Research Institutes and Centres
Research Institutes and Centres at UEL provide a focus for research activity and reflect the variety and innovation of our research. Our dynamic and supportive research environment is led by academics who are committed to excellence in their field.
UEL currently has the following Research Institutes and Centres:
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Institute for Health and Human Development
The Institute for Health and Human Development (IHHD) was set up in March 2006 and brings together expertise across the university to carry out research on health and wellbeing and their social, economic and cultural determinants. The Institute has a track record of research geared towards policy and intervention in both developing and developed countries; a commitment to community participation in research; and a focus on the potential of structural and cultural interventions to influence consumption lifestyles and promote health and wellbeing.
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Institute for Research in Child Development
The Institute for Research into Child Development acts as a focus for academic child development research in East London, which has always been exposed to deprivation and this inevitably has an impact on the development of children. IRCD is committed to work that allows us to understand the complex processes of development and those factors that have both positive and negative influences on development from birth onwards.
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London East Research Institute
The London East Research Institute (LERI) has been established to connect the University's research and consultancy strengths to issues of urban regeneration, drawing on a broad range of disciplines to provide strategic in-depth analysis of the past, present and future of the region.
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Sustainability Research Institute
The Sustainability Research Institute has been established at UEL to research and develop the application of innovative eco-efficient technologies and processes, with a focus on changes in the physical infrastructure that benefit the environment and promote a carbon-neutral society.
- Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging
- Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
- Continuum Research Centre
- Centre for Cultural Studies Research
- Centre for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture
- Centre for Geo-Information Studies
- Centre for Institutional Studies
- Moving Image Studio Research Centre
- Centre for Narrative Research
- Centre for Social Work Research
- Family Therapy and Systemic Research Centre
- International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare
- Raphael Samuel History Centre
- RIX Centre
Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging
The Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB), brings together the interdisciplinary work carried out within the School, in the related areas of migration and refugee studies; diasporas and social cohesion; racism, nationalism and political religions; as well as citizenship, identity and belonging.
Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict (CHRC) is an interdisciplinary centre that carries out academic and policy-oriented research on
- human rights in situations of political, military, cultural, social and economic conflicts,
- human rights violations as causes and sources of conflict, and
- human rights in the context of transition from authoritarian/colonial regimes.
The CHRC focuses on the interplay between international law and international politics and the legal, political and cultural contests about human rights.
The CHRC has regional expertise in Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, Africa, South and South East Asia and Australia.
The Continuum Research Centre for widening participation policy studies aims to provide a focus for critical understanding of widening participation policy and practice. Continuum has developed a wide portfolio of work concerned with research into widening participation policy – regionally, nationally and internationally, developing a critical understanding of the interrelationships between widening participation policy and practice, establishing a major resource base to support the analysis and understanding of widening participation policy and practice, and developing collaborative and partnership modes of working to develop further understanding of widening participation.
Centre for Cultural Studies Research
The Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR) was established to serve as an international centre for research in contemporary cultural studies, cultural theory and cultural production. The centre supports research into political and theoretical issues in cultural studies and cultural practice. It is committed to interdisciplinary research in five general areas: cultural studies and politics; cultural studies and its disciplinary neighbours; cultural studies in the public sphere; cultural studies and creative practice; and cultural studies and national contexts.
Centre for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture
The Centre for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture (CECA) developed out of the success of the MSc Computing and Design course that has been running at UEL since 1991. With a network of staff, a post-doctoral fellow and research students, the centre builds upon staff research expertise into the potential that computers offer for generative modelling and the applications this has for the architectural design of space.
Centre for Geo-Information Studies
The Centre for Geo-Information Studies (CGIS) specialises in data integration, analysis and modelling of physical, social and cultural phenomena. The issues studied often (but not exclusively) relate to where things happen as a key to understanding the nature and dynamics of the processes at work. Particular use is made of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with a broad range of other data handling and analytical software tools.
Centre for Institutional Studies
The Centre for Institutional Studies (CIS) provides research, consultancy and teaching on a range of social policy issues and for organisational and professional development. Its current work is mostly in research for policy and practice in urban regeneration and renewal, youth justice and inclusion, community development, voluntary organisations and voluntary actions, and post-compulsory education.
The Centre for Narrative Research (CNR) brings together work on narrative that is being pursued in a variety of contexts across the social sciences. Such work includes the analyses of the structure of social stories and the processes of social storytelling, and explorations of the relationship between narratives and the social world.
Centre for Social Work Research
The Centre for Social Work Research is a new research centre formed in collaboration between the University of East London and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. It was launched on Tuesday, 21st March 2006, and offers a distinctive approach to relationship-based approaches to to social work practice and policy, psycho-social approaches to understanding individuals, society and institution and inter- or multi-disciplinary perspectives on social work practice.
Family Therapy and Systemic Research Centre
The Family Therapy and Systemic Research Centre is committed to developing and supporting research in the systemic field. The aim of the Centre which is based at the Tavistock Clinic & the University of East London is to become a national resource for, and developed by, qualified and training systemic family psychotherapists across the UK. It endeavours to provide support, foster links and collaborations between researchers, and to facilitate applications for research funding. The Centre will complement and support the work of the Academic and Research Committee of the Association for Family Therapy.
International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare
The International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare is a multi-disciplinary research centre which brings together academics and students from across this university and other academic institutions nationally and internationally, as well as childcare business leaders, childcare professionals, national and local policy makers and politicians and representatives of unions and of private equity firms and other financial groups interested in investing in early childhood education and care provision.
Moving Image Studio Research Centre
The centre cultivates and presents film art practice and new research relating to the moving image. Through its base in the Moving Image Studio, it seeks to foster a laboratory environment that brings together aspects of moving image production, exhibition, theoretical inquiry and historical research. The centre is particularly interested in building links with external partners and supporting interdisciplinary projects. Contact: Steven Eastwood
The Raphael Samuel History Centre initially focussed on research and scholarship on the history of London since the eighteenth century, set within a wider framework of comparative research into other metropolitan sites. Its remit has now broadened to include research on the place of fantasy and memory in the historical imagination, and a new outreach programme was initiated. The Centre’s approach to history is broadly cultural, addressing both the institutional and social history of urban life and its representational forms. In this we have demonstrated a commitment to interdisciplinarity, combining the interests of social and cultural historians with researchers in adjacent disciplines, especially sociology, human geography and psychoanalysis.
The RIX Centre is a research and development centre which brings the benefits of multimedia to people with learning disabilities. About 2% of the UK population have learning disabilities: with their families and carers they make an important community. Multimedia can help this community achieve social inclusion by improving their personal communication; developing their social relations; gathering vital information in accessible ways; and helping them advocate for themselves. The Rix Centre works with a wide range of clients including the BBC, local authorities, learning disability groups, other charities and central government. It is funded by charity donations, its project work and research programmes.
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