Stratford Campus
Further information: University of East London Stratford Campus The Stratford Campus is close to the 2012 Olympic Park. It is centred around University House, a 19th-century listed building. The campus is home to the School of Education and Communities, the School of Health Sport and Bioscience and the School of Psychology. The Centre for Clinical Education was opened in January 2008. Operating in partnership with the National Health Service, the centre is London’s only provider of podiatric education. In 2011 UEL appointed Make Architects to lead the design of a replacement library at the Stratford Campus. The project had a budget of £13 million and the library opened in June 2013.
Docklands Campus
The Docklands Campus, opened in 1999, is the largest of the three campuses, It is in the redeveloped Docklands area of east London, at the Royal Albert Dock, closed to commercial shipping since the 1980s and now largely used as a water sports centre and rowing course, for example for the London Regatta Centre. London City Airport is across the dock from the campus. The Cyprus station of the Docklands Light Railway is adjacent to the campus, and offers links to Canary Wharf and central London.
The campus was shortlisted for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Building of the Year in 2001. New student accommodation opened in 2008 and the campus now has 1,200 student rooms, together with shops, cafés and a restaurant, launderettes, and an open-air fitness suite. SportsDock, £21 million sports, and academic center, opened in March 2012 SportsDock served as the High-Performance Training Centre for Team USA during the London 2012 Olympic Games The campus library is housed in the Royal Docks Business School building.
