The Arthur Lewis Building, which is named after the economist
Arthur Lewis, is part of the
University of Manchester's campus. It is located west of
Oxford Road and south of the
Manchester Business School
Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS) is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. One of the most prestigious business schools in the United Kingdom, it is also the second oldest in the UK, and pro ...
, nearly a mile from the centre of
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
,
UK. Construction was completed in 2007, when the building was given a
BREEAM
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), first published by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) in 1990, is the world's longest established method of assessing, rating, and certifying the sustainability of ...
'Very Good' rating.
Controversies
In early 2008 the building was at the centre of controversy regarding access by students to members of the academic staff accommodated within due to its swipe card policy. This system required taught students to either email their relevant tutor before meeting them, call them internally once at the building, or book an appointment online. In May 2008 the two schools in the building separately revised their access policies to ease access.
Floor-by-floor guide
The building is shared by the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) and the School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED).
See also
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University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
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Professor Carol Smart, co-director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life
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David Morgan (the sociologist that the Morgan Centre is named after)
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Professor Rane Willerslev, former Associate Professor at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
References
External links
University of Manchester, School of Social SciencesUniversity of Manchester, School of Environment, Education and DevelopmentUniversity of Manchester, School of Social Sciences, Granada Centre for Visual AnthropologyUniversity of Manchester, School of Social Sciences, Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life
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Buildings at the University of Manchester
Buildings and structures completed in 2007