Campus
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facilities

Our students have a rare and exceptional learning experience at Derby Theatre. We are one of the only universities in the country to own and run a professional producing and receiving theatre.

The Digital Design Hub is based at Markeaton Street and allows students to get hands on experience of using industry standard equipment.

Our Chandos Pole Street building contains new specialist facilities for Fashion and Textiles. These include light and airy studio spaces as well industry-standard equipment and design facilities.

A student-led workshop where students can turn their ideas into prototypes using a range of equipment

Our Markeaton Street site has a dedicated film and television studio space for teaching and student projects - and experienced technicians who provide support.

Britannia Mill Studios are well equipped for students from Art and Design, Fashion and Therapeutic Arts courses.

The Media Loan Hub is our equipment centre and you can use it to book out cameras, lighting and sound equipment.

The music studios at our Markeaton Street site include sound technology labs, surround-sound testing rooms and electronic labs.

The Institute of Education has a Forest School Practitioner who offers Forest School sessions across all programmes of Education.

The Photography lab at Markeaton Street has outstanding facilities that are the envy of many experienced professional photographers.

Our Kedleston Road dance studio is housed within the Kirtley Building and comes with floor to ceiling mirrors and also a sprung floor.

Our students can gain hands-on experience using the same information and technology relied on by financial professionals all over the world, in our Financial Markets Lab.

Our Crown courtroom is now located at One Friar Gate Square, a modern and iconic building which houses state-of-the-art facilities including Crown Court, labs and interview rooms.  

Our law, criminology, policing, social and political science students are based here and its specialist facilities include a Crown Court, criminology lab and interview rooms.

Designed to replicate the facilities that you would find in a modern-day police station, our Custody Suite features a booking-in desk, a cell and interview rooms.

The Community Justice Hub in Derby city centre allows students from our School of Law and Social Sciences to work collaboratively with the police and council to tackle crime across the city.

The Student Legal Advice Centre is run by our LLB (Hons) students and provides members of the public with free legal advice on a wide range of areas of law.

Our dedicated Architecture studio is a creative space used for lectures and seminars, one-to-one sessions, group work and presentations to employers.

Students on our Entertainment Engineering courses get to practise their developing skills using industry-standard equipment.

All labs contain dual-screen, multiprocessor computers equipped with a variety of industry-standard commercial and open source software, and there are dedicated technicians to provide support.

We have specialist electronics laboratories dedicated to the Electrical and Electronic Engineering degrees taught at our Markeaton Street site in Derby.

The engineering workshops at Markeaton Street include a motorsport workshop, mechanical and manufacturing engineering workshop, wood workshop, metal workshop and crafts workshop.

Our 4,200m² extension provides additional computer studios and specialist facilities for engineering, technology and computing students.

A student-led workshop where students can turn their ideas into prototypes using a range of equipment

Opening in 2025, our state-of-the-art Bioscience Superlab and Research Lab will transform learning and research for students, staff, and researchers.

Our Aquatic Research Facility offers our students a unique opportunity to participate in high level research and work with some of the world leaders in the field of aquarium and zoo research.

Our state of the art Crime Scene House is dedicated to supporting your studies, offering a stimulating learning environment for you to explore the dynamic world of Forensic Science.

Our suite of forensic facilities, situated at the top of the North Tower, house specialist equipment allowing you to perform a range of molecular techniques from chromatography to heavy metal analysis...

Our glass house is used for keeping plants from a diverse range of habitats from deserts to tropics.

Our insectary houses many different species of insects for you to examine and learn about.

Our scanning electron microscope (SEM) can magnify objects up to 20-30,000 times and can play a key role in developments in technology, industry and research.

Housed within the Kirtley Building are our specialist laboratories, with facilities to undertake physiological and biomechanical assessment.

Students on Strength and Conditioning modules have access to this space at the Sports Centre as part of their studies.

The Human Performance Unit has been established to provide expert sport science services to sports clubs and individual athletes from beginners to elite performers.

Our performance analysis suite is fully equipped with 20 dual screen iMac computers. Students will use this facility within teaching and practical sessions.

Providing realistic medical training, our Clinical Skills Suite has a number of high quality artificial patients from individual limbs to technically advanced simulation dolls.

The Fujifilm Advanced Visionary X-ray Suite, the first of its kind to be installed in a university in the UK.

The Image Reporting Suite enables our pre-registration students to gain valuable image interpretation skills. The development of reporting radiographers is an initiative that ultimately mean...

Our students can gain experience using our Immersive Interactive Simulation Suite which combines innovative technology, virtual reality, interactive 3D graphics and audio content to provide you with a...

The hospital ward is complete with teaching facilities, a nurses station and simulated learning patients to provide a lifelike taste of working in a modern hospital.

These suites combine observation rooms equipped with two-way mirrors and DVD recording equipment.

The suite includes state-of the-art Medaphor ScanTrainer Ultrasound simulators, enabling student sonographers to gain vital experience in scanning prior to entering into the clinical environment.

Our students can gain experience in a clinical setting in our mock labour room which can be set up in our ward area.