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Facilities

York has a number of externally-available facilities, including laboratory, engineering, studio and performance spaces.

About the facilities

  • Bioscience Technology Facility
    provides access to state-of-the-art bioscience technologies for academic and commercial use
  • Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage
    provide cutting edge innovation, creativity and analysis of historic centres, modern structures and contemporary cities as well as future typologies and technologies for sustainable, safe and healthy cities. 
  • Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry
    provides access state-of-the-art mass spectrometry instrumentation and expertise
  • Chemistry analytical facilities
    provides advanced analytical techniques, including NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) and electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM), along with bespoke solutions and expert advice
  • CoSTAR Live Lab
    supports the creative industries by bringing together advanced sound and visual systems with cutting-edge tools
  • Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence
    offers opportunities to research, promote, develop and implement green solutions
  • ISA facilities page
    combines a range of experimental laboratories in robotics, advanced communications and quantum technologies, providing indoor and outdoor research and test spaces for autonomous systems operating on the ground, underwater and in the air
  • Music Research Centre
    supports creative research into the use and application of technology in music
  • Smart Data Donation Service
    design and build both the technology that allows people to donate their data securely, and also the technology that helps researchers use that data properly
  • Wolfson facilities
    has a suite of state of the art analytical instrumentation designed for measuring the trace composition of the atmosphere
  • York JEOL Nanocentre
    offers a facility for electron microscopy, nanoscience and nanolithography
  • York Neuroimaging Centre
    offers a facility for investigating human brain function using non-invasive imaging techniques