societies which operate from the SU. Galvanise relaunched in 2022, having previously been known as T'Hud.
The Students' Union is also home to a lettings agency (HudLets), an Advice Centre and Shop.
In November 2017 HSU celebrated its 90th birthday.
In January 2014 HSU moved to Floor 5 of the newly purpose-built Student Central building. The building cost £22.5 million and includes an 800-capacity sports hall, catering outlets, a shop, offices for the student radio station Radio Hud and magazine T'Hud, and a range of university support services including welfare and the careers centre. There was some controversy when the new building opened as it does not include a bar. Reports suggested the bar in the previous union building had been losing as much as £100,000 a year, with students instead choosing to drink at home or in other nearby pubs and clubs.
== Noted people ==
=== Alumni ===
=== Royal connections ===
The university has developed a significant association with the Royal family in recent years, in particular with the appointment of The Duke of York as patron in 2013 and then chancellor in 2015, although he later resigned in 2019. The Duke's former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, was in 2016 given the title of Visiting Professor of Philanthropreneurship. Their elder daughter, Princess Beatrice, has also visited the university to meet students and view their work.
The Queen visited the campus in 2007 to lay the foundation stone of the Creative Arts Building. Other royals to have visited the university in the years since include the Princess Royal, who in 2015 opened the new Student Central building, the Duke of Kent and the Duke of Gloucester. The Prince of Wales visited University Campus Barnsley in 2012.
In 2022, the university's Centre for Precision Technologies was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize, at a prize giving event at St James's Palace in London.
== See also ==
Armorial of UK universities
List of universities in the UK
Post-1992 universities
== References ==
== External links ==
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