Alternative Spaces While PG Common Room is Refurbished

Work to refurbish the MHT building, creating new teaching spaces and a new learning lounge for students on the third floor, is underway. Once completed, the learning lounge is designed to maximise the student experience, and will offer a dedicated space to work and relax, as well as improve the layout of the floor.

While the Postgraduate Common Room on the 3rd floor is unavailable, we have complied a list of other spaces you can make use of over the summer period, most of which do not need to be booked:

Minerva Building:

  • 2nd Floor Social learning space, includes private booths with AV screens
  • 3rd Floor Social learning space, includes tables and chairs with computers, and screens between tables to create a more private area

Isaac Newton Building Atrium:

  • Private booths / soft seating for bringing your own device to work

Sarah Swift Building:

  • Atrium spaces with computers
  • Private booths with AV screens
  • Bookable meeting pods on two floors for bringing your own device

Joseph Banks Laboratories:

  • Social learning space on the ground, 1st and 2nd floors for bringing your own device

Charlotte Scott Building (College of Science students only):

  • Limited quiet study only space on the 1st floor. Access will be required via your swipe card, so if you wish to use this space, please contact Estates Support Desk and Suzannah Rollit from the College of Science.

Work on the Postgraduate Common Room in MHT will be completed by September this year in time for the start of the 2018/19 academic year.