Our world-leading research is conducted via a number of inter-disciplinary centres and institutes. Each focusing on a different aspect of the environmental and climate challenge, they all include a wide range of complementary expertise.
The University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is an interdisciplinary centre leading cutting-edge research into solutions to problems of environmental change.
Find Out MoreThe Global Systems Institute is applying Earth system science to generate networked solutions. Our aim is to work with others to secure a flourishing future for humanity as an integral part of a life-sustaining Earth system.
Find Out MoreThe University of Exeter Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) provides a hub for data-intensive science and artificial intelligence (AI) activity within the University and the wider region.
Find Out MoreLEEP aims to develop knowledge and understanding to inform governments, businesses and communities about how land and the environment are managed and used; the policies that affect this; the impact upon people, and how policy should be better designed, appraised and evaluated
Find Out MoreThe Living Systems Institute (LSI) pioneers transformative science to decode complex biological systems. LSI merges research in biology and medicine with ground-breaking physical sciences technologies and powerful mathematical modelling capabilities.
Find Out MoreThe Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC) delivers cutting-edge teaching and research to address the factors that influence biodiversity and complexity in the natural world.
Find Out MoreWe are an interdisciplinary team who conduct applied research and consultancy into sustainable buildings, energy and environmental policy and the impacts of climate change on the built environment. Formed in 1977, we have extensive experience of working with the commercial sector, local government and research councils.
Find Out MoreThe Centre for Future Clean Mobility at the University of Exeter stands at the forefront of the road to zero carbon. We specialise in developing new hybrid and electric powertrain technology for cleaner mobility of humans and goods.
Find Out MoreThe Centre for Intermedia and Creative Technology (CICT) promotes advanced transdisciplinary research in digital technology and creative media through collaborations between artists, programmers, performers, designers and scientists from a range of disciplines.
Find Out MoreThe Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) is an exciting new venture at the University of Exeter. CREWW has been established to undertake research into some of the most pressing environmental challenges in our time – namely how we can manage our precious natural resources in ways which are sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change and population growth.
Find Out MoreThe Centre was launched in May 2011 with support from the European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund Convergence programme for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Over ten years on, we are now looking forward to growing our research collaboration and policy impact into the future.
Find Out MoreExeter Biocatalysis Centre is a multidisciplinary centre that has been established to study the structure, mechanism and commercial application of enzymes – ‘Natures Catalysts’.
Find Out MoreThe Graphene Centre conducts internationally-leading research into graphene: an exciting and revolutionary material. Our work bridges the gap between scientific development and industrial applications of graphene.
Find Out MoreThe MRC Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM) enables pioneering cross-disciplinary research that covers areas of scientific, translational and clinical importance.
Find Out MoreThe Exeter Centre for Circular Economy (ECCE) was formally launched in September 2018 by Dame Ellen MacArthur. ECCE is a new research centre comprising staff based in three locations, Exeter, Penryn and London. We are a multi-disciplinary team comprised of economists, engineers, designers, sociologists, management academics and practitioners.
Find Out MoreThe Exeter Centre for Environmental Law (ExCEL) was established at the end of 2021 to stimulate interdisciplinary internal partnerships with centres within the University. The Centre is based in the University of Exeter, School of Law, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, as a home to cutting edge interdisciplinary research in the fields environmental law, policy and governance across the institution.
Find Out MoreOur research stretches from fundamental lab work through to influencing global policies. We develop new ways to reduce antibiotic resistance, minimise antibiotic use, create alternative treatments, and tackle the major health and food threat from anti-fungal resistance.
Find Out MoreCamborne School of Mines is a world-class combined geoscience and mining department, tackling some of the world’s most important environmental challenges.
Find Out MoreThe CCoRD group investigates geomorphic and ecosystem changes in the cryosphere and in marine and coastal, and fluvial systems over the recent past, in the present, and into the future.
Find Out MoreThe Centre for Rural Policy Research is home to an inter-disciplinary team of social scientists focusing on all aspects of the rural economy and society.
Find Out MoreThe UK needs to develop sustainable solutions across all sectors, particularly manufacturing, agriculture, energy and construction. Research from The University of Exeter is contributing to a global understanding of the economic and social impacts of climate change, and a global drive to cut greenhouse gasses.
Find Out MoreOur research centres on modelling of the climate system, and quantifying and reducing uncertainties in climate projections. This group has very strong links to the Met Office including two jointly-funded chairs, and a common goal to maximise the pull-through of mathematics and statistics into the improvement of climate models
Find Out MoreFocuses on the development of digital control of power electronics for distributed energy sources, hybrid vehicles and machines and drives.
Find Out MoreThe Energy Policy Group at the University of Exeter provides an academic hub for the interdisciplinary study of energy policy. We place sustainability and change at the heart of debates about energy policy and governance.
Find Out MoreFocuses predominantly on electrochemical energy storage technologies.
Find Out MoreOur changing environment presents a series of inter-related challenges that will affect everyone’s future health, safety and prosperity. Environmental Intelligence is the integration of environmental and sustainability research with data science, artificial intelligence and cutting-edge digital technologies to provide the meaningful insight to address these challenges and mitigate the effects of environmental change.
Find Out MoreThe group brings together mathematicians and inter-disciplinary scientists whose research focuses on fundamental environmental and sustainability issues.
Find Out MoreExeter Climate Systems is an interdisciplinary research centre located within the mathematics research institute at the University of Exeter.
Find Out MoreExeter Energy brings together over 140 individuals from across all disciplines at the University of Exeter to collectively make sense of and facilitate transformation to sustainable energy systems.
Find Out MoreThe Exeter Energy, Environment & Economy (4E) research group works in a transdisciplinary way to develop models and tools to assess the environmental, economic and social sustainability of a wide range of sociotechnical systems.
Find Out MoreOur team work together to understand the diverse family of planetary climates. Using a suite of numerical tools in 1D, 2D and 3D, covering a range of complexities, our focus is understanding the key physical processes which control the climates of exoplanets, and how these processes behave in different planetary environments.
Find Out MoreAt the University of Exeter our world-leading researchers are committed to understanding all aspects of the marine environment – which is critical to our health and wellbeing. We have an established reputation of working collaboratively with industry, policymakers and conservation agencies to deliver innovative solutions to real world problems.
Find Out MoreExeter Technologies Group (ETG) combines its knowledge of materials science and manufacturing processes to investigate and better understand these interactions.
Find Out MoreThis research cluster builds on the University’s established strengths in carbon, water, and nutrient cycling, with expertise in biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and modelling in the major global biomes.
Find Out MoreThe University of Exeter has over 20 years’ experience in offshore renewable energy, including wave analysis; marine hydrodynamics; resource modelling; moorings; testing; reliability engineering; offshore installation, monitoring, operations and maintenance.
Find Out MoreThe Solar Energy research group focuses on the development of affordable solar energy technologies and allied devices.
Find Out MoreThe South West Partnership for Environmental and Economic Prosperity (SWEEP) is a collaboration to help deliver economic and community benefits, whilst also protecting and enhancing the area’s natural resources.
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