Facilities
Housed in a beautiful location on the banks of the Menai Strait, the School provides excellent teaching and research facilities with extensive laboratories.
Watch our Labs and Facilities video for a taste of what we have to offer.
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Details of our facilities and equipment:
Physical Activity for Health and Wellbeing Centre (Canolfan PAWB Centre):
- Teaching Lab - a large new teaching lab allowing for more hands-on testing by students;
- Two exercise physiology testing and rehabilitation research laboratories.
Other Facilities:
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Two research physiology labs including:
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an environmental chamber - to measure reactions when a body undergoes extreme conditions. Temperature can be varied up to 40º and down to -20º, plus 5-95% variations in humidity at temperatures above 10º;
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an altitude/hypoxia chamber – allows manipulation of the environment from 21% oxygen (0 m/sea level) to 7% oxygen (8,000 m). It controls temperature and humidity accurate to 0.1oC and 1%, respectively. The School also has two portable units with a tent system to allow 'at home' altitude training, sleeping and acclimatisation.
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Cardiovascular and psychophysiology testing laboratories;
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Psychology testing labs for computer-based testing of psychological processes and a social psychology/live-in laboratory;
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Psychomotor experimental rooms and 3D motion analysis laboratory - equipped with a 12 camera passive marker system to video for analysis of whole body movement, and an active marker system to allow for the videoing and analysis of smaller, part body movements;
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Biochemistry and cell biology laboratories;
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a water immersion laboratory;
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a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanner - to provide measurements of tissue composition and seen as the gold standard for measuring body composition.
Also on site are library facilities, computing rooms, 'The Bistro' snack bar and sports centre.
