Floor Plan
Disabled access
High Quality
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The Courtyard
restaurant and dining area
The Research Beehive is fully accessible
to disabled visitors with access clearly
directed from the ground floor main
entrance. The Beehive also has fully
trained staff to assist in an emergency.
Enhancing the superb facility further is a 140seater bistro-style restaurant and café bar ‘The Courtyard’. Situated on the ground floor it
provides an excellent array of high quality hot
and cold dining as well as a good range of light
refreshments and beverages, and delivers an
excellent selection of conference buffets direct
to the Research Beehive.
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Open to all, it is also ideally suited to cater for events taking
place in the Beehive. There is a licensed bar and lounge
area adjacent, all under the management of the Director of
Residences, Catering and Conferences. For more information
on menus and opening hours visit:
www.ncl.ac.uk/business-directorate/beehive
Well Connected
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Situated at the heart of the university campus,
and only two minutes’ walk from Newcastle’s
bustling city centre, delegates have access to a
truly flexible range of facilities and easy transport
links: Haymarket Metro Station, (2 mins), Central
Station (15 mins), Airport (30 mins).
• Experienced team of chefs
• Range of delicious hot and cold dining options
• Superb range of light refreshments
• Personalised menus to suit
• Licensed bar area
• Competitively priced
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Seminar Rm 2.22
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Old Library Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Seamless Presentations
There are four flat seminar auditoria which cater for a range of delegations from
14 to 150 delegates. Seminar-style seating and an excellent array of advanced
audio visual equipment supported by traditional OHP, whiteboard and flipchart
equipment makes for impressive and effective presentations.
Motivational
The Research Beehive’s range of smart, stateof-the-art conference facilities are equipped
with the latest technology and grouped
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The Research Beehive at Newcastle University
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Major national conferences
Research Away Days
Presentations from/or to major sponsors
Major project meetings
Business outreach events
Cross-Faculty research development seminars
Training programmes for postgraduates
and research staff
Superb Hotdesk Facility
Multifaceted
The facilities are complemented by an innovative ‘hot-desk’ area on the
second floor, specially designed for group working or ‘virtual office’ space
for conference delegates.
Three floors of fully climate-controlled
accommodation house a suite of state-of-the-art
seminar rooms, equipped with the latest
technology to deliver a self-contained hive
of ‘ideas space’ with four seminar auditoria
catering for a range of delegations from
14 to 150 delegates.
A Hub for
Knowledge Sharing
Providing a flexible and stylish mix of space and services for
research-related conferencing in the University campus, the
Research Beehive is a key investment in the university’s
interdisciplinary research strength.
Offering novel possibilities for new ways of working together, the
Research Beehive delivers a stimulating environment of dedicated
space for research staff and postgraduates to meet, generate
ideas, foster networks, develop new projects and socialise.
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Spacious Room Layouts
For smaller conferences and
training seminars the following
rooms are recommended.
Rooms 2.21 and 2.22 accommodate theatre-style seating for 100 and 50 delegates
respectively. Combined as a single space, they seat 150 and can be separated by
retractable doors: Chairs with writing tables are set-up seminar-style.
Research Beehive Room 2.21
Research Beehive Room 2.22
Research Beehive Room 2.29
Research Beehive Room 2.20
Important:
Capacity: 100 theatre-style
Capacity: 50 theatre-style
Capacity: 90 theatre-style
Capacity: 50 theatre-style
Equipment:
• Data projector
• Networked PC (login required)
• DVD/VHS player
and sound system
• AMX Touch Screen control
system for most AV functions
• Interactive LCD Monitor
• Lapel microphones
• OHP and screen
• Mobile whiteboard
• Flipchart stand
Equipment:
• Data projector
• Networked PC (login required)
• DVD/VHS player
and sound system
• AMX Touch Screen control
system for most AV functions
• OHP and screen
• Mobile whiteboard
• Flipchart stand
Equipment:
• Presentation dais, lectern and
equipment enhanced for disabled
users with split level whiteboard,
and low level switches
• Data projector
• Networked PC (login required)
• DVD/VHS player and
associated sound system
• AMX Touch Screen control
system for most AV functions
• Interactive Hitachi LCD
Monitor (training required)
• Lapel microphone for
voice reinforcement
• Double column whiteboard
• OHP and screen
• Flipchart stand
Equipment:
• Data projector
• Networked PC (login required)
• DVD/VHS player and associated sound system
• Easy to use control system for projector
• Interactive whiteboard (training required)
• OHP and screen
• Dry wipe whiteboard
• Flipchart stand
• Laptop connection is available in all rooms.
• 35mm slide projection is NOT available in the Beehive rooms.
• It is not possible to install your own software on any of the PC’s.
Research Beehive Room 2.23
Capacity: 14 board-room style
Equipment:
• Manual projection screen
• Whiteboard
• Bookable data projector
Computer Specification:
• RM 2.8GHz processor, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb HDD,
3.5” Floppy disk drive, 250Mb ZIP disk, DVD/CDRW,
Front USB ports for memory drives.
• The PCs are connected to the campus network and run
the “common desktop” bundle of software. Windows XP
Professional operating system, MS Office 2003 with the
usual packages e.g. PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access etc.
• Other software includes Windows Media Player, RealOne
Player, Internet Explorer, MS Outlook etc.