Reinventing the Postgraduate Study Suite

Every year, our students tell us that the Library is their favourite study space on campus. We are therefore delighted to present a vastly expanded and refurbished study suite exclusively for postgraduate research students. This space both eases demand on existing Library spaces and offers our postgraduate students an exclusive space to work individually or together away from the studying masses.

We would like to thank all our postgraduate research students for their patience while we cleared and refurbished this space. It’s been a long few months for our most devoted users, who have been using temporary accommodation in our Meeting Room until it was needed to welcome international students. It’s been a long old ride, and we are very pleased to settle you all into your new home from home.

We hope you will enjoy the luxurious finishing touches and dedicated computing in this former staff office space. It has some of the most picturesque views of Ravelin Park anywhere in the Library. I should know, I once worked in that office, right where you will be sitting at the computers.

Finding the new Postgraduate Study Suite

If you are a postgraduate research student, you can access the suite through the main part of the Library (‘Area 0A’) by scanning your student card at the door. Here’s a map of the ground floor showing where you can find the new study suite, but please ask any staff member if you cannot find it – the building can look very different in person!

Staying secure

Please don’t let anyone else you don’t already know to be a fellow postgraduate research student follow you into the Postgraduate Study Suite without scanning their card to unlock the door. Anyone else who wanders in, puts their bag down and then wanders off again won’t be able to get back in to collect their things afterwards, and that would be a disaster!

What do you think?

We’d love to know how you find the new space! Please let us know – our feedback post box and staff are always happy to hear what you think and how we can improve.