Our PGR Hubs are designed to be a base for you throughout your postgraduate degree. These spaces are designed to support you to research, study, collaborate and network, as well as grab a well-earned cup of tea whenever you need!
Find out more about our PGR hubs, which are available to all postgraduate research (PGR) students across our campuses.
City Centre Campus
Research Hub
Our main Research Hub is located at the Jennens Road Building at City Centre Campus. It’s next to University House, and rooms in this building are labelled CJR.
The Research Hub has dedicated pre-bookable PGR hot desks, lounge areas and other facilities, as well as hot-desking spaces for the Doctoral Research College (DRC) and other teams from the Research Office.
On the ground floor you can find:
- PGR hotdesking room (CJR003): 16 networked workstations, allowing you to connect your laptop
- Kitchenette area with fridge and microwave, and teabags, coffee and sugar available to the PGR community courtesy of the Research Office
- PGR social space
- Day-use lockers
- Seminar room (CJR004), with flexible table and chair layout, allowing seminar or ‘theatre’ set up. This can be used for breakout work, researcher training, larger meetings etc.
- Meeting rooms (CJR005 and CJR006)
- Two-person meeting booth with networked screen for breakout work or meetings.
Desks, meeting rooms and the seminar room can be booked online via LibCal, and will be checked by a member of Research Office staff.
Millennium Point and Curzon Building
PGR rooms with hot desks and other facilities are also available in room MP360, Millennium Point, and room C219, Curzon Building.
These hot desks do not need to be booked and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Catering facilities in Curzon Building include microwaves and hot water taps to bring in your own food, as well as a restaurant, Starbucks and café. Millennium Point has a restaurant on the third floor.
School of Art and School of Jewellery
There are workspaces for PGR students at Margaret Street and Vittoria Street. The workspace at Vittoria Street is in room SPS104, where there are six PCs available - there is no need to book.
Individual Colleges may also provide small workspaces to PGRs from their area of research, such as the PGR rooms in Margaret Street and Vittoria Street.
City South Campus
Seacole Building PGR Hub
Our PGR Hub at City South Campus has been recently refurbished to provide optimised facilities for PGR students. It is located in room SCT237 in the Seacole Building, where you’ll find:
- Bookable PGR hot desks: 22 networked workstations, allowing you to connect your laptop, two desktop PCs and two accessible/standing desks
- Kitchenette area with fridge and microwave, and teabags, coffee and sugar available to the PGR community courtesy of the Research Office
- PGR social and collaboration space
- Day-use lockers
- Meeting rooms with movable acoustic screens
- Two 2-4 person acoustically secure meeting pods.
Desks, meeting spaces and meeting pods are currently first-come, first-served, but will need to be booked online via LibCal from October 2024.
The opening hours for the PGR Hub are the same as the Seacole Building.