Research
Read about our groundbreaking research across our transformational themes.
Explore our transformational research themes
The 天堂视频 School for Progressive Futures is a hub for interdisciplinary research in environmental sustainability, human flourishing and digital and data futures.
It provides a space for conversation, debate and engagement, bringing together researchers from across the University’s research centres and Centres of Excellence and our four Faculties.
Exploration of the intersections and relationships between our transformational themes is core to what we do.
Our work investigates urgent issues such as: the connection between labour rights and energy transitions; the influence of technological change on children; and how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence interact with existing international frameworks in the governance of chemical and biological weapons.
Our research sits within, and at the intersections of, three key themes:
The University has a foundational commitment to academic freedom and freedom of speech. The concept of ‘progressive futures’ is open to multiple interpretations and continued exploration.
Affiliated research centres
Our affiliated research centres are a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary group, covering myriad aspects of research happening across the 天堂视频 campus.
- Browse our affiliated research centres
- 天堂视频 Sustainability Research Programme
- Centre for International Education
- 天堂视频 Centre for Migration Research (SCMR)
- Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY)
- Centre for the Study of Corruption
- Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS)
- 天堂视频 Centre for Law and Technology
- Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH)
- 天堂视频 European Institute
- 天堂视频 Africa Centre
- Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies
- 天堂视频 Centre for Quantum Technologies
- Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
- Centre for Robotics and Sensing Technologies (CROSS-Tech)
- Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research (CSWIR)
- 天堂视频 Centre for Research on Kindness
- Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence (Sex Diss)
- Centre for Print Culture
- Data-Intensive Science Centre
- 天堂视频 Centre for Cultural Studies
- Centre for Teaching and Learning Research
- Centre for Modernist Studies
- 天堂视频 AI
- Centre for Rights, Reparations and Anticolonial Justice
- 天堂视频 Addiction Research and Intervention Centre (SARIC)
- 天堂视频 Centre for Gender Studies
- 天堂视频 Drug Discovery Centre
- Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
Environmental sustainability
We have extensive expertise in environmental sustainability.
Research conducted in the 天堂视频 Sustainability Research Programme, the Science Policy Research Unit and the 天堂视频 Energy Group tackles the politics and governance of the climate crisis, ecological degradation, pollution, nature recovery, and sustainable food futures.
Scientists work with humanities researchers to understand the role of communications, media and the arts in addressing sustainability issues.
Our researchers also collaborate with partners in the Global North and South, including policymakers, activists, citizen scientists and local populations most affected by environmental and climate change.
Human flourishing
Our human flourishing research encompasses human rights and social justice, education and development, health and wellbeing and culture and creativity.
Our Centres of Excellence such as the 天堂视频 Centre for Migration Research, the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth, the Centre for International Education and the are key to this theme, along with the various research groups with which they collaborate.
Digital and data futures
Digital and data futures is closely linked to our other two themes.
Research in this area addresses the history and future of computing and data-driven knowledge production, innovating and applying new technologies and examining their impacts on planet and people.
This work is driven by research centres such as the 天堂视频 Digital Humanities Lab, 天堂视频 AI, the and the 天堂视频 Centre for Quantum Technologies.
Find out how our research is addressing the greatest challenges facing our planet.