Facilities

The Dispensary

This purpose-built facility has capacity for 16 students, so you will be taught in small groups.  At one end of the room is a suite of computers with specialist software for learning to dispense medicines and generate labels for the containers.

At the other end of the room are cabinets and counters which make it feel like you are in a pharmacy, with real life medicines you can practice dispensing and counselling patients in the safety of the University before taking these skills into real life. Equipped with all the reference sources you will need and a state of the art interactive whiteboard for teaching we hope you will enjoy the dispensary as much as we do.

Pharmaceutical Formulation

The University's Chemical Engineering laboratory has received a £½million refurbishment, which began in the summer of 2007 and included new facilities for pharmaceutical formulation.

A key piece of apparatus is the state of the art Riva Minipress.  This type of apparatus is used in pharmaceutical research laboratories to manufacture small quantities of tablets for evaluation purposes.

Half million pounds to create state-of-the-art Chemical Engineering laboratory

IT Facilities

Students in the School of Applied Sciences have access to over 70 computers, offering specialist software used in the teaching of our courses as well as more general applications and email/web access, and access to the student portal and the Blackboard virtual learning environment.

The computers are available to any student of the school when not booked for teaching, and are in addition to the facilities available in the Student Centre in Central Services Building.

e-Learning

The Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment is used extensively to facilitate and support teaching and learning.

Students are able to download notes and tutorial material directly from the system, and engage with a range of online learning activities.  These might be discussion boards, blogs, wikis, quizzes or online tests. You might also be asked to hand in work to your tutors electronically through the system.

The system can be accessed either from a computer on the campus or from any computer with an internet connection, anywhere in the world.

Resource Centre

Whether you're looking for an article, need to comb-bind your work, want to look at a map, need to use a photocopier, want to buy a disk or a pen, or you'd just like somewhere quiet to study then the Resource Centre is here for you.

The Resource Centre holds over 10,000 reference articles and dissertations and offers a quiet study area.  You can also buy printing credit and a range of stationery and presentation materials.

In 2005, the Resource Centre achieved the Charter Mark standard for customer service.

Resource Centre Website

Teaching Facilities

All of our teaching rooms have been extensively refurbished in recent years, offering a comfortable environment in which to study. These include large lecture theatres and flexible tutorial and seminar rooms

All of the rooms contain up to date AV facilities and teaching aids, including projectors connected to computers and DVD players, and a growing number of rooms have interactive whiteboards.