For general undergraduate The Enquiry Centre enquiries please contact: t: +44 (0)115 951 5559 Visiting Our UK Campuses e: [email protected] w: www.nottingham.ac.uk Self-guided campus tours www.nottingham.ac.uk Visiting Our UK Campuses Visiting Our UK Campuses Self-guided campus tours Self-guided campus tours Contents Welcome Welcome 02 Our other campuses 18 This self-guided tour booklet is designed to If you wish to view a particular school or The University of Nottingham – a history 03 assist you in walking around The University speak to a member of academic staff regarding The city of Nottingham 19 of Nottingham’s three UK campuses – subject-related queries, please contact the University Park Campus 05 Refreshments 21 University Park Campus, Jubilee Campus academic school directly to arrange a suitable Tours of University Park Campus 07 How to find us 22 and Sutton Bonington Campus – highlighting time. For contact details of all academic schools, Map of University Park Campus 09 Useful contacts 22 key buildings and places of interest you may please visit our website: www.nottingham.ac.uk wish to visit during your time with us. Our Jubilee Campus 11 award-winning campuses are packed with With a few exceptions, all buildings are Tour of Jubilee Campus 13 interesting things to see. Why not use our accessible to wheelchair users. If you would Map of Jubilee Campus 14 information on key attractions later in this like specific information or have individual guide to make sure you don’t miss anything? requirements please contact the Enquiry Sutton Bonington Campus 15 Centre on +44 (0)115 951 5559. Map of Sutton Bonington Campus 17 While on the self-guided tour, you can wander into most of the main buildings to look at general We hope you enjoy your time with us and Front cover image: Students relax by the lake on University Park Campus. areas, although you will not be able to enter get a real feel for what it’s like to be a student at private offices, laboratories, computer resource The University of Nottingham. rooms, teaching rooms or the farm at Sutton Bonington Campus. Marek Tobolewski’s New Paintings and Drawings: Continuum in Symmetry exhibition in the Djanogly Art Gallery at Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park Campus. 01 02 Visiting Our UK Campuses Visiting Our UK Campuses Self-guided campus tours Self-guided campus tours The University of Nottingham • University Park is often regarded as one – a history of the most attractive campuses in the UK. • Our award-winning campuses integrate beautiful parkland and countryside with impressive traditional and modern Nottingham’s first civic college was opened Since then the University has continued to grow. architecture. in the city centre in 1881. After the First The Medical School, the first to be established in World War, the college expanded rapidly and the 20th century, opened in 1970 and in 1995, • Nottingham is the first and only foreign outgrew its original building. A generous gift the School of Nursing was formed, following the university to establish and run a campus from Sir Jesse Boot, of 35 acres of land at merger of the Mid-Trent College of Nursing and Highfields, presented the solution. The land Midwifery. The £50-million phase-one Jubilee independently within mainland China. was to be devoted to the college but was also Campus development opened in 1999, and to be a place of recreation for the people of subsequently the prestigious National College for Nottingham. This value is still held today as School Leadership has been co-located on visitors freely enjoy the landscaped woodlands the campus. and parks that were created on the expanded 330-acre site. Since then, developments to Jubilee Campus have included a research and innovation park In 1928, the college moved to what is now and Aspire, the UK’s tallest freestanding public University Park Campus. Initially it was work of art. accommodated in the elegant Trent Building, with its distinctive tower, and was officially opened Other developments in the UK have included the by King George V in November of that year. establishment of a Graduate Entry Medical School An endowment fund was set up to support the in Derby in 2003, and the opening of the School further development of the site and to provide new of Veterinary Medicine and Science at Sutton courses and scholarships. Bonington Campus in September 2006. Even in its early days on this site, the college Away from home, the University has launched attracted high-profile visiting lecturers including two overseas campuses in China and Professor Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Malaysia, confirming its reputation as an HG Wells. international institution. In 1948, the college was awarded the Royal Charter, becoming The University of Nottingham, with the ability to confer degrees in its own name. During this period, the Institute of Education was founded and the School of Agriculture was established when the Midland College of Agriculture at Sutton Bonington merged with the University. Studying on University Park Campus. 03 04 Visiting Our UK Campuses Visiting Our UK Campuses Self-guided campus tours Self-guided campus tours Halls of residence The Sports Centre University Park Campus (12 in total, highlighted in purple on map) (building 34 on map) There are 12 catered halls of residence on campus, The University has outstanding sporting facilities for (see pages 9-10 for map) each with its own charm and aesthetic appeal. both indoor and outdoor activities. The Sports Centre These provide meals for residents three times a day offers a grass training area, floodlit astro-turf and and are located within a short walking distance of 3G rubber crumb pitches, facilities for badminton, all academic buildings on University Park Campus. volleyball, basketball, five-a-side football, netball, Self-catered accommodation is located off campus, hockey, cricket and archery. The University of Nottingham’s 330-acre Creative Energy Homes but is still within easy reach of lectures. University Park Campus is set in extensive (to the left of the sign marking the North Practice rooms are used for martial arts, table woodland, parks and playing fields with Entrance on the map) The Hallward Library tennis, dance, aerobics and circuit training. There impressive traditional and modern architecture. This project is a showcase of seven innovative, (building 9 on map) is also a snooker room, squash courts and an energy-efficient homes of the future which are The Hallward Library houses the collections in arts ultra-modern specialist fitness centre containing One of the largest and most attractive campuses powered by renewable energy. The project aims and humanities, law and social sciences. Recently cardiovascular and resistance machinery and a free in the UK, University Park Campus features to stimulate sustainable design ideas and promote refurbished, Hallward has been acclaimed since its weights area. Directly opposite the Sports Centre contemporary teaching facilities, 12 halls of new ways of providing affordable, environmentally opening in 1973 as one of the finest library buildings is the 25m tournament swimming pool with eight residence, a conference and exhibition centre, sustainable housing. in the country. It offers first-class study conditions lanes and a moveable floor at one end. There are an award-winning library and excellent indoor with a high proportion of individual working places also a number of tennis courts across the campus. and outdoor sports facilities. The campus is the Lakeside Arts Centre and a coffee bar. The library’s Learning Hub provides social and academic base for most of our 34,000 (buildings 49 and 50 on map) some of the most technologically advanced flexible UK-based students. Visitors are welcome to enjoy The Lakeside Arts Centre houses the acclaimed study resources in Europe. the gardens, walks and trees – you can pick up one Djanogly Art Gallery (free entry), one of the finest of five guides from the Trent Building reception. small gallery spaces in the country. This hosts The Orchard Hotel a varied programme of exhibitions throughout (next to the East Midlands Conference Key attractions the year, in addition to the Djanogly Recital Hall, Centre on map) Trent Building which provides an intimate venue for professional Opened in 2012, The Orchard Hotel provides (building 11 on map) performers. The University’s purpose-built arts top-class accommodation with extensive facilities The Trent Building is the oldest building on centre offers a pleasant environment in which to including a roof garden, brasserie and gym. The University Park Campus and its Great Hall has relax, unwind and enjoy the views of the lake. hotel has been built to the highest environmental played host to many important visitors including standards featuring state-of-the-art technology Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi. Walk into The Portland Building to minimise carbon emissions including a green the central courtyard where you can appreciate (building 15 on map) roof, photovoltaic panels, energy-efficient lighting, the splendid architecture of this stately structure. At the hub of student life on University Park heating and ventilation systems. Campus is the Portland Building, housing the Mooch Students’ Union, which is one of the largest and (in the Portland Building – building 15 on map) most active in the UK. Here you will also find Mooch, the Students’ Union bar, is a modern, light the Students’ Union Shop, Boots, Blackwells and airy bar which serves food and snacks and Bookshop and Natwest and Santander banks. The opens out onto a terrace. recently refurbished Portland Food Court offers dishes from around the world. The University boating lake (in front of the Trent Building) The Millennium Garden A large section of University Park was landscaped (behind buildings 6 and 7 on map) into a lake and parkland for the people of The Millennium Garden was designed as a ‘secret Nottingham to enjoy in addition to the students garden’, a quiet and reflective area for staff and who study here.