Senior Technician holding a glass flask containing a food sample in the analytical lab wearing safety goggles.

Inside the facilities: Your first year experience

See our world-class Super Lab and clinical skills suite

Sutton Bonington Campus offers a student experience that's as unique as our students are. The campus is home to world-leading laboratories and specialist facilities.

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Laboratories

Used by students across the school, the North Lab building houses:

  • clinical setting rooms, such as practice consulation rooms
  • a dietetic lab
  • the Peter Buttery Teaching Laboratory
  • research laboratories, including an analytical lab

Take a tour of the North Lab at Sutton Bonington Campus:

The North Laboratory facilities

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Also known as the Super Lab, the Peter Buttery Teaching Laboratory is used in practical teaching to carry out your own experiments. It contains:

  • 8 containment level 2 microbiological safety cabinets
  • 100 high powered microscopes with phase contrast
  • A NanoDrop microspectrophotometer 
  • CO2 incubators 

A quick walk walkthrough of the SuperLab on Sutton Bonington Campus.

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Food Science and Nutrition

Our food science facilities include:

  • a flavour lab
  • biomaterials lab, for looking at the physical properties of food
  • sensory science centre

The food processing hall is used by food science students for quality testing products. The Bioenergy and Brewing Science Centre has a fully functioning brewery which is used by postgraduate brewing students.

Have a look at our flavour lab, biomaterials lab, sensory science centre, processing hall, and quality control lab:

Food Science lab facilities

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Animal and Agriculture

The Centre for Dairy Science Innovation (CDSI) uses the latest technologies to increase the productivity and health of cows.

This centre offers the latest research technologies and expertise in Dairy Science, Dairy Herd Health and Welfare and Dairy Food Science.

Find out about the Centre for Dairy Science Innovation:

The Dairy Centre

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We have a number of plant and crop growth facilities including:

  • over 1800m² glasshouse and polytunnel growing space used for undertaking work in seed bulking, plant nutrition and plant physiology
  • growth rooms where we can control factors such as light, humidity and CO2 levels
  • the Hounsfield Facility, where 3D x-ray imaging reveals the hidden half of plants
Biosciences researcher reviewing plant growth

The Hounsfield facility

With over 1000 acres of land, our University Farm provides facilities for teaching and research. We produce:

  • over two million litres of milk per year
  • lambs from a grass based grazing system
  • a range of field crops, including milling and feed wheats, oilseed rape, maize, beans and triticale
Sutton Bonington farm

Sutton Bonington farm