Specialist Technical Facilities

The University has a wide range of specialist technical facilities which are supported by a large team of technical staff. These spaces extend to workshops, studios, science labs, simulation/immersive suites, clinical skills and a fully equipped resource centre. The facilities are grouped into five subject-based technical hubs.

Health and Clinical Skills

Biomechanics Facility

Purpose built facility which enables collection of data using specialised equipment to understand and diagnose Musclo-skeletal conditions within individuals or groups.

Body Composition Lab

The Body Composition Lab enables accurate assessment of body composition analysis in support of the Sport & Exercise awards programme.

Clinical Simulation Suites (Stafford Site)

The Clinical Simulation Suites are a purpose built simulation facility used to deliver simulation based activities through the use of a wide range of simulation technologies.

Clinical Simulation Suites (Stoke Site)

The Simulation Suites enable delivery of all simulation-based education and practical clinical skills training, in support of nursing courses.

Clinical Skills Labs

The Skills Labs enable delivery of all practical-led simulation and clinical skills in support of Nursing (Adult, Child, MH), Paramedic Science, ODP, Midwifery and Allied Health.

Exercise Physiology and Human Performance

The Exercise Physiology and Human Performance laboratories enable the conduction of a range of physiological and nutrition-based exercise tests for health and sports performance.

Midwifery Skills Lab

The Midwifery Lab enables delivery of all simulation-based education and practical clinical skills in support of the University's midwifery course.

Operating Department Practitioner Skills Lab

The Operating Department Practitioner Skills Lab is a facility focused on providing ODP practical skills associated within surgical environments.

Paramedic Skills Labs

The Paramedic Science Skills Labs are large spaces containing the resources required to learn and practice all of the clinical skills associated with Paramedic practice.

Psychology Cognitive Cubicles

The Psychology Cognitive Cubicles are a set of small cubicles used to run Psychology based tests on individual participants.

Psychology Counselling Suite

The Counselling Suite consists of a large teaching space and four interconnected cubicles which facilitate one-to-one counselling skills.

Psychology Eye Tracking Cubicles

Eye tracking allows us to track where people are focusing and paying attention visually, which can be useful to understand human behaviour across many areas of Psychology.

Psychology Human Sciences Suite (PHSS)

The Psychology Human Sciences Suite (PHSS) hosts a suite of adjoining research laboratories dedicated to psychophysiological research on human participants.

Psychology Observation Suite

The Psychology Observation Suite is used to observe various forms of human behaviour in psychological research.

Psychology Simulation Facilities

Simulation equipment is available throughout the psychology laboratory areas and available as stand-alone resources for facilitating research and teaching applications.

Rehabilitation Zone

The rehabilitation zone is used both in undergraduate teaching, research and to rehabilitate our patients who attend the SUST clinic.

Sport and Exercise Bodily Fluids Laboratory

A laboratory offering a range of bodily fluid tests that can be used to monitor health and disease status, sports performance, and muscular injury.

Sports Therapy Teaching Clinic

The Sports Therapy teaching clinic enables delivery of the majority of the sports therapy curriculum including; massage, anatomy and peripheral and vertebral joint assessment.

Staffordshire University Sports Therapy Clinic

The SUST Clinic allows our Sports Therapy students to gain valuable hands on experience with members of the local community, amateur and professional athletes.

Strength and Conditioning Laboratory

A lab dedicated to the practical delivery of strength and conditioning modules within the Sport and Exercise award programmes.

Student Training Unit and Extrication Training Vehicles

The Student Training Unit and Extrication Vehicle are used to demonstrate specialist activities associated primarily within Paramedic Science wards

Telehealth Hub

Learn how to develop your digital skills in the telehealth hub.

The Ashford Sport Psychology Lab

The Ashford Sport Psychology Lab is an environment where Sport Psychology Practical and seminar sessions are taught to Undergraduate students.

The Psychology Children’s Lab

The Psychology Children’s Lab is a research facility which enables us to explore how babies and children develop.

Material and Make Hub

Art Shop Click & Collect Service

A Click & Collect service supplying Art & Design materials for students

Ceramics Workshops

The Ceramic Process areas are situated in the Dwight Building and consist of seven practical workshops supporting all aspects of ceramic-ware production.

Composite Materials Workshop

A workspace with the equipment necessary to shape, mould and form with a wide range of materials including plastics, fibre glass, carbon fibre and resins.

Designer Maker Surface Decoration Workshops

A range of surface decoration workshops including, Screen Printing, Dying, Sublimation printing, Heat transfer, Rug making & Sewing machines

Fashion Workshops

Fully equipped fashion workshops that meet industry standards, including pattern cutting, construction and CAD pattern cutting.

Metal Workshops

Our metal and fine metal workshops cover all the disciplines and techniques that a designer/maker or artist would need to use in their future career.

Print Bureau

A centralised printing hub offering a wide range of high quality printing including vinyl banners, large format inkjet, riso, ceramic transfers, and fabric printing.

Wood Workshops

Three dedicated wood workshops with a wide range of heavy duty woodworking machinery and hand tools. A range of wood stock is sold directly from the workshop, cut to size.

Media and Communications Hub

Cadman Music Labs

Specialist Computer Labs for Music Composition and Post Production

Cadman Music Studios

Professional music recording facilities consisting of control rooms and live rooms.

Cadman Post Production Lab

Professional Mac-based Audio & Video Post Production Facility.

Cadman Television Studio

Professional three-camera television studio, complete with separate audio and visual gallery spaces. Studio floor includes tiered seating to accommodate an audience of 60 people.

Esports Arena London

Professional three-camera esports production studio with a 5v5 multiplayer set-up, separate production gallery and space for 30 audience members.

Esports Broadcasting Hub

Professional Multi-Camera Esports Broadcasting Facility.

Flaxman Radio Studios

Professionally equipped broadcast radio studios.

Flaxman Television News Set

Compact three-camera studio broadcasting facility, suitable for a variety of news, sports and current affairs requirements.

Henrion Photography Studios

Professional Photography Studios and Darkroom Facilities

Henrion Post Production Labs

Professional Mac-based Audio & Video Post Production Facilities.

Henrion Resource Stores

Administration hub for the dispensation of all specialist portable production resources.

Henrion Shoot Studio

Multi-purpose Production Space

Henrion Sound Studios

Professionally equipped Sound Studios, each consisting of a control room and a recording booth.

Mellor Virtual Production Studio

Virtual Production facility featuring 10m x 2.75m LED Volume with full camera and lighting setup.

Science Hub

Analytical Methods Laboratory

Our Analytical Methods Laboratory has a range of instrumentation for chemical analysis including chromatography, electrochemistry and molecular and atomic spectroscopy.

Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Room

A dedicated room for fingerprint identification, comparison, and optical enhancement.

Cell Culture Facility

A specialist environment for the culture and study of both cancerous and non-cancerous human and mammalian cell lines.

Criminalistic Methods Laboratory

A fully equipped laboratory to facilitate the analysis of evidence recovered from crime scenes.

Decomposition Facilities

These facilities comprise a dedicated room and external compound for the investigation of insect and larvae life cycle and behaviour, and determining decomposition timelines.

Environmental Laboratory

Our large environmental laboratory hosts several types of research and teaching focused on plants, animals and their habitats.

Human Physiology Suite

This facility gives us the ability to measure the effects of different procedures on human physiological parameters

Imaging Room

A dark room housing a Raman 685nm spectrometer, a Quaser system and Labino Nova Torch Kits.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy laboratory

NMR detects the chemical environment of atomic nuclei by the absorption of radio waves in the presence of a high magnetic field, thus allowing chemical structure determination.

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)

Scanning Electron Microscopy provides superb visualisation at high magnification and the associated EDS capability can provide an elemental profile of a specimen.

Sequencing Hub and R230

Specialist hub and laboratory for undertaking molecular biology laboratory techniques, projects, and research.

Sequencing Room

Specialist clean environment for the preparation of molecular reagents and the running of the 3500 Genetic Analyser.

X-ray Diffraction (XRD) laboratory

XRD is a spectroscopic technique where incident x-rays interact, then diffract with atoms in the crystal matrix of a material, and angles are measured to determine their structure.

Smart Technology Hub

3D Factory - 3D Print Room

The 3D Print Room is one of two facilities available from within the 3D Factory, enabling students to print objects of varying size, complexity and material.

3D Factory - Laser cutting

The laser cutting room is one of two facilities available from within the 3D Factory, facilitating creative engravings across a range of materials.

Advanced Materials Lab

The Advanced Materials Lab is part of a suit of facilities that businesses, students and graduates can access through the Innovation Enterprise Zone.

Automotive, Motorsport and Future Transport Engineering

This multi-purpose, industry standard lab facilitates training, research and academic contextualization related to Automotive and Motorsport studies.

Creative Lab

The Creative Lab is a design-led facility, a hub for new ideas for business creation, product and service development and business growth.

Digital Design Computer Workshops

Our Apple Mac computer suites are a shared resource equipped with specialist software and hardware that enable the production and refinement of a wide variety of digital assets.

Immersive Technology

This collection of rooms and resources allows for exploration and development with Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies.

Maker Space

The Maker Space is an open access area where students can come to test, learn or experiment with a variety of hand tools.

Mechanical Engineering Lab

The Mechanical Engineering lab contains a variety of equipment used to aid students in understanding the theory taught in their lectures in addition to research purposes.

Motion Capture Stage

The Motion Capture Stage is an industry standard facility that provides training and sessions within Motion Capture, promoting innovation and realism within Animation practices.

Networks & Cyber Security

Dedicated specialist facilities where students have access to commercial grade networking hardware and software, virtual computing environments, forensic tools and more.

Specialist PC Lab

Supplementing the specialist equipment and labs on the first floor of The Smart Zone, is our Specialist PC Lab offering a wide range of high end software.

ThermoFluids Mechanics Lab

The ThermoFluids lab allows practical learning to aid in the understanding of theory students learn in their lectures.

Visualisation and Simulation Studio

This multi-purpose space facilitates training, research and academic practice related to object digitisation, through the use of laser scanners and close range photogrammetry.

in the UK for Quality Education

Sustainable Development Goal 4, Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024

for Career Prospects

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023

Top 5 for Social Inclusion

The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025

for First Generation Students

The Mail University Guide 2025

of Research Impact is ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Very Considerable’

Research Excellence Framework 2021

for Facilities

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023

of Research is “Internationally Excellent” or “World Leading”

Research Excellence Framework 2021

Four Star Rating

QS Star Ratings 2021