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
Advanced Bioprocessing Centre (ABC)
Accounting and Auditing Research Centre (AARC)
Centre for Accounting and Corporate Governance (CACG)
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 (CARISMA)
Centre for Anthropological Research on Childhood, Youth and Education (CARCYE)
Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS)
Brunel Able Children's Education Centre (BACE)
Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing (BCCW)
Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS)*
Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies (BIAS)*
Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics (BICGP)
Brunel Institute of Computational Mathematics (BICOM)
Brunel Institute of Power Systems (BIPS)
Brunel Macroeconomics Research Centre (BMRC)
Brunel University Random Systems Research Centre (BURSRC)
Centres C-E
Centre for Child and Youth Research (CCYR)
Centre for Citizen Participation (CCP)
Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging (CCN)
Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance (CCDP)
Centre for Contemporary Music Practice (CCMP)
Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology (CCEP)
Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI)
Centre for Electronics Systems Research (CESR)
Centre for Empirical Finance (CEF)
Centre for Energy and Built Environment Research (CEBER)
Centre for Engineering Dynamic (CED)
Centre for Research into Entrepreneurship, International Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets (CEIBIEM)
Centre for Research in Marketing (CREAM)
Centres G-I
Human Centred Design Institute (HCDI)
Centre for Human Geography (CHG)
Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms (CIIDM)
Centre for Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Centre for Information Systems Evaluation and Integration (ISEing) *
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 (OASIS)
People and Interactivity Research Centre
Centre for Professional Practice Research (CPPR)
Centres R
Centre for Research in International Medical Anthropology (CRIMA)
Centre for Research in Rehabilitation (CRR)*
Centre for Research into Entrepreneurship, International Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets (CEIBIEM)
Centre for Research in MarketinG (CRM)
Centres S-Y
Screen Media Research Centre (SMRC)
Security, Human Rights and the MediA (SHRM)
Centre for Sensors and InstrumentatioN (CSI)
Brunel Centre for Sport, Health and Wellbeing (BC•SHaW)
Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance
Centre for the Study of Expertise*
Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology (CSSB)*
Water Sustainability Research Centre (WSRC)*
Wireless Networks and Communications Centre
Work and Organisation Research Centre (WORC)
Centre for Youth Work Studies (CYWS)*
* 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 Bioengineering Science and engineering for space, health care and industry.
Brunel Institute for Contemporary Middle Eastern Music Middle Eastern composers and musicians
Experimental Techniques Centre Purpose built laboratories accommodating high resolution electron microscopes.
Health Economics Research Group Economic evaluation of clinical and health service technologies.
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.
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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