Facilities
Facilities
Facilities
Facilities
Facilities
Facilities
Facilities
Facilities
- Biosciences centres and facilities
- Environmental monitoring and impact analysis
- Humanities
- Marine and Offshore Energy facilities
- Medical facilities
- Testing and characterisation of materials
- Engineering and Physical Sciences
Biosciences centres and facilities
The Aquatic Resources Centre (ARC) provides a world-class teaching and research facility containing 14 aquaria rooms, analytical labs and a dedicated Wolfson Foundation-funded imaging unit.
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Under the guidance of the Director Professor John Love the BioEconomy Centre works collaboratively with industry to solve problems using biological approaches. The centre’s research employs a multidisciplinary combination of technologies including Synthetic Biology and Biocatalysis to investigate key questions associated with a wide range of industrial challenges.
The Bioimaging Centre is a research facility within the School of Biosciences that provides state-of-the-art optical, laser and electron microscopes to enable advanced cellular imaging techniques across the breadth of biological research.
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The biomechanics facilities offer researchers motion analysis and gait analysis cameras to investigate musculoskeletal injuries and develop footwear and materials which support more active lifestyles. They are often us by academics working on active ageing research.
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Cytometry technology facility at the BetFiery providing the next generation of flow cytometry systems for quantitative single cell research. This includes cutting-edge flow cytometry analysis (acoustic, spectral, imaging), BSLII cell sorting (e.g. spectral sorter), multiplexing and complex data analysis (DL, ML).
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The Geoffrey Pope building is home to a total 54 M2 of controlled environment plant growth space which is used for the propagation and growth of high quality plant material for both teaching and research projects throughout Biosciences.
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Exeter Sequencing Service provides state-of-the-art genomics and bioinformatics analysis to researchers in academia and industry. A number of different sequencing platforms are available alongside dedicated support to assist with experimental design.
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With a total footprint of 375m2, the greenhouse facilities meet a large variety of research needs. The greenhouse facilities supports research based around cellular and chemical biology, environmental biology and microbes and diseases.
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Using well developed workflows the LC-MS facility team can provide a high quality service to help you meet your LC-MS analysis needs.
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Environmental monitoring and impact analysis
The Centre for Energy and Environment (CEE) works in a range of interdisciplinary fields to help businesses become more sustainable.
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The DroneLab conducts customised drone surveys with state-of-the-art image processing for a wide range of environmental and geographical research projects. The lab is led by Dr Karen Anderson and based within the Environment and Sustainability Institute.
Renewable Energy has access to significant specialist resources and equipment applicable to the renewable energy sector, in addition to the majority of conventional engineering laboratory facilities, the electric power systems lab and the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI).
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We have specialist testing and development facilities for solar and renewable energy, which are used by our Solar Energy Research group and Energy Storage Research group.
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Humanities
Our archaeology facilities are used by researchers and students to analyse findings and artefacts from all over the world. Spaces include a bioarchaeoology lab, wet lab, clean lab and microscope room.
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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is a unique research resource used by external researchers from the UK and abroad. Any researcher is able to look at holdings from the collection in our reading room.
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Our £1.2 million investment into Digital Humanities has created a new lab and research space for the examination and preservation of important historical, literary and visual artefacts. The lab allows researchers to use high-tech equipment to find out more about our cultural heritage, examine in greater detail and share their discoveries with the public.
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Special Collections manages unique and distinct collections of archives and rare books.
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Marine and Offshore Energy facilities
The Dynamic Marine Component (DMaC) test facility is a purpose built test rig that aims to replicate the forces and motions experienced by marine components in offshore applications. The test facility is based within the Renewable Energy Research Group of the BetFiery at Penryn Campus, Cornwall.
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Our marine and offshore energy research facilities and equipment span a range of sectors and disciplines and allow us to carry out cutting-edge research. Facilities are available to staff and students, and include the Falmouth Bay test site (FaBTest), High Performance Computing cluster and our dedicated offshore research vessel.
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The offshore renewable energy group can support marine operations, mooring applications and reliability assessments for ORE applications through research assessing the ocean environment.
They can also assist you in simulating and analysing the marine load conditions (numerically and physically) and in undertaking in-field measurements to support oceanographic resource, engineering load or environmental impact assessments.
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The Smart Sound Plymouth partnership provides access to onshore facilities, including state-of-the-art laboratories and testing environments for small to large items of marine equipment. Specialist support in advanced materials and manufacturing is complemented by a suite of laboratories for electronics, fabrication, materials, structures and thermodynamics & fluid dynamics.
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Medical facilities
The NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility (NIHR Exeter CRF) improves patient care by increasing understanding of the causes of disease and improving diagnosis and treatment. The facility supports and conducts clinical research studies has highly trained ‘research dedicated’ nurses, scientists, doctors and support staff, plus outstanding research facilities including bespoke wards and consulting rooms, sample handling laboratories and specialist equipment for investigating exercise, physiology and metabolism.
The facility is run in partnership with the Royal Devon and Exeter Trust.
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Our clinical trials facilities evaluate current treatments, driving change and improvements in medicine. Our researchers belong to leading research units and institutes based across the University and NHS. Our Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) works in collaboration with researchers and clinicians in the design and delivery of high quality and efficient controlled trials and other well-designed studies, addressing important health questions.
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Our medical imaging facilities at St Luke's campus are used for both teaching and research, and include a purpose-built X-ray room, laboratory space and demonstration room.
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Funded by part of a £10 million donation from the Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation, the new Neuroimaging Centre will accelerate research and diagnosis of dementia and other neurological diseases.
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The two laboratories in Hatherly run by the Medical School are led by Professor Andrew Randall and Professor Robert Pawlak. These labs can also be used by businesses.
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The new NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is the first of its kind in the South West Peninsula. A partnership between the University and the NHS, the BRC will translate scientific discoveries into tangible benefits for patients. Find out more »
Testing and characterisation of materials
Experienced in working in partnerships with companies, other universities and government agencies, the Centre offers consultancy on all aspects of ALM. It is particularly focussed on solving material issues in ALM, working together with research partners at the boundary edge of current knowledge.
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At CALMARE we carry out research into the sustainable use of polymers and composites, investigating concepts such as the circular economy, biomaterials, recycling and remanufacturing.
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The chemical, imaging and mineralogical facility focuses on the analysis of chemical elements in inorganic materials, and in particular is aimed at geological materials. The wide range of spot and bulk methods available allows for comprehensive compositional and structural analysis of a variety of natural and synthetic compounds.
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X-AT are a multi-talented team dedicated to commercially minded research in advanced manufacturing and materials development.
They work with industry to bring you the latest solutions from quick telephone referrals to long term project commitments to make your organisation more successful. X-AT partners include Airbus and BAE Systems. X-AT works closely with the Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM).
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The Imaging Suite offers a full consultation service, from the initial project concept through to final delivery, and will work closely with you throughout the process.
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The Imaging Suite offers a full consultation service to internal, external and industrial clients in the field of materials characterisation for experimental applications at micro and nano scales. Includes materials testing, geotechnics testing, concrete testing and processing.
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Our multiphoton microscopy facilities can be used across all fields of biophysics for stain-free molecular imaging.
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Engineering and Physical Sciences
EXTREMAG is an ultrafast laser facility that offers its users low temperature and high magnetic field environments in a variety of time-domain magneto-optical pump-probe, microscopy, and terahertz experiments for the study of novel magnetic materials and devices across academia and industry.
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Our fabrication facilities include two clean rooms covering a total of 150 square metres housing lithography, etching, dicing and deposition systems for nanofabrication. We have worked successfully with commercial and academic partners and are keen to continue with further projects and collaborations.
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ISCA, the BetFiery's advanced computing facility, is used for a wide range of environmental intelligence research including climate modelling, computational fluid dynamics and modelling global air quality. For more information on ISCA please email the ISCA team >>.
The most advanced facility in the UK for vibration testing and analysis of large civil engineering structures, biomechanics. The structures laboratory is also the birthplace of commercialised research company Full Scale Dynamics Ltd
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VSimulators is a joint venture between the BetFiery, and Universities of Bath and Leicester, to develop facilities for multi-disciplinary research in human factors engineering. The VSimulators facility based at Exeter Science Park can recreate any environment either physically or virtually.
The collaboration is supported by an Engineering and Pysical Science Research Council (EPSRC) £4.8 million infrastructure grant.
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The wildFIRE Lab team aims to revolutionise our ability to estimate the flammability of past and present ecosystems, toward building an understanding of how evolutionary innovations in plants link to changes in fire, shaping the life that we see on our planet today. The lab is led by Professor Claire Belcher.
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