Research Centres
University Research Centres and Interdisciplinary Research Centres
To enhance the University's reputation for quality research output and research training and build strategic relationships with other academic insititutions, funding councils, government and the private sector, special status is awarded to prestigious centres which have clearly demonstrated their interdisciplinarity and have also substantially enhanced the University's research base and research income.
Centres A-B
Centre for Accounting and Corporate Governance
Centre for Advanced Powertrain and Fuels Research
Centre for American, Trans-Atlantic and Caribbean History
Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications
Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS)
Brunel Able Children's Education Centre (BACE)
Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing
Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies*
Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies (BIAS)*
Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics (BICGP)
Brunel Institute of Computational Mathematics
Brunel Institute of Power Systems
Brunel Macroeconomics Research Centre
Brunel University Random Systems Research Centre
Centres C-E
Centre for Child and Youth Research (CCYR)
Centre for Child Focused Anthropological Research
Centre for Citizen Participation (CCP)
Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging
Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
Centre for Contemporary Music Practice
Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology
Centre for Economic Development and Institutions
Centre for Electronics Systems Research
Centre for Empirical Finance
Centre for Energy and Built Environment Research
Centre for Engineering Dynamics
Centre for Research into Entrepreneurship, International Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Centre for Epidemiology and Health Services Research*
Centres H-I
Centre for Human Geography (CHG)
Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms (CIIDM)
Centre for Information and Knowledge Management
Centre for Information Systems Evaluation and Integration*
Centre for Information Systems Research
Centre for Intelligent Data Analysis*
Centre for International and Public Law
Centres L-P
Centre for Media Communications Research
Operations and Supply Chain Systems Research Centre
People and Interactivity Research Centre
Centre for Professional Practice Research (CPPR)
Centres R
Centre for Research in International Medical Anthropology
Centre for Research in Rehabilitation (CRR)*
Centre for Research into Entrepreneurship, International Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Centre for Research in Marketing
Centre for Research into Emotion Work and Employment Studies
Research Centre for Media Globalisation and Risk*
Centres S-Y
Screen Media Research Centre
Security, Human Rights and the Media
Centre for Sensors and Instrumentation
Brunel Centre for Sport Health and Wellbeing
Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance
Centre for the Study of Expertise*
Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology*
Wireless Networks and Communications Centre
Centre for Youth Work Studies (CYWS)*
Centre for Youth Sport and Athlete Welfare*
* denotes an Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Specialist Research Institutes
Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology Advanced solidification processes for metallic materials.
Brunel Innovation Centre Acoustic waves and allied technologies.
Brunel Institute for Contemporary Middle Eastern Music Middle Eastern composers and musicians
Health Economics Research Group Economic evaluation of clinical and health service technologies.
Institute for Bioengineering Science and engineering for space, health care and industry.
Institute for the Environment Tackling environmental problems in collaboration with industry.
Magna Carta Institute Analyse societies that balance personal freedom and authority.
Wolfson Centre Centre of Materials and Centre for Phosphors and Display Materials.
Experimental Techniques Centre Purpose built laboratories accommodating high resolution electron microscopes.
Graduate School
The Graduate School supports all Brunel Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers though the provision of a comprehensive skills development programme, workshops and networking events, research prizes and 24/7 study and social facilities.
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