Facilities
Research facilities From nano-technology clean rooms to our textiles lab, our facilities are exceptional
We have an impressive range of facilities to support our research. Bioelectronics are being developed in our nano-technology clean rooms, outdoor clothing can be tested for warmth and wear in our technical textiles lab, and car safety is being improved in our driving simulator.
Our major facilities and University services include:
Libraries
Leeds has one of the largest academic research libraries in the UK with collections gathered throughout its 100 year history. The full catalogue also provides access to an extensive range of electronic journals available online. Read more about the libraries
Computing
- White Rose e-science Grid
- High end computing at Leeds
- Free video conferencing from your desk
- Video conferencing in lecture theatres
Clinical facilities
Our medical research benefits from being near patients and clinicians. Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (including Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital) treats around one million patients a year and is one of the UK's largest healthcare Trusts.
Conferencing and events
The campus, including its onsite accommodation and teaching space, make it an excellent venue for academic conferences and it regularly hosts major international events.
Read more about our conference facilities
Galleries and performance space
- The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery
- University of Leeds Textile Archive
- stage@leeds
- Workshop Theatre
- Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall
Specialist laboratories
- Engineering
- Microwave and millimetre wave engineering
- Nanotechnology clean room for semi-conductor processing
- Molecular beam epitaxy
- Molecular nanotechnology and bioelectronics laboratory suite
- Vanguard HiQ Selective Laser Sintering rapid manufacturing machine
- Virtual reality powerwall for medical imaging
- Merlin flight simulator
- WorldViz PPT optical tracking system
- Medical and biological engineering labs
- Energy and Resources Institute analytical laboratory
- Materials research
- Particle science
Biological sciences
- Experimental garden
- Bio-imaging
- Circular dichrosim
- Containment level 3 laboratory
- DNA analysis and protein production
- Electron microscopy
- Electrical and mechanical workshops
- Field research unit
- Flow cytometry
- High and ultra speed centrifugation
- High performance computing
- Histology
- Human performance
- JIF centre for bio-molecular interactions
- Mass spectrometry
- Media, sterilisation, decontamination, washup
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Plant growth
- Protein expression
- Proteomics
- Stem cell
- Stock culture collection
- X-ray crystallography
Medicine and health
Environment
- Driving simulator
- Instrumented city
- School of Earth & Environment
- Fluid dynamics
- Instrument workshop
- Kennedy library
- Electron optics
- Sorby multiphase flow laboratory
- Stable isotope laboratory
- Polishing
- LA-ICP-MS Laboratory
- Aerosol instrumentation & measurement
Maths and physical sciences
- Colour science analytical laboratories
- Chemistry
- Physics: thin film deposition
- Physics: fabrication
- Physics: characterisation
- Molecular and nanoscale physics
- Polymers & complex fluids
- Centre for computational fluid dynamics
- Technical textiles, including non-wovens and green textiles
Arts
This list is not exhaustive so please see faculty webpages for more detail about work in each area.