We've invested in world-class facilities across our schools that boast state of the art equipment and ensure cutting edge research is undertaken to industry standards.
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Specialist facilities in the school include:
- Bloomberg terminals for Economics
- Digital newsroom
- Interactive newsroom
- Music performance spaces
- Music recording studios
- Psychology laboratories for Electroencephalography (EEG), Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and Transcranial Electric Stimulation (TES)
- Radio studios
- Radio broadcast newsrooms
- Television editing and production newsrooms
- Television studio.
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The Journalism department's TV studio allows simultaneous multi-media broadcast.
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Our Economics students have access to a variety of facilities and resources including Bloomberg and Datastream real-time data.
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The Music department nurtures an exceptionally wide range of classical and world music ensembles.
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Our EEG labs are housed in purpose-built units in the Department of Psychology.
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The Journalism department has four radio studios and two radio broadcast studios with high-tech facilities.
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The Music department has outstanding facilities for performance, sound recording and composition.
School of Health Sciences
Specialist facilities in the school include:
- City Sight - state-of-the-art eye care for the general public and local businesses
- City technology enabled care studio (TECS)
- Clinical suite
- Crabb lab
- Optometry clinics and laboratories
- Roberta Williams Speech and Language Therapy Centre
- Simulated nursing with two six-bed wards
- Speech and Language laboratories including an ultrasound and laryngographs
- Virtual Environment of a Radiotherapy Treatment (VERT) room for Therapeutic Radiography
- X-ray suite for Diagnostic Radiography.
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City Sight offers a wide range of eye care services to the general public and local businesses in state-of-the-art facilities.
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Our interdisciplinary Clinical Skills Centre designed to mirror 'real' health care environments and provide an adaptable, modern and appropriate space for both teaching and research.
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For students studying Adult, Child or Mental Health Nursing we have simulated practice teaching which helps students gain skills and confidence for their practice placements.
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Purpose-built learning hub, designed to simulate a home environment. Equipped with the latest telehealth, telecare, telemedicine, telerehabilitation, electronic health and wearable technologies.
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City has one of the UK’s most well-equipped training facilities which includes the VERT room, an fully immersive, life-sized 3D rear projection of a radiotherapy treatment room.
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Radiography suite contains 2 Vertix x-ray units, dental equipment allowing students to practise a range of simulated radiographic techniques using equipment similar to that used in most hospitals.
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Speech and language students have access to specialist labs with equipment including ultrasound and laryngographs, as well as access to The Roberta Williams Speech and Language Therapy Centre
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Optometry students benefit from a range of clinics and laboratories on campus and 3rd years students have the opportunity to work in our specialist clinic CitySight, with industry-standard equipment.
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Where required, we provide students with PPE in order to ensure they can carry out their educational activities safely.
School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering
Specialist facilities in the school include:
- Airbus cockpit simulator
- Biomedical laboratory
- Engineering laboratories
- Finkelstein electronics teaching laboratory
- Gaster wind tunnel
- Geotechnical centrifuge facility
- Interaction lab for user testing
- KeySight laboratory
- Merlin flight simulator
- Micro gas turbine
- PTC Formula Student Car
- Supersonic wind tunnel.
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Exceptionally well-equipped civil engineering materials testing laboratory; a focus for construction materials and geotechnical engineering research.
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The Airbus A320 flight deck simulator provides a facility to undertake a variety of research programmes in areas such as avionics, flight control systems, and human factors.
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Each year mechanical engineering students use this workshop to design and build a racing car which is entered in the international Formula Student Competition at Silverstone.
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The Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering laboratory is a highly specialised facility that is aimed at the development of cutting edge sensing and diagnostic as well as rehabilitation devices.
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A fully equipped, professional user testing facility capable of evaluating anything from websites and mobile apps to smart TVs and consumer products.
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Newly opened study and collaborative space for students and staff.
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The Keysight Laboratory gives students access to advanced signal analysers, circuit fabrication facilities and high power equipment.
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The centrepiece of the Civil Engineering Laboratory accommodates a large flexible lab space and apparatus for physical modelling of complex geotechnical problems at reduced scale and high g-force.
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This is a one-of-a-kind low-turbulence wind tunnel used for the study of laminar flows. Part of the National Wind Tunnel Facility.
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The Finkelstein Laboratory offers in-depth education in state-of-the-art test and measurement equipment as well as CAD software for undergraduate students of all levels.
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City's Merlin MP520 simulator is fitted with a two-axis motion system and closed cockpit design for greater immersion and is used in the theory and study of aerodynamics and the mechanics of flight.
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2 subsonic wind tunnels, equipped with advanced laser-based velocity measurement systems and a six-component force balance for complete characterisation of the aerodynamic loads on wind-tunnel models.
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The supersonic wind tunnel is part of the National Wind Tunnel Facility and is equipped with state-of-the-art test equipment including advanced laser-based velocity measurement systems.
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Modern test rig for the characterisation of micro gas turbines for electrical power output below 15kW including mapping of compressor and turbine characteristics.
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Computer labs are installed with a wide selection of industry-standard software to enable mathematics, engineering, and computer science students to complete their modules.
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Many of the industry-standard software and applications are available for students to install on their personal computers while they are studying at City.
City Law School
Specialist facilities in the school include:
- Law bore - legal resource portal
- Law library
- Mock court
- Mooting rooms
- Pro bono law clinic
- Specialist recording rooms.
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Our Law common room at Northampton square, separate from the Law School Building is exclusively for law students.
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The £63 million Law School Building features a dedicated library, 160-seat lecture theatre, modern study space, staff offices, restaurant and central atrium with a glazed roof.
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The Law School Building on Sebastian Street has now opened its doors and will provide a new home for The City Law School.
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The modern seven-storey building will provide world-class educational facilities for City’s students and staff and will allow the School to operate on a single site.
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This impressive facility features dynamic social spaces which complements The City Law School’s forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning.
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With a modern seminar and meeting rooms, a mock court room, a legal clinic and state of the art Library to encourage a more informal and interactive style of learning.