School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Facilities
Media, film and digital design
The Sir David Bell Building
The School of Arts and Digital Industries is home to numerous state-of-the-art facilities. Our brand new media hub, the Sir David Bell Building, is home those studying disciplines in media, communications, linguistics, film and photography. Our digital media centre provides all students with a 2000 metre-square modern building offering world class facilities including two newsrooms that replicate real working environments, a film studio, with state-of-the-art technology and equipment, and extensive resources for sound editing and production, including radio and podcasting.
The new facilities were developed in conjunction with leading acoustic and theatre specialists to ensure that students will receive industry standard experiences. The result is a modern, adaptable learning environment, with spaces for individual and group work, interactive and collaborative projects, as well as quiet study spaces for students.
Replicating real world working environments
Seating just under 100 people
Equipped with state of the art technology and equipment
Enabling students to work in a professional setting
Equipped with Mac computers with professional software for, film image and animation and coding.
For students to use for independent and group study
to display student work and host creative industry events
Including specialist resources for Podcasting and Radio
Dance
for studio-based learning, technique classes, portfolio development and professional training courses. These are available for students to book for their own practice and rehearsals.
for sound and video recording, computing, dance–computer interaction and video projection.
more than 52,000 books, journals and videos in one of the UK’s finest collections.
including remote access to online databases of dance journals, videos and images.