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# Use our facilities

**Source**: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/doc/use-facilities
**Parent**: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation

We have a range of research, innovation and events facilities that bring together specialist equipment and staff and are available for researchers, organisations and businesses to access.

## Conferences and events

We offer a range of versatile venues on campus and in Leeds city centre for your events, and support from experienced events professionals. [Visit our Leeds Conferences and Events website](https://conferencesandevents.leeds.ac.uk/).

## HELIX

[HELIX is a learning innovation hub for students, staff and the local community](https://digitaleducation.leeds.ac.uk/helix/) which offers cutting-edge digital provision including immersive technologies, cutting-edge multimedia production studios and a physical makerspace.

## Research facilities

### Arts, Humanities and Cultures

[Future Fashion Factory](https://futurefashionfactory.org/)

[Leeds Insitute of Textiles and Colour](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-institute-textiles-colour/doc/facilities)

### Biological Sciences

- [Bio-imaging and Flow Cytometry](https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/facilities/doc/bio-imaging-flow-cytometry/page/1)
- [Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry](https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/facilities/doc/mass-spectrometry)
- Cryo-electron microscopy. [Email the Cryo-electron microscopy team via cryoEM@leeds.ac.uk](mailto:mailto:cryoEM@leeds.ac.uk) to find out more.
- [See more Biological Sciences research facilities](https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/71/facilities)

### Business

- [Behaviour Lab](https://business.leeds.ac.uk/about-us/doc/behaviour-lab): a suite of labs and spaces equipped with technology to observe and analyse human behaviour.

### Engineering and Physical Sciences

- [Institute of Process Research and Development](https://www.iprd.leeds.ac.uk/facilities/): bringing together experts from the fields of process chemistry and chemical engineering who work closely with the chemical industries
- [Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Centre](https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/facilities/3865/leeds-electron-microscopy-and-spectroscopy-centre)
- [Leeds Nanotechnology Cleanroom](https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/facilities/3876/nanotechnology-cleanroom): supporting research activities across the physical, biological and medical sciences.
- [National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems](https://robotics.leeds.ac.uk/)
- [Versatile X-ray Spectroscopy Facility](https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/facilities/3874/versatile-x-ray-spectroscopy-facility)
- [The Bragg Centre for Materials Research](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/bragg-centre-materials-research): a group of advanced facilities for growth, fabrication, analysis and characterisation of materials, supported by theoretical and modelling expertise.
- [See more Engineering and Physical Sciences research facilities](https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/facilities)

### Environment

- [Cohen Geochemistry Laboratory](https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/facilities-environment/881/cohen-geochemistry-laboratory)
- [Inductively Coupled Plasma Analysis](https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/facilities-environment/884/inductively-coupled-plasma-analysis)
- [University Smart Farm](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/global-food-environment-institute/doc/gfei-smart-farm)
- [National Pig Centre](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/global-food-environment-institute/doc/national-pig-centre)
- [Topographical surveying equipment](https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/facilities-environment/870/topographical-surveying-equipment)
- [Virtuocity](https://uolds.leeds.ac.uk/facility/virtuocity/): our facilities and expertise include pedestrian, driving, train and truck simulation, as well as vehicle emission technology.
- [X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Fluorescence](https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/facilities-environment/764/x-ray-diffraction-and-x-ray-fluoresence-xrd-xrf)
- [See more Environment research facilities](https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see-masters/doc/facilities)

### Medicine and Health

- [Clinical Trials Research Unit](https://ctru.leeds.ac.uk/)
- [Dental Translational and Clinical Research Unit](https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/facilities-medicinehealth/565/translational-and-clinical-research-dentcru)
- [Next Generation Sequencing Facility](https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/directory_record/1191/next_generation_sequencing_facility): a partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals to promote the rapid development of new methodologies through the sequencing of DNA and Ribonucleic acid (RNA) samples.
- [See more Medicine and Health research facilities](https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/dir/facilities-medicinehealth)