Facilities: A campus for the future

Our School has a range of state-of-the-art facilities for its teaching, research and conferences, both in the Aberconway Building and in the adjacent Julian Hodge building.

The Trading Room

Sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government,OSTC and Eurex, Cardiff Business School's Trading Room provides students with the opportunity to gain the practical skills required for life at the Stock Exchange.

The Room is open to all students at the Business School and aross the wider University, supervised by trained PhD students who help the students get to grips with the new technology.

It is used to teach students on the BSc Accounting and Finance programme and BSc Economics and Finance programme and new modules are being introduced to incorporate it into the Masters portfolio.

Students are invited to undertake the Thomson Reuters Certification qualification, offered free of charge to participating students.

Room spec:

• 16 workstations
• Thomson Reuters and Trader X technology
• Access to the latest market data (15 minute delay)

The Aberconway Building

The Aberconway Building incorporates teaching facilities and the offices of all Business School academics. Its facilities, in brief, incorporate:

• A 300 seater lecture theatre with full AV facilities
• A 100 seater lecture theatre with full AV facilities
• 42 seminar rooms with full AV facilities. 5 rooms are equipped with Interactive Whiteboards, 3 with Interactive Sympodia.
• 4 IT training suites.
• A Language Laboratory for the support of our Japanese Studies programmes, sponsored by Toshiba International
• Refectory Facilities

The Julian Hodge Building

Adjacent to the Aberconway Building is the Julian Hodge Building, one of the University's flagship developments. The Julian Hodge Building incorporates:

• A 460 seater lecture theatre with state-of-the-art AV facilities and full disabled access
• A number if IT training suites
• 24 hour access
• One self service restaurant and the JHB cafe

The Aberconway Library

The Aberconway Library was fully refurbished in 2007, following £300,000 investment. New facilities include 24 hour book returns systems, silent study areas and informal browsing areas with the day's newspapers and plasma screens broadcasting major news channels.

More information about the Aberconway Library