Our University is an energetic connected community, committed to excellence in research and education, embracing the opportunities of today’s world and addressing its challenges. Knowledge and experience are connected in the search for understanding and solutions; study and practice are connected through high-value placements and strategic partnerships to prepare excellent students for future success; and students and staff are connected in an inclusive, collegial, ambitious learning community. To belong at Bath is to be connected, and together to build for our future. To strengthen the impact of our research, sharpen our focus, and increase our influence, we’ve identified three primary research themes for working together across disciplines: Sustainability, Health & Wellbeing, and Digital.
The University of Bath has a strong track record in interdisciplinary research, the campus having been designed to foster collaboration across our Faculties and School. This has been further strengthened by the significant impact generated by our Institutes and Centres, including the Milner Centre for Evolution (£8.3M) and Biotechnology Facility amongst others.
See below examples of relevant life sciences major research domains across our departments:
Dept of Life Sciences:
- Biodiversity – Studying organisms across the five kingdoms, find out how our research is helping answer the big questions about past, present and future biodiversity.
- Evolution – We study the evolutionary process from micro to macro-evolution to resolve key problems in fundamental, applied and evolution education research.
- Food security – From plant immune systems to synthetic biology, find out how we’re helping increase crop plant resilience against extreme temperatures, drought, and pathogens.
- Infection and antimicrobial resistance – Discover how we’re addressing the rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the challenges of emerging microbes with epidemic and pandemic potential.
- Life Course – From conception to death, our research addresses developmental and homeostatic mechanisms and the detection, treatment and prevention of their dysfunction.
Dept of Chemistry:
- Health – Drug discovery, materials and sensors for health, environmental monitoring of disease prevalence.
Dept of Health:
- Improving human function research – Our research seeks to improve performance across a number of sporting, occupational, and clinical activities.
- Lifelong health and wellbeing research – We develop health and wellbeing policies and programmes that target prevention and therapeutic treatments.
Dept of Psychology:
- Cognitive Science – Our research focuses on the study of the mind, and processes such as reasoning, visual processing, problem-solving and emotion.
- Clinical Psychology – We research the cognitive, emotional, behavioural and physiological processes that link to psychological problems
- Development and Psychopathology – Our research in this area includes strengths in child trauma, autism and language development.
- Health Psychology – Our research includes specialism in risk, pain and addiction.
Life Sciences Aligned Research Centres include:
- Centre for Therapeutic Innovation
- Milner Centre for Evolution
- Cancer Research at Bath
- Centre for Mathematical Biology
- Neuroscience network
- Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical Technologies sensors – Cbio
- Centre for Applied Autism Research
- Centre for Motivation and Health Behaviour Change
- Centre for Pain Research
- Centre for Sport, Physical Activity and Health Equality (SPHERE)
Aligned Research facilities include:
- Material and Chemical Characterisation (MC²)
- Biotechnology Suite
- Cryo-EM – GW4 Cryo-Electron Microscopy
- Milner Genomics Centre
Research Projects and Activity
A portal for information about all of the research carried out at the University of Bath, from funding through to published journal articles.
Bath Beacons
Our multidisciplinary Beacons empower our research community to tackle major global challenges by building consortia for large-scale funding.
Networks
- Neuroscience Network
- Healthy Later Living Network
- Water Innovation & Research Centre – WIRC
- GW4 Anti-microbial resistance alliance
Doctoral Training Entities
- BBSRC South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) in food security and bioscience
- MRC GW4 BioMed Doctoral Training Partnership
- NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership in environmental sciences
- NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Real-Time Digital Water-Based Systems (RED-ALERT CDT)
Relevant Life Sciences Spinout Companies
- Prothea Technologies
- Revolver Therapeutics Ltd
- Ingenium AI
- EnsiliTech
- Transdermal Diagnostics
- Smartwound
Commercialisation and Impact
Our Innovation With Impact campaign website features more information on how we work with businesses, researchers, and students to enable new ideas, innovation and growth.
