Facilities
The Institute of Health and Society has access to excellent facilities.
The University's medical library, the Walton Library, is situated in the Catherine Cookson Building of the Medical School. The main University library, Robinson Library, is situated a short distance away and includes government publications and many relevant books and journals in the social sciences, economics and management sciences. The usual inter-library loans and computer search facilities are available. Registered postgraduate students of the University have free use of library facilities except for small charges for inter-library loans.
Registered students also have free use of the University computing facilities. There are two large open access clusters of microcomputers within the Medical School. The University and medical libraries and the computer network allow access to MEDLINE, BIDS and other literature search facilities.
The University also has a Language Centre with self-study opportunities in all major languages as well as a variety of English language courses for international students.
