The ROE Common Room houses a subsidised canteen, which operates at both coffee time (11.00am) and lunch time (12.30pm - 1.45pm) - the cost of a two-course lunch being about £3.00 . In addition, there is a student-run coffee club for afternoon tea (4.00pm). It is tradition for the 1st year post-grads to run this.
The Common Room is also the venue for informal coffee-time talks and formal seminars and has a continually-updated rack of preprints of papers from research institutes throughout the world.
A microwave is situated in the coffee club cupboard adjoining the canteen for use outside canteen hours. At present the microwave is unavailable once the Common Room has been locked and the alarm activated.