Locations
Cornwall Campus
Our Cornwall Campus is not just distinctive and intimate; it's not like any other campus you're likely to see either.
For one thing, living and studying in Cornwall is not like living and studying anywhere else, and the difference is more than a postcode. Cornwall has its own energy and feel; people tend not to end up here by chance, they come for a reason, and there are plenty of good reasons to choose from.
The smaller scale helps; year after year, students tell us how much they like being somewhere sufficiently intimate for them to see faces they recognise, to be recognised themselves, and to be on first-name terms with so many other students and staff. They tell us, too, what an amazing place this is to live, not just because it's the Cornwall they expect (beaches, beauty, sunsets, friendliness) but because it's the Cornwall that takes them by surprise (music, culture, energy, ambition).
Sharing a campus helps as well. Locally, it's known as Tremough, and we share it with University College Falmouth. This creates a vibrant, creative mix of students with science, engineering, humanities and arts backgrounds.
The environment and sustainability are important to us; they're the basis for a lot of the research undertaken here, and they feed - directly and indirectly - into all our degree and postgraduate programmes. Our new Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is now open: a £30 million interdisciplinary centre in a brand new BREEAM Outstanding* rated building, it brings together state-of-the-art resources with leading academics to pioneer cutting-edge research into solutions to problems of environmental change. It's not the only brand new facility about to open either. The £10 million Exchange is also now open. A striking extension to the Learning Resource Centre, it provides a range of distinctive new spaces suitable for 21st century learning. Find out more about the investments on campus by downloading our short guide: Creating a World-class University Campus, and visit the ESI pages to download more detailed information about its work.
My project is part-funded by Oxfam, and that made me realise that if Oxfam could see how good the expertise and facilities were in Cornwall, then obviously I could too ... And the lifestyle is amazing; I can escape whenever I want to, go to the coast, and I wouldn't want it any other way.
Sally Rangecroft, PhD, Physical Geography, 2012
