The Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) has eight state-of-the-art analytical and processing laboratories, allowing research on a full cycle from fundamental analytical scale through to semi-industrial demonstrator research. Each laboratory is dedicated to a different area of research and includes: characterisation of feedstock and fuels, thermal and high-pressure processing and upgrading of fuels, thermal processing of biomass and waste materials, bioprocessing, synthesis and testing...

The Integrated Energy Storage, Testing and Verification (IESTV) facility at Leicester University enables the integrated testing of supercapacitors, battery storage and compressed air systems. This facility, with its associated control system, allows different energy vectors to be integrated together into an ‘energy store’. The aim of the facility is to investigate the operation and interaction between various energy storage systems integrated with energy networks through computer simulation and...

The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge is one of the country’s largest and most important natural history museums, with over two million modern and fossil specimens covering the whole of the animal kingdom, with a global reach and through all geological periods where animals were found.
Embedded within the University of Cambridge’s Department of Zoology, and now physically sharing a building with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (the world’s largest coming-together of international...

The University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is a globally-recognised centre of excellence in innovating manufacturing technologies, engineering research and development, and metal forming and forging research.

For over a decade the centre has been at the heart of manufacturing research in Scotland. It is the only High Value Manufacturing Catapult centre in the country, one of only 7 in the UK making it the critical link between manufacturers in Scotland and the rest...

The Liverpool Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre (LiMRIC) is part of Liverpool Shared Research Facilities (LIV-SRF) at the University of Liverpool. 

LiMRIC has a Siemens Prisma 3T MR scanner, underpinned by the infrastructure and academic/technical expertise to support a wide range of human MR-based research, including neuroimaging, cardiac and body imaging, musculoskeletal MRI and MR spectroscopy.  

LiMRIC is available to both internal users and NHS/commercial partners, and can offer advice on...

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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A collection of internet of things (IoT) sensors and other environmental and infrastructure monitoring equipment providing real-time data from city systems, infrastructure an the environment.  Currently over 3500 live data streams.  Data is streamed into an open data system and is immediately available for download or visualisation through an open data platform.  Observations are taken across over 60 different indicators including air quality, traffic, energy, weather, people movement etc. ...

Promoting growth and acceleration in the development and exploitation of technologies for the energy market. The new Energy Centre at Thornton provides a flexible place where industry and academia come together to innovate, develop and demonstrate new intelligent energy technologies.

The facility seeks to promote growth and acceleration in the development and exploitation of technologies for the energy market, examples of technologies include:

• New types of photovoltaic solar cells
• Innovativ...

The High Value Manufacturing Catapult is the go-to place for manufacturing technology innovation in the UK. Our seven centres, listed below, work across 17 locations covering all parts of country to support manufacturers in over 4,000 projects per year, offering open access to the latest industrial scale equipment, leading expertise and an environment of collaboration between industry, academia and government. We cover the full range of manufacturing technology capabilities, from biologics to...

Since it's foundation in 2006, the Institute has been bringing together technologists, creative practitioners and researchers across discipline areas to develop truly innovative transdisciplinary creative technologies practice and research. The IOCT makes and shares new knowledge and expertise, synthesising practice based research with pioneering advances in digital computing, information technologies, creative practice, science and engineering. Work made falls across four interdisciplinary...