Learning and study spaces

Replicating a hospital environment, our AUD$2.5 million clinical hospital ward is the perfect trainee tool for prospective nurses and midwives. The ward houses simulation rooms that mimic acute medical and surgical areas, a critical care area, and a paediatric area.

In addition to our hospital, our occupational therapy and social work laboratories provide scenario-based learning in realistic interprofessional settings. 

As the only university in WA offering an undergraduate pharmacy program, our model pharmacy provides the ultimate hands-on learning experience.

As a health  student, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake practical placements at our operational clinics around the Perth metro area. Apply your knowledge to real patients under the guidance of a qualified healthcare supervisor in the areas of speech pathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, dietetics and provisional counselling psychology.

The John Curtin Law Clinic gives you the chance to provide advice and assistance to clients in an authentic, professional setting, under the supervision of experienced legal practitioners. Practice areas include small business disputes, criminal law, social enterprise and law reform.

This student-run clinic offers real-world learning for students, who provide advice to clients under the supervision of experienced tax practitioners. Areas of advice include responding to Australian Tax Office (ATO) notices, reporting and filing requirements, penalties, assistance with completing a tax return and understanding rights and regulations.

Designed to replicate real classrooms, our industry-standard teaching spaces feature flexible layouts that facilitate connection and provide an authentic, hands-on learning environment, so you’ll graduate ready to teach the next generation of students.

As a health student, you’ll access preserved human and bone specimens, anatomical teaching models and resources in our anatomical suite. The suite includes six teaching laboratories, which can accommodate more than 200 students at any time.

The suite also includes a museum space, where you can see preserved human dissections and pathological specimens, as well as dissection laboratories for you to perform anatomical dissections and study the comparative anatomies of different animals.

Take a tour of our anatomy laboratory

Our certified physical containment level 2, or PC2 teaching laboratory, allows students undertaking lab-based courses such as biomedical science and laboratory medicine to analyse samples and report results in the same way as an industry laboratory. It features state-of-the-art equipment to help identify and classify bacteria.

Learn more about the PC2 laboratory 

GEEP is an innovative laboratory that features futuristic power-system concepts based on environmentally friendly, renewable energy technologies. Based on the types of renewable energy sources and how they are integrated and displayed, GEEP is unmatched in Australia, and will serve as a model for future renewable energy laboratories.

Find out more about GEEP

The Resources and Chemistry Precinct is home to Curtin’s state-of-the-art chemistry laboratory facilities. The precinct provides a world-class setting for an array of research activities ranging from fundamental ‘blue sky’ investigations, to those directly related to the biotechnology, chemical, minerals, energy and resources sectors. 

The Consumer Research Lab uses biometric methods, including mobile devices capable of tracking consumers’ cognitive, attitudinal, affective, and behavioural responses in real-time.

Our newly upgraded cyber security lab has been specifically designed for cyber security activities – the room is divided into two teams that enable students to simulate cyber-attacks and practise defensive strategies.