OUR CAMPUSES
Harcourt Hill Campus is home to a range of humanities and sports teaching. The original Westminster College, founded in 1851, has had a home at Harcourt Hill since the 1950s and merged with Oxford Brookes University in 2000. The Westminster Hall student residence also sits on the campus, alongside sports facilities, including a swimming pool. Wheatley Campus became part of the then Oxford Polytechnic in 1975. Over recent years, the campus has seen investment in engineering spaces and in 2017 saw further investment in key student and staff areas, including the creation of a new gym. Swindon Campus opened the newly refurbished Joel Joffe building in August 2016, almost two decades after the University first had a presence in the town. The Joel Joffe building provides clinical skills labs in a modern teaching location.
Our future plans At Oxford Brookes we are continually investing in our campuses. Over the next ten years we are spending £220m to create further inspiring spaces for our staff and students. The plan sets out a significant programme of refurbishment along with some new build, and will see some of our academic and professional services activity moving to a different campus. Over the next few years all Wheatley-based courses will move to Headington Campus, while courses in humanities, social sciences and some sports courses are set to move from Headington to Harcourt Hill Campus.
Oxford Brookes University operates on three campuses in Oxford: Headington, Harcourt Hill and Wheatley, with a smaller campus in Swindon, focused on nursing education and operating department practice. Headington Campus comprises three sites. The Headington Hill site is set in mature parkland and home to Headington Hill Hall, a 19th century former manor house. A 15-minute walk away, the Marston Road site is a hub for healthcare teaching on the campus. The flagship £132m John Henry Brookes Building opened on the Gipsy Lane site in 2014. Winning a number of awards, it has transformed the experience of students and the wider University community. It houses the main central services at Headington, including the library, social study space, student support services, catering facilities and Brookes Union. The most recent phase of investment saw the Business School relocated to refurbished premises at the end of 2017. Brand new teaching spaces and industry-standard science laboratories also opened in 2017, alongside landscaping of external spaces, and the new Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall.
You can find out more about our estates strategy and capital projects at our Space to Think page.
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