Our research centres and institutes

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.

Our Ageing & Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) at Bournemouth University (BU) brings together 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.

A joint research centre between BU and Northeastern University in China, supporting high-quality research and education in the fields of advanced materials.

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.

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

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.

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 neuroscience research centre at Bournemouth University embodies laboratories in cognitive, social, systems and computational neuroscience, and cognitive neuropsychology from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Health and Social Sciences and collaborating institutions internationally.