Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education facilities

At the Kingston Hill campus, students in nursing and midwifery benefit from advanced clinical skills labs and simulation suites replicating hospital wards, GP practices, and birthing rooms. In 2025, we launched new immersive healthcare simulation suites. These high-tech facilities include a new, fully-equipped, simulated ward with hospital beds and a four-screen immersive environment that can be customised to replicate a variety of real-world clinical scenarios.

The suites feature medium- and high-fidelity adult, child, and infant manikins, allowing students to practice and assess clinical skills such as monitoring vital signs, responding to patient deterioration, and managing arrest scenarios. Integrated virtual reality platforms and audiovisual camera systems enable the streaming, recording, and playback of sessions, supporting thorough feedback and reflection.

Our Kingston Hill campus offers you modern facilities and includes well-equipped laboratories where you can practise within a safe environment. Our new simulation suite houses all the equipment needed to develop clinical practice skills.

This versatile space can be used for simulated home settings or a delivery suite setting. It also has a range of equipment, including a birthing pool, birthing mattresses, manikins, Resuscitaires and exercise balls for you to learn with.

Our Kingston Hill campus is home to a number of teaching rooms, set up to replicate actual classrooms. Classrooms are subject based, for example art rooms or science labs. Each room is equipped with all the relevant facilities you will need to practise your lessons before taking them into school.

You'll have access to our outdoor learning environment. Here, trainee teachers lead curriculum-linked natural sciences activities with children. It includes a specially built 'cubby house', outdoor pond, beehive and nature trail.

Our library (the Nightingale Centre) has an excellent range of teaching resources to help you plan and teach your lessons. These resources include a range of children's topic books, music and nursery rhymes on CD, as well as artefacts and kits that can be used to illustrate historical periods, different religions, science, maths and music.

Our forensic science students have access to the scene-of-the-crime house. This enables students to gain real-world practical experience using both specialist equipment and precise techniques to obtain and preserve samples and evidence from the scene of a crime. 

The facility is a real semi-detached house, located on-site at Penrhyn Road campus. Its five rooms contain mock crime scenes, including burglary, arson, assault and sexual crime. Students have to pick up evidence carefully and transport it back to the labs for preservation and analysis. Even the garden contains evidence and is used by the forensic team's archaeologist for teaching.

In addition to this we have a crime laboratory for trace evidence analysis and state-of-the-art analytical equipment for the detection of legal and illegal drugs of abuse.

We have also developed our own brand-new DNA analysis laboratory which allows students to analyse biological samples and determine DNA profiles. All students gain in-depth expert witness training, including mock courtroom cross-examination at Kingston Crown Court.

Our modern nutrition kitchen is a dedicated space that has been designed to the latest specifications. It is a flexible and inviting teaching space which we use for food science practicals, research projects and student nutrition society events along with small group teaching (e.g. assignment and revision tutorials) and personal tutor meetings.

Our exercise physiology laboratory has sophisticated equipment. It enables us to measure the physiological responses to exercise, such as: oxygen consumption, fat oxidation, heart rate, blood pressure and haematological responses. There are also facilities to assess these in alternate environmental conditions through use of our altitude and heat chambers. We have a number of ergometers (e.g. treadmill, cycle, rowing kayak) for analysing sports-specific performance.

Practical work helps you develop your understanding of exercise physiology and your practical skills. The high-specification equipment ensures a high quality of research. It enables staff to provide support services to top-class athletes from a range of sports.

A large biomechanics laboratory provides space for teaching, research and consultancy activities. Here, we can accurately analyse sporting movements and skills using force platforms embedded into the floor, a nine-camera motion analysis system, surface electromyography and an isokinetic dynamometer.