Our on-campus facilities are open and available for you to use, and we continue to provide support to our students as normal. We have a wide variety of laboratories, which offer you an extensive experience of scientific investigation and analysis.
All of our courses are being delivered using a blended learning approach, which means a combination of on-campus and online learning and teaching. On-campus activities across all of our courses will be those things which we believe are best delivered face-to-face, in terms of your learning experience. These activities will include laboratory and practical sessions, as well as small group tutorials and seminars.
To help keep the amount of time on-campus to a safe minimum, all courses are providing a range of interactive online learning activities, including pre-recorded and live-streamed lectures, group seminars, discussion forums, and tests aimed at helping you to track your own learning progress.
We are also providing opportunities for students to engage with one another online, to help you build and develop a strong learning community with your peers, as well as with your academic course teams. We believe that this is a core part of your university experience, and over the course of the year will be looking to work with students to find out how best to facilitate this sort of activity.
All students will also benefit from having a personal tutor, who will be in contact on a regular basis to check your progress, and offer guidance and support to help you with your studies.
The amount of time you will spend on campus will vary depending on your specific course, as some of our courses have a greater requirement for practical and laboratory work than others.
Please see below for further details around arrangements in place for each subject area:
Baking and Food Science
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. Our Bakery School facilities provide you with the best learning environments and prepare you for your future career. Our facilities include two bakery rooms, fermentation room, chocolate making and tempering machines and confectionary making room.
Theory-based sessions will delivered online, to ensure that attendance on-site is focused on helping you to learn, develop and master the core practical and scientific skills required to work in the baking industry, including the use of specialist industrial equipment which cannot easily be taught online.
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. We have invested heavily in new equipment so that our mix of multi-purpose and specialist laboratories offer you the space and latest equipment for analysis and research. LSBU’s purpose-built biochemistry laboratory is equipped with facilities for carrying out a wide range of chemical and biological tests.
Theory-based sessions will delivered online, to ensure that attendance on-site is focused on helping you to learn, develop and master the core practical and scientific skills required in this area, including the use of specialist equipment which cannot easily be taught online.
Forensic Science
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. Our forensic laboratories feature the latest analytical equipment, scanning including electron microscopy, gas and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry as well as a range of specialised optical microscopy and spectrographic techniques. Our crime scene flat allows you to develop practical skills and gathering evidence and is further supported by specialist evidence recovery labs.
Theory-based sessions will delivered online, to ensure that attendance on-site is focused on helping you to learn, develop and master the core practical and scientific skills required in this area, including the use of specialist equipment which cannot easily be taught online.
Psychology
We’ll be delivering seminars and small-group teaching for your course on campus. Our dedicated psychology laboratories support a wide range of studies, including observational research, biophysiological studies using equipment such as Biopac, and also eye tracking using a range of highly specialist equipment. Our Pub Lab has been set up to examine various aspects of drinking behaviour in an ecologically sensitive environment.
On-site learning activities will be focused on helping students to integrate their knowledge of the subjects being covered across their course, provide support and guidance for assessment, and help develop group working skills.
Sport
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. We have invested heavily in new equipment so that our mix of multi-purpose and specialist laboratories offer you the space and latest equipment for analysis and research. Facilities include the Human Performance Centre for performance testing and wellbeing and lifestyle assessments, the Sport and Exercise Science Research Centre - a range of cutting edge facilities and equipment to carry out research into various sport, health and nutritional areas, and the Functional Training Zone- a dedicated suspension training room featuring.
On-site learning activities will include some laboratory practical, and also sessions designed to help students integrate their understanding of the subjects being covered across their course, provide support and guidance for assessment, and help develop group working skills.
