The Research Facilities Directory lists some of the research facilities and equipment at Imperial. Please note that this database is currently only accessible by those internal to Imperial College London.

Please email researchoffice.researchfacilities@imperial.ac.uk for any queries.

Quick Start Guides

These guides are not currently accessible. Please email researchoffice.researchfacilities@imperial.ac.uk for an accessible version.

Facility v Equipment

The term research facility encompasses a wide variety of capabilities, ranging from single items of equipment to a fully staffed cross-Faculty service. The Directory lists equipment and facilities separately and it is also possible for equipment to be associated with a particular facility.

Technique

To enable searching, all entries in the Directory have been assigned a primary and secondary ‘technique’, which could be defined as the scientific discipline or technical capability that the equipment or facility is predominantly associated with. This can be a difficult thing to describe, so some interpretation is required. As no pre-determined listing of techniques exists, this has been left to each facility to define, however this may be revisited in future.

Service Level

Facilities offer differing levels of service to users. In the Directory the following broad categories are used:

Service level Description
  Fully serviced  Full analysis is conducted by the facility on behalf of the user.
  Assisted  Support on hand to assist user, perhaps with prior training required.
  No assistance  Minimal assistance provided, perhaps with prior training required.
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Training

With exception for ‘Fully Serviced Facilities’, most facilities will require some form of training before users can access the facility, although the level and format of training will be different for every facility. To find out more, please contact the facility manager.

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