Our research themes

We focus our research on providing real-world solutions to the big challenges that society faces. It's important to us that our work has an impact on the world around us, and can contribute towards making a real difference to people's lives.

We strive to make sure the work we do can be applied locally, nationally and internationally, ensuring that it has global impact.

Research centres

Our research centres all focus on tackling specific issues within the broad subject areas that we operate in, and staff are encouraged to work collaboratively wherever possible. This includes involving students as part of their studies and ensuring that our research findings help to form our curriculum to disseminate the things we discover from our work.

It extends further than that though, to encourage working with staff from different faculties and other universities, both in the UK and abroad. It's also essential that we are in close contact with industry, so we can work with organisations to help them overcome the hurdles they know they will face in the future.

Our research is clustered into research centres that are collaborative and cross-disciplinary, allowing them to draw on skills and expertise from across the university to engage in work that tackles research questions in a different way.

Research themes

Our research is based around five key themes, which we have identified as drawing on our existing areas of expertise in education, research and professional practice.

By focusing our efforts into specific areas, we can develop our disciplinary strengths while building interdisciplinary opportunities. Our research themes have relevance and impact across the world, harnessing our energies and focusing our work to inspire learning, advance knowledge and enrich society.