher=Higher Education Funding Council for Wales }}</ref>

===1988 merger===
In 1988, University College Cardiff ran into financial difficulties and a declaration of insolvency was considered.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shattock |first1=Michael |title=Financial Management in Universities: The Lessons from University College, Cardiff |journal=Financial Accountability & Management |date=1988 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=99–112 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0408.1988.tb00063.x |doi-broken-date=21 March 2025 }}</ref> This led to a merger with the [[University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology]] (UWIST) to form the University of Wales College of Cardiff. The principal of the new institution was [[Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson]], who had been the principal of UWIST. After changes to the constitution in 1996, its name was changed to the University of Wales, Cardiff.

In the early 1990s, the university's computer systems served as the home for [[The Internet Movie Database]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.imdb.com/imdb?history|title=IMDb &#124; Help|website=help.imdb.com|access-date=20 October 2021|archive-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108183900/https://help.imdb.com/imdb?history|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Independence and 2004 merger===
[[File:AJ Moses and Queen.jpg|thumb|left|Queen Elizabeth II with Anthony J. Moses during her visit in Cardiff University in 2000]]
The college was granted degree-awarding powers by the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in 1997 although, as a member of the University of Wales, it did not use them at that time. In 1999, the [[Trade name|public name]] of the university was changed to Cardiff University.

In 2002, ideas were floated to re-merge Cardiff with the [[University of Wales College of Medicine]] (UWCM), after the publication of the [[Welsh Assembly|Welsh Assembly Government's]] review of higher education in Wales. This set in train a series of constitutional reforms. On 1 August 2004, Cardiff University ceased to be a member of the University of Wales and became an independent "link institution" affiliated to the federal university. The process of the merger with UWCM was completed on 1 December 2004, when the [[Act of Parliament]] transferring UWCM's assets to Cardiff University received royal assent. On 17 December it was announced that the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] had given approval to a new supplemental charter for the keys institution. This was sealed on 11 March 2005, granting university status to Cardiff and legally changing the name of the institution to Cardiff University.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/documents/2503275-charter-of-cardiff-university|title=Charter of Cardiff University|website=Cardiff University|date=15 September 2022 |access-date=29 November 2023}}</ref> Cardiff awarded University of Wales degrees to students admitted before 2005, but has subsequently awarded its own degrees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/our-profile/history|title=History of the University|at=Mergers|website=Cardiff University|access-date=29 November 2023|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201025175325/https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/our-profile/history|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Cardiff University Graduation Ceremony.jpg|thumbnail|right|A Cardiff University graduation ceremony in 2006]]
In 2005, Wales College of Medicine, as part of the university, launched the North Wales Clinical School in [[Wrexham]], in collaboration with the [[Glyndŵr University|North East Wales Institute of Higher Education]] in Wrexham, the [[University of Wales, Bangor]], and the [[NHS Wales|National Health Service in Wales]]. This received funds of £12.5&nbsp;million from the [[Welsh Assembly]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wales.gov.uk/news/archivepress/healthpress/healthpress2005/708646/?lang=en |access-date=4 July 2008 |title=Health Minister opens North Wales Clinical School |publisher=[[Welsh Assembly Government]] }}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and trebled the number of trainee doctors in clinical training in Wales over a four-year period.

The university also has a Centre for [[Lifelong Learning]], which has been teaching a wide range of courses for over 125 years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/mediacentre/mediareleases/Dec08/new-book-celebrates-125-years-of-lifelong-learning-at-cardiff-university.html |access-date=16 May 2009 |title=New book celebrates 125 years of Lifelong Learning at Cardiff University=Cardiff University }}{{dead link |date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> However, in July 2009, the university announced it was ending over 250 humanities courses at the centre, making over 100 staff redundant. The university has since reintroduced a number of humanities courses for a trial period beginning in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/part-time-courses-for-adults|title=Part-time courses for adults|website=Cardiff University|access-date=20 October 2021|archive-date=20 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020113602/https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/part-time-courses-for-adults|url-status=live}}</ref>

In June 2010, the university launched three new research institutes,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health-news/2010/06/14/cardiff-creating-three-research-institutes-91466-26644003/ |title=Cardiff creating three research institutes |date=13 June 2010 |access-date=21 June 2010 |publisher=[[WalesOnline]] |archive-date=8 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908134104/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health-news/2010/06/14/cardiff-creating-three-research-institutes-91466-26644003/ |url-status=live }}</ref> each offering a new approach to a major modern research issue. The Neurosciences and Mental Health Research Institute and the Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute are housed in the purpose-built [[Hadyn Ellis]] Building and in the Sustainable Places Research Institute. Another part of the Science and Development Campus, the [[Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre]] (CUBRIC), opened in June 2016 for [[neuroimaging]] research.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ibigroup.com/2016/06/08/hrh-the-queen-opens-innovative-cubric-building/ |title=Her Majesty The Queen Opens Innovative CUBRIC Building |date=8 June 2016 |publisher=IBI Group |access-date=24 July 2017 |archive-date=21 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821093832/https://www.ibigroup.com/2016/06/08/hrh-the-queen-opens-innovative-cubric-building/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Workload controversy===
On 19 February 2018, Malcolm Anderson, a university lecturer committed [[suicide]] at age 48 by jumping off a university building.<ref name="BBC News Feb 2018 1" /><ref name="BBC News Feb 2018 2" /><ref name="BBC News 2018" /><ref name="Reidy 2020" /><ref name="Haf Jones 2019">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47296631|title=Lecturer's widow hits out at Cardiff University workload|last=Haf Jones|first=Catrin|date=20 February 2019|website=[[BBC News]]|access-date=20 February 2019|archive-date=20 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220120522/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47296631|url-status=live}}</ref> The inquiry determined that Anderson's suicide was the result of a high-pressure workload.<ref name="BBC News 2018" /><ref name="Reidy 2020" />

In 2020, Grace Krause, a PhD student employed at Cardiff University started experiencing [[headache]]s and [[back pain]] after lengthy work at a computer.<ref name="Reidy 2020" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/overworked-undervalued-crippling-stress-university-15422303|title=Overworked and undervalued: The crippling stress university lecturers face|last=Deacon|first=Thomas|date=18 November 2018|website=WalesOnline|access-date=20 February 2020|archive-date=13 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713043208/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/overworked-undervalued-crippling-stress-university-15422303|url-status=live}}</ref> She [[Twitter|tweeted]] that "Staff are marking hundreds of essays in an impossibly short time. It is exhausting. Everyone is in crisis mode. Stressed, moody, morose, everyone feels like they’re drowning."<ref name="Reidy 2020" /> Soon after, an email from the university was sent to all PhD students asking for these comments to be deleted, in order to avoid negative media attention, which sparked a debate about [[freedom of speech]] between employers and employees.<ref name="Reidy 2020" />

=== 2025 cost-cutting measures ===
Cardiff University announced in January 2025 that it had an operating deficit of £31.2 million for 2023–24 and announced a three-month consultation on plans to reduce its academic workforce by approximately 400 full-time equivalent positions, representing around 7 per cent of its total staff, as well as discontinuing programs in ancient history, modern languages and translation, music, nursing, and religion and theology, and merging other academic departments.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Securing our Academic Future |date=28 January 2025|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2894086-securing-our-academic-future |access-date=31 January 2025|website=Cardiff University |language=en}}</ref> The Arts and Humanities are expected to suffer most severely, with the remaining workforce to be reduced by approximately 120 full-time equivalent positions, which is around half. The university had around £500 million in unrestricted reserves according to its accounts for 2023–24, which the [[Universities and Colleges Union]] said should be partially used to give a longer period for the university's finances to recover. However, the university said that "unrestricted reserves" was not the same as cash available to spend.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University imposing massive job cuts and School closures has £0.5bn in unrestricted reserves|url=https://nation.cymru/news/university-imposing-massive-job-cuts-and-school-closures-has-0-5bn-in-unrestricted-reserves|website=Nation.Cymru|author=Martin Shipton|date=29 January 2025|access-date=5 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clye3gnk15go|title=Use £500m reserves to avoid uni job cuts, union says|date=31 January 2025|author1=Gwyn Loader|author2=Iolo Cheung|work=BBC News}}</ref> The university's accounts contain the statement that "Of the University’s £426m of cash and investments as at 31 July 2024, £41m is freely available to spend."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/2894974/CU_AnnualReport2024_Final.pdf|page=25|title=Annual Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 July 2024|publisher=Cardiff University|access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref> A document circulated internally but leaked to the press revealed that further job losses in non-academic staff were expected on top of the 400 academic staff posts and outlined plans for a smaller but higher-quality student intake in future. It also revealed that the projected deficit for 2024–25, if no action was taken, was £65 million, double the deficit for 2023–24, with the cuts designed to reduce the deficit to £28 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/cardiff-university-raise-admission-grades-30955568|title=Young people warned about getting into Cardiff University in future|date=7 February 2025|work=Wales Online|author=Abbie Wightwick}}</ref>

In May, the university announced that it would reduce the impact of its cuts by continuing to offer some courses that were previously due to be cancelled, including Nursing, Music, and Modern Languages.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-28 |title=Cardiff University U-turns on module closures – THE TIDE |url=https://thetide.org.uk/2025/05/28/cardiff-university-u-turns-on-module-closures/ |access-date=2025-05-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> The university also agreed to not make any compulsory redundancies in 2025, following a deal with the UCU to drop plans industrial action in the summer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-27 |title=Cardiff University backtracks on plans to cut music and languages |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6rn8n7231o |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The university's deficit is part of the wider financial challenges in the UK higher education sector, where universities are facing budget deficits due to factors such as tuition fee caps, rising operational costs, and fluctuations in student enrolment. Other institutions, have also announced staff reductions and course closures.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 March 2024 |title=UK HE shrinking |url=https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/#current-redundancy-programmes |access-date=31 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/01/quarter-of-leading-uk-universities-cutting-staff-due-to-budget-shortfalls|title=Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls|work=The Guardian| author=Richard Adams |date= 1 February 2025}}</ref> The proposed cuts at Cardiff also led to protests at the [[Senedd]], where the [[Welsh Government]] said that there was no more money available for higher education despite universities across Wales suffering financial crises and implementing job cuts and campus closures.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7gjmvg412o|title=Protesters call on Senedd to help save uni jobs|date=4 February 2025|author1=Bethan Lewis|author2=Antonia Matthews|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/welsh-universities-urgent-funding-warning-30924807|title='Urgent' warning as Welsh universities face £70m black hole amid 'worst financial difficulties in recent memory'|author=Abbie Wightwick|date=3 February 2025|work=Wales Online}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78x4l9lk43o|title=University education at Wales' oldest campus ends|date=23 January 2025|author=Bruce Sinclair|work=BBC News}}</ref>

===Vice chancellors and principals===

List of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of Cardiff University and its predecessors (shown in brackets):

*1883–1901 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): [[John Viriamu Jones]]
*1901–1918 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): [[Ernest Howard Griffiths]]
*1918–1929 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): A.H. Trow
*1929–1949 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): [[Frederick Rees]]
*1949–1966 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): [[Anthony Steel (historian)|Anthony Steel]]
*1966–1972 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): [[C. W. L. Bevan]]
*1972–1987 (University College Cardiff): [[C. W. L. Bevan]]
*1968–1988 (University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology): [[Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson|Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson]]
*1988–1993: [[Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson]]
*1993–2001: [[Brian Smith (administrator)|Brian Smith]]
*2001–2012: [[David Grant (academic)|David Grant]]
*2012–2023: [[Colin Riordan]]
*2023–present: [[Wendy Larner]]