Spectra - the impact
Spectra is the new home for the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science. It opened to staff, students and the public in September 2024, in time for the beginning of the new academic year.
Bringing together the University’s physics, engineering and computer science departments, facilities, equipment and knowledge into one place for the first time, the £100m, five-storey building is the largest structure on the University’s College Lane campus following six years of building work.
An incredible, cutting-edge facility, Spectra is transforming the learning, teaching and research experience within the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for our students and staff, but also has the equipment needed for our academics to progress ground-breaking research.
It advances the University’s capacity to partner with local, regional and national businesses, particularly within aerospace, engineering, bioscience and other STEM areas, to support their needs, and together develop and innovate economically viable research and products.
The construction and equipment fit-out of Spectra was made possible by a group of generous funders and supporters. We are incredibly grateful to all of them.
Our Spectra Donors
Major Donors
Wolfson Foundation
Garfield Weston Foundation
Dinwoodie Charitable Company
Secomak Ltd
Muhammad Shahid Hanif, Khurram Akhtar, Programmers Force and Shufti Pro
Josephine Connell OBE DL
Sir Gerard Newman Scholarship Fund
KANE
Sir Brian May
Patrons
- Professor Mo Alavijeh
- Abeer Hassan Salem Al-Qaisi
- Joseph Chua
- Richard A Coleman
- Dr. Diane Crann MBE
- Professor Alan Davies
- Vincenzo De-Bellis
- Dr. Lynn Drummond FRSE
- Fulcrum Infrastructure Management Ltd
- Neel Ghai B.Eng (Hons), MSc (Eng Res), IEng, MRAeS
- Helen Goddard and Hollie Bacon
- Dr. Wei Ji Department of Computer Science
- Emeritus Professor Peter D Lines and family
- Professor Quintin McKellar CBE
- Oluwatoyosi E. Mohammed
- Ganapathipillai Natkunan (Civil Engineering 966–70)
- Terry Neville OBE UHFellow
- Rupa Patel
- In memory of Vimalkumar Dahyabhai Patel
- Psychreg
- Ajibola Tobi Lawal
- Heather Tymms
- Dr Jon Walmsley
- Scarlett Xiao
- Felix Zhu
Supporters
- Mayowa Adebanji
- Olusoji Solomon Adeyemo
- Ademola Akinpelu
- In Memory of David Lewis Aldred
- Modupe Temitope Allen
- Deaconness Daisy Amisu
- Mawa-Julia Bagate
- Aditi Balaji
- Steven Larry Dela Cruz Ball
- Kate Bellingham
- Tracey Braddick BSc (Hons), HPCA Chairman 1986–87
- Solomon Daniel Brown (ITMB BSc Virtūs et Honos)
- Dr. Keith Cameron
- Melissa K. Chinyemba
- Lee Song Choong
- Lionel and Thea Clarke
- Comet Road Army!
- John Cooper and Linda Keddie, Hatfield friends 4ever
- In Memory of Andrew Curl
- Heide Da Silva Rodrigues
- Dr. Giseli de Sousa and Dr. Jean E. Martina
- Dr. Carolyn Devereux
- M.A.H. (Marc) Dix, MSc
- Otylia Iyobosa Eguavoen
- Kim Everitt
- James L G Fiddy
- Philip G Fulton
- Malcolm Green
- GSS Piling Ltd
- Tony Harvey (Mechanical Engineering 1970–74)
- Julia Hubble
- Aamir Iftikhar and Poly Pack
- Pegah Janbakhsh
- Glen Kelly
- Zain Khan
- Kok-Keong Loo and Alison Loo
- Stephen K Lui
- Golrokh Mahdavi
- Luisa Masi
- Osama Masood (PAK)
- Professor Daniel McCluskey
- Alan Paul McGinlay
- Roy Mills
- Tony Monaghan (Computer Science 1970–74)
- Paul Morton
- Samuel Abam Nortei Nortey
- Christopher Notton BSc (Hons)
- Bob O’Brien (Computer Science 1978–82)
- Dr. Henry Okonu
- Ed Okungbowa
- Eseosa Olumeko
- Sir Patrick Otty
- Hardik Vimalkumar Patel
- Pratik Ajitbhai Patel
- Dr. Jeffery Quaye OBE
- Craig and Sophie Sears-Black
- Omini Sophia
- Dr. Steve Stott
- Thomas James Street (Ind. Eng. 1974–78)
- Kevin Taverner
- Sever Tudor
- Jon Urwin
- Adam Wasfi
- Dr. Martin Wheatman
- Dr. Stephen Clayton Whittle
- John Wilmot
- Arbaaz Zakir
- Joanne Zarb