Specialist Technical Facilities

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 is a research facility which enables us to explore how babies and children develop.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Specialist Computer Labs for Music Composition and Post Production

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

Professional Mac-based Audio & Video Post Production Facility.

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.

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

Professional Multi-Camera Esports Broadcasting Facility.

Professionally equipped broadcast radio studios.

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

Professional Photography Studios and Darkroom Facilities

Professional Mac-based Audio & Video Post Production Facilities.

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

Multi-purpose Production Space

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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