Emily Siddon Building
What is the Emily Siddon Building?
The 6,800m² facility on Southgate is named Emily Siddon and is expected to open in January 2026. Close to the main university campus, it is adjacent to the Daphne Steele Building.
A leading healthcare advocate who spent most of her life in nearby Honley, Emily Siddon strove to improve healthcare and equality in several prestigious roles, often reserved for men.
An advocate for improving children’s health, Emily was also involved in the creation of children’s homes with better conditions than the workhouse.
Emily Siddon is built to a Platinum WELL standard
WELL is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being, through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort and mind.
Specialist clinical teaching facilities
- New purpose-built radiography facilities – our specialist clinical teaching facilities and state-of-the-art simulation technology will enable you to learn in a safe, but realistic environment.
- You’ll also have access to a brand-new Community Diagnostic Centre Hub (CDC). Run by the local NHS trust, the CDC will provide diagnostic tests, including MRI and CT scanners.
The Emily Siddon Building is adjacent to the Daphne Steele Building on Southgate in Huddersfield town centre
The CDC, operated by Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation NHS Trust, includes an MRI scanner.
The first floor is already used by the Diagnostic Radiography degree course.
There are 44 dummy heads used by Dental Therapy and Dental Hygiene students in two teaching rooms.
The MRI simulator on the first floor is the first of its kind in the UK.
The mannequin of a skeleton will be used with a real X-ray machine by Diagnostic Radiography students.
First NHS Community Diagnostic Centre Hub on a UK university campus
Emily Siddon will have the first NHS Community Diagnostic Hub to be co-located on a uk university campus.
Public facing services
- Community Diagnostic Centre - The ground floor of the Emily Siddon Building will host a Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), in partnership with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. This is a unique partnership, and the first of its kind on a university campus. The CDC will provide access to thousands of additional diagnostic tests for the people of Calderdale and Huddersfield, including MRI and CT scans, in the heart of Huddersfield. It will be the second Community Diagnostic Centre for the Trust, which recently opened its first CDC in central Halifax.
- Health Business Innovation Centre - The Emily Siddon Building will also be home to a Health Business Innovation Centre for local entrepreneurs or start-ups and organisations looking to benefit from locating with the University on the campus. The Centre is supported by the West Yorkshire Mayor and Combined Authority through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. It will be operated by the award-winning team responsible for the University’s 3M Buckley Innovation Centre.
The Emily Siddon Building is another wonderful example of the University’s ethos of offering practical, real-world learning to students that will enable them to meet the needs of the country’s healthcare workforce.
The Community Diagnostic Centre will also make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of people in the area and demonstrates how the University plays an integral part in the life of the region.
Bob Cryan CBE - University of Huddersfield Vice-Chancellor
A tour of the Emily Siddon Building at our National Health Innovation Campus
We’re excited to share with you a preview of what the new Emily Siddon Building will look like. This is the second building on our National Health Innovation Campus, and we can’t wait to open the doors in the new year. This video created by The Collective CGI an animation of what we can expect, including:
- A Community Diagnostic Centre in partnership with @chftnhs which will provide access to thousands of diagnostic tests for the people of Calderdale and Huddersfield, including MRI and CT scans.
- Specialist clinical teaching facilities, including new course areas such as Diagnostic Radiography and Dental Hygiene and Dental Therapy.
- The Emily Siddon Building will also be home to a Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre for local entrepreneurs or start-ups and organisations looking to benefit from locating with the University on the campus.
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