As one of the world’s largest and highest rated multi-disciplinary centres of environmental research, we bring together world-class researchers from a wide range of disciplines to help to find solutions to global environmental challenges.
Our success in doing this was recognised in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, which ranked us 5th in the UK for research power.
We have more than 80 academic staff, 180 PhD students and 50 post-doctoral researchers spanning the social, physical and biological aspects of the environment. They include anthropologists, environmental chemists, atmospheric scientists, ecologists, geologists, physicists, hydrologists, soil and plant scientists and social scientists. They are clustered within research groups, engaged in both fundamental and applied research.
We not only highlight the nature and scale of our research challenges but, working with businesses, governments and non-governmental organisations internationally, we provide the underlying knowledge to help find effective solutions. We are helped in this by colleagues from other disciplines within ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ, and a network of partners from the UK, and around the world, including our partners in China and Brazil.