Research themes

CAHSS institutes and centres

Our world-leading research addresses a range of societal and global challenges, which cut across disciplinary boundaries.

Here we present 9 core cross-cutting themes, and identify the main research centres and institutes working in each area.

This is a dynamic list, intended to identify opportunities, and we expect it to change as our research does.

DATA & DIGITAL

Credit Research Centre
Design Informatics
Centre for Research in Digital Education
Applied Quantative Methods Network
Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society
Creative Informatics

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY

Academy of Government
Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy
Centre on Constitutional Change
Global Justice Academy
Europa Institute
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Edinburgh Institute for International & Global Law

WORK & ECONOMY

Global Development Academy
Global Justice Academy
Global Public Health Unit
Centre for African Studies
Centre for South Asia Studies
Centre for Latin American Studies
Centre for Modern conflict
Conflict Archaeology
Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
Alwaleed Centre
IMES

IDENTITIES & INEQUALITIES

Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
Citizenship, Nations and Migration Network
Centre for Theology and Public Issues
Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
GenderEd
Institute for International Cultural Relations
Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Cognitive Science
Neuropolitics
Mental Health
Ageing
Language
STIS
ECRED
IMHSD

CHILDHOOD & YOUTH

CCACE
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
Education
Digital Education
IMHSD

ENERGY & SUSTAINABILITY

Energy and Society
Circular Economy
Environmental Politics

CITIES

OPENSpace
Transport
Urban Planning
Inequality
Landscape
PAHRC
EFI centre for Future Infrastructure

CULTURAL HERITAGE

Centre for the Study of Modern & Contemporary History
OPENSpace