You can access the latest thinking and state of the art facilities in our specialist centres.
Centres and institutes
Within the University, outstanding collaborative and multidisciplinary research is underway in dedicated research institutes and centres covering a breadth of fields:
- Advanced Forming Research Centre
- Advanced Materials Research Laboratory
- Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory
- Centre for Biophotonics
- Centre for Elections and Representation Studies
- Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS)
- Centre for Forensic Science
- Centre for Future Air-Space Transportation Technology
- Centre for Internet Law and Policy
- Centre for Law Crime and Justice
- Centre for Lifelong Learning
- Centre for Molecular Nanometrology
- Centre for the Social History of Health and Health Care
- Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law
- Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering
- Centre for White Space Communications
- Confucius Institute for Scotland's Schools
- European Policies Research Centre
- Fraser of Allander Institute
- Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
- Industrial Control Centre
- Institute of Complex Systems
- Institute for Energy and Environment
- Institute of Photonics
- National Centre for Prosthetics & Orthotics
- Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
- Scottish Centre for Employment Research
- Scottish Centre for International Security Studies
- Scottish Oral History Centre
- Scottish Universities Insight Institute
- Strathclyde Institute of Operations Management
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- Strathclyde Institute of Medical Devices
- Strathclyde Marine Institute
- The Technology and Innovation Centre
Experimental facilities and laboratories
We have first-rate equipment and dedicated research space covering a wide range of specialisms:
- Cancer Research UK Formulation Unit
- Chemical Engineering laboratory
- Digital Design and Manufacturing Studio
- Environmental Forensics Laboratory
- Gait Laboratory
- High performance computing
- Hydrodynamic test facilities
- Plasmas physics laboratory
- Robertson Trust Laboratory for Electronic Sterilisation Technologies



