Living at Queens

For some ordinands the opportunity to move to Birmingham and live at Queen's provides the best way of engaging fully with the demands and intensity of the educational, formational and training that is available.

The key advantages for living on the campus are:

• Greater opportunity to encounter the myriad of opportunities that Birmingham has to offer for learning, and enjoyment. Living on campus enables you more fully to encounter an extraordinary variety of churches and Christian traditions; to encounter people of other faiths; to engage with the opportunities and challenges of mission and ministry in urban contexts. Having the Bullring, world class concert halls and theatres 10 minutes away, is added bonus!
• Greater opportunity to get to know and share with other students, including mission students from the wider world church. Although classes, meals and other occasions provide opportunity for meeting, encounter and friendship, living on the campus deepens this through the informal times in the common room, and other social events.
• Opportunity to develop relationships in a new home church and to learn and practice ministry in this setting. Birmingham churches provide a wide range of styles and opportunities, enabling those who live here to manage the transition between lay roles and the new roles of an ordained person in fruitful ways.
• Greater access to the library and other opportunities for learning in Birmingham. Many students cannot take full advantage of membership of University of Birmingham, its educational, recreational and cultural life; living on the campus makes this possible.
• For those with partners and/or children living on the campus can provide a supportive community of those on similar journeys, and the opportunity to travel this together.

A variety of different accommodation is available on the campus.

• For single students the normal accommodation is a study/bedroom with shared bathroom facilities.
• For couples the normal accommodation is a one bedroom flat, with kitchen, lounge and bathroom. The ordinands is given additional study space either in a separate study that must be made available to others at weekends, half-terms and vacations, or through a reserved place in the library, or in a shared study.
• For ordinands with children there is a range of two, three and four bedroom flats available. The ordinands is given additional study space either in a separate study that must be made available to others at weekends, half-terms and vacations, or through a reserved place in the library, or in a shared study.

All study/bedrooms are wired for high speed internet access. Much of the campus is also covered by wireless access, and it is planned that this will be extended to the residential flats as well.

The type of accommodation that is provided depends on availability and the level of funding provided by the sponsoring church or from other resources.