Key to the College’s overall strategy, to attract and retain the best Students and Fellows and to ensure excellence, is the Stephen Thomas Teaching and Research Centre which will occupy a new fourth floor of Cripps Court.
Key to the College’s overall strategy, to attract and retain the best Students and Fellows and to ensure excellence, as well as providing the best accommodation for our conference guests, is the Teaching and Research Centre which will occupy a new fourth floor of Cripps Court.
Physically the building itself will be improved by this addition, but there is much more to the creation of the Teaching and Research Centre than this. At present many Fellows work in rooms originally built for undergraduate accommodation and this is no longer acceptable if we really aspire to retaining our position of excellence. The Centre will therefore provide a dedicated, well-equipped working area for at least 17 members of the Fellowship together with much needed collective research facilities. It will provide professional tuition space, improve the learning environment for students and draw the Fellowship more closely together, reinforcing their sense of community within Queens’.
There will also be other major advantages to the completion of this project. Firstly, the development of the Teaching and Research Centre will enable more students to be accommodated in the precincts of Queens’. Secondly, it will ensure that we achieve a better balance of undergraduates and postgraduates to whom we can offer the full benefits of the community experience of living in the courts of the College. Thirdly, the Centre will include 18 new ensuite rooms available for both student and conference use.
The cost of the Centre is £5 million. We have planning permission and we have a start date of 2006.
Cripps Court, where the Teaching and Reasearch Centre will be constructed by the addition of a fourth floor
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