Our facilities
The Oastler building is the home of the School of Music, Humanities and Media.
What can you find in the building?
- Collaborative Learning rooms. Bring your own devices to plug in and share your work with others or work on it as a group. If you have a lecture in these rooms be ready for lots of group work and discussion.
- Social space for work and free time. Socialise with your friends in one of the many seating areas or catch up on your work at pc facilities around the Prow of the Building.
- Large Postgraduate Space. If you study at a postgraduate level you can access the large area with Computer labs, working space, photocopying facilities and even a kitchen for your late night coffee needs.
- Staff Offices. Academic Staff, Support staff and Technical services have moved to new offices in the building to offer you support.
The University Library
Our teaching and library facilities are modern and regularly updated with the resources you’ll need. You are taught in flexible, technology-enhanced learning rooms equipped with video conferencing equipment, interactive smart boards with all-round ceiling projection and audio-visual cabinets with the usual dvd playback and PC and laptop connections, and video-conferencing facilities.
Our Library
Our Library contains a wide range of electronic databases and archives of digitised facsimiles, including EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (18th Century Collections Online) and 19th Century Periodicals Online. We also have a vast collection of e-books and online journals for you to access through Summon, the University's fast, easy-to-use search engine.
We also have archival holdings relating to the poet Ted Hughes - these are of international significance and form the basis of current research which we are undertaking in this subject area. These papers are held in the University's Heritage Quay.
Electronic access to study
We support our students in a number of ways, ensuring that they get the most of what we are offering them. All the modules you take are supported by skills workshops and extensive online resources (with screencasts of lectures, repositories of seminar or lecture handouts, slides, blogs, wikis). And by using our Brightspace facility, all your work is submitted electronically - and is returned to you electronically with full feedback from your lecturers.