Facilities in the School of Global Studies
Browse the range of facilities, including labs, rooms and study spaces, to help you with your learning.
Spaces within Global Studies
The School of Global Studies is based in the Arts C building on the University campus. However, we also use spaces across the campus to teach different aspects of our courses. You can download a map of the campus to view where things are.
Global Studies Resource Centre
The Resource Centre in Arts C175 is a flexible space where students and staff in the School of Global Studies meet and work.
The centre provides:
- study and meeting space for individuals, groups and classes
- a small collection of reference and text books
- Anthropology, Human Geography, Physical Geography, International Development and International Relations undergraduate thesis titles
- MA dissertation titles
- examples of high-scoring dissertations are available in the Canvas sites for each dissertation module
- PCs, a scanner and a printer.
Opening times
The Global Studies Resource Centre is normally open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. If you would like to visit the Centre to check undergraduate thesis titles or MA dissertation titles, email global@sussex.ac.uk before you visit.
Geography laboratories
The Physical Geography laboratories are in the Chichester I building, offering a spacious and inviting environment. These labs are ideal if you’re doing a degree in Geography and Environmental Science, as you’ll find them near the Environmental Science laboratories.
They include:
- a large teaching laboratory
- four dedicated research labs
- specialised spaces for rock cutting, sieving and material storage.
Teaching laboratory
The Teaching Laboratory is used mainly by second-year students carrying out practical work and by final-year students carrying out project work.
Equipment includes:
- an incubator
- ovens
- furnaces
- wet-sieving facilities for measuring water-stable aggregates
- equipment for measuring Atterberg limits
- an atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS)
- a flame photometer
- portable water-chemistry equipment that students can use on field work to study water pollution
- a video display for connection to binocular microscope
- balances for weighing sediment and chemicals.
Research laboratories
The sediment preparation lab is a space in which peat and sediment samples can be examined and prepared for analysis, and clasts from diamictons and gravels can be measured. The lab also houses equipment for soil and rock-freezing experiments (miniature pore-water pressure transducers, linear voltage displacement transformers, soil-freezing boxes and a PC).
The sediment analysis lab includes:
- a laser-based Malvern Particle Sizer
- an X-ray-based sedigraph (for measuring sand, silt and clay contents of clastic sediment)
- a drip-type rainfall simulator for soil-erosion experiments
- a state-of-the art laser scanner for studies of soil and rock erosion and weathering rates
- a direct shear box.
The analytical Lab is used for microscopic examination of rock, soil, and plant and animal remains. It contains a Nikon microscope with camera attachment for pollen analysis and the examination of thin sections of rock and soil. There are also several binocular microscopes for examining Mollusca, plant macrofossils and ten binocular microscopes for teaching students how to identify fossil biological remains.
The rock weathering lab contains a Sanyo Environmental Chamber which can be programmed to specific temperature and humidity cycles and automatically controlled for rock-weathering experiments.
Equipment includes:
- point load apparatus
- abrasion equipment
- rock and soil impregnation apparatus
- rock and sediment tumblers.
Sieving room
This contains three sets of sieves (0.5 phi intervals) for teaching, four shakers for dry sieving and a mill for crushing soil and sediment. Physical Geography also shares equipment with Environmental Science, including a new computer-operated Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) and a Hach for water-chemistry analysis. An electron microscope is also available to physical geographers.
Other spaces near the School
There are other places on campus you can go to catch up with classmates, discuss ideas and meet new people.
The Library
Not far from the School, the Library is the main source of academic literature for the University.
Find out what the Library has to offer.
The Veg Bowl @ Dhaba
This cafe is a fully vegetarian outlet on the ground floor of Arts C. It also doubles up as an exhibition space for the School.
Find out more about the Veg Bowl @ Dhaba.