Research-centres

Our research looks to the future of design and manufacturing, covering all the lifecycle stages for products, processes and systems.

Nourishing minds and hearts through psychological science.

CASE conducts world-leading research into advanced separations technologies, to make separating industrial products more efficient.

We support and conduct collaborative research in architectural studies from history and theory to design and practice.

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

We are taking research beyond the lab to develop a new generation of smart, flexible, robust and interconnected robotic systems fit for use in the real world.

We develop technologies to improve biomedical diagnosis, environmental monitoring, industrial bio-processes and our understanding of biological functions.

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

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 conduct innovative research and consultancy in sustainable building design and environmental engineering, including renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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

We conduct leading research and consultancy into geotechnical and water engineering, and how they impact on the design of physical infrastructure.

We conduct leading research, development and consultancy in the field of innovative and sustainable construction materials and technologies.

Our research focuses on all parts of the bioprocess from fundamental biology to industrial scale-up, addressing challenges in food, sustainability and health.

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.

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 study the environment of the Earth and near-Earth space and their effects on advanced technological systems

We develop innovative technical, commercial solutions underpinning smart homes/businesses, smart mobility and smart grids.

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

We transform innovation, arisen from basic research, to diagnostics and prognostics, medicines design and delivery, leading to personalised medicine.

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 develop and design innovative materials with unique properties to improve technological, structural and manufacturing products and processes.

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 are an interdisciplinary centre researching virtual and augmented reality technology.

We explore higher education innovation for global wellbeing.

We investigate the theoretical, computational and experimental modelling of heat transfer and fluid flow related to turbomachinery.

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