Research groups and themes
Our research is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together expert knowledge to address the major challenges facing society today.
Explore the breadth of our research expertise across the four Schools in the Faculty of Environment.
- School of Earth and Environment
- School of Food Science and Nutrition
- School of Geography
- Institute for Transport Studies
School of Earth and Environment
Earth Surface Science Institute
Institute of Applied Geoscience
- Applied geophysics
- Basin structure
- Ores and mineralisation
- Petrophysics and geomechanics
- Rock mechanics, engineering geology and hydrogeology
- Sedimentology
Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics
Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
Sustainability Research Institute
- Economics and policy for sustainability
- Environment and development
- Social and political dimensions of sustainability
- Business and organisations for sustainable societies
- Energy and climate change mitigation
- Climate change adaptation, vulnerability and services
School of Food Science and Nutrition
- Food colloids and soft matter at interfaces
- Digestion and delivery
- Human nutrition and lifestyle
- Obesity, cancer and metabolic disease
- Food safety, food security and global health
- Functional biopolymers for food and health
- Novel food design and processing
- Nutritional epidemiology
School of Geography
- Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy
- Social justice, cities and citizenship
- Ecology and global change
- River basin processes and management
Institute for Transport Studies
Themes and centres
Research groups