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Research Facilities
Investing in Your Future
We understand the importance of giving you a strong foundation to help you achieve your aspirations, so we are constantly investing in our campus, buildings, and facilities to provide you with the best possible research and learning environment. In fact, we have invested more than £375 million in our Brayford Pool Campus in the last two decades.
You can take advantage of the high-quality facilities and specialist research spaces across our buildings on campuses. This includes scientific laboratories, state-of-the-art clinical suites, specialist arts studios, and access to advanced research equipment and resources.
Science and Health
Research and learning across our science and health-related programmes take place in innovative and purpose-built facilities, which are based on our Brayford Pool Campus and our Riseholme and Holbeach sites and give you the opportunity to work with expert academics, technicians, and industry partners.
Clinical Suites
The clinical suites in the Sarah Swift Building are used to simulate real hospital and home environments, and feature the latest in patient simulation technology, providing a hub for medical research and research-informed teaching.
Holbeach Campus
The campus is home to the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, offering specialist facilities and industry-standard equipment, including analytical laboratories with a test kitchen and sensory testing suite, a technician training centre, and processing facilities.
Human Performance Centre
These specialist laboratories feature modern equipment in order to undertake physiological and biomechanical assessments. The labs are equipped for both the teaching of students, academic research, and also external consultancy with businesses and elite athletes.
Isaac Newton Building
Our Isaac Newton Building offers access to workshops and computer laboratories, an electrical systems laboratory, and a biofuels laboratory. It also houses industry-standard machinery, turbines, and additional teaching and research laboratories.
Joseph Banks Laboratories
The Joseph Banks Laboratories provide cutting-edge facilities for the Schools of Chemistry, Life and Environmental Sciences, and Pharmacy. Students have access to scientific laboratories, and technologies including Mass Spectrometry, Imaging Modalities, and Chromatography.
Ross Lucas Medical Sciences Building
Our brand-new, purpose-built Ross Lucas Medical Sciences Building features lecture theatres, laboratories, a clinical skills suite with consultation rooms, a prosection anatomy suite, and a bio-medical and health sciences library.
Psychology Labs
Psychology students have access to equipment such as a dynamic 3D body scanner, an eye-tracker, Psychophysics, Molecular lab, and driving simulator to use in both their own research or as part of one of the many research groups in the School.
Riseholme Campus
The campus is home to the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, Lincoln Agri-Robotics, and Lincoln’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics. It has a working farm, woodlands, grasslands, and watercourses for research into agricultural robotics, ecology, and hydrology.
Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
Our specialist facilities covering the arts, social sciences, and humanities give you the opportunity to indulge your curiosity, strengthen your critical thinking, and test and develop a range of creative methodologies to challenge preconceptions and forge new understandings of who we were, who we are, and who we can be.
Bespoke Spaces
We offer a dedicated CAD Lab of high-end PCs equipped with CAD software, a construction science lab, multi-materials workshops, fully equipped studios, and specialist printing.
Bloomberg Lab
Business students have access to the Bloomberg Terminal, which is designed to help industry professionals make better-informed investment decisions by offering the latest market news along with historical data and an international network to communicate securely and reliably.
Lincoln Conservation
The University is home to Lincoln Conservation, a company that combines research, teaching, and commercial expertise, and you can also benefit from a range of specialist facilities and work spaces, including our conservation and restoration laboratories.
Enhancing Creativity
We offer a range of facilities for creative practitioners, including fashion workshops, editing suites, audio recording, a sculpture and 3D workshop, a MakerLab, a photography studio, printmaking facilities, and computer suites.
Sound and Vision
You have access to TV and radio studios, audio production, a multi-track recording studio, video editing, animation and multimedia suites, and industry specification cameras, lights, and audio recording equipment.
Lincoln Arts Centre
Lincoln Arts Centre provides a hub of creative performance where students can learn and practise their art in the 450-seat professional working theatre, large industry-standard studio spaces, and a workshop for building sets and props.
Great Central Warehouse Library
The University’s Great Central Warehouse Library gives you access to more than 260,000 journals and 750,000 print and electronic books, as well as databases and specialist collections. The library is open 24/7 at key times during the academic year, so is available when you need it most.
Flexible Learning Spaces
As well as our specialist research sites and high-quality facilities, which can provide subject-specific resources for your studies, you also have access to a range of flexible learning spaces across our buildings on campus.
This includes dedicated study spaces for postgraduate research students, seminar rooms, lecture theatres, and workshops, alongside social spaces, breakout areas, and learning lounges, which are ideal for meeting and collaborating with fellow students and researchers.
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At Lincoln, our researchers are collaborating through a range of dynamic research institutes, centres, and groups, producing high-quality research and groundbreaking studies that are addressing some of the most pressing issues that are facing us in the world today.
