Centres and Institutes

Whilst our innovative outlook extends across the University, several research centres are physically based in the Social Science Research Park.

These researchers are working to create a smarter, safer and more secure world for us all.

CASCADE: Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre

CASCADE aims to improve the well-being and safety of children and their families and is concerned with all aspects of community based responses to social need in children and families.

Child learning to ride a bike with her parents

CAST: Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations

Aims to be a global hub for understanding the profound changes required to address climate change, with a focus on people as agents of change.

Centre for the Creative Economy

We enable innovation, strengthen knowledge and engage industry to cultivate and stimulate the sustainable and equitable advancement of the creative economy.

DECIPHer: Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement

DECIPHer is an international centre for social and public health sciences.

Digital Transformation Innovation Institute

Leading the transformation to a secure, fair, and resilient digital age for all.

HateLab

Preventing the rising tide of hate crime and speech through influencing policy and policing.

Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences – an ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership

We are the lead partner in the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Economic and Social Research (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), providing PhD students across Wales and beyond with access to top quality research training in the social and economic sciences.