of: chemistry; earth and environmental sciences; physics and astronomy; materials; and mathematics.
The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics comprises the university's astronomical academic staff in Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory on rural land near Goostrey, about ten miles (16 km) west of Macclesfield. The observatory's Lovell Telescope is named after Sir Bernard Lovell, a professor at the Victoria University of Manchester who first proposed the telescope. Constructed in the 1950s, it is the third largest fully movable radio telescope in the world.
==== Faculty of Humanities ====
The Faculty of Humanities is home to four schools:
The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC), incorporating Archaeology; Art History & Visual Studies; Classics and Ancient History; Drama; English and American Studies; History; Linguistics; Modern Languages; Museology; Music; Religions and Theology, and the University Language Centre.
The School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), incorporating Geography, …