Due to our size and diversity, we can offer research and development facilities beyond what most organisations might have available. Through working with our team, you can access these facilities in a variety of ways to suit your needs.

All our facilities are supported by teams of experienced technicians. We can help you source the best facilities to solve your research challenges.

Technical research facilities

Facilities available include:

• Over £7m chemistry facilities through our Collaborative Technology Access Programme, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
• Cyber-security laboratories and training suites and equipped with computing facilities.
• Eye tracking technology for consumer research in our Management School, to help identify and analyse what information captures the consumer’s attention.
• The Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Consumer Neuroscience Lab- a state-of-the-art facility specialising in cognitive and behavioural analysis. Using fNIRS, the lab measures how individuals interact with products and services in natural environments, offering an advantage over traditional MRI-based approaches.
• Custom-built dilution refrigerators for the lowest temperature testing in the world.
• High-resolution mass spectroscopy for environmental chemistry, to analyse and identify chemical compounds, even in low concentrations.
• Glasshouse spaces and controlled environment plant growth rooms for precise control of plant environment, such as length of day, temperature, ventilation and thermal screens.
• Additive manufacturing facility used from concept product development through to full manufacturing lifecycle management.

• Mobile Simulation Teaching Unit at our Health Innovation Campus, featuring a fully equipped, eight-bed simulated hospital ward, capable of being used to teach simulation and clinical skills across the community.
• £4m class 100 and class 1000 clean rooms equipped with devices for electron-beam, lithography machine, photolithography, plasma processing, thin-film deposition, scanning electron and probe microscopy.
• Electronics workshop and additive manufacturing facility, accessible as a technology demonstrator, learning resource and operational prototyping and manufacturing facility.
• Semiconductor testing in our Quantum Technology Centre, to test chips and ensure the high quality, reliability and performance of devices in our digital world.
• Materials Analysis: X-ray Photon Spectroscopy (XPS), to determine the composition of surface deposits for validation and investigation, with strong high-resolution surface analysis capabilities, depth profiling and chemical mapping. Suitable for coatings, semiconductors, and batteries.
• Computer-aided engineering and analysis software, used from concept product development through to full manufacturing lifecycle management.