Research-centres

Nourishing minds and hearts through psychological science.

We research the strengths and challenges experienced by autistic people, to facilitate full and active involvement within society.

We address the grand challenges in human health and wellbeing through transdisciplinary and translatable bioengineering research.

Rethinking business in a sustainable society; providing the evidence base to get there

We carry out research to better understand and combat the impact of extreme weather events on our natural and built environments.

We research the drivers of conflict and the individual and collective responses to them, paying particular attention to those who are rendered most vulnerable

CDAS is an internationally recognised research centre focusing on the interdisciplinary social aspects of death, dying and bereavement.

We explore meanings and ways of decolonising knowledge in academia. We explain and challenge Eurocentrism, and fight individual, institutional & systemic racism

Our interdisciplinary and collaborative researchers engage with international development policy and practice.

We are providing industry with the technologies, materials, tools and skills to achieve a truly sustainable manufacturing sector.

We deliver high quality research that has real-world impact on the safety and welfare of athletes across all levels of sport.

CHI² leads and explores multidisciplinary research into health and care systems, and ways to improve them.

We are developing the novel materials, innovative structures and sustainable processes needed to solve major environmental, societal and technical challenges.

We translate living systems into mathematical models in order to make quantitative predictions and inform biological experiments.

We focus on the study and application of motivation. We aim to understand the determinants of wellness and health, and guide behaviour-change interventions.

We are an interdisciplinary research centre bridging science and engineering.

We explore the social, political, economic and ecological impacts of resource extraction both locally and globally using cross-disciplinary engagement.

An interdisciplinary research centre for the modelling and analysis of complex interacting systems.

Exploring real-life problems with nonlinearity at their heart, using tools from analysis, modelling and computation.

We seek to understand the impact of nutrition and exercise on human physiology and metabolism.

Exploring pain. Finding new ways forward.

World-leading research in the science and technology of light.

We lead research in fluid power, actuation, and the dynamics and control of electro-mechanical systems. We also run CPD courses and offer consultancy services.

We are dedicated to exploring imprisonment and other forms of coercive confinement from the perspectives of those that live and work in carceral environments.

We foster research, training and education, and industry collaborations through qualitative research.

We offer global research leadership in regenerative design and engineering, co-evolving solutions with societal, cultural, ecological, and economic co-benefits.

An interdisciplinary global network of researchers exploring education and education-related fields in China and East Asia.

Exploring how enterprising individuals and organisations use innovation to create value.

Our research expertise is in warehousing and logistics applications. We focus on developing methods for improving operations management and decision making.

We are connecting, enhancing and expanding research in energy networks, bio-based energy, offshore renewables, life-cycle assessments and more.

An interdisciplinary research centre critically engaged with the evidence, design and evaluation behind policy development across a range of major social issues

Our aim is to provoke fresh thinking about how violence operates in the modern world and the ways to challenge and overcome it.

We are a group of researchers exploring how work is changing, and will continue to change, with new technologies, attitudes and ways of working.

We are a multidisciplinary research centre with a focus on high-quality research on identity.

We are a unique, cross-faculty research centre bridging biology, health and education.

The research of Prob-L@B spans the whole of modern probability, including models motivated by questions from other areas of mathematics and science.

We explore higher education innovation for global wellbeing.

WIRC provides a unique environment to engage globally in research and policy on water technologies and resource management.