Campus for Ageing and Vitality
Our campus for ageing and vitality is a purpose-built campus on the site of the former Newcastle General Hospital in the west end of the city. We have the largest number of academics working on aspects of ageing in Europe, and many of them are based on this campus.
It provides a focus for our world-class research, led by the Institute for Ageing and Health, into how we grow old, how we can stay healthy and active as we get older and how we can combat age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia.
It will also bring the business and volunteer sector and the public into much closer contact with our research by creating one campus where activities aimed at helping us stay healthy and active can co-exist.
The campus is part of the Science City initiative, in which we are a lead partner. It is currently home to the following state-of-the-art facilities in what is known as the ‘academic quarter’:
- Wolfson Research Centre, the administrative headquarters for the Institute of Ageing and Health
- Wellcome Biogerontology Building, providing state of the art facilities for research on basic mechanisms of ageing
- Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre for the research application of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
- Edwardson Building for the study of brain ageing
- Clinical Ageing Research Unit (CARU), containing a mix of clinical, teaching and research facilities
- Centre for the Health of the Elderly
- Institute of Pathology
- Changing Age for Business
Find out more details about the campus on the Changing Age website.