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BU’s research centres focus on specific areas of interest. They are multi-disciplinary, spanning departments and schools. Centres have close links with professional organisations and other research institutions, facilitating collaboration and maximising the output and impact of the research.

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International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR)

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

Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions

Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions

The Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions (IMSET) addresses the interplay between population history, cultural practices and the dynamics of environmental systems, and how they unfold across different scales.

Institute of Medical Imaging and Visualisation

Institute of Medical Imaging and Visualisation

The Institute of Medical Imaging and Visualisation (IMIV) was established to support high quality research and education in the fields of medical imaging and medical visualisation.  

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Ageing and Dementia Research Centre

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.

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Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit

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

BUiWell

BUiWell

BUiWell 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.

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Centre for Applied Creative Technologies

CfACTs is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) COFUND research centre, co-led by Prof Jian Chang and Prof Jian J Zhang, of the Bournemouth University’s National Centre for Computer Animation (BU NCCA); CfACTs runs from October 2020 to September 2025.

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Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research

The work of the Centre for Comparative 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.

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Centre for Digital Entertainment

The CDE is an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training based at Bath and Bournemouth Universities. Founded in 2009, the CDE is a national Doctoral Training Centre with an investment of £20 million. We offer a four-year fully funded EngD programme. 

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Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM)

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.

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Centre for Midwifery, Maternal and Perinatal Health

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.

HERO Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research

Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research

Supporting better science, health and data communication through ambitious cross-disciplinary collaborations.

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Centre for Seldom Heard Voices

The BU Research Centre for Seldom Heard Voices brings together academics from across different disciplines including social sciences and social work to engage with marginalised communities and to amplify often excluded or silenced voices. 

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Centre for Sustainable & Socially Responsible Consumption

Learn how we promote and advance the understanding of sustainable and socially responsible consumption.

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Centre for Sustainable Business Transformations

The Centre for Sustainable Business Transformations (CSBT) delivers cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange that address the needs of businesses, policy and society in their quest for a sustainable future.

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Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice

The Centre aims to develop a rich seam of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of conflict, emotion and social justice. It brings together expertise in the disciplines of Journalism, Media, Law and the broader social sciences, adopting primarily a psychosocial and practice-based focus.

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Centre for Trade, Development and Transition Economics

Examining cross cutting developments in trade and development within post-Brexit UK, the European Union, emerging markets and the transition economies of Eastern Europe & Central Asia.

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Computing and Informatics Research Centre (CIRC)

The Computing and Informatics Research Centre (CIRC) conducts research across a variety of fields with five main areas of focus: Cyber Security, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Future and Complex Networks, Human-Computer Interaction, and Processes and Behaviour Understanding.

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Disaster Management Centre

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

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Emerge

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

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Institute for Studies in Landscape & Human Evolution

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.

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Intelligent Spinal Biomechanics Research Centre

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Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Centre

The interdisciplinary neuroscience research centre 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.

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre

Exploring how narrative interacts with and impacts on cultures and communities.

National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice

National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice

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 Centre has had over 20,000 students in the past 19 years and works with over half of the local authorities in England, plus 50 other major employers and as a team we are proud of our reputation and achievements.

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National Research Centre for Computer Animation

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.

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Nursing for long-term health

The Centre for Nursing for Long Term Health aims to promote health and well-being of people living with long term health challenges by enhancing care practices and professional development of care workers through education, research and scholarship.

Orthopaedic Research Institute ORI

Orthopaedic Research Institute (ORI)

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.

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Sport and Physical Activity Centre (SPARC)

SPARC at BU is home to a breadth of exciting, innovative and inter-disciplinary scholarship that aims to produce impactful intellectual contributions that have a positive impact on sport, health, well-being and physical activity stakeholders.

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The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice

The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) is a research centre based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. 

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