without knowledge is no world at all'). In the early 1900s, the university added courses that included law, applied mathematics, pure mathematics and botany. The Department for International Politics, which Aberystwyth says is the oldest such department in the world, was founded in 1919. By 1977, the university's staff included eight Fellows of the Royal Society, such as Gwendolen Rees, the first Welsh woman to be elected an FRS. The Department of Sports and Exercise Science was established in 2000. Joint honours psychology degrees were introduced in September 2007, and single honours psychology in 2009. The chancellor of the university is The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, who took up the position in January 2018. The visitor of the university is an appointment made by the Privy Council, under the Royal Charter of the university. Since July 2014, the holder of this office is Mr Justice Sir Roderick Evans KC. In 2011, the university appointed a new vice chancellor under whom the academic departments were restructured as larger subject-themed institutes. In 2022, the university celebrated its 150th anniversary, being established in 1872 (known at the time as The University College of Wales). Organisation and administration Departments and Faculties The university's academic departments, as well as the Arts Centre, International English Centre and Music Centre are organised in three faculties: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences School of Art Arts Centre School of Education Department of English and Creative Writing Department of History and Welsh History International English Centre Department of International Politics Department of Law and Criminology Department of Modern Languages Music Centre Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies Faculty of Business and Physical Sciences Aberystwyth Business School Department of Computer Science Department of Information Studies Department of Mathematics Department of Physics Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences Department of Geography and Earth Sciences Department of Psychology Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) is a research and teaching centre which brings together staff from the Institutes of Rural Sciences and Biological Sciences and the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER). Around 360 research, teaching and support staff conduct basic, strategic and applied research in biology. The institute is located in two areas; one at the main teaching Penglais campus and another rural research hub at the