Arthur Lewis Building

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, nearly a mile from the centre of Manchester, UK. Construction was completed in 2007, when the building was given a BREEAM 'Very Good' rating.^[1]

Arthur Lewis Building
The Arthur Lewis Building
General information
Type	Academic
Location	Manchester
Coordinates	53°28′1.56″N 2°14′8.88″W
Construction started	2006
Completed	2007
Owner	The University of Manchester
Design and construction
Architect(s)	The Fairhursts Design Group
Structural engineer	Buro Happold
Services engineer	DSSR
Quantity surveyor	Capita
Main contractor	AMEC

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.^[2] In May 2008 the two schools in the building separately revised their access policies to ease access.^[3]

Floor-by-floor guide

The building is shared^[4] by the School of Social Sciences (SoSS)^[5] and the School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED).^[6]

Floor	Offices
Ground floor	SoSS Undergraduate Admissions Office[7] SoSS Undergraduate Support Office[8] Shared teaching rooms SoSS Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology library, edit suite, viewing room and technician[9] Shared PGT study suites and Resources Centre SEED laboratories Staff showers Arthur's Brew Café[10] SoSS Head of School and Head of School Administration
First floor	SEED - Geography,[11] Institute for Development Policy and Management[12] and Planning and Landscape academic staff[13]
Second floor	SoSS Administration and Resources Suite (Research Office, Finance Office, Resources Office) SoSS Postgraduate Admissions Office[14] SoSS Postgraduate Support Office[15] SoSS Social Anthropology[16] SoSS Economics[17] SEED Student Information[18] SEED Administration[19]
Third floor	SoSS – Economics[20] SoSS – Sociology[21] SoSS – Morgan Centre[22]
Fourth floor	SoSS – Philosophy[23] SoSS – Politics[24]

See also

• Environment portal
• Feminism portal
• Geography portal
• Politics portal
• Economics portal
• Society portal
• Law portal
• philosophy portal

• University of Manchester
• Professor Carol Smart, co-director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life
• David Morgan (the sociologist that the Morgan Centre is named after)
• Professor Rane Willerslev, former associate professor at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology