Research centres and groups
At Sussex, we support a diverse and multidisciplinary research environment where researchers can truly believe a challenge is only impossible until it’s done. Browse our Centres of Excellence, research centres and groups.
Impossible until it's done
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Progressive
Imaginative
International
Influential
Research at Sussex
PROGRESS
in new technologies, science, AI and data analysisPLANET
environmental sustainability and climate change[Birds flapping with visuals of a flock of birds flying in slow motion]
PEOPLE
[slide project sound as the text People slides onto screen]helping people and communities to flourish
Research at Sussex
TRAILBLAZING
world firsts in quantum computing[Sci-fi clicks and beeps as laboratory visuals cut together]
INSPIRING
global policy changes on sustainabilityLEADING
the world for international development[waves sounds with slow motion waves crashing]
BELIEVING
[whoosh as the camera zooms from space to planet Earth]“It’s only impossible until it’s done”
Research at Sussex
Progress for planet and people
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Centres of Excellence
Our Centres of Excellence are drawing together world-leading experts and innovative approaches, creating a critical mass of knowledge, skills and training. Browse our Centres of Excellence below.
Centre for Global Health Research
Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth
Centre for International Education
Genome Damage and Stability Centre
Sussex Artificial Intelligence
Sussex Centre for Conciousness Science
Sussex Centre for Migration Research
Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies
Sussex Digital Humanities Lab
Sussex Neuroscience
Sussex Sustainability Research Programme
UK Trade Policy Observatory
All research centres and groups
Our research centres and groups are interdisciplinary groups, working on collaborative, world-leading research in new or emerging areas of opportunity.
- Browse our research centres and groups
- Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoT (ACMI)
- Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Research Group
- Andrew and Virginia Rudd Centre for Adoption Research and Practice
- Astronomy Centre
- Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Research Group
- Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Research Group
- Business and Finance Research Group
- Centre for Advanced International Theory
- Centre for the Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex (Economics)
- Centre for Byzantine Cultural History
- Centre for Coastal Research
- Centre for Cognitive Science
- Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
- Centre for Computer Graphics
- Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
- Centre for Creative and Critical Thought
- Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health
- Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies
- Centre for Gender Studies
- Centre for Global Health Policy
- Centre for Global Health Research
- Centre for Global Political Economy
- Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research
- Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth
- Centre for Innovation and Research in Wellbeing
- Centre for Intellectual History
- Centre for International Business and Development
- Centre for International Education
- Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Diversity (LEAD)
- Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
- Centre for Modernist Studies
- Centre for Research in Creative and Performing Arts
- Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre
- Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research
- Centre for Social and Political Thought
- Centre for the Study of Corruption
- Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
- Centre for the Study of Welfare and Inclusive Growth
- Centre for Teaching and Learning Research
- Centre for World Environmental History
- climate@sussex
- Cognitive Psychology Research Group
- Communications Research Group
- Creative Technology
- Crime Research Centre
- Data Intensive Science Centre at the University of Sussex
- Dementia Research Group
- Developmental Genetics Research Group
- Developmental and Clinical Psychology Research Group
- Dynamics, Control and Vehicle Research Group
- Energy and Materials Chemistry
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Evolution Research Group site
- Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
- Foundations of Software Systems
- Future of Work Hub
- Gene Expression Research Group
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre
- Haematology Research Group
- Harvard Sussex Program
- Industrial Informatics and Signal Processing Research Group
- Infectious Disease Modelling group
- Insect Navigation Research Group
- Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects
- Learning, Memory and Plasticity Group
- Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme
- Marketing, Consumption and Innovation
- the Materials Physics Group
- Mathematical Physics Group
- Mathematics Applied to Biology Research Group
- The Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex
- Neurodegenerative Disease and Ageing Research Centre
- Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Research Group
- Pharma Supply Chains and Healthcare Technology
- Probability and Statistics Research Group
- Quantitative International Finance Network
- RNA Biology Research Group
- Robotics and Mechatronics Systems Research Group
- Self-Affimation Research Group
- Sensor Technology Research Centre
- Social and Applied Psychology Research Group
- Social Science and Ethics Research Group
- Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability Centre
- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Sussex Addiction Research and Intervention Centre (SARIC)
- Sussex Artificial Intelligence
- Sussex Asia
- Sussex Centre for American Studies
- Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science
- Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies
- Sussex Centre for Global Insecurities Research (CGI)
- Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research
- Sussex Centre for Migration Research
- Sussex Centre for Quantum Technology
- Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness
- Sussex Centre for Sensory Neuroscience and Computation
- Sussex Digital Humanities Lab
- Sussex Energy Group
- Sussex European Institute
- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre
- Sussex Health Outcomes Research and Education in Cancer
- Sussex Neuroscience
- Sussex Programme for Quantum Research
- Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre
- Sussex Sustainability
- Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies – Centre for German-Jewish Studies
- Synaesthesia Research Group
- The Reginald Phillips Research Network for Improving Education for People with Visual Impairment
- Theoretical Particle Physics Research Group
- Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre
- UKPTO
Contact us
Research development enquiries:
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Research impact enquiries:
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Research governance enquiries:
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Doctoral study enquiries:
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