Facilities

Auditorium

Location:

Ground Floor RC/014

Seating: 125 people (tiered seating)

ARRC Auditorium

Calendar to check the availabililty of this room

Equipment:

  • Amplifier and speakers
  • Ceiling mounted data projector
  • DVD/video player
  • Electric projection screen
  • Fixed PC, keyboard and monitor with Windows XP, PowerPoint 2003 and internet access. Other software can be loaded on request. This is not a standard computing service supported connection.
  • Flip chart stand (paper not included)
  • Hearing loopLectern with equipment rack
  • Lecturers table and chair
  • Lectern microphone
  • OHP and trolleyRadio microphone
  • VGA video input, for connecting user-supplied laptop to data projector
  • Whiteboard (behind projection screen)
  • Wireless mouse

This room is free to book for members of the collaboration but a charge is made for all other bookings

Seminar rooms

Location:

Seminar Room 1 Ground Floor RC/010,

Seating: 30 people (presentation style only - for meetings numbers vary according to the required table set up)

Seminar Room 2 Ground Floor RC/004 (No equipment installed yet, only tables and chairs)

Seating: 40 people (presentation style only - for meetings numbers vary according to the required table set up)

Calendar to check the availablilty of these rooms Seminar 1 and Seminar 2 

Equipment: Seminar room 1

  • Ceiling mounted data projector
  • Electric projection screen
  • Flip chart stand (paper not included)
  • Foldaway meeting tables
  • Laptop with Windows XP, PowerPoint 2003 and internet connection
  • OHP and trolley
  • Whiteboard (behind screen)
  • Wireless mouse
  • Electronic Whiteboard
  • Telephone extension 1845

Data Collection Suite

Location:

Focus Room 1 First Floor RC/109, Focus Room 2 First Floor RC/112, Seating for 20 people

Interview Room 1 First Floor RC/108, Seating for 4 people, Interview Room 2 First Floor RC/110, Seating for 7 people

Cameras and microphones can be monitored or recorded from the Control Room (RC/111) pictured below.

Calendar to check the availablilty of these rooms  Focus Room 1, Focus Room 2, Interview Room 1, Interview Room 2 and Control Room

Control Room

Equipment in focus rooms:

  • Four wall mounted dome cameras
  • Two 4-way ceiling microphones
  • Electric projection screen
  • Foldaway meeting tables available
  • OHP and trolley
  • Whiteboard
  • Flip chart stand (paper not included)
  • Telephone extensions for Focus Room 1 1856 and Focus Room 2 1857

Equipment in Interview rooms:

  • Two wall mounted dome cameras
  • One 4-way ceiling microphone
  • Whiteboard
  • Telephone extension for Interview Room 1 1853 and Interview Room 2 1854
  • Please note there is no natural light in Interview Room 2
  • Note: Cameras and microphone can be monitored or recorded from the Control Room (RC/111)

Training lab/EXEC

Location:

First Floor RC/107

Seating: 32 or 16 (can be split into two rooms with fixed screening and booked separately or as a whole)

Calendar to check the availablilty of this room

The Department of Economics and Related Studies (DERS) manage the experimental economics lab. It encompasses making sophisticated data analysis equipment and software available to researchers and providing a computer data collection room.

Exec Lab Computers

Equipment:

  • Two ceiling mounted data projectors
  • Two electric screens
  • Two whiteboards
  • One presenter computer
  • 32 trainee computers
  • Radio microphone
  • Ceiling speakers
  • Telephones (x1865 and x1866)

Cluster

ARRC Data Analysis Cluster

Overview

Data processing and analysis facilities within ARRC are provided by a cluster of 27 application servers, each having 2 dual core Opteron 270 processors (4 processor cores per server). 23 of the servers have 8Gb RAM, 4 have 16Gb ram. All are running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64 bit and Citrix Presentation Server 4 Enterprise. The system is accessible via a web interface and Citrix client software from all machines on campus and globally from any machine that can establish a VPN network connection to York.

It is intended that the system only be used for processing tasks that personal machines either cannot handle or would be tied up with whilst processing. The system is designed so that processing tasks can be started then the user can disconnect their session and leave it running, subsequently reconnecting (from a different machine if required) when the process has completed. Many sessions can be run simultaneously.

Applications currently available:

64 bit:
Mathematica 7
Matlab R2006a
R 2.12
Stata 9
Stata 10
Stata 11

32 bit:
Eviews 6
Excel 2003
Gauss 8 + 10 Applications Bundle + Constrained Optimization + Constrained Maximum Likelihood
MLWin 2.02
NLogit 3
Openbugs 3.12
Oxmetrics Enterprise 5
R 2.9.2
Treeage Pro 2007 1.5
Winrats Pro 7

This system is for social science research use only and hence can only be accessed by staff and postgraduates from the ARRC member departments, which comprise the following:

CHE , CHP, CRD, Economics, Education, Health Science, Law, Politics, Sociology, SPRU, SPSW, YHEC, York Management School

A York username and password is required for access. To be registered for the system, a request must be submitted to the ARRC IT Manager, Mark.Wilson@york.ac.uk

Equipment

Equipment for use by all member departments is kept in the ARRC Admin office A/RC/003

The Office houses various items of equipment which can be accessed free of charge by ARRC members, a cost charge is made for printing paper, binding and laminating accessories. We also offer a priced service to undertake work such as printing, binding and scanning.  Please contact either Davita or Gill on 1458 or arrc-admin@york.ac.uk for further details.

Telephone recording equipment

  • The equipment can be collected from ARRC Publications Office (RC/003) to be used in your office on campus.
  • Alternatively a quiet room (Interview Room 1 or 2 - RC/108 or RC110) with a telephone line at TAC level 1 (International calls) can be booked to use the equipment in.

Canon Colour Photocopier

ARRC Members: details of how to print direct to the colour printer

  • colour copies
  • black and white copies
  • single or double sided
  • A4, A3
  • booklet facility
  • sort and staple
  • scanning facility for single or multiple page documents 
  • Black & white copy/print  1.5p per copy
  • Colourcopy/print 7.5p per copy

These are self service prices. An extra charge for labour will be added if the work is undertaken by the Publications staff (excluding CHE). All prices are inclusive of VAT.

Binding

  • Powis Parker Fastback Binder
  • Give your publications a professional finish with this easy and quick to use heat binder. Will perfect bind up to 200 sheets/400 pages per document.
  • Clear covers 40p each
  • Narrow strip 38p each
  • Medium strip 47p each
  • Wide strip 63p each

Laminating

Fellowes Laminator will take A2, A3, A4 or A5 sheets.

  • A4 pouch 13p each
  • A3 pouch 25p each
  • A2 pouch 62p each

Scanning

  • Canon photocopier for single or multiple page documents
  • A3 flat bed scanner  

Publications Work Room

  • Two screen computer with:
    • Adobe InDesign CS5
    • Fireworks 8
    • Corel Photo Paint 12
    • Dreamweaver

Miscellaneous office equipment

  • Guillotine
  • 2 hole/4 hole punch
  • Heavy duty stapler
  • Shredder
  • Fax machine