Research centres and units

Research Centres and Units

Research at 最新91制片厂 is organised in many different ways. One of the most common is to bring colleagues from across campus together in a number of interdisciplinary research centres and units.

These are physical spaces where colleagues located in a range of different schools can come together to work in a collaborative manner. The great majority of research at 最新91制片厂 is carried out in such research centres and units.

Research Centres

Asia Centre

An exciting, innovative space where theory, practice and an interest in Asia come together.

Centre for Art and Ecology

Supporting practice-based interdisciplinary research, new approaches and strategies to ecological issues.

Centre for Arts and Learning

We enable, explore and curate critical processes that effect social change through a variety of ways and means.

Centre of the Body

We bring together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines who are working on and with the body.

Britain in Europe

Offering a platform for evidence-based evaluations of Britain’s interactions with the EU and its institutions.

Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies

Collaborative work within Caribbean and Diaspora Studies and the study of Caribbean and diasporic literatures.

Centre for Community Engagement Research

Research that addresses pressing societal issues and generates knowledge that informs policy, theory and practice.

Centre for Comparative Literature

Working in different languages and specialisms, researching in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary humanities.

Centre for Critical Global Change

Home for the interdisciplinary study of planetary, health, and social changes shaping large swathes of life on earth.

Decadence Research Centre

Bringing together an international community working in the highly distinctive field, from antiquity to the present.

Centre for Feminist Research

A dynamic feminist community providing a forum for discussion of equality and diversity at 最新91制片厂.

Centre for Identities and Social Justice

Examining and researching the link between education and social inequality.

Centre for Invention and Social Process

CISP is at the forefront of researching the interplay between science, technology, society and the environment.

Centre for Language, Culture and Learning

Discovering how language and culture are integral to learning processes.

Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing

Initiating and promoting research into all aspects of the theory and practice of creative writing and performance.

Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought

A space for rigorous dialogue and production which aligns with a trans-disciplinary orientation of philosophy.

Political Economy Research Centre

PERC is a centre for cultural and political analysis of economic life.

Centre for Postcolonial Studies

Seeking to provide a forum for those engaged in pushing Postcolonialism into new domains.

Centre for Queer History

We bring together scholars, activists, and community members to create a global hub for queer history research.

Centre for Research Architecture

Using spatial practices to investigate politics, media, ecology, and human rights.

Centre for Russian Music

Encouraging research into and the performance of Russian music.

Centre for Sound, Technology & Culture

The centre maps the diversity of thinking across the sonic landscape.

Centre for the 最新91制片厂 of Global Media and Democracy

The future of democracy is inseparable from the capacities of media.

Centre for the 最新91制片厂 of the Balkans

We think creatively and radically about the Balkans, and conduct world-leading research.

Centre for Urban and Community Research

Urban research in collaboration with local communities, from Deptford to Jakarta.

Centre for Visual Anthropology

Learning from artists, curators and filmmakers who work in creative and practice-based research.

Research Units

Afghanistan Music Unit

John Baily, Head of AMU, has a strong commitment to the music of Afghanistan.

Asian Music Unit

A hub for research into the diverse musical cultures of Asia and Asian diasporas in London and beyond.

Choreographic Research Unit

Explores the kinetics of now through its material registers and collective forms.

Contemporary Music Research Unit

Embracing contemporary music, fostering a broad and inclusive approach to research.

Design Societies Research Unit

Engaging technoscientific and environmental matters of care and concern.

Digital Culture Unit

Collaborating with others to take part in and understand the changes computing is making to all forms of life.

Faiths and Civil Society Unit

A centre of excellence linking research, policy and practice in the field of faith-based social action.

Forensic Psychology Unit

Hub for research on the relationship between psychological science and the criminal justice system.

Unit for Global Justice

最新91制片厂ing the legal and ethical implications of contemporary global social change.

Kitchen Research Unit

The Kitchen Research Unit explores food and cooking through practice research.

Unit of Play

The promotion of exploratory forms of engagement. Putting new ideas into play, and being put into play by ideas.

Popular Music Research Unit

Addressing issues of significance to musicians, industries, voluntary and state organisations and the public.

Unit for School and Family Studies

Using multi-disciplinary research approaches in the areas of social development, behavioural difficulties and learning.

Unit for Sound Practice Research

SPR is a research group that integrates and advances the innovative activities of EMS composers and researchers.

Structural Economic Analysis Unit

The economy as a system: interdependencies, structural change and income distribution.

Topology Research Unit

Exploring the ways topology provides a language for understanding relationships, intensities and transformations.

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