The Digital Humanities Lab at Exeter is a state of the art facility offering unique spaces, equipment and training for staff and students. A specialist team conducts and supports innovative Digital Humanities research, offers training and teaching, and undertakes the digital preservation and display of historic material and artefacts using advanced technologies.

Facilities include a visualisation and co-creation teaching suite, 3D makerspace lab, audio-visual studio and photographic studios.

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The NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility maintains and provides a pool of state-of-the-art spectroscopy instruments for use by the UK research community. We are also develop and deliver training courses, development and improve EO instrumentation and work with national bodies in support of calibration/validation exercises. 

Our equipment pool contains field spectrometers; logging and field portable sunphotometers; UAV sensors including a hyperspectral imager with LiDAR, Sentinel 2/WorldView-Matched...

The National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF) provides world–leading integrated analytical capability to support the UK NERC science communities. The facility provides: (i) unparalleled analytical capacity and data quality to serve internationally competitive research projects and programmes, (ii) a diverse range of specialist expertise and instrumentation, not available locally in most HEIs, (iii) a national platform for innovation that supports training, development and the international...

The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to one of the finest surviving collections of plaster casts of the antique in the world. The Museum was founded in 1884 to house the Fitzwilliam Museum's growing collection of plaster casts - and is today a thriving University of Cambridge Museum, embedded within the Faculty of Classics, one of the leading university Classics departments in the UK. MOCA houses more than 15,000 objects. Many of them are historical replicas, but we also a large sherd...

Our National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth, Northumberland, is a Centre of Excellence in testing and validation. It is a concentration of leading expertise and infrastructure dedicated to the acceleration of new and innovative offshore renewable energy technology in order to drive down the cost of energy.

Equipped to provide extensive test and validation services and support to the full breadth of industry – including owner/operators, equipment manufacturers, the supply chain and academia –...

CPI acts as a catalyst bringing together academia, businesses, government and investors to translate bright ideas and research into the marketplace. We do this by connecting our customers with the right experts, equipment, facilities, networks, funding and more – joining the dots for effective innovation.

We are a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Established in 2004, our teams tirelessly apply their...

ADR UK is made up of three national partnerships (ADR Scotland, ADR Wales, and ADR NI), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which ensures data provided by UK Government bodies is accessed by researchers in a safe and secure form with minimal risk to data holders or the public.

Data access services are provided by the data centres in ADR Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and by the Secure Research Service of the Office for National Statistics.

Data acquisition is led by ONS, who...

The MTC was established in 2010 as an independent Research & Technology Organisation (RTO). Its primary focus is to ensure that great ideas become reality and don’t fall into the manufacturing abyss known as the ‘valley of death’.

It represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and, after four years of planning and a 16-month build, the facility opened at Ansty Park in Coventry at the end of 2011. It exists to prove innovative manufacturing processes and...

A £2 million collaboration between ORE Catapult and University of Hull, the UK Operations & Maintenance Centre of Excellence (O&MCoE) is building on the Humber region’s energy heritage and extensive experience of servicing offshore wind farms. It is a national centre of excellence with international impact.

By bringing together offshore wind owners, operators, supply chain, industry leaders, regulators and academia, the O&M Centre of Excellence works with UK industry to drive solution...

The Powertrain Research Hub focuses on the development of next-generation offshore wind powertrains, optimising their operation, reliability and performance. ORE Catapult has partnered with the University of Sheffield to support the development of future technologies for larger turbines. 

The Hub’s key objectives are:

• Reliability improvement and advanced test methodologies
• Advanced health condition monitoring and prognostic technologies
• Development of next-generation powertrain components...