Research Facilities

Our facilities

Our School of Life Sciences has state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for conducting research in the life sciences and for training undergraduates and research students. Over two-thirds of our research was rated as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (REF 2021) and our facilities are wide-ranging because we cover a wide range of sub-disciplines within the Life Sciences.

• STEM Centre
• Bioimaging Facilty
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Biophysical and Biochemical Facilities
• Ecology and Environmental Microbiology Facilities
• Molecular Cell Biology and Cell Culture Plant Physiology Phenotyping
• Proteomics
  
  

Our research groups

Our research groups also have a wide variety of facilities available to researchers. Find our more about each of our groups or units below:

• Coral Reef Unit
• Genomics and Computational Biology
• Ecology and Environmental Microbiology
• Protein Structure and Mechanisms of Disease
• Plant Productivity
  
  

Business services and consultancy

Our expertise is helping to drive business forward: we have an unequivocal commitment to creating jobs and growth in the East of England region. Find out more.

Knowledge Gateway

Essex Business SchoolThe Knowledge Gateway is located adjacent to our Colchester Campus and strategically integrates the University of Essex to the city of Colchester and the region. Explore our growing Knowledge Gateway

As well as offering MBAs and Executive programmes, Essex Business School offers a range of facilities for business. Get to know the department in more detail to find out more.

Event Management

Event Essex is our conferencing arm, offering modern and flexible conference and meeting spaces, comfortable accommodation and high quality catering at both our Colchester and Southend campuses. Find out more

iLab Southend

Our Southend Campus' innovation lab is an inspirational space that encourages creative thinking and problem-solving. Find out more

Our facilities

Our School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering is supported by excellent facilities. We are served by a gigabit Ethernet LAN and we have our own gigabit backbone; standard network connectivity is 100Mbit/second.

Specialist Labs

• Brain-Computer Interfaces Laboratory
• Embedded and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
• Intelligent Environments Laboratory
• Robotics Laboratory

Communications Systems Labs

• Access Networks Laboratory
• Network Convergence Laboratory
• Network Multimedia Laboratory
• Optoelectronics Laboratory
• RF and Microwave Research Laboratory

General research facilities

• Printed circuit milling facility
• Semiconductor clean room

Explore in more detail the research conducted by the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, including our research groups, centres and institutes.

 Centre for Brain Science

It’s a purpose-built centre to house state-of-the-art equipment that allows staff to directly measure and modulate brain activity, as well as a range of equipment to measure eye movements and various indices of physiological response.

The centre also won a Sustainable Developments award in the 2008 Colchester 2020 and RIBA Architectural Awards, and is one of the most environmentally sustainable buildings at our Colchester Campus.

• Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
• Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS)
• Virtual reality suite

We also have a range of specialist labs and facilities such as our observation suit, visual perception lab, cognitive perception lab, two psychoacoustic hearing lab, and group testing suite. Find out more

Babylab

Studying the development of perceptual and cognitive abilities in infants and children. Explore more

ESSEXLab

Students, researchers, individuals and organisations, from across the globe conduct cutting edge research at ESSEXLab. Our excellent facilities and expert laboratory staff are open and available to all, from the university community and beyond. See how ESSEXLab can help you.

Language and Linguistics

• Translation and Interpreting Facilities
• Linguistic Laboratories
• Media Studio
• Spicer Library

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