Newcastle's Campus
The majority of our teaching and learning activities take place at our 50-acre campus on the edge of Newcastle city centre.
This is the largest of our city centre campuses and represents the hub of Newcastle student life, bringing together facilities such as:
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- King’s Gate – our purpose-built student services building
- The Students' Union
- Sports Centre
- a variety of catering outlets
It is also home to a wide range of teaching and learning facilities, including our:
- award-winning library service
- language resource centre, providing free access to self-study materials in over 50 languages
- computer clusters, some of which are open 24 hours a day
Welcoming our community
As a truly civic university we have a strong sense of place and we welcome the local community on to our campus throughout the year to enjoy the cultural events and attractions on offer, many of which are free, including:
- The multiple-award winning Great North Museum: Hancock which houses world class natural history, archaeological and ethnographic collections, a specialist library and a planetarium, as well as a large-scale, interactive model of Hadrian’s Wall
- the Hatton art gallery, displaying a permanent collection of artworks, ranging from the Renaissance to the twentieth century
- the independent Northern Stage theatre, the North East’s largest producing theatre company
- free public lectures featuring an impressive line-up of speakers from public life. Recent speakers include artist Grayson Perry, the biographer Claire Tomalin and the Director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti
- free weekly lunchtime concerts by professional musicians drawn from a wide range of genres
- events and activities run by the University's Culture Lab and its Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA)
- a visitors' centre in Level 1 of King's Gate
Sustainability
Sustainability is high on our agenda, and not simply because of our world-leading research. We are committed to the notion of a sustainable campus, and we promote initiatives to encourage our students and staff to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, including:
- a cross-campus recycling scheme
- lighting controls in common-use areas of many of our buildings to reduce energy consumption
- monitoring of energy
- sustainable transport schemes
We have joined the EcoCampus scheme, which allows universities to be recognised for addressing key issues of environmental sustainability.
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