Our research centres and institutes

The Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions (IMSET) addresses one of the most significant global challenges facing humanity today: how we manage and respond to environmental change

Our Ageing & Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) at Bournemouth University (BU) brings together cross-faculty research expertise in areas of ageing and dementia. At a time when our population is living longer and often with long-term conditions including dementia, the centre’s research significantly impacts on theory, education and professional practice.

Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU) offers a collaborative model for supporting and conducting health-related research in Dorset.

We are concerned with all aspects of the Historic Environment as evidence of past human activity and its associated consequences that people can find, see, hear, understand, feel, debate, and contest in the present world.

The Centre for Conflict, Rule of Law and Society (CRoLS) brings together law academics at Bournemouth University engaging in interdisciplinary research into and scholarship around Conflict, the Rule of Law and the role of legal regulation in our Society.

The CDE is an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training based at Bath and Bournemouth Universities. We offer a four-year fully funded EngD programme. Our postgraduate researchers work closely with and in some of the most exciting high-tech companies in the world, not for a token short-term placement but fully-embedded, usually for three years.

We aim to undertake internationally recognised research on environmental change and its impacts on biodiversity, and to be a leading provider of education and training in environmental science.

The Centre for Events, Leisure, Society and Culture (CELSC) spotlights the national and international intellectual profile and reputation of the critical study of events and leisure at Bournemouth University by providing a strategic and effective platform for researchers, and research collaborations and partnerships.

The Centre for Film and Television seeks to stimulate and sustain a highly visible research culture for staff and research students within the broad areas of academic research resulting out of film and television traditions and practices.

Our research activities are interdisciplinary which touch upon computer science, human-computer interactions and creative art computing. We develop games, creative digital media, practice-based outputs and use these as powerful tools to tackle major societal challenges. 

The GP Centre is the “area office” for Dorset for Health Education England Wessex. We are based in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences at Royal London House in Bournemouth University.

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Policy Management (CIPPM) is a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission and a leading centre for research on the legal, economic and policy aspects of intellectual property rights in the creative industries and in the field of emerging technologies.

CLiMB is the primary focus for Bournemouth University support to leaders at all levels within health and social care.

The Centre for Media History seeks to stimulate an interest in media history, develop partnerships with national and international partners to promote the study of media history, and work for the preservation of media and specifically broadcasting archives, among other aims.

The Centre for Midwifery, Maternal and Perinatal Health aims to promote the health and wellbeing of women, babies and their families by enhancing practice through education, research and scholarship.

The work of the Centre for Politics and Media Research links into a range of fields of study that focus on the most relevant questions that face 21st Century politicians, their strategists, political journalists and agencies which seek to enhance citizen engagement.

Public Relations Research and Professional Practice is focused on research into the history, practice and theory of public relations and adjacent fields of communication activity.

The Centre for Qualitative Research (CQR) is based at Bournemouth University. This Research Centre is part of The Faculty of Health & Social Sciences. CQR has remained an internationally recognised resource for knowledge transfer activities and for the alignment of teaching and research. It has increasingly become an interdisciplinary resource beyond Health and Social Care.

The Seldom Heard Voices: marginalisation and societal integration Research Centre brings together a range of academics of different disciplines from across Social Sciences and Social Work as well as colleagues from health disciplines such as Mental Health Nursing. The Centre includes early career researchers keen to be mentored as well as established researchers.

The centre brings together the Journalism Research Group and the Narrative Research Group, both based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University.

The Centre of Postgraduate Medical Research and Education (CoPMRE) was established in June 2007. It represents a home for a medical Visiting Faculty with an interest in innovating delivery of care and developing clinical practice.

Computing and Informatics Research Centre (CIRC) promotes both fundamental and applied research. Our staff members and postgraduate researchers are highly engaged with both the academic and industrial communities.

The Design & Engineering Research Centre comprises a team of world-class academics and researchers who are contributing to the development of new knowledge, tools and technologies that positively impact on the environment and society around us.

Bournemouth University’s Disaster Management Centre (BUDMC) has garnered decades of experience in education, research and professional practice.

Emerge is the Experimental Media Research Centre. As creative, practice-led researchers, the centre shares critical concerns in relation to experimental media practices.

The Bournemouth University eTourism Lab explores cutting edge information and communication technologies, alongside e-based strategic management and marketing for the tourism and hospitality industries.

Discover how the study of consumer behaviour is relevant to both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) markets as it enables insight into the psyche of the consumer, the variety of factors that influence decision-making, the processes they go through to make decisions, and how they may respond to a market offering or message.

Our research is focused on tackling these questions from a landscape based perspective, integrating palaeoanthropology, ecology, remote sensing of modern analogues and both earth and computer science. We are collaborating with computer animators to bring our science alive in the imaginations of both scientific and non-scientific audiences.

The interdisciplinary research group for neuroscience at Bournemouth University was founded in 2014 as a network embodying researchers in the fields of cognitive, social, systems and computational neuroscience, translational genetics and cognitive neuropsychology from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Health and Social Sciences and collaborating institutions.

The International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR) is a globally leading centre for research in tourism, hospitality and related fields of study.

BU iWell is a research centre with a particular focus on people with chronic, long-term, and/or complex conditions. Our research activity takes an integrative approach to the understanding and promotion of human health.

The National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice (the National Centre) at Bournemouth University is dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable people by enhancing professional health and social care practice.

The National Research Centre for Computer Animation is a recognised centre of international excellence in computer animation, fusing technical developments in computer science with underlying artistic principles and practice of computer animation.

Nurse colleagues at Bournemouth University have been researching leadership, workforce development and value-based nurse education, as well as issues pertaining to long-term conditions such as cancer and chronic obstructive airway disease (COPD).

The ‘Organisational Analysis in Critical Management Issues’ Research Cluster aims to understand and respond to emerging societal and organisational trends and challenges, such as technological advancements, international competition, demographic shifts, and not least, the rise of neo-liberalism with its stark ecological, political, managerial and financial consequences. It achieves this by taking a contextual, interdisciplinary and critical focus.

The Orthopaedic Research Institute (ORI) works across the university and with hospitals, industry partners and academia to produce high quality research and educational outputs that have a proven impact for patients, clinicians and society.

PCCC’s research aims to advance our understanding of promotional cultures at both an institutional level – which includes topics such as media, advertising systems, fashion and brand owners – and the symbolic and material array of practices and people’s interactions, which includes the consumers, publics and audiences that make up promotional cultures.

The Psychology Research Centre sits in the Department of Psychology at Bournemouth University (BU) and is coordinating all the research activities within the department. The Centre has very strong collaborations with national and international partners.

The BU research cluster on Regulation, Corporate Governance and Taxation brings together scholars and students from across a wide range of disciplines to conduct research into both the failings and the experimentation. We seek insights that can arise at the intersection of leadership studies, finance, accounting, business ethics, institutional analysis, law and economics to advance knowledge in the diverse field of corporate governance.

SPARC at BU is home to a breadth of exciting, innovative and inter-disciplinary scholarship that aims to offer a truly holistic understanding of the derivation, constitution, and experience of sport, physical activity, the body, well-being & (ill-)health.

The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) is a research centre based in the Department of Journalism, English and Communications at Bournemouth University.