Research Institutes and Centres are a central part of Bangor University. The University encourages the establishment of research centres as a framework for promoting and facilitating interdisciplinary research and postgraduate teaching initiatives. They provide a vehicle for the University to achieve its strategic aims in relation to research excellence, impact and increasing research income.
Find out more on the process of establishing Research Institutes and Centre
Collaborative Research Institutes and Centres
The following Research Institutes and Centres are based across a number of Universities with a significant presence at Bangor University:
- Centre for Integrated Research in the Rural Environment (CIRRE)
- Centre for Catchment and Coastal Research (CCCR)
- Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
- Institute for Research Excellence in Sport and Exercise (IRESE)
- Centre for Contemporary Poetry (CONTEMPO)
- Boiling Water Reactor Research Hub (BWR Hub)
University-wide Research Institutes and Centres
The following Institutes and Centres are located entirely within Bangor University and operate across a number of Schools and Colleges:
- Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Centre for Research on Bilingualism
- Wales Centre for Behaviour Change
- BioComposites Centre
- Collaborative Institute for Education Research, Evidence and Impact (CIEREI)
- Bangor Institute for Health and Medical Research (BIHMR)
- Places of Climate Change (PloCC)
College-based Research Institutes and Centres
The following Research Institutes and Centres are based mainly or exclusively within one School or College:
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Centre for Arthurian Studies
- Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies
- Centre for Galician Studies
- Institute of European Finance
- Research Centre Wales
- Research Institute for Welsh Estates (ISWE)
- R. S Thomas Study Centre
- Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book
More about our Research Centres
College of Science and Engineering
- Centre for Applied Marine Sciences (CAMS)
- Centre for Evidence-based Conservation
- Centre for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB)
College of Human Sciences
- Bangor Institute for Health and Medical Research (BiHMR)
- Centre for Activity and Eating Research (CAER)
- Centre for Evidence-based Early Intervention (CEBEI)
- Centre for Health-Related Research (CHeRR)
- Centre for Mental Health and Society
- Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice
- Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance
- Institute for Applied Human Physiology
- Wolfson Institute for Clinical and Cognitive Neurosciences
Former Research Institutes and Centres
The following Research Institutes and Centres are no longer operational. However, information on previous activity can be found at the following links:
College of Human Sciences
- Centre for Health-Related Research (CHeRR)
- Wolfson Institute for Clinical and Cognitive Neurosciences
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Centre for East Asian Studies
- Centre for Business Research
- Centre for Medieval Studies
- CREaM (Centre for Research in Early Music )