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Research Centres

Research themes shape and inform our researchers' work through both Strategic and School-based Research Centres.

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Strategic Research Centres

Bath Spa University has three Strategic Research Centres:

Each one enhances research activities across the University and beyond.

In addition, we also have School-based Research Centres within each School of study. These are outlined below.

Research Centres by School

Bath School of Art, Film and Media

Bath Business School

  • Centre for Business, Management and Legal Studies (CBMLS)

Bath School of Design

School of Education

School of Music and Performing Arts

  • Centre for Music and Sound Research
  • Centre for Performance Research

Within these Centres, there are three Music and Performance Research Groups:

School of Sciences

School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities

A sample of our projects

A teacher in a red top addresses a child with their hand up in a classroom Rich Retrieval
View of woman holding mobile phone sitting on colourful cloths Digital Climate Futures
Image of greybrown rubble from a building with a fence and tattered flag. Tree in background. Political afterlife of rubble
A Great Crested Newt swimming in a glass cup National Newt Day
Several people sit at a table and explore the individual components of several objects Doing Together
View of many interlocking tree branches from below with blue sky beyond Ecotones: soundscapes of trees
City of Imagination
Hear Water: Building Environmental Empathy Through Deep Listening
Interspecies listening
Wooden fishing hut over blue sea with tropical trees in the background Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures
Adult and child holding hands RAISED between cultures
Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts
Tropical lagoon from above Enduring Connections
Woman carrying water on the side of a mountain in the Kashmir region next to a small wooden hut The Art of Healing in Kashmir
China's higher education provision in the global South
Purple inflatable dome with lots of people walking by Forest of Imagination
Repeat photographs of the Khan River crossing in the Namib Desert. Future Pasts
Two seagulls on a wall at the seafront Education in-place
Handwritten historic document Civic London
Three figures greet and gift their ancestors and anonymous spirits of the dead, looking across the Giribes plains towards their home area of Purros in west Namibia Etosha-Kunene Histories
Glove Network
Firefighters on a smoky hillside Historical perspectives on wildfires in Ireland
Erupting volcano Dynamic Risk at Fuego Volcano
A person in a red and white checked shirt using a tablet SENCO Workload
Mbira Hut

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