Our research centres and institutes

The Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre, working on some of the most pressing issues facing the world today. The membership spans three departments in the Faculty of Media and Communication and also includes members from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. The work of the colleagues in the Centre encompasses the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, Politics and Law, Journalism and Media and Film research scholars and practitioners. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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