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The Arts Centre is home to Dance, Drama, and Musical Theatres. It houses two studios, a media production sector, and a variety of suits and recital spaces purpose-built for the creative arts.

Facilities

• The Rose and Studio Theatres – showcasing a range of professional and student productions, open to our students and the wider community. Priority and reduced fee tickets are available to our students from The Art’s Centre Box Office.
• The Red Bar – a venue to meet and to enjoy Open Mic nights. Currently home to The Students’ Union (for a limited time while we develop our brand-new £8.5m Students’ Union building).
• A variety of suites and recital spaces.

Our BioSciences building incorporates modern laboratories with some of the best-equipped facilities in the country. The University’s grounds are ideal for sampling techniques, and with leading nature reserves at a short distance from campus, you’re never far from spaces to support your research. 

BioSciences is home to Biology and BioSciences. (Chemistry students will be located in BioSciences, subject to 2025 entry).

Facilities

• Modern laboratories.
• Climate controlled insectaries.
• Specialist IT facilities.
• State-of-the-art scientific equipment.
• Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machines.
• Labs to test how certain foods are manufactured and produced (typically used by Nutrition, Food and Health students).

Our Business School is situated in the heart of campus. The building is home Accounting and Finance, Business Management, Economics, and Marketing.

The Business School offers you an environment in which to grow and develop. Your studies with be enriched by partnerships with international universities, with key national, regional and local employers and businesses, and with major professional bodies.

Facilities

• 100-seat lecture theatre.
• Modern seminar and meeting rooms.
• Social learning areas.
• A rooftop garden.

Catalyst is your one-stop-shop for study and support needs, located at the heart of the Ormskirk campus. It is also the physical home to Library and Learning Services, Student Services and Careers and you can access specialist support both within Catalyst and beyond the building walls, with both in-person and virtual support options available.

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Catalyst Communications aims to keep you informed on all your essential news, events and support from Catalyst specialist support teams such as Money Advice, Mental Health and Wellbeing, UniSkills, Careers, Student Support and more via CatComms monthly emails.

We asked for your feedback on what you loved (or loathed) about how we communicated with you. Over 1,000 of you shared your thoughts and one of the most common requests was for us to communicate with you via email. We checked in with you again in October 2024 and you re-confirmed email was still your communications channel of choice.

With some of the best hands-on learning facilities in the country, our Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre is a safe space to prepare for nursing practice.

Facilities

• Ward-based simulations with human patient simulator – to introduce you to the hospital space and to familiarise you with a broad range of conditions.
• Clinical skills space, consultation and debrief rooms.
• Theatre areas – designed to make you comfortable in the anaesthetic and surgical phases of treatment.
• An anatomy and ultrasound resource centre – to develop your skills in a virtual environment.
• Clinical skills space. 
• Large spaces. 
• Consultation rooms. 
• ‘The Better at Home’ suite – the first parent and carer training facility in the UK. In collaboration with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, the suite shows parents how to provide essential care for their children once they leave hospital.

Our £17 million Creative Edge building is designed to ensure our students develop skills and practical experience using industry-standard equipment. The building is home to Animation, Creative Writing, English, Music Production, and Film, Media and Broadcast Production. Whatever your course, you’ll develop the expertise and confidence you need to achieve your research and career goals.

Facilities in Creative Edge:

• Modern seminar rooms and lecture theatre.
• Two recording studios.
• Sound-editing suites.
• A radio studio.
• Individual rehearsal rooms.
• Animation studios.
• A photographic studio.
• Two TV studios with broadcast capacity and full production capabilities.
• A rooftop garden.

Edge Hill Sport is home to the latest research in subjects ranging from strength and conditioning to injury rehabilitation. It offers open-access laboratories and specialist equipment, so our sports and physical activity students can put their skills into practice. Outdoor facilities include 3G football and rugby pitches, tennis and netballs courts, a hockey pitch, and athletics track, and a 2.5km conditioning trail. Edge Hill Sport is open to the community.

Indoor facilities

• 80-station fitness suite.
• 25-metre swimming pool.
• Exercise studio.
• Dance studio with sprung floor.
• Sports hall and spectator gallery.
• Eight-court sports hall with spectator gallery.
• Sauna and steam room.
• Coffee bar (serving Starbucks coffee).

Outstanding provider for Initial Teacher Education (Ofsted 2024). 2^nd in the North West for learning resources (National Student Survey 2023).

Our Faculty of Education (FOE) is home to students on our education and teaching programmes.

The FOE Lakeside building is the centrepiece of our Western Campus. Our Piazza building is a short walk via the Lakeside bridge, where you’ll find even more teaching and learning spaces.

Facilities

• 300-seat lecture theatre.
• Well-equipped ICT suites.
• Teaching rooms complete with the latest technology.
• Simulated school classrooms.
• Forest School – dedicated outdoor learning space.
• Roots Kitchen – offers fresh breakfast and homemade lunch options using locally sourced ingredients.

Our impressive £14m Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine building is located in the heart of campus. The Faculty building provides access to leading education, facilities and training for health and social care professions. The building is home to Counselling and Psychotherapy, Health and Social Care, Medicine, Mental Health, Midwifery, Nursing, Nutrition, Food and Health, and Social Work.

Facilities

• 860-seat lecture theatre.
• Teaching rooms.
• Social learning spaces.
• Garden 41 – for a selection of cooked to order street food.
• 41 Below – a commuter style hub inspired by a typical clinical kitchen, offering microwaves, hot and cold taps and vending machines containing soups and ready meals. 

The GeoSciences building is based in the Western side of campus, close to the Lakeside. As well as easy access to your tutors, facilities cover physical geography, geology and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

Facilities

• Physical geography teaching lab.
• Two new industry standard analytical and research labs.
• A geo-technical engineering lab.
• A large social area for our students.
• Large lecture theatre. 
• Smaller group teaching rooms.

Our £6m Law and Psychology building is located at the heart of campus. The building is home to Law, Policing, Politics, and Psychology.

Facilities

• 250-seat lecture theatre.
• Seminar and tutorial rooms.
• Social learning areas.

Law, Criminology and Politics facilities

• Mooting room (mock court room) – to practise cross-examination techniques and to prepare for giving evidence.
• Mooting society – to enhance students’ mooting and advocacy skills.
• Pro Bono Law Clinic – Law undergraduates can offer legal advice, free of charge, to other students and the local community.

Psychology facilities

• Bar simulation laboratory.
• State-of-the-art eye trackers.
• Transcranial direct current simulation (tDCS) methods.
• Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).

Our new Life Sciences building will support both research and teaching, supporting advances in the University’s Biomedical research. Research will focus on areas such as cancer, neurobiology, genetic skin conditions and ageing.

The new developments will contribute to a campus atmosphere that will inspire you, both academically and socially.

Our Police Training and Simulation Facility – also known as the ‘Crime House’ – allows our students to put learning into context in a safe and realistic environment. Here, you can work through criminal and investigative scenarios that you might discover in a real home environment.

Each room in the house is equipped with CCTV that links to a control room. This allows your tutors to monitor investigations and exercises. Plus, you can watch your work back and evaluate your performance.

The facility is split into:

• a domestic house
• parade room
• teaching facilities
• functional elements of a police station including a custody suite and prison cell

In our £13m Tech Hub, you’ll find outstanding facilities, specialist laboratories and learning resources. Our specialist computing and engineering labs are equipped industry standard hardware and software.

Facilities

• Specialist labs for networking, games programming, materials engineering, electrical motors, and electronic engineering.
• Labs specifically for research projects. 
• An open access lab for you to build your confidence and explore ideas.
• The CAVE, a 4k super immersive 3D environment.
• A Harvard-style lecture theatre.

Resources

• Pepper robot and Sawyer robotic arm.
• Oscilloscopes, signal generators, digital multimeters, Arduino and Raspberry Pi microprocessors, a tensile tester machine, electronics training kits, single and 3-phase transformers, a 3-D printer.
• MATLAB and SolidWorks software platforms.

The Wilson Centre is home to our Department of Sport and Physical Activity, and you’ll find it in the heart of campus – just next door to Catalyst. All the facilities in the Wilson Centre are open-access.

Facilities

• Dedicated biochemistry, biomechanics, performance analysis, physiology and psychology laboratories 
• Sleep, exercise and performance laboratory 
• Functional rehabilitation centre and kinesiology facilities
• Sports therapy clinics 
• A dedicated strength and conditioning area 
• Indoor courts to facilitate indoor sports 
• A viewpoint for spectators to watch the sports unfold 
• Various classrooms for smaller discussion-based tasks 
• IT rooms 
• Specialist vision analysis laboratory and resources, including eye-tracking technology 

Over in Edge Hill Sport, you’ll find some of the best sporting facilities in the region. Facilities include 3G football and rugby courts, a hockey pitch, an eight-court sports hall, a swimming pool, and an 80-station fitness suite. 

You will find our secret beach located right next to Chancellors Court halls. It’s the perfect spot for sunbathing after a summer study session, and socialising with friends.

Edge Hill Sport is home to the latest research in subjects ranging from strength and conditioning to injury rehabilitation. It offers open-access laboratories and specialist equipment, so our sports and physical activity students can put their skills into practice. Outdoor facilities include 3G football and rugby pitches, tennis and netballs courts, a hockey pitch, and athletics track, and a 2.5km conditioning trail. Edge Hill Sport is open to the community.

Indoor facilities

• 80-station fitness suite.
• 25-metre swimming pool.
• Exercise studio.
• Dance studio with sprung floor.
• Sports hall and spectator gallery.
• Eight-court sports hall with spectator gallery.
• Sauna and steam room.
• Coffee bar (serving Starbucks coffee).

The Main Building combines original 1930s features with modern facilities. It comprises lecture theatres and seminar and tutorial rooms, as well as IT resources and social learning spaces. A variety of social spaces, food outlets and activities can also be found in the Hub, which doubles up as a marketplace on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The Main Building is also home to Main Halls, which boasts modern hub-style rooms with en-suite bathrooms.

Facilities in Main Building:

• Main Halls.
• Hale Hall.
• Sages.

Our brand-new £8.5m Students’ Union building is set to include flexible indoor spaces that can be used for day and night-time events. There will also be exciting outdoor spaces, including an outdoor cinema and food markets.

Note: The Students’ Union is located in the Red Bar for a limited time (while we develop our brand-new Students’ Union building).

The Hub is the heart of the University, located in our Main Building. Here you will find a variety of social spaces, food outlets and activities. The Students’ Union head office and the Student Advice Centre are also based on the Hub Mezzanine.

The Hub doubles up as a marketplace, with local retailers and grocers pitching up on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Facilities in the Hub:

• Morrisons – includes a Post Office and two free to use cash machines.
• Coffee (The Hub) – proudly serving Costa coffee and a range of breakfast and lunch items.
• EH Food Market – a modern catering outlet with six retailers to explore.
• Subway.
• The Students’ Union head office (Hub Mezzanine).
• The Student Advice Centre (Hub Mezzanine).

The Wilson Centre is home to our Department of Sport and Physical Activity, and you’ll find it in the heart of campus – just next door to Catalyst. All the facilities in the Wilson Centre are open-access.

Facilities

• Dedicated biochemistry, biomechanics, performance analysis, physiology and psychology laboratories 
• Sleep, exercise and performance laboratory 
• Functional rehabilitation centre and kinesiology facilities
• Sports therapy clinics 
• A dedicated strength and conditioning area 
• Indoor courts to facilitate indoor sports 
• A viewpoint for spectators to watch the sports unfold 
• Various classrooms for smaller discussion-based tasks 
• IT rooms 
• Specialist vision analysis laboratory and resources, including eye-tracking technology 

Over in Edge Hill Sport, you’ll find some of the best sporting facilities in the region. Facilities include 3G football and rugby courts, a hockey pitch, an eight-court sports hall, a swimming pool, and an 80-station fitness suite. 

• En-suite
• Self-catered
• Free, secure WiFi
• Flatscreen TV/monitor in bedroom
• £145 per week for academic year 2024. Utility bills included

Chancellors Court and Chancellors South consist of 14 halls of residence situated close to Edge Hill Sport and Creative Edge on the eastern side of the campus.

• En-suite
• Self-catered
• Adapted rooms available
• Free, secure WiFi
• Flatscreen TV/monitor in room
• Most games consoles supported
• £135-£145 per week for academic year 2023/24 and £140-£150 per week for academic year 2024/25. The vast majority of rooms are priced at £135 per week for academic year 2023/24 and £140 per week for academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included

Forest Court is our longest-standing accommodation and is conveniently located right next to the Edge Link bus stop (which takes you into Ormskirk for free). These halls are the cheapest of our accommodation and are perfect if you’re on a budget.

• En-suite or shared bathroom options
• Self-catered
• Adapted rooms available
• Free, secure WiFi
• En-suite: £110 per week for academic year 2023/24. £115 per week for academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included. 
• Shared bathroom: £80 per week for academic year 2023/24. £85 per week for academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included

Founders East and Founders West consist of 12 halls of residence in total which are located close to the Arts Centre at the front of the campus.

• En-suite
• Self-catered
• Free, secure WiFi
• Flatscreen TV/monitor in room
• Most games consoles supported
• £130 per week for Founders West or £135 per week for Founders East in academic year 2023/24. £135 per week for Founders West or £140 per week for Founders East in academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included

Located behind the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine buildings, you’ll discover the gem that is Graduates Court.

• En-suite
• Self-catered
• Free, secure WiFi
• Flatscreen TV/monitor in room
• Most games consoles supported
• £130 per week for academic year 2023/24. £135 per week for academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included

Main Halls are situated on the upper two floors in the east and west wings of the Main Building on campus.

Main Halls were refurbishment in 2022, with all rooms refurbished into en-suite, self-catered accommodation with shared kitchen/common areas

• En-suite or shared bathroom options
• Catered or self-catered options
• Free, secure WiFi
• Flatscreen TV/monitor in en-suite, self-catered rooms only
• £130-£140 for academic year 2023/24 and £135-£145 for academic year 2024/25. The majority of rooms are priced at £130 for academic year 2023/24 and £135 for academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included

Palatine Court comprises seven halls of residence which are located at the front of the campus near the Main Building.

• En-suite
• Self-catered
• Free, secure WiFi
• Flatscreen TV/monitor in room
• Most games consoles supported
• £135 per week for academic year 2023/24. £140 per week for academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included

Woodland Court consists of 25 townhouses situated close to Edge Hill Sport and Creative Edge. Woodland Court is for senior undergraduate (second and third year) students only.

• En-suite
• Self-catered
• Free, secure WiFi
• Flatscreen TV/monitor in room
• Most games consoles supported
• £130 per week (12 bedroom townhouses) or £135 per week (8 and 9 bedroom townhouses) for academic year 2023/24. £135 per week (12 bedroom townhouses) or £140 per week (8 and 9 bedroom townhouses) for academic year 2024/25. Utility bills included

The Faculty of Education (Lakeside) earned its name because of the picturesque lake it overlooks. Take a walk around the area and see the wildlife – you might even spot campus cat.

In 2023, we were presented with the Green Flag award for the 12th year, marking over a decade as one of the country’s best green spaces. We’re also a Gold Tier wildlife friendly campus (Ark Wildlife – study published in 2023).

Located on Ruff Lane, Ruff Wood is a stone’s throw away from campus. We have introduced ecological features and wildlife habitats linking mixed-woodland areas and footpaths to Ruff Wood. Wildflower meadows, open grassland and a new wildlife pond have been cultivated, alongside structural screen planting and hedgerows.

In 2023, we were presented with the Green Flag award for the 13th year, marking over a decade as one of the country’s best green spaces. We’re also a Gold Tier wildlife friendly campus (Ark Wildlife – study published in 2023).

Located between the Arts Centre and the Faculty of Education, the Rock Garden is a natural outdoor amphitheatre. It’s the perfect place to relax on sunny days.