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Our Research Institutes, centres and groups bring together a wide range of expertise to work on pioneering projects.

Explore our research units to learn about the innovations and discoveries we're making.

A

• Academy for Workforce Research
• Adoption Research Group
• Advanced High Voltage Engineering Research Centre
• Advanced Research Computing
• Advanced Therapies Group
• Airbus Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Analytics
• Alcohol and Violence Research Group
• All Wales Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research Forum
• Analysis, Probability and Stochastic Processes Team
• Animal Geographies Research Cluster
• Antibacterial Agents and Genetics of Resistance
• Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Biology Network
• Applied and Computational Mathematics Research Group
• Arthritis Research Group

B

• Biobank
• Biological Chemistry
• Biomaterials
• Biomechanics and Bioengineering Research Centre Versus Arthritis
• Biomedical Engineering Research Group
• Biosensors and Advanced Imaging
• Body, Health and Religion Research Group
• British Idealism and Collingwood Centre
• Burden of Antibiotic Resistance in Neonates from Developing Societies (BARNARDS)

C

• CARBS Behavioural Research Group
• Cardiff Cancer Research UK Centre
• Cardiff Catalysis Institute
• Cardiff Catalysis Institute Electron Microscope Facility
• Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
• Cardiff Centre for the Crusades
• Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies
• Cardiff Centre for Welsh History
• Cardiff Child Development Studies
• Cardiff China Medical Research Collaborative
• Cardiff Cognition and Neurostimulation Group
• Cardiff Corporate Governance Research Group
• Cardiff Fertility Studies
• Cardiff Fintech Research Group
• Cardiff French Music Research (CFMR)
• Cardiff Haematology Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) Research Unit
• Cardiff Health and Social Care Improvement Research
• Cardiff Health Organisation and Policy Studies
• Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Wellbeing
• Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair
• Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research in Opera and Drama (CIRO)
• Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right
• Cardiff Law and Global Justice
• Cardiff Lipidomics Group
• Cardiff Medicentre
• Cardiff Organisational Research Group
• Cardiff Regional Experimental Arthritis Treatment and Evaluation Centre (CREATE)
• Cardiff Sleep Network
• Cardiff Sustainable Finance Research Group
• Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE)
• Cardiff University Ageing Science and Older People Network (CASciOPe)
• Cardiff University British Music Research Centre
• Cardiff University Centre for Human Developmental Science
• Cardiff University Nanosome Network
• Cardiff University's Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
• Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre
• CASCADE: Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre
• Catalysis and Interfacial Science
• Cell Migration Group
• Central and East European Research Centre
• Central Biotechnology Services
• Central Biotechnology Services
• Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems
• Centre for Automotive Industry Research
• Centre for China Business Research
• Centre for Community Journalism
• Centre for Conflict, Security and Societies
• Centre for Cyber Security Research (CCSR)
• Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research
• Centre for Geobiology and Geochemistry
• Centre for Health and Social Care Law
• Centre for High Frequency Engineering
• Centre for Human Rights and Public Law
• Centre for Innovation Policy Research
• Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply
• Centre for Internet and Global Politics
• Centre for Language and Communication Research
• Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture
• Centre for Law and Religion
• Centre for Local and Regional Government Research
• Centre for Medieval Studies
• Centre for Psychosocial Research, Occupational and Physician Health
• Centre for Research in the Built Environment
• Centre for Research into Energy, Waste and the Environment
• Centre for Research into Historically Informed Performance (CRHIP)
• Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Space
• Centre for Resilience and Environmental Change
• Centre for Solid Earth and Natural Resources
• Centre for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment
• Centre for the Creative Economy
• Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK
• Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science
• Centre for Trials Research
• Centre of Law and Society
• Centre of Public Value Procurement
• Childhood and Youth Research Group
• Childhood health and education
• China-UK Research Centre for Eco-Cities and Sustainable Development
• Chronic Lymphatic Leukaemia (CLL) research group
• Cities Research Centre
• Cold Climates
• Collaborative Interdisciplinary Study for Science, Medicine and the Imagination Research Group (CISSMI)
• Collaborative Online Social Media Observatory (COSMOS)
• Combating biofilm antimicrobial resistance
• Commemorating WWI: Conflict and Creativity
• Communication and Human Security Research Group
• Computational Mechanics and Engineering AI Research Group
• Computational Methods in Architecture Group
• Computer vision
• Contact Lens and Anterior Eye Research Unit (CLAER)
• Creative Labour and Cultural Production
• Culture, Imagination and Practice Research Group (CIP)
• Cyber security

D

• Danau Girang Field Centre
• Data analytics and machine learning
• Data Innovation Accelerator
• Data Lab for Social Good
• Data Science Academy
• DECIPHer: Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement
• Dementia Research Institute
• Dementias Research Network
• Dental Data Science
• Dental Education
• Dental Public Health Unit
• Design research and professional practice
• Design Research Unit Wales
• Digital Media and Society Research Group
• Digital Transformation Innovation Institute
• Discrete Mathematics and Data Science Research Team
• Disease Mechanisms
• Down’s Syndrome Vision Research Unit
• Drosophila in Vivo Analysis

E

• Early Materials, Technology and Conservation Research Group
• Earth Surface Processes
• Economic Geology
• Education Research Group
• Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence
• Emerging Technology and Digital Society research group
• Employment Research Unit
• Energy Research Cluster
• Energy, Environment and People
• Environmental Futures Dialogue Network
• Environmental Justice Research Unit
• Environmental, Ecological and Extinction Accounting, Governance and Economics Research Group
• Ethnography, Culture and Interpretive Analysis
• Ethnography, Culture and Interpretive Analysis Research Group
• Ethnomethodology, Ethnography, Interaction and Talk
• European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute
• European Epidemiology of Child Abuse and Neglect (Euro-CAN)
• European Governance, Identity and Public Policy

F

• Families, Identities, and Gender Research Network
• Families, Identities, and Gender Research Network
• Feminist Media Studies Research Group
• Festivals Research Group
• Formal argumentation theory
• Formulaic Language Research Network

G

• Galaxies and Observational Cosmology
• Geochemistry
• Geoenvironmental Research Centre
• Geometric computing and graphics
• Geometry, Algebra, Mathematical Physics and Topology Research Group
• Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry
• Geoscience Africa
• Global Health Network

H

• Hartree Centre Cardiff Hub
• Health Modelling Centre Cymru (hmc2)
• Health, Wellbeing and Social Care Thematic Group
• Healthcare Development Research Unit
• High Voltage Energy Systems Group
• High-Value Manufacturing Research Group
• History, Heritage and Conservation
• Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and Adenovirus Virology
• Human-centred computing
• Human-Centric Machine Vision and Intelligence
• Hydro-environmental Research Centre

I

• Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies
• Imaging, Sensors and Instrumentation
• Improving Dentistry Group
• Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
• Informal Economy Research Observatory
• Inherited Tumour Syndromes Research Group (ITSR Group)
• Institute for Compound Semiconductors
• Institute for the Study of Visual Cultures
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Research Group
• International research network on development, frontiers and the environment
• International Studies Research Unit
• Inverse problems

J

• Journalism and Democracy Research Group
• Julian Hodge Institute of Applied Macroeconomics

K

• Knowledge representation and reasoning

L

• Labour Research Group
• Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit
• Later Prehistoric and Roman Britain Research Group
• Lean Enterprise Research Centre
• Lifespan Multimorbidity Research Collaborative (LINC)
• Linguistics in Cardiff (LinC)
• Literature, Theory and Creativity Research Unit
• Llyn Brianne Observatory
• Logistics Systems Dynamics Group
• Low Carbon Research Institute

M

• Macular Research Group
• Magnetic Materials and Applications Research Group
• Magnetics and Materials Research Group
• Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre
• Materials and Energy
• Materials Research Network
• Mathematical Analysis Research Group
• Mathematical Physics Research Group
• Matrix Biology and Tissue Repair Research Group
• Max Planck Centre on the Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Catalysis (FUNCAT)
• Media, Community and the Creative Citizen
• Media, Culture and Creativity Research Group
• Medical Engineering Research Group
• Medical image computing
• Medicine, Science and Culture
• Medicines Discovery Institute
• Medieval Europe Research Group
• Mediterranean Archaeology Research Group
• Mental Wellbeing in Adolescence: Genes and Environment Study (MAGES)
• Microbial Diseases Research Group
• Microbiomes, Microbes and Informatics (MMI)
• Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Diversity Research Group
• Mineralised Tissue Group
• Modern Slavery and Social Sustainability Research Group
• Molecular Synthesis
• MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics
• Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research Facility
• Myeloid Cell Biology Group

N

• Nanoscale Science and Technology
• Natural language processing
• Net Zero Innovation Institute
• Network for Neurogenesis and Neural stem cells
• Neurodegeneration to regeneration (N2R)
• Neurodevelopment Assessment Unit
• Neurodevelopment Research Network
• Neuroscience and Mental Health Innovation Institute
• Neuroscience and psychology of sleep lab (NaPS)

O

• Ocean and Climate Systems
• Ocular therapeutics
• Operational Research Group
• Ophthalmic Public Health Group
• Otter Project

P

• PACCFINTAX: Public Sector Accounting, Finance and Taxation Research Group
• Palaeobiology
• PARC Institute of Manufacturing, Logistics and Inventory
• Peritoneal Immunity Group
• Philosophy of Mind
• Photonics and Biophotonics
• Plants for the Future Research Network
• Political Theory Research Unit
• Politics of Translating Research Group
• Practice Research and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture (PRASADA)
• Privacy
• Project Sepsis
• Public Space Observatory Research Centre

Q

• Quantum Materials and Devices

R

• Regenerative Biology Group
• Reproductive Mental Health Programme
• Research and Evaluation of Area-Modulation Perimetry (REVAMP)
• Research Centre for Clinical Kinaesiology
• Research Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Food (SURF)
• Research Institute of Visual Computing
• Research Unit for Nystagmus (RUN)
• Resilient Structures and Construction Materials (RESCOM)
• Responsible Innovation Network
• Robotics and Autonomous Intelligent Machines
• Rome and the Sacred

S

• Science, Health and the Media Research Group
• Seafarers’ International Research Centre
• Security, Crime, and Intelligence Innovation Institute
• Sexualities & Gender
• Social Data Science Lab
• Social Science Research Park
• SOCSI Social Theory Forum
• South East Wales Academic Health Science Partnership
• Spectroscopy and Dynamics
• Star and Planet Formation
• Statistics and Data Science Research Group
• Structural Biophysics
• Study of Knowledge in Practice (SKiP)
• Subjectivity and Psychosocial Research Group
• Survey Data Users Brown Bag Research Group (SURDUBB)
• Sustainable and Responsible Supply Chain (SRSC) Forum
• Sustainable Geoenvironments
• Sustainable Systems and Structures
• Systems and scalability
• Systems Immunity Research Institute

T

• T Cell Immunity Group
• Taf and Ely Observatory
• Tectonics and Geophysics
• The Archaeology of Wales Research Group
• The British Idealism and Collingwood Centre
• The Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education
• The Climate Change Consortium of Wales
• The Data Justice Lab
• The European Mesolithic and Neolithic Research Group
• The Gender and Sexualities Research Group
• The Medicine, Science and Culture (MeSC) Research Interest Group
• The Sensor Physiotherapy Intervention (SPIN) Research Group
• The Universities' Police Science Institute
• The Wales Centre For Evidence Based Care: A JBI Centre of Excellence
• Theory and Computational Physics
• Tiny to Tots
• Tissue Microenvironment Group
• Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media History

U

• Urban Intelligence Research Centre
• Urbanism Group

V

• ViA - Values in Action
• Viral Immunology Research Group
• Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Binaural Recording
• Visual Neuroscience
• Visualisation

W

• Wales Autism Research Centre
• Wales Cancer Research Centre
• Wales Centre for Anatomical Education
• Wales Gene Park
• Wales Governance Centre
• Wales Heart Research Institute (WHRI)
• Wales Research and Diagnostic PET Imaging Centre
• Water Research Institute
• Wellbeing Connect
• Welsh Economy Research Unit
• Welsh Ergonomics and Safer Patients Alliance (WESPA)
• Welsh Institute For Research in Economics and Development
• Welsh Oral Health Information Unit
• WISERD: Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods
• Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health
• Women Adding Value to the Economy
• Work, Employment and Labour Markets