Computing Facilities
Students have access to our state-of-the-art facilities and specialist labs. They provide a dynamic environment where you can develop the skills valued by industry.
There are also collaborative spaces around the USB where students can study or work together on group projects.
As a postgraduate student, you'll have access to dedicated spaces including:
- practical space on the fifth floor, primarily for MSc students
- games lab on the fourth floor, designed for our Computer Game Engineering MSc students
Specialist facilities
MakerSpace
Our Open Lab research group has a collaborative space: MakerSpace. It includes tools, electronics and 3D printers for prototyping and physical computing.
This is available for our:
- Human-Computer Interaction MSc and Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence MSc students
- postgraduate research students
- researchers working on projects
There is also a full-time member of staff available to offer advice on how to use the equipment.
Bioinformatics Labs
Students studying Bioinformatics MSc will have access to a range of facilities in the Devonshire Building for project work:
Incubators
Grow bacterial cells for subsequent nucleic acids and proteins extraction, purification and analysis
UV transilluminator and gel imaging software
Image nucleic acids and proteins bands in different gels after separation by electrophoresis
Urban Café
The Urban Sciences Building has its own café, Urban, located on the ground floor. It’s very popular with our Computer Science students.
The café offers a range of hot and cold drinks, sandwiches and paninis, jacket potatoes and snacks.
Location:
Ground floor, Urban Sciences Building (turn right from the main entrance or enter from the street)
Opening times:
Term time: Monday to Friday - 08:00-15:00
Outside of term time: Closed
