Our facilities

I spend the majority of my time studying in the New Adelphi by choice, it’s such an open and freeing space to get work done.

Sasha

Media and Performance student

We have a long history of providing people with the tools they need to succeed.

We invest heavily in our facilities to ensure you’re using industry-standard equipment during your studies, meaning you’ll graduate with a working knowledge of the practical concepts that you’ll be faced with day to day. We’ve got ambitious plans for the future too and our campus continues to evolve and grow.

Our doors are also open to industry, and you’ll often brush shoulders with staff from commercial organisations using our facilities for testing products or training their staff. Here are just a taster of our facilities...

You can read more about our other facilities at

salford.ac.uk/our-facilities

ANECHOIC CHAMBER

One of a select few found in the world, and regarded as the quietest place in the north-west, our anechoic chamber provides students, researchers and industry partners with a unique acoustic environment. With no audio reflections, this room is ideal for testing microphones, musical equipment and quiet products. Once you enter the chamber and close the doors, it’s said you can hear your blood circulating!

PATIENT SIMULATION SUITE

When you train to become a nurse, midwife or allied health professional at Salford, you’ll face real-life scenarios in the safe and supportive environment of our Simulation Suite.

Set up just like a hospital ward, the suite is equipped with human patient simulators, including two adults, a newborn baby, a child and a birthing mum. You’ll learn how to perform vital procedures that you’ll use throughout your career, under the supervision of trained practitioners.

As part of the suite, we also have an immersive simulation room, allowing students to be transported to any environment without having to leave the suite. The technology combines a series of cameras which project realistic images onto the walls, with audio equipment to transform the space into anything from the back of an ambulance to a nightclub, prison cell or family home.

CLIFFORD WHITWORTH LIBRARY

Our main library is a modern learning space with PC suites, Mac computers, laptops available to loan, bookable work rooms and café.

The library is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So you can study at a time that suits you. You’ll also find study spaces across the University, so a quiet place to work is never far away.

See it for yourself at vimeo.com/ universityofsalford/library

THE OCTAVE

The Octave is an immersive 3D experience which engages sight, sound and touch and is capable of connecting people from around the world in one single virtual reality. It enables us to rapidly prototype solutions and explore new techniques before they are launched into industry.

The Octave is designed to complement and integrate with other specialist facilities across our Peel Park and MediaCityUK campuses.

HUMAN PERFORMANCE LABORATORY

The Human Performance Lab is a teaching and research facility used by students on our sport and exercise courses, as well as physiotherapy, podiatry and prosthetics and orthotics.

It’s one of the best equipped labs of its kind, containing an extensive range of biomechanical and physiological equipment, including a 30-metre sprint track with inbuilt force platforms, motion capture systems, blood and gas analysis equipment and speed guns. We also have a separate physiological testing laboratory and fully equipped strength and conditioning suite for recreational exercisers to elite athletes.

On campus we have a number of working clinics including, a podiatry and sports injury clinics, counselling centre and prosthetics and orthotics labs. Under the supervision of fully trained staff, our students use state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to provide a wide range of treatments to patients and clients.

BODMER LABORATORY

The Bodmer Lab, named after Sir Walter Bodmer, the British scientist behind the mapping of the human genome, is our multimillion-pound hub for students studying biology, biomedical sciences, chemistry and wildlife related courses.

The Bodmer Lab gives our students learning experiences using advanced technical equipment in an accessible, interconnected environment. Equipped with a sophisticated AV system and network of screens, the space is designed to ensure that students can clearly see and hear the lecturers and technicians from wherever they are situated.

NEWADELPHI

is the home of arts and culture on campus, designed to inspire your imagination and spark your curiosity. If you study music, performance, art, design or architecture, you’ll hone your skills in facilities that mirror those used by professionals in the industry. Artists and designers have their own dedicated workshops, ranging from traditional model making tools to 3D printers and laser cutters. The printing lab contains specialist equipment from screen printers and lithotables to etching presses and felt looms.

For architecture students, our carefully designed open plan studio space provides you with an inspiring environment to develop your ideas, work collaboratively and share best practice.

All of these facilities allow us and our students to strengthen the relationships we have with industry, including The Lowry, Islington Mill, ITV and the BBC.

The theatre is equipped with the latest lighting, PA equipment and high-powered projection, seating for up to 350 people, and can be adapted to different configurations to suit each individual event.

Our professional-quality screen acting studios allow you to film in front of high definition cameras, while the voice acting studio will give you the chance to master a variety of vocal performances used in radio or video game production.

Music students have access to six professional recording studios, built using specialist room-within-room construction methods and housing recording booths, Yamaha pianos, drum kits from DW and Gretsch and amplification by Ampeg, Fender and Vox.

The adjoining control rooms are extensively equipped with hardware audio processors from Bricasti, Neve and Warm Audio and feature the first six new ‘Heritage Edition’ recording consoles in the country, manufactured by Audient. Primary monitoring is provided by ATC and PMC loudspeakers.

Budding photographers can experiment with new techniques in our professional photography studios, which feature lighting equipment, a dark room and the latest cameras and accessories.

JOURNALISM CENTRE

MediaCityUK houses our journalism centre, which includes a TV studio, newsroom, radio studio and editing gallery. Here our journalism students produce digital content across multiple channels, developing and honing their reporting and content production skills.

TV STUDIOS

We have two TV studios and a green screen area equipped with cameras that can turn the studio into a 3D digital environment, allowing us to achieve effects like those seen on weather reports and children’s television. These facilities are industry-standard and are regularly used by the BBC and other media organisations.

DIGITAL PERFORMANCE LAB

Our experimental performance and lecture space is equipped with one of the largest HD screens in Europe and is perfect for showcasing computer gaming, animation and dance performances.

MediaCityUK is home to our student-led broadcast channel, Quays News - our University-wide news channel made by students right here on campus with support from industry professionals and guest editors from the BBC and ITV.

MEDIA CITYUK

Every time I step into MediaCityUK it’s just so inspiring. I think it’s also really great that my lecturers are industry professionals which is very motivating, working among people who are in the positions we’re aiming for. As well as that, there’s the obvious factor of resources. I get to work with state-of-the-art equipment, which is fantastic, as you familiarise yourself with equipment the industry are using.

Ryan

Film Production student

The facilities we have access to are brilliant and allow us to create highly accurate models down to the smallest of details.

Cameron

Civil Engineering student OUR unique additive and digital manufacturing hub is made up of the Maker Space and the Morson Engine Room, and is funded by the Salford-based Morson Group - a global leader in technical recruitment and engineering excellence. In this space you can acquire real-world engineering and digital fabrication skills alongside hands-on training, providing the experience that employers want and need in industry.

THE MAKER SPACE

The Maker Space is an open lab for students to explore digital fabrication technologies. Students have access to 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters and clean working spaces for assembling projects. There is also a dedicated computer suite for 2D and 3D design (CAD) and electronics workbenches.

THE MORSON ENGINE ROOM

The Morson Engine Room is home to heavy duty, industrial grade machinery and equipped with a waterjet cutter, metal additive manufacturing, large format 3D printing, state-of-the-art digital and optical microscopes and reverse engineering metrology instrumentation. Guided by skilled technicians, students can learn how to use and operate these machines to build skills in relation to design for manufacture, assembly and inspection.