Harwell Campus is home to a wide variety of sports teams and clubs, served by a well-appointed sports pavilion and pitches. The campus also links up with the Ridgeway, a mixed-surface path that’s perfect for walking, running and cycling
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Our thriving campus community is growing every day, and interest groups are a great way to connect with new people. Engage with lively professional forums, join networking groups, socialise and attend events on and off campus.
Harwell’s Neurodiversity Group meet every few months in-person to share best practice and to get to know each other. The group is open to those based on and around campus and interested in learning more about neurodiversity. We’re open to the neurotypical, the neurodiverse, the undecided and the plain curious.
If you’re in the early stages of your career and would value meeting like-minded people on campus for social and professional gatherings and networking.
Connect Harwell’s bi-monthly events are open to all campus organisations and sectors
Part of the UK’s amateur rocketry community, the Harwell Rocket Group provides a collaborative, friendly environment for recreational rocketry.
Introducing our new Travel Hub, your go-to spot for easy travel solutions to and from campus.
Check live bus schedules and find alternative commuting options. You can also take advantage of our amenities, including toilets and showers equipped with hairdryers and straighteners.
For cyclists, we offer exclusive access to a secure area for bike storage and maintenance. Lock up your bike, use the maintenance stand and refill your water bottle.
Open Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 20:00.
You can find the Travel Hub here.
Employees at Harwell Campus can get an exclusive 25% discount on the South Oxfordshire Zone or cityzone & South Oxfordshire Zone products on the key and the Oxford Bus app.
This discount is available on the following tickets:
To download our guide to Harwell Campus bus services, please click here.
Didcot Parkway rail station is only 5 miles away, with direct services to Central London (Paddington) in under 45 minutes and Oxford City Centre in under 15 minutes.
Frequent bus services, taxi’s and bike hire are available to onward travel to campus.
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Our bike hire scheme is available to all Harwellians via the Donkey Republic app.
Available to use to and from campus, simply locate a bike via the Donkey Republic app and you’re good to go.
For a convenient and cost effective way of travelling to campus, how about taking part in our lift share scheme?
Bikes and E-bikes
Fast, green and safe – bikes are a great way to travel around Harwell. Our bike loan scheme is available to all Harwellians via the Donkey Republic app.
With 48 hours free usage, they’re ideal for quick commutes and leisurely lunch hours.
Autonomous Bus
Our autonomous bus service is a zero-emissions driverless shuttle. It runs morning to evening on weekdays, covering two routes: Fermi Avenue and Eighth Avenue, both via the ESA.
Shuttle passes are available for free to campus pass-holders and their registered guests.
Easily accessible by foot, bike, or bus Harwell’s facilities put you and your family first. Our 200+ companies and facilities include family health and medical services to childcare and salon treatments.
Resonate Hearing Centre offers comprehensive private audiology services for adults covering all aspects of hearing healthcare. Our services include ear wax removal using microsuction, irrigation and instrumentation, hearing tests, hearing consultation, prescription, and fitting of digital hearing aids. We also specialise in providing hearing protection for swimmers, motor bikers, for shooting activities and for those…
Preventative and rehabilitative physical therapies for sports injuries and musculoskeletal conditions, psychological therapy and coaching for mental health, performance and wellbeing.
The Post Office is located inside McColls on Curie Avenue, open seven days a week. You can stock up on basic supermarket items at McColls, or grab a quick lunch from the hot food counter.
Our on-campus accommodation is ideally situated for beamtime users and visiting researchers. With 123 fully-furnished rooms, WiFi, kitchen, and dining facilities, you can enjoy a comfortable stay, whether you’re working, resting or just visiting.
Our on-site nursery, Bright Horizons , is perfectly situated for Harwell employees, providing high quality childcare from 3 months to 5 years. And just off campus towards Didcot, there’s a choice of good primary and secondary schools for 4 – 16+ year olds
Based on the Harwell campus for over 15 years, Karen Ambrose is a McTimoney Chiropractor who specialises in treatments for people and animals. Find her practice on Curie Avenue.
Your New Smile (Harwell) Ltd provides private dental services and specialised treatments to the campus and wider region, replacing the campuses old dental practice. Located on Eighth St., the practice is open for general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, emergency dental services, dental hygiene, and facial aesthetic treatments.
Atomic Salon is an established hair salon offering bespoke treatments for all the family. Friendly and affordable, you can relax in the experienced hands of professionals.
The Member of the Future app is available exclusively for ARC members and provides everything you need to make the most of Harwell Campus. You can book classes or meeting rooms, enter competitions and find exclusive discounts. We’re improving the functionality all the time and will be adding add car park booking, visitor registration, shuttle timetables and access to space on our other campuses over the next few months. Scan the QR code or click below to download.
Clean, calm, quiet, and free from traffic. The green spaces within Harwell are a mix of landscaped areas and re-wilding zones. Reset with a head-clearing stroll around campus or take in the scenery by bike while you explore the area.
Bees
Happy bees are vital for a healthy environment. We have six buzzing hives on campus. Find out more in our Bee Diary
Biodiversity
In line with our commitment to increase biodiversity, we’ve designated specific re-wilding areas. The wildflowers that grow here will help our local fauna to thrive.
Relaxation space
Take back some time for you. Walking through wild, natural landscape is a great way to boost mood and cultivate well-being. Pond-gazing, forest bathing, cloud…
Harwell campus has acres of traffic-free open space where you can meet safely, and enjoy the surrounding greenery. Take a stroll around the campus or hire a bike and explore the area.
The Harwell Heritage Trail
Commemorating Harwell’s 75th anniversary, this is a 13 waypoint trail along a 4km circular route which will take approx. 60-90 minutes on foot.
Harwell 2km trail
Download the 2km trail, that takes you around the main part of campus.
Harwell 5km trail
The 5km trail is a little more challenging. It will take you around campus as well as into some of the surrounding areas.
Harwell 8km trail
The 8km trail leads around the perimeter of campus and up to the start of the ridgeway.
14th Apr
14:00 – 14:40 | Satellite Applications Catapult, Electron Building, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus,, OX11 0QR
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27th Jan
14:00 – 14:40 | Satellite Applications Catapult, Electron Building, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus,, OX11 0QR
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14th Jan
12:15 – 13:00 | Quad One, Bequerel Avenue, OX11 0RA
We’re delighted to announce that Harwell Book Club (in collaboration with…
