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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
AAdvanced
Knowledge Technologies
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7
6AA
Telephone 01908 653506
AHRC Research Centre for Environmental History
A collaboration between the Universities of Stirling and St Andrews. This Centre is currently focusing on Waste.
Antarctic Environmental Data Centre
Arctic Environmental Metadata Centre
Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
An NERC centre to assist UK atmospheric researchers to locate, access and interpret atmospheric data and to ensure the long-term integrity of atmospheric data produced by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) projects. It is is based within the Space Science and Technology Department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire.
Atmospheric Science,
Centres for (NCAS)
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading,
RG6 6BB
Telephone 0118 931979 Fax 0118 9316462
NCAS comprises a set of centres and facilities distributed across many UK universities
and related institutions. It carries out the UK's core strategic research programme
in atmospheric science funded by NERC 
Babraham
Institute
Babraham, Cambridge, CB2 4AT
Telephone 01223 496000 Fax 01223 496002
Supporting the biomedical, biotechnological and pharmaceutical sectors.
BBSRC
Structural Biology Centres
Providing access to state-of-the-art equipment, research, expertise and training
facilities for the UK research community.
Biochemical Engineering, Advanced Centre for
Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland
Biomedical
Materials
Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
Telephone 0207 8825285
British
Antarctic Survey (BAS)
High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET
Telephone 01223 221400 Fax 01223 362616
The mission of BAS is to undertake a world-class programme of science in the
Antarctic and related regions, addressing key global and regional issues through
research, survey and long term monitoring, investing in its staff to sustain
a skilled and adaptable workforce, developing and maintaining necessary facilities
and infrastructure and linking to business where appropriate.
British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) An NERC centre to assist UK atmospheric researchers to locate, access and interpret atmospheric data and to ensure the long term integrity of atmospheric data produced by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) projects. It is is based within the Space Science and Technology Department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire.
British
Geological Survey (BGS)
Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG
Telephone 0115 9363100 Fax 0115 9363200
The mission of BGS is to advance geoscientific knowledge of the UK landmass
and its continental shelf by systematic surveying, long term monitoring, effective
data management and high-quality applied research; to provide comprehensive,
impartial and up-to-date geoscientific information, advice and services, to the
client and user community in the UK and overseas.
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Business
Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Centre
for (BRASS)
BRASS Centre, Cardiff University, 54 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
Telephone 029 20 876562 Fax 029 20 876061
Knowledge and understanding about changes occurring in the relationships among
firms, their customers and suppliers, governments, a range of non-government
organisations and their social environments.
Business
Research, Centre for (CBR)
Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge,
CB3 9DE
Telephone 01223 335248
The links between business organisation, business performance and economic policy.
CBR programmes take a long-term view of the performance of British business in
the international economy.
Centre
for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Telephone 0207 9557287
Risk management and regulation in the areas of organisations and risk management;
business regulation and corporate governance; regulation of government and governance.
Centre
for Applied Social Surveys (CASS)
Courses on social survey methods and a resource on questionnaire design (the
Question Bank) for social scientists in all sectors.
Centre
for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2LS
Telephone 01487 772400 Fax 01487 773518
CEH is the leading UK body for research, survey and monitoring in terrestrial
and freshwater environments.
Centre
for Economic
Performance
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Telephone 0207 9557048
The impact of both the internal structure and organisation of firms and the external
market environment on output, productivity and technical change.
Centre
for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Independent, objective analysis and public discussion of open economies and the
relations among them.
Centre
for Evidence Based Policy
This is a co-ordinating Centre which is supported by several sub-centres that
form bridges into available expertise, results, data and information relating
to specific major policy issues.
Centre
for Organisation and Innovation (COI)
Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN
Telephone 0114 222 2000
How work organisation influences the successful adaptation of new technologies
and techniques.
Centre of Observation of Air-Sea Interactions and
Fluxes (CASIX)
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth PL1 3DH
Telephone 01752 633429 Fax 01752 633101
Centre
for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes and Tectonics (COMET)
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR
Telephone 01865 272000 Fax 01865 272072
COMET scientists use satellite observations to help them quantify seismic hazard
and interpret how past environments control the distribution of natural resources.
This is a collaborative centre involving scientists from the University of Oxford,
University College London, and the University of Cambridge.
Centre
for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM)
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge,
CB2 1ER
Telephone 01223 336540 Fax 01223 336549
CPOM uses theoretical and laboratory-derived understanding to form new mesoscale
models of interactions between the ice, ocean and atmosphere, and use ground
and satellite observations to test the predictions of these and other climate
models. It has research groups at University College London, the University of
Bristol and Cambridge University.
Centre
for Population Biology (CPB)
Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7PY
Telephone 020 7594 2475 Fax 01344 873173
The CPB conducts basic research in population biology and related disciplines
to understand and predict the functioning of ecological systems, from populations
to ecosystems.
Centre for Research
on Innovation and Competiton (CRIC)
Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13
9PL
Telephone 0161 2752000
The problem of competitiveness and the role that innovation plays in this.
Centre
for Research
in Development,
Instruction and Training (CREDIT)
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham,
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Telephone 0115 951 5302 Fax 0115 951 5324
Explores fundamental processes of human learning and instruction, an interdisciplinary environment for exploring basic research into human learning - essential for improving current systems of learning and educational technologies and for creating new generations of more effective forms.
Centre
on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD
Telephone 01203 524694
The demand for and deployment of skills in employment and their place within
organisations’ competitive strategies.
Centre for
Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Telephone 01603 593176
The causes, consequences and policy implications of global environmental change. CSERGE
using interdisciplinary research to focus on policy issues, bridging the natural
and social sciences.
Climate & Land
Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC)
Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP
Telephone 01792 295647
Complex Product Systems
Innovation Research Centre
Business School, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT
Telephone 01273 642188
Research into high cost, complex industrial products and systems.
Daresbury
Laboratory
Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4AD
Telephone 01925 603000 Fax 01925 603100
Daresbury hosts one of CCLRC's major facilities, the synchrotron
source (SRS), a world class facility dedicated to the exploitation of Synchrotron
Radiation (SR) for fundamental and applied research. Synchrotron radiation is
emitted when an electron beam travelling
close to the speed of light is accelerated in a magnetic field.
Data
Archive Core Award (UKDA)
A multidisciplinary archive of contemporary and historical data in the social
sciences and humanities. This is the largest accessible collection of data in the UK
and provides data on a national and international scale.
Data
Assimilation Research Centre (DARC)
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, PO Box 243, Earley
Gate, Reading, RG6 6BB
Telephone 0118 9316728 Fax 0118 9318316
DARC has the following partners: University of Reading, University of Oxford,
University of Cambridge, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Edinburgh University.
Dependability
of Computer-Based Systems
Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Claremont Tower, Newcastle
upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
Diamond- a
synchrotron light source
Earth
Observation Centre of Excellence for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics
(CTCD)
CTCD consists of a consortium involving the Universities of Edinburgh, Sheffield
and York, University College London and Forest Research.
Environmental
Systems Science Centre (ESSC)
Harry Pitt Building, University of Reading, 3 Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading,
RG6 6AL
Telephone 0118 9318741 Fax 0118 9316413
ESSC is an interdisciplinary research group whose remit is to develop new ways
of handling spatial data for the benefit of the environmental sciences.
Economic
and Social Aspects of Genomics, Centre for (CESAGEN) Lancaster
University, Furness College, Lancaster, LA1 4YG
Telephone: 01524 592703 Fax 01524 592503
An interdisciplinary and inter-institutional site for fundamental and strategic
research on the social, ethical and economic contexts and consequences of genomics
and genetic science.
Economic
and Social Data Service (ESDS)
Access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data spanning
many disciplines and themes.
Economic
Performance, Centre for
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Telephone 0207 9557048
The impact of both the internal structure and organisation of firms and the external
market environment on output, productivity and technical change.
Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research
Environment
and Human Behaviour
Policy Studies Institute
Environmental History, AHRC Research Centre
A collaboration between the Universities of Stirling and St Andrews. This Centre is currently focusing on Waste.
Environmental Information Centre
Equator:
Technological Innovation in Physical and Digital Life
Computing, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1
4YR
E-Society London
Business School
Genomics
in Society, Centre for (EGENIS)
Genomics Office, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ
Telephone 01392 262053 Fax 01392 262052
Core research in the social and economic impact of genomics-based biotechnology
throughout society, for example on medicine, the food chain, and the environment.
Geoscience
Data Centre, National
Horticulture Research International
Innovative Health Technologies, University of York
Institute
for Animal Health
Compton, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 7NN
Telephone 01635 578411 Fax 01635 577237
Working to improve the health and welfare of farm animals and to safeguard the
human food chain.
Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh
Institute of Food
Research
Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UA
Telephone 01603 255000 Fax 01603 507723
Investigating food safety, diet & health, food materials & ingredients.
Institute of
Grassland and Environmental Research
Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, SY23 3EB
Telephone 01970 823000 Fax 01970 828357
Sustainable grassland systems and the wider managed environment.
Isaac Newton
Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH
Telephone 01223 335999 Fax 01223 330508
John
Innes Centre
Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH
Telephone 01603 450000 Fax 01603 450045
Plant and microbial research with strategic relevance for food, health, sustainable
agriculture and industrial innovation.
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
Materials for
High Performance Applications
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Telephone 0121 4145214
Management
Research Initiative (AIM)
Advanced Institute for Management, London Business School, 18-20
Huntsworth Mews, London, NW1 6DD
AIM has been established to enhance knowledge about how management can improve
organisational performance; increase the quality and quantity of management
scholarship; and develop the capacity for further and future management research.
Medical Images
and Signals to Clinical Information, From
Engineering Science, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ
National
Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS)
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3
0WA
Telephone 01223 764289 Fax 01223 765900
NIEeS is funded by NERC to promote the use of eScience across the broad field
of environmental research.
Oceanography
Centre, Southampton (SOC)
University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14
3ZH
Telephone 023 80596666 Fax 023 80596667
SOC is a world-class centre of excellence in ocean sciences, earth sciences and
ocean technology.
Optoelectronics
University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Telephone 023 80593150
Oxford
Centre for Molecular Sciences
P
People at the
Centre of Communication and Information Technologies (PACCIT)
University of Glasgow
Plymouth
Marine Laboratory (PML)
Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH
Telephone 01752 633100 Fax 01752 633101
Polymer Science and Technology
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds,
LS2 9JT
Telephone 0113 2333810
Process Systems Engineering
Imperial College, Roderic Hill Buildings, Prince Consort Road, South
Kensington, London, SW7 2BY
Telephone 0207 5946604
Proudman
Oceanographic Laboratory (POL)
Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead, CH43 7RA
Telephone 0151 6538633 Fax 0151 6536269
POL's scientific research focuses on oceanography encompassing global sea-levels
and geodesy, numerical modelling of continental shelf seas and coastal sediment
processes.
Qualitative
Data Archival Resource Centre (ESDS Qualidata)
Acquisition and cataloguing of qualitative data of use to social scientists.
Roslin Institute
Roslin BioCentre, Midlothian, EH25 9PS
Telephone 0131 5274200 Fax 0131 4400434
Home of Dolly the Sheep. Research on farm and other animals.
Rothamsted
Research
Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ
Telephone 01582 763133 Fax 01582 760981
Sustainable plant-based agriculture and the environment.
Rural Economy and Land Use programme
Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 OQX
Telephone 01235 445000 Fax 01235 445808
RAL hosts two of CCLRC's major facilities - ISIS, the
world's leading pulsed neutron
and muon source, and the Central
Laser Facility. Other
CCLRC services and resources are
also of strategic importance for all
kinds of research, from particle physics to new materials and from astronomy
to renewable energy.
Science in Society, University of Oxford
Scottish
Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA
Telephone 01631 559000 Fax 01631 559001
SAMS promotes marine research and education in Scotland.
Scottish Crops Research Institute
Sea Mammal Research
Unit (SMRU)
Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews Fife, KY16
8LB
Telephone 01334 462630 Fax 01334 462632
SMRU carries out fundamental research into the biology of upper trophic level
predators in the oceans and, through this, provides support to the NERC so
that it can carry out its statutory duty to advise Government in the UK on
the management of seal populations.
Silsoe Research
Institute
Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford MK45 4HS
Telephone 01525 860000 Fax 01525 860156
Bio-systems engineering research to benefit the agricultural, food, environmental
and biomedical sectors.
Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN), Centre for
University
of Edinburgh, Old Surgeons' Hall, High School Yards, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ
Telephone: 0131 650 9113 Fax 0131 650 6399
Analysis of the interactions between scientists, industry and private interest
groups; policy makers and regulators; and citizens and public interest groups
in genomics innovation.
Southampton
Oceanography Centre (SOC)
University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14
3ZH
Telephone 023 80596666 Fax 023 80596667
SOC is a world-class centre of excellence in ocean sciences, earth sciences and
ocean technology.
Superconductivity
Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE
Telephone 01223 337077 Fax 01223 337074
Surface Science
University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX
Telephone 0151 7943870
SPRU Environment and Energy Programme
SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QE
Telephone 01273 686758 Fax 01273 685865
SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QE
Telephone 01273 686758 Fax 01273 685865
Sussex
Centre for Neuroscience
T
Tissue Engineering
Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool, Duncan Building,
Dalby Street, Liverpool, L69 3GA
Transport Studies Unit
University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1 E6BT
Telephone 0207 3807009
Understanding, forecasting and evaluation of travel behaviour and the roles of
market and planning approaches in the management of traffic growth.
Tyndall Centre
for Climate Change Research
University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Telephone 01603 593162
Inter-disciplinary research on climate change and the identification, promotion
and facilitation of sustainable responses to this challenge.
Ultrafast
Photonics for Datacomms above Terabit Speeds (UPDATES)
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife,
KY16 9SS
Telephone 01334 463100
Vaccine Research, Edward Jenner Institute for
Wind energy research at the CCLRC
On to Universities