Find a place to study on campus
Source: https://student.sussex.ac.uk/your-studies/spaces Parent: https://student.sussex.ac.uk/international/visas
Discover locations where you can work, heat up food, make a hot drink or unwind between sessions – as chosen by Sussex students.
Spaces you need to book
You can book study rooms in the Library.
Spaces available include:
- 10 Group study rooms on the First Floor
- three Accessible study rooms on the Ground Floor
- two Height Adjustable desks on the Ground Floor.
Book a study space in the Library.
Book a Seascape room in the Student Centre for private study on weekdays from 6pm-9pm.
Booking a room for events
There are different ways to book a room on campus depending on what you would like to use the room for. We need at least seven days to process room booking requests.
If you’re holding an event and you’d like to book a space on campus, contact:
- IDS Bar at cateringrequests@ids.ac.uk
- Eat Central at sussexunifoodhub@chartwells.co.uk
- Northfield Social Space at spacewithus@sussex.ac.uk
- the Sport Centre - they take booking requests at the reception desk.
If you're looking to book a:\ \
- teaching space, like a room for your viva as a PhD student, contact your school office
- space for your society or club, book a room with the Student's Union.
Spaces you don’t need to book
If you’re looking to do some extra work, general reading or some quick admin, there are many places to try.
Near the Library, look at:
- Arts A – Media, Arts and Humanities Resource Centre has open access spaces with PCs and screens (formerly Language Learning Centre)
- Arts A – ground floor study nook (outside MAH reception)
- Arts B – B144 adjacent to foyer social space
- Arts B – Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities social space (level 2, B217)
- Arts C – Global Studies Resource Centre
- Silverstone – ground floor SB112
- Silverstone – social space (level 3)
Around the Meeting House, check:
- Pevensey I – foyer
- Pevensey I – common room
- Shawcross – open areas
- Meeting House – quiet room.
Near East Slope, you have:
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School – foyer
- Freeman – common room
- John Maynard Smith building – Robert Whittle social space.
Around Bramber House, you can go to:
- The Student Centre – the go-to place for advice and guidance and to catch up with friends
- Essex House – seats on ground floor
- Fulton – ground floor sofas
- Jubilee building – study pods
- Bramber House – second floor foyer.
- York House
Social spaces
There are many settings where you can socialise. As well as the range of cafes and restaurants on campus you can try the following areas:
- Meeting House
- Falmer House – common room
- Falmer House – Room 76 café
- The Bridge Social Space - between Pevensey I and Pevensey II
- Freeman – common room
- Silverstone – social space (level 3)
- Arts A – pond benches.
- Arts B – Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities kitchen, level 2 (B214)
Microwaves and hot water
If you want to heat up your own food or make your own hot drink, you can use facilities in:
- Arts C – Global Studies kitchen, level 3
- Falmer House – USSU common room, second floor
- Freeman – common room
- John Maynard Smith – Robert Whittle social space
- Jubilee – student kitchen
- Library – cafe area on the ground floor (there’s a microwave in the main atrium, and another microwave and hot water tap in the former bookshop)
- Meeting House – shared kitchen
- Pevensey I – common room
- Student Centre – Heat and Eat area
Tip: The Meeting House supplies tea at a minimal cost.
In addition, there are microwaves in:
- the Students’ Union Shop at Falmer House
- Arts B, on the top floor
- the Muslim students’ prayer room (entrance code needed).
If you just need hot water, you can go to the:
- common rooms in Silverstone
- Geography department within Chichester I
- kitchenettes on the first and second floors in the Fulton building.