City South Campus
Our Health, Social Work and Life Sciences courses are based at our City South Campus in Edgbaston, to the south of the City Centre. This £41 million building is the home of our innovative simulation spaces for healthcare students and labs for life sciences. Our students learn in the most realistic settings – from a mock operating theatre and hospital wards to a fully equipped birthing room and virtual radiotherapy suite. In addition, our sports student are based at the world class Alexander Stadium for hands-on practical experience of professional sport, and the home of our education and communities students is the newly refurbished Benjamin Zephaniah Building (formerly University House) at the City Centre Campus, which offers subject specific spaces for trainee teachers.
Teacher-training spaces
Our specialist spaces for teacher training in the Benjamin Zephaniah Building allow you to explore all of the National Curriculum subjects. These include Art, Music, Science and Design and Technology.
These brand new spaces open in January 2025.
Mock wards
We have two general ward rooms which are set up to replicate typical hospital wards, with four to six bays. Our manikins and simulation equipment can be used to simulate providing treatment to patients while in hospital and helping with recovery and rehabilitation.
Birthing Centre
This skills and simulation space has low and high dependency areas to enable midwives to prepare for a range of birth situations. There is also a nursing chair to allow you to practise supporting breastfeeding, a Resuscitaire machine and equipment for monitoring both birthing person and baby.
Digital Anatomy Tables
A Digital Anatomy Table allows you to investigate anatomy, from organs and muscles to skeletal forms and blood flow. The software includes real-life MRI scan data to help you develop your understanding of anatomy.
SPACE
SPACE is an innovative practice area all students can access outside of lecture time to use equipment and resources to practise a wide range of skills in a safe, welcoming and supportive environment. There are over 100 skills students can practise at their own pace in preparation for assessment or placement such as blood pressure, basic and advanced life support, injection technique and much more.
Telehealth room
The Telehealth room allows all our health professions students to practise delivering healthcare and advice remotely, either over the phone or on a video call.
Radiography Suite
Our facilities for Radiography students include an X-Ray machine and computer suite for analysing x-rays. The computers are also used by Therapeutic Radiography students to plan angles and directions for hypothetical treatments, ensuring that radiotherapy reaches where it is needed on a patient’s body.
Operating Suite
The operating theatre and recovery suite gives you the sense of what it would be like in a real surgical environment. These spaces emulate the full surgical journey from anaesthetics, through surgery and into recovery.
library facilities
Our Mary Seacole library has an extensive range of information and reference materials set out in a relaxing environment for study.
Home Learning Environment Flat
Our Home Environment flat can play host a range of scenarios and equipment for Midwifery, Social Work and Nursing students.
More Social Work and Community FacilitiesMicrobiology laboratory
The lab is equipped with modern equipment for teaching the molecular biology techniques that underpin modern clinical and research labs such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machines and a variety of cell-analysis and cell-culture tools.
More Life Science facilitiesAlexander stadium
The Alexander Stadium - one of the most iconic venues from the 2022 Commonwealth Games - is now our specialist space for Sports and Exercise Science courses. The University has invested £5 million in developing space in both the East and West stands at the Stadium to house our specialist laboratories and other facilities to offer our students the very best experience for their course.
Social Kitchen
When you need a break from lectures and studying, Social Kitchen offers hot food, coffee and drinks to wind down with friends.
Students' Union
BCUSU is behind some of the biggest events at the University, such as the Big Welcome and Graduation Ball. It also offers over 100 sports teams, societies and media groups for you to get involved in. Whatever your interests, they’ve got you covered!
Costa, Starbucks and Canteen
Our City South campus offers two coffee shops to grab a latte or some lunch, as well as a canteen serving a range of hot and cold food.
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