'The university in Cardiff'. For me, as an editor, had this been written it would have earned itself a query along the lines of 'Which one? There are two.' But as a previous member of staff at that establishment, I am also aware that for a certain class and age of professorial staff, there would only ever be one university in Cardiff, the other one being considered no better than an upstart polytechnic equivalent even though, I think, it never actually held that designation.
'The university in Cardiff'. For me, as an editor, had this been written it would have earned itself a query along the lines of 'Which one? There are two.' But as a previous member of staff at that establishment, I am also aware that for a certain class and age of professorial staff, there would only ever be one university in Cardiff, the other one being considered no better than an upstart polytechnic equivalent even though, I think, it never actually held that designation.