Our Research

Our Research Institues

Over the past ten years our experts have conducted research that has not only made a difference to the area it is directly involved with, but created results that have changed our world. We continue to:

Foster and support high-quality research and scholarship
Develop centers of international research excellence in selected areas
Lead nationally in knowledge transfer
Ensure that all our academic activities take place in an atmosphere informed by research, knowledge transfer and scholarship

We believe that a vibrant culture of research and scholarship is essential in the underpinning of a stimulating learning environment.

Childhood and Youth Research Institute

The Childhood and Youth Research Institutes (CYRI) aim is to bring together the diverse experience and expertise of academics from different disciplines who share an interest in children, young people and their lives and create a multi-disciplinary initiative which will support, encourage and produce research and publications of an internationally recognised standard.

Cultures of the Digital Economy

The Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE) is a network of academics working in media theory and network culture, media archaeology, digital music and video, fine arts, video games, production and performance, serious gaming and digital text, combined with scientific contributions from colleagues involved with design and technology, audio engineering and computer design and animation.

Its key emerging research areas include social media and network politics, digital performance and production, digital humanities and play and serious gaming. The Institute fosters a critical and experimental interdisciplinary research environment, and through projects, seminars and published research aims to explore the role of current and emerging technologies in a creative context.

CoDE is a crucible for thinking outside traditional disciplinary boundaries and a catalyst for establishing connections with industry and local, national and international communities. Its location in Cambridge provides it with excellent potential for collaboration with entertainment, technological, scientific, arts and the heritage industries.

Global Sustainability Institute

The Global Sustainability Institute aims to deliver practical sustainability solutions to some of today's global challenges. Our research focuses on personal motivations and systems change set against the challenges of sustainability. Our core research question is how does the system influence the individual, and how does the individual influence the system? The 'system' is the political, financial, industrial and social frameworks that contribute to challenges we face and lock us into future pathways. These may be environmental challenges such as climate change, natural capital challenges such as resource limits or social challenges such as local and global inequity.

The GSI lunchtime seminar series covers a range topics related to sustainability from health and wellbeing, to climate modelling, to the creative industries and the arts. They are aimed at engaging students, staff and members of the public, with the Sustainability agenda. Seminars run every fortnight across the Cambridge and Chelmsford campuses. All are welcome to attend, there is no need to book and a sustainable lunch is provided.

For further information please visit the GSI.

Lord Ashcroft Building, Chelmsford Campus

Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP)

The Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP) is dedicated to researching in the fields of Enterprise, Innovation and Internationalisation. Our aim is straightforward. That is to develop reflective knowledge that bridges the gap between professional practitioners and academia.

We believe that Enterprise, Innovation and Internationalisation are key to the future prosperity, sustainability and wellbeing of the UK and the wider global economy. We therefore see research in these areas as a matter of paramount importance.

Postgraduate Medical Institute

The Postgraduate Medical Institute (PMI) is a partnership of currently 22 members involving all the NHS acute hospitals, primary care trusts and mental health trusts in Essex, plus Essex County Council, Ramsay and Nuffield Hospitals, The Royal Society for Public Health and the four faculties of Anglia Ruskin University. The PMI brings together the considerable clinical and academic expertise and resources of all 22 partners for the development of clinical and professional practice in health and social care.