Research Centres and Groups

Our research centres and groups are led by our most experienced researchers and give you a stimulating environment in which to work.

Criteria for Research Centres and Groups

Creative Technologies Research Group

Creative Technologies Research Group

Newly established in 2010 the Creative Technologies Research Group and E2S2 have been created out of the long established Signal Processing Applications Research Group. The Creative Technologies ...

SYTOC

Systems Thinking an Organisational Change Research Group

Systems thinking is potentially a way of understanding the complex world of organisations. Organisations are viewed as a series of systems from the perspective of the whole system, its various ...

Prof Dennis Hayes

Centre for Educational Research

The Head of the CER is Professor Dennis Hayes who is well known for his research and writing on new developments in education, the role of discussion and debate in pedagogy, and academic freedom. ...

The Built Environment Research Group

The Built Environment Research Group

The Built Environment Research Group was launched in 2010 to fill a gap in the research profile of both the faculty of Arts, Design and Technology and the University. Working as a ...

Biological Sciences Research Group Logo

Biological Sciences Research Group

The Biological Sciences Research Group has research interests that are wide ranging and cut across many disciplines. Our members work together on national and international collaborations, and ...

Identity, Conflict and Representation Research Centre

Identity, Conflict and Representation Research Centre

We are a dynamic research community made up of research active people, scholars and creative practitioners who are committed to developing good quality research within the University of Derby. ...

DISYS

Distributed and Intelligent Systems Research Group

DISYS is a research group wthin the School of Computing which promotes and supports state-of-the-art research in the field of emerging technologies, with a particular focus on peer-to-peer ...

The Centre for Psychological Research

The Centre for Psychological Research

The Centre for Psychological Research is a group of active research psychologists with particular strengths in cognitive, health, pedagogic and social psychology, and the psychology of mental ...

Human and Physical Environments Research Group

Human and Physical Environments Research Group

Welcome to the Human and Physical Environments Research Group. Our multidisciplinary research involves national and international collaborations, bringing to the group a diverse range of expertise ...

The Observatory

Visual Communication Research Group

Over the past two years, common themes of interest have emerged for a core group of researchers in the area. A group emerged (VCRG) empowering staff to realise their research potential though a ...

The Dome

Culture, Lifestyle and Landscape Research Group

The research group of Culture, Lifestyle and Landscape is based at the University's Buxton Campus and combines the work of over 20 researchers and a similar number of research students. We provide ...

Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Design Research Group

Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Design Research Group

The Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering and Production Design Research group was developed in 1995 and now runs within the Engineering and Built Environment Subject Group at the University of ...

Academic Practice Research Group

Academic Practice Research Group

Recent years have seen an increased interest in colleagues undertaking research, relating both to pedagogic practice and issues supporting such practice. The 2008 evaluation of the Teaching ...

Society, Religion and Belief

The Society, Religion and Belief Research Group

The Society, Religion and Belief Research Group responds to major trends in society and culture. Religion and belief in society is a subject of serious concern, cutting across all sectors of our ...

The University of Derby

The Law in Society Research Group

The Law in Society research group encompasses various areas of legal and criminological research which deal with the establishment of law, the application and upholding of the relevant legal ...

D-MARC

Digital and Material Arts Research Centre

Here at D-MARC the focus of our research is on an understanding of the shifting boundaries and new relationships between traditional arts disciplines, which have been created by new technologies. ...

Sound Seeking Derbot

The Electrical, Electronic and Software Systems Research Group

This Research Group brings together members who offer expertise within the broad fields of electrical, electronic and software systems. Research Group members contribute their own specialist ...

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